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J Biol Chem, Vol. 273, Issue 35, 22395-22401, August 28, 1998
Molecular Characterization and Tissue Distribution of a New
Organic Anion Transporter Subtype (oatp3) That Transports Thyroid
Hormones and Taurocholate and Comparison with oatp2*
Takaaki
Abe §,
Masayuki
Kakyo ¶,
Hiroyuki
Sakagami ,
Taro
Tokui**,
Toshiyuki
Nishio ,
Masayuki
Tanemoto ,
Hideki
Nomura ,
Steven C.
Hebert ,
Seiki
Matsuno¶,
Hisatake
Kondo , and
Hiromu
Yawo
From the Departments of Neurophysiology and
Histology and the ¶ First Department of Surgery, Tohoku
University School of Medicine, Sendai 980-8575, Japan, ** Analytical and
Metabolic Research Laboratories, Sankyo Company, Limited, Tokyo
140-8710, Japan, and the  Divison of
Nephrology, Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, Tennessee, 37232-2372
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ABSTRACT |
Two complementary DNAs for the organic anion
transporter subtypes oatp2 and oatp3, which transport thyroid hormones
as well as taurocholate, were isolated from a rat retina cDNA
library. The sequence of oatp2 is identical to that recently reported
(Noé, B., Hagenbuch, B., Stieger, B., and Meier, P. J. (1997) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 94, 10346-10350),
whereas the sequence of oatp3 is novel. oatp3 consists of 670 amino
acid residues and exhibits a structural architecture common to the
organic anion transporter family, possessing the 12 putative
membrane-spanning segments. Oocytes injected with oatp2 and oatp3 cRNAs
showed taurocholate uptake in a saturable manner. The oatp2 and oatp3
cRNA-injected oocytes also showed significant uptake of both thyroxine
and triiodothyronine. Northern blot and in situ analyses
showed that the oatp2 mRNA was widely expressed in neuronal cells
of the central nervous system, especially in the hippocampus,
cerebellum, and choroid plexus as well as in the retina and liver. The
oatp3 mRNA was highly expressed in the kidney and moderately
abundant in the retina. This suggests that oatp2 and oatp3 are
multifunctional transporters involved in the transport of thyroid
hormones in the brain, retina, liver, and kidney.
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INTRODUCTION |
A homeostatic system controls the fluid environment in the brain
and keeps its chemical composition relatively constant compared with
that of plasma. One mechanism is the blood-brain barrier, which
selectively transports chemical substances via capillary endothelial
cells (1). A second essential component is the choroid plexus
(blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier), which secretes or takes up
specific chemical substances (2). Although the presence of specific
transporting mechanisms has long been postulated, little is known about
their molecular identity. Recent molecular biological studies revealed
the organic anion transporter family: the Na+-independent
organic anion-transporting polypeptide oatp1 from rat liver, which
transports bile acid, bromosulfophthalein
(BSP),1 and conjugated and
unconjugated steroid hormones (3, 4); the kidney-specific transporter
OAT-K1, which transports methotrexate in the basolateral membrane of
renal tubules (5); and the prostaglandin transporter (6). Moreover,
physiological studies have suggested the presence of other members of
the organic anion transporter family (7). Noé et al.
(8) have recently reported that a new organic anion transporter subtype
(oatp2) is present in rat brain and liver and that the oatp2-expressed
oocytes transported cardiac glycoside as well as taurocholate. However,
the endogenous substrate of oatp2 and the regional distribution in the
brain have not been revealed.
It has been suggested that thyroid hormones are transported into the
brain via the blood-brain barrier (9) or via the choroid plexus (10).
To reveal this mechanism, we focused on the retina. In the retina, the
retinal pigment epithelium is the unique source of transthyretin
synthesis, and it serves to transport thyroxine (T4) across the
blood-retina barrier (11). According to this functional homology
between the choroid plexus epithelium and the retinal pigment
epithelium, we performed polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based
screening for an organic anion transporter subtype in the retina.
In this paper, we have isolated and characterized oatp2 and a new
organic anion transporter family subtype (termed oatp3) from rat
retina, and this is the first report identifying the molecules involved
in thyroid hormone transport.
