AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, Vol 253, Issue 4 461-G468, Copyright © 1987 by American Physiological Society

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Bicarbonate sulfate exchange in canalicular rat liver plasma membrane vesicles

P. J. Meier, J. Valantinas, G. Hugentobler and I. Rahm
Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.

The mechanism(s) and driving forces for biliary excretion of sulfate were investigated in canalicular rat liver plasma membrane vesicles (cLPM). Incubation of cLPM vesicles in the presence of an inside-to-outside (in, out) bicarbonate gradient (50 mM in, 5 mM out, pH 8.0 in and out), but not pH (pH 8.0 in, 6.0 out) or out-to-in sodium gradients, stimulated sulfate uptake 10-fold compared with the absence of bicarbonate and approximately 2-fold above sulfate equilibrium ("overshoot"). Initial rates of this bicarbonate gradient-driven sulfate uptake were saturable with increasing concentrations of sulfate (apparent Km, approximately 0.3 mM) and could be inhibited by probenecid, N-(4-azido-2-nitrophenyl)-2-aminoethylsulfonate, acetazolamide, furosemide,4-acetamido-4'-isothiocyanostilbene-2,2'-disulfonic acid, and 4,4'-diisothiocyanostilbene-2,2'-disulfonic acid (IC50, approximately 40 microM). Cisinhibition of initial bicarbonate gradient-stimulated sulfate uptake and transstimulation of sulfate uptake in the absence of bicarbonate were observed with sulfate, thiosulfate, and oxalate but not with chloride, nitrate, phosphate, acetate, lactate, glutamate, aspartate, cholate, taurocholate, dehydrocholate, taurodehydrocholate, and reduced or oxidized glutathione. These findings indicate the presence of a sulfate (oxalate)-bicarbonate anion exchange system in canalicular rat liver plasma membranes. In conjunction with the previously reported chloride-bicarbonate exchanger (J. Clin. Invest. 75: 1256-1263, 1985), these findings support the concept that bicarbonate-sensitive transport system might play an important role in bile acid-independent canalicular bile formation.

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