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Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 251: G218-G222, 1986;
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AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, Vol 251, Issue 2 218-G222, Copyright © 1986 by American Physiological Society

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Role of sodium ion in transport of folic acid in the small intestine

J. Zimmerman, J. Selhub and I. H. Rosenberg

The effect of sodium on folate transport across the intestinal luminal membrane was analyzed using two techniques: the "influx" chamber and isolated brush-border membrane vesicles. Preincubation of tissue in Na+-free medium did not have a consistent effect on folic acid influx provided that Na+ was present in the test solution. Replacement of Na+ in the test solution by choline+ resulted in a significant reduction of folic acid influx. However, when intestinal sheets that had been equilibrated in Na+-free solution were exposed to test solution containing either Na+, Li+, K+, Rb+, Cs+, Tris+, or guanidinium+ as main cations, folic acid influx was not significantly decreased. Concentration-dependence studies showed that replacement of Na+ by Rb+ did not affect the saturable mechanism of folate transport. Rather, a decrease in nonsaturable folic acid uptake accounted for the slightly reduced influx observed in the presence of Rb+. Experiments with brush-border membrane vesicles revealed that methotrexate uptake was significantly higher in the presence of external Na+ than in the presence of K+, but was not different from uptake in the presence of K+ plus valinomycin. These data suggest that the saturable component of folate transport is not Na+ dependent, and nonsaturable transport of folic acid across the luminal membrane occurs in part through a conductive pathway that involves a negatively charged species of folate and a cation whose membrane permeability affects the rate of folate transport. The importance of Na+ in this process in vivo derives from the fact that Na+ is the most permeant cation available at the absorptive site in the small intestine.


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