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EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES |
Polymerase Chain Reaction--
The primers used for PCR were two
oligonucleotides made according to the amino acid sequences of
transmembrane segments II and X of rat oatp1 (3), both of which are
highly conserved between oatp1 and OAT-K1 (5); they correspond to amino
acid residues 62-68 (5'-primer) and 540-547 (3'-primer) of oatp1. The sequences of the 5'- and 3'-primers were CGGAATTCAATGGGAGCTTTGAGATTGG and CGGAATTCCAAGTGACTTCTCTTCAGACTT, respectively. The PCR amplification was performed by using a GeneAmpTM DNA amplification
reagent kit according to the following schedule: 94 °C for 1 min,
42 °C for 2 min, and 72 °C for 3 min for 30 cycles, followed by
further incubation for 10 min at 72 °C. An aliquot of the PCR
products was electrophoresed on an agarose gel. The amplified DNA
(~1500 base pairs (bp)) was excised from the gel and subcloned into
pBluescriptII KS(+). By sequencing, one clone (psOATP2), corresponding
to amino acid residues 62-545 of oatp2 (8), was found to show 78.4%
identity to rat oatp1 at the amino acid level.
cDNA Isolation--
A rat retina cDNA library was
constructed from fractions containing >2-kilobase pair cDNAs using
a ZAPII vector (Stratagene) (12), and 8 × 105
independent clones were screened with the 1.5-kilobase pair cDNA fragment of psOATP2. Hybridization was carried out in 25% formamide solution at 42 °C as described (13), and filter washing was performed in a solution containing 2 × SSC and 0.1% SDS at
55 °C. By a series of screenings, 12 hybridization-positive clones
were isolated. Eight of the 12 clones were identified to have the same insert as psOATP2, and the remaining clones were found to show a novel
sequence. In each group, clones pR8 and pR1, both of which contained
the largest insert, were chosen for further analysis. The sequences of
both clones were determined with an ABI PrismTM 377 DNA
sequencer (Perkin-Elmer).
Functional Characterization of oatp2 and oatp3 in Xenopus
Oocytes--
cRNA was synthesized in vitro using T7 RNA
polymerase in the presence of the cap analogue m7GpppG from
linearized pR8 or pR1. Transcribed cRNA (25 ng) was injected into
defolliculated Xenopus laevis oocytes. Injected oocytes were
cultured for 2~3 days in Barth's medium (88 mM NaCl, 1 mM KCl, 2.4 mM NaHCO3, 0.3 mM CaNO3, 0.41 mM
CaCl2, 0.82 mM MgSO4, and 15 mM Hepes, pH 7.6). The uptake (10 min) of
[3H]taurocholate, [125I]T4, or
3,5,3'-[125I]triiodo-L-thyronine
(T3) (all from NEN Life Science Products) was assayed at
room temperature in 100 mM NaCl, 2 mM KCl, 1 mM MgCl2, 1 mM CaCl2,
10 mM Hepes, and 5 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.5. The oocytes injected with water were used as a control. Each value represents the mean ± S.E. of at least three experiments in
different oocytes. The statistical significance was tested by unpaired
t-test.
Northern Blot Analysis--
2 µg of poly(A)+ RNAs
from tissues were electrophoresed on 1.0% agarose gel and transferred
to a nylon membrane. Hybridization was performed with a
32P-labeled fragment from the ~900-bp
HincII-NotI fragment of the 3'-noncoding region
for pR8 or the ~900-bp SmaI-SmaI fragment of
the 3'-noncoding region for pR1 in a hybridization buffer containing 50% formamide, 5 × SSC, 5 × Denhardt's solution, and 1%
SDS at 42 °C overnight. The hybridized filter was washed in 0.2 × SSC and 1% SDS at 65 °C and exposed to a film at 80 °C for
3 h or overnight. Both probes have <48% identity to each other
or to any member of the organic anion transporter family to avoid any cross-hybridization.
