AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, Vol 257, Issue 6 935-G943, Copyright © 1989 by American Physiological Society

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Theophylline inhibits transcellular Ca transport in intestine and Ca binding by CaBP

D. Pansu, C. Bellaton, C. Roche and F. Bronner
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Hopital E. Herriot, Lyon, France.

Theophylline, when added to the incubation medium of everted duodenal sacs prepared from rats on a low-calcium diet, was found to inhibit transcellular Ca transport in a concentration-dependent manner, with an inhibitor constant (Ki) of 10.8 mM theophylline. Neither the rate of cellular Ca entry, as evaluated with the aid of brush-border membrane vesicles, nor the rate of cellular Ca extrusion, assessed by measuring ATP-dependent Ca uptake of basolateral membrane vesicles, was significantly altered by the addition of theophylline to the uptake media. However, Ca-binding by calcium-binding protein (CaBP; calbindin D9k), Mr approximately 8,800) was depressed by theophylline in a concentration-dependent manner, with Ki = 3.2 mM theophylline. Theophylline had no effect on Ca binding by calmodulin and the theophylline-induced inhibition of transcellular calcium transport was independent of adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate levels. Theophylline also had no effect on paracellular Ca movement. Since the theophylline-induced inhibition of Ca-binding by CaBP paralleled the inhibition of transcellular Ca transport, it is concluded that CaBP functions in transcellular Ca transport via its ability to bind Ca.

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