In Situ Hybridization of oatp2--
For in situ
hybridization of the oatp2 mRNA, the same 3'-noncoding
HincII-NotI fragment of pR8 was subcloned, and a
radiolabeled antisense cRNA was synthesized by T7 RNA polymerase using
-35S-CTP (NEN Life Science Products). The resultant RNAs
were hydrolyzed to make ~150-nucleotide fragments. The brain sections
of male Sprague-Dawley rat were fixed and incubated with radiolabeled probe in the hybridization solution (50% formamide, 2 × SSC, 10 mM Tris-HCl, 1 × Denhardt's solution, 10% dextran
sulfate, and 0.2% SDS) at 55 °C for 6 h, washed subsequently
with 2 × SSC containing 10 mM -mercaptoethanol at
50 °C, treated with RNase A, and washed with 0.1 × SSC at
60 °C for 2 h. The sections were dehydrated, exposed to
HyperfilmTM- max (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech) for 14 days, dipped
into Kodak NTB-2 (Eastman Kodak Co.) diluted 1:1 with distilled water,
developed after a 6-week exposure, and counterstained with
hematoxylin-eosin. For specificity control experiment, hybridization was performed in the presence of a 200-fold excess of unlabeled probe
in the hybridization buffer.
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RESULTS |
cDNA Isolation and Structure of oatp2 and oatp3--
A rat
retina cDNA library was screened by hybridization with the fragment
derived from PCR subclone psOAPT2 under low stringency condition.
Twelve clones were isolated and rescued into pBluescript SK( ). Eight
of the 12 clones showed restriction patterns corresponding to oatp2
(8), and one representative clone (pR8) was used for further analysis.
pR8 was determined to be composed of ~3.8 kilobase pairs, and the
amino acid sequence of pR8 was identical to that of oatp2 (661 amino
acids with Mr = 73,199.09) (8), except for
several nucleotide differences in the 5'-noncoding region. The
restriction patterns of the remaining four clones were novel, and the
length of each clone was almost identical. Among the four clones, one
clone (pR1), which has the largest insert, showed a nucleotide sequence
that was similar but not identical to any of the organic anion
transporter family cDNAs, including oatp2. The deduced amino acid
sequence of pR1 consists of 670 amino acids (Mr = 74, 643.86), encoding novel organic anion transporter subtype oatp3.
Fig. 1 shows the deduced amino acid
sequence alignment with rat oatp2 and oatp3. oatp2 and oatp3 showed an
identity of 82% at the amino acid level. oatp3 also shows 80% amino
acid identity to rat oatp1 (3), 76.7% to rat kidney OAT-K1 (5), and
33.8% to the rat prostaglandin transporter (6). Hydrophobicity
analyses of oatp3 predicts 12 hydrophobic segments, characteristic of
the organic anion transporter family. For oatp3, four
N-glycosylation sites are predicted, and there are three
potential phosphorylation sites for cAMP-dependent protein
kinase and six potential phosphorylation sites for protein kinase C in
the cytosolic hydrophilic loops (14, 15).

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Fig. 1.
Amino acid comparison of oatp2 and
oatp3. The two sequences are aligned by inserting gaps (-) to
achieve the maximum homology. Exact matches and conservative
substitutions are shown by bars and colons,
respectively. The 12 putative transmembrane segments (I-XII) were
assigned on the basis of hydrophobicity analysis and the sequence
comparison of the other organic anion transporters; the termini of
these segments were tentatively defined. The putative transmembrane
regions are indicated by solid lines.
Triangles, potential N-glycosylation sites;
asterisks, possible phosphorylation sites.
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Pharmacological Characterization of oatp2 and oatp3--
Based on
the structural similarity among oatp1, oatp2, and oatp3, we first
examined the uptake of [3H]taurocholate in the oatp2 or
oatp3 cRNA-injected oocytes. The oatp2-cRNA injected oocytes increased
uptake of [3H]taurocholate 18-fold above that of the
water-injected oocytes: 0.11 ± 0.007 versus 0.006 ± 0.001 pmol/oocyte/min at 30 µM
[3H]taurocholate (p < 0.01).
Taurocholate transport followed saturation kinetics with an apparent
Km of 35.2 ± 8.9 µM (Fig.
2a). To characterize the
pharmacological properties of oatp2-mediated taurocholate uptake, we
next examined the effects of other compounds (200 µM) on
[3H]taurocholate (1 µM) uptake.
Taurocholate, cholate, BSP, and 17 -estradiol glucuronide
significantly inhibited [3H]taurocholate uptake (data not
shown), whereas p-aminohippuric acid did not. These results
are comparable to those obtained with oatp1 (16) and to those reported
by Noé et al. (8). In addition, T4 and
T3 also significantly inhibited oatp2-mediated
[3H]taurocholate incorporation (data not shown).

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Fig. 2.
Transport of taurocholate in X. laevis
oocytes expressing oatp2 and oatp3. The transport rates of
[3H]taurocholate into oatp2 cRNA-injected oocytes
(a) and oatp3 cRNA-injected oocytes (b) were
measured. Nonspecific uptake into water-injected oocytes was subtracted
from all uptake values. A representative of three experiments is shown.
The values indicated are means ± S.E. of five to nine oocyte
determinations.
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The oatp3 cRNA-injected oocytes also transported
[3H]taurocholate with an apparent Km
of 17.99 ± 3.32 µM, which was half of that
for oatp2-mediated uptake (Fig. 2b). This oatp3-mediated taurocholate uptake was inhibited by BSP, but not by
p-aminohippuric acid. We also tested whether oatp3
transports other compounds. No oatp3-mediated uptake was found for
radiolabeled tryptophan, phenylalanine, tyrosine, and indomethacin.
Do oatp2 and oatp3 transport thyroid hormones? To answer this question,
we next studied the uptake of thyroid hormones in the oatp2- or
oatp3-expressing oocytes. The oatp2 cRNA-injected oocytes transported
[125I]T4 and
[125I]T3 significantly more than the
water-injected oocytes (Fig. 3,
a and b). These transports of thyroid hormones
were saturable with increasing substrate concentrations. The apparent
Km values for [125I]T4 and
[125I]T3 in oatp2 cRNA-injected oocytes were
6.53 ± 2.56 and 5.87 ± 1.06 µM, respectively.
Furthermore, the uptake of [125I]T4 by
oatp2-expressing oocytes was inhibited by unlabeled T4 and
T3 (data not shown). We next investigated whether
oatp2-mediated thyroid hormone uptake is dependent on extracellular
Na+. When extracellular Na+ (100 mM) was substituted with isosmotic choline+,
the uptake of [125I]T4 was only slightly
inhibited (15.2 ± 0.1%), and this difference was insignificant
(p > 0.1). Similarly, substitution of extracellular Cl with gluconate (16.1 ± 0.06%) did not
insignificantly affect T4 uptake (p > 0.1). Thus, T4 transport by oatp2 is independent of
Na+ or Cl in the external medium.

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Fig. 3.
Transport of thyroid hormones in X. laevis oocytes expressing oatp2 and oatp3. The transport
rates of [125I]T4 (a) and
[125I]T3 (b) into oocytes
expressing oatp2 and the transport rates of
[125I]T4 (c) and
[125I]T3 (d) into oocytes
expressing oatp3 were measured. Nonspecific uptake into water-injected
oocytes was subtracted from all uptake values. A representative of
three experiments is shown. The values indicated are means ± S.E.
of five to nine oocyte determinations.
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The oatp3 cRNA-injected oocytes also transported
[125I]T4 and
[125I]T3 (Fig. 3, c and
d), with an apparent Km of 4.93 ± 1.79 µM for [125I]T4 and
7.33 ± 2.34 µM for
[125I]T3. These values were comparable to
those for oatp2, and the oatp3-mediated T4 and
T3 uptake was also independent on external Na+
(data not shown). Thus, our data demonstrate that both oatp2 and oatp3
encode functional transporters that transport both thyroid hormones
and taurocholate.
Distribution of oatp2 and oatp3 mRNAs--
Relative levels of
the oatp2 and oatp3 mRNAs were analyzed by Northern blot
hybridization (Fig. 4, a and
b). A single ~3.9-kilonucleotide oatp2 mRNA band was
found in the brain, retina, and liver (Fig. 4a). No
significant hybridization signals were observed in the heart, lung, and
kidney. On the other hand, the analysis of oatp3 mRNA yielded two
hybridization bands with estimated mRNA sizes of ~2.8 and ~3.9
kilonucleotides in the retina and kidney (Fig. 4b). The
oatp3 mRNA expression level was less in the retina. The two
different size oatp3 mRNAs are probably derived from the same gene
because both bands were seen under high stringency filter washing
conditions using the 3'-noncoding region that has <48% identity to
any other organic anion transporter family member. A faint single band
was also detected in the liver (~3.9 kilonucleotides). No obvious
band was seen in other tissues. Identical oatp2 and oatp3 mRNA
tissue distributions were also obtained using the rat Multiple tissue
NorthernTM blots filter purchased from CLONTECH (data not shown).

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Fig. 4.
RNA blot analysis of the oatp2 and oatp3
mRNAs. The poly(A)+ RNAs (2 µg each) analyzed
were as follows: lane 1, brain; lane
2, retina; lane 3, lung;
lane 4, heart; lane 5,
liver; lane 6, kidney. An RNA ladder was used for
size markers (kilonucleotides). The HincII-NotI
fragment of the 3'-noncoding region for oatp2 (a) or the
SmaI-SmaI fragment of the noncoding region for
oatp3 (b) was used as a probe. Both probes have <48%
identity to any member of the organic anion transporter family to avoid
cross-hybridization.
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Although Noé et al. (8) showed the expression of oatp2
mRNA in the brain, the regional expression was not determined. To
examine this, in situ hybridization was performed using a
specific riboprobe prepared from the noncoding region of the oatp2
cDNA. As shown in Fig. 5a,
the oatp2 mRNA was widely distributed throughout adult rat brain.
Specifically, intense signals were observed in the hippocampal
pyramidal and dentate granule cells (Fig. 5, a and
c) and cerebellar Purkinje and granule cell layers (Fig. 5, a and d). Moderate expression signals were also
observed in the olfactory neuronal layers, anterior olfactory nuclei,
striatum, cerebral cortex, thalamic and hypothalamic nuclei, and
various brain stem nuclei (Fig. 5a). In addition to the
neuronal expression, the oatp2 mRNA was moderately expressed in the
choroid plexus (Fig. 5a, indicated by the arrow).
An almost identical pattern of oatp2 mRNA expression was observed
using another riboprobe (774-bp HindIII-HincII
fragment of oatp2) (data not shown). All hybridization signals were
completely abolished when hybridization was performed in the presence
of a 200-fold excess of unlabeled probes (Fig. 5b),
confirming the specificity of the localization pattern of the oatp2
mRNA.

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Fig. 5.
In situ hybridization of
the oatp2 mRNA in adult rat brains. Presented is a film
autoradiograpic image of a sagittal section of rat brain showing wide
expression of the oatp2 mRNAs throughout the brain (a).
AO, anterior olfactory nuclei; Cb, cerebellar
cortex; Cx, cerebral neocortex; DG, dentate
granule cell layer; Hi, hippocampal pyramidal cell layer;
MO, medulla oblongata; OB, olfactory bulb;
St, striatum; Th, thalamus; Hy,
hypothalamus. The arrow shows the choroid plexus in the
lateral ventricle. No significant expression was seen in the adjacent
section when the hybridization was performed in the presence of a
200-fold excess of the unlabeled probe (b). Scale
bar = 5 mm. In the bright-field photographs of the
hippocampus (c) and cerebellum (d), dense
accumulations of hybridization signals are deposited in the hippocampal
pyramidal cells, cerebellar Purkinje (arrowheads) and
granule cells. Mo, molecular layer; Gr, granule
cell layer. Scale bar = 50 µm.
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DISCUSSION |
This paper presents the characterization and tissue distribution
of two cDNA clones encoding rat organic anion transporter subtypes
oatp2 and oatp3 isolated from rat retina. The putative amino acid
sequence of oatp3 was novel, whereas that of oatp2 was identical as
recently reported (8). oatp3 is unique compared with other members of
the organic anion transporter family in its tissue distribution.
Both oatp2 and oatp3 appear to be responsible for transporting organic
anions and thyroid hormones for the following reasons. First, the
expression experiments with oatp2 and oatp3 using Xenopus oocytes showed that both oatp2 and oatp3 transport
[3H]taurocholate. oatp2 transports taurocholate with a
Km value similar to that reported (35.2 ± 8.9 versus 34 µM) (8). The oatp3 cRNA-injected
oocytes also transported [3H]taurocholate, but the
apparent Km value was half of that for oatp1- and
oatp2-mediated uptake (8). Second, a series of
cis-inhibition studies on the oatp2-expressing oocytes
showed that the oatp2-mediated uptake of [3H]taurocholate
was markedly inhibited by the addition of taurocholate, cholate, BSP,
or 17 -estradiol glucuronide as well as T4 and
T3. The oatp3-mediated taurocholate uptake was also
inhibited by BSP. Third, the oatp2- and oatp3-expressing oocytes
facilitated the uptake of thyroid hormones (T4 and
T3) with simple Michaelis-Menten kinetics, and the apparent
Km values are comparable to each other. Fourth,
Northern blot analysis showed that the oatp2 mRNA is distributed in
the brain, retina, and liver. The oatp3 mRNA is exclusively
expressed in the retina and kidney. On the other hand, the oatp1
mRNA is expressed in the liver, kidney, brain, skeletal muscle, and
colon (3). Finally, in situ hybridization analysis indicated
that the oatp2 mRNA is widely distributed in neuronal cells of many
brain regions as well as in the choroid plexus.
This is the first report identifying the molecules responsive for
transporting thyroid hormones across cell membrane. The transport of
thyroid hormones across the plasma membrane determines the
intracellular concentration of these hormones and hence the activation
of the nuclear T3 receptor. The existence of mechanisms regulating the transport of thyroid hormones has been suggested in
cerebrocortical neurons (17), astrocytes (18), glial cells (19),
hepatocytes (20, 21), erythrocytes (22), and skeletal muscle (23). The
following are comparisons of the pharmacological characteristics among
oatp2, oatp3, and the known native thyroid hormone transporters.
The Km values for T4 and T3
of oatp2 and oatp3 were similar to those for neural cells (19) and
hepatocytes (21), but 10-fold higher than those reported by Chantoux
et al. (17) and Blondeau et al. (20). We do not
know what accounts for these differences. In our study, the
oatp2-mediated uptake of T4 was not dependent on
extracellular Na+, whereas the transporting mechanisms of
thyroid hormones are heterogeneous in Na+ dependence:
Na+-dependent (21), Na+-independent
(19, 20, 24) and mixed (18, 23). In addition, it has been reported that
oocytes injected with rat liver poly(A)+ RNA showed
Na+-dependent uptake of T4 and
T3 (25); however, the functional fraction size is different
from that of the oatp2 or oatp3 mRNA. Therefore, the molecules
responsible for transporting thyroid hormones are suggested to be
heterogeneous.
The uptake of thyroid hormones in the native tissues appears to
be inhibited by a variety of structurally unrelated drugs, including
non-bile acid cholephils such as BSP, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (20, 24), diphenylhydantoin (26), and propranolol (27). In our
study, the oatp2-mediated uptake of taurocholate was inhibited by some
of these compounds, but no oatp3-mediated uptake was found for
tryptophan, phenylalanine, tyrosine, and indomethacin. In the
oatp1-expressing mammalian cells, T4 did not exhibit a
cis-inhibitory effect for BSP uptake (28). Thus, further
investigations will be required to understand the role and functions of
the other members of the organic anion transporter family.
The oatp2 mRNA is distributed exclusively in the brain, retina, and
liver. In the central nervous system, most of the nuclear T3 is derived from local T4 deiodination (29).
However, most of the intracellular T3 in the liver and
muscle is derived from plasma (30). Accordingly, the abundant
expression of the oatp2 mRNA in the brain and liver implies that
this molecule should regulate the availability of thyroid hormone in
these tissues. Thyroid hormones also play an essential role in neural
function of the mammalian central nervous system, particularly during a critical period of its development (31, 32). The absence of thyroid
hormone causes serious damages to structural development and
organization of the brain (especially the hippocampus and cerebellum),
including biochemical maturation, and leads to irreversible mental
retardation (33).
In the hippocampus, the oatp2 mRNA is predominantly expressed in
the pyramidal cells of CA1-4 and in the granule cells of the dentate
gyrus. In the cerebellum, the oatp2 mRNA is highly expressed in
Purkinje cells. The prominent expression of the oatp2 mRNA in these
thyroid hormone-sensitive neurons further suggests that oatp2 may play
a critical role in neuronal development and maintaining cell
function.
oatp2 mRNA was also moderately distributed in the choroid plexus.
This is consistent with the notion that thyroid hormones are
transported into the brain via the blood-brain barrier (9) or via the
choroid plexus (10). In situ hybridization of rat oatp1
revealed that rat oatp1 mRNA is also expressed in the choroid plexus (34). Although the probe for rat oatp1 (positions 2031-2090) is
80~95% identical among organic anion transporter family members, the
probe only detected signals in the choroid plexus. In our experiments,
to avoid the nonspecific signals, we used the 900-bp 3'-noncoding
region that has <48% identity to any organic anion transporter
family. Thus, it seems likely that at least two organic anion
transporter family subtypes are coexpressed in the choroid plexus:
oatp1, which mediates BSP uptake that is not inhibited by
T4 (28); and oatp2, which transports thyroid hormones.
Noé et al. (8) also showed that the oatp2 mRNA is
highly expressed in the brain, liver, and kidney. However, in our
experiment, no oatp2 expression was detected in the kidney. This
discrepancy in the Northern blot analysis may be also attributed to the
different nucleotide regions of the probe. We used the 3'-noncoding
region of oatp2 that has <48% identity to oatp1, OAT-K1, and oatp3.
On the other hand, Noé et al. (8) used nucleotides
1-360, which has >80% identity to oatp1 (82%) and OAT-K1 (87%). In
their report, the size of the major band in the kidney was smaller than
that in the brain. It is possible that their probe cross-hybridized to
the other member of the organic anion transporter family,
e.g. oatp3 or OAT-K1. In addition, since the probes for
oatp3 clearly hybridized to the kidney mRNA, the mRNAs used
were not degenerate in our study. The same result was obtained using
the rat multiple-tissue Northern filter. In both cases, mRNA
qualities were confirmed by -actin (data not shown). Based on our
results, we suggest that the oatp2 mRNA is not expressed in the
kidney as much as shown for oatp2 (8).
The oatp3 mRNA is exclusively distributed in the kidney. Most
of the T4 secreted from the thyroid is deiodinated in
peripheral tissues. The liver and kidney are the major peripheral
organs producing T3 from T4 (35). Thus, the
specific expression of oatp3 mRNA in the kidney suggests an
essential role for oatp3 in transporting thyroid hormones from the
circulation to the deiodination sites in the kidney.
Individuals with Refetoff's syndrome, characterized by
resistance to thyroid hormone, exhibit reduced clinical and biochemical activities of thyroid hormone action relative to the circulating hormone level (36). Several pathophysiological mechanisms have been
suggested to account for the thyroid hormone resistance seen in
Refetoff's syndrome patients. One possible mechanism is
reduced hormone availability to tissues due to impaired thyroid hormone entry into cells (36). Accordingly, functional and genetic
investigations of oatp2 and oatp3 may also help us to understand the
etiology of such disorders and to aid in clinical diagnosis.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
We thank Drs. Kazuo Nunoki and Akira
Kobayashi for critical reading of the manuscript and Satoshi Sai for
photographic assistance.
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FOOTNOTES |
*
This work was supported in part by research grants from the
Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture of Japan, the Yamanouchi Foundation for Research on Metabolic Disorders, the Mochida Memorial Foundation for Medical and Pharmaceutical Research, and the Inamori Foundation.The costs of publication of this
article were defrayed in part by the
payment of page charges. The article
must therefore be hereby marked
"advertisement" in
accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section
1734 solely to indicate this fact.
The nucleotide sequence(s) reported in this paper has been submitted to the GenBankTM/EMBL Data Bank with accession number(s) U95011 and AF041105.
§
Recipient of a long-term fellowship from Human Frontier Science
Program Organization. To whom correspondence should be addressed: Dept.
of Neurophysiology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8575, Japan. Tel.: 81-22-717-8153; Fax:
81-22-717-8154; E-mail: takaabe{at}mail.cc.tohoku.ac.jp.
The abbreviations used are:
BSP, bromosulfophthalein; T4, thyroxineT3, 3,5,3'-triiodo-L-thyroninePCR, polymerase chain reactionbp, base pair(s).
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G. L. Guo and C. D. Klaassen
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A. Takeuchi, S. Masuda, H. Saito, T. Abe, and K.-i. Inui
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E. C. H. Friesema, R. Docter, E. P. C. M. Moerings, F. Verrey, E. P. Krenning, G. Hennemann, and T. J. Visser
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G. Hennemann, R. Docter, E. C. H. Friesema, M. de Jong, E. P. Krenning, and T. J. Visser
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Y.-H. Han, Y. Kato, Y. Watanabe, K. Terao, Y. Asoh, and Y. Sugiyama
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J. W. A. Ritchie, C. J. F. Collingwood, and P. M. Taylor
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C. Buettner, J. W. Harney, and P. R. Larsen
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H. C. Walters, A. L. Craddock, H. Fusegawa, M. C. Willingham, and P. A. Dawson
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S. Wada, M. Tsuda, T. Sekine, S. H. Cha, M. Kimura, Y. Kanai, and H. Endou
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L. Li, P. J. Meier, and N. Ballatori
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R. A. M. H. Van Aubel, R. Masereeuw, and F. G. M. Russel
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S. B. Rosso, A. O. Caceres, A. M. E. de Duffard, R. O. Duffard, and S. Quiroga
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A. Takeuchi, S. Masuda, H. Saito, Y. Hashimoto, and K.-i. Inui
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H. Kouzuki, H. Suzuki, B. Stieger, P. J. Meier, and Y. Sugiyama
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J. S. Glavy, S. M. Wu, P. J. Wang, G. A. Orr, and A. W. Wolkoff
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J. Konig, Y. Cui, A. T. Nies, and D. Keppler
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B. Hsiang, Y. Zhu, Z. Wang, Y. Wu, V. Sasseville, W.-P. Yang, and T. G. Kirchgessner
A Novel Human Hepatic Organic Anion Transporting Polypeptide (OATP2). IDENTIFICATION OF A LIVER-SPECIFIC HUMAN ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTING POLYPEPTIDE AND IDENTIFICATION OF RAT AND HUMAN HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-CoA REDUCTASE INHIBITOR TRANSPORTERS
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B. Gao, B. Stieger, B. Noé, J.-M. Fritschy, and P. J. Meier
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J. E. van Montfoort, B. Hagenbuch, K. E. Fattinger, M. Müller, G. M. M. Groothuis, D. K. F. Meijer, and P. J. Meier
Polyspecific Organic Anion Transporting Polypeptides Mediate Hepatic Uptake of Amphipathic Type II Organic Cations
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B. S. Chan, J. A. Satriano, and V. L. Schuster
Mapping the Substrate Binding Site of the Prostaglandin Transporter PGT by Cysteine Scanning Mutagenesis
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S. Akhteruzzaman, Y. Kato, H. Kouzuki, H. Suzuki, A. Hisaka, B. Stieger, P. J. Meier, and Y. Sugiyama
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T. Cihlar, D. C. Lin, J. B. Pritchard, M. D. Fuller, D. B. Mendel, and D. H. Sweet
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N. Strazielle and J.-F. Ghersi-Egea
Demonstration of a Coupled Metabolism-Efflux Process at the Choroid Plexus as a Mechanism of Brain Protection Toward Xenobiotics
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J.-i. Nishino, H. Suzuki, D. Sugiyama, T. Kitazawa, K. Ito, M. Hanano, and Y. Sugiyama
Transepithelial Transport of Organic Anions across the Choroid Plexus: Possible Involvement of Organic Anion Transporter and Multidrug Resistance-Associated Protein
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T. Abe, M. Kakyo, T. Tokui, R. Nakagomi, T. Nishio, D. Nakai, H. Nomura, M. Unno, M. Suzuki, T. Naitoh, et al.
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G. A. Brent
Thyroid hormone action: down novel paths Focus on "Thyroid hormone induces activation of mitogen-activated protein kinase in cultured cells"
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U. Eckhardt, A. Schroeder, B. Stieger, M. Hochli, L. Landmann, R. Tynes, P. J. Meier, and B. Hagenbuch
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S. Masuda, K. Ibaramoto, A. Takeuchi, H. Saito, Y. Hashimoto, and K.-I. Inui
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J. Konig, Y. Cui, A. T. Nies, and D. Keppler
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H. Kawaji, C. Schonbach, Y. Matsuo, J. Kawai, Y. Okazaki, Y. Hayashizaki, and H. Matsuda
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