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MUCOSAL BIOLOGY

Role of short-chain fatty acids in colonic HCO₃ secretion

Departments of ¹Internal Medicine, ²Cellular and Molecular Physiology, and ³Surgery, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Submitted 15 September 2004 ; accepted in final form 14 January 2005

Luminal isobutyrate, a relatively poor metabolized short-chain fatty acid (SCFA), induces HCO₃ secretion via a Cl-independent, DIDS-insensitive, carrier-mediated process as well as inhibiting both Cl-dependent and cAMP-induced HCO₃ secretion. The mechanism(s) responsible for these processes have not been well characterized. HCO₃ secretion was measured in isolated colonic mucosa mounted in Lucite chambers using pH stat technique and during microperfusion of isolated colonic crypts. ¹⁴C-labeled butyrate, ¹⁴C-labeled isobutyrate, and ³⁶Cl uptake were also determined by apical membrane vesicles (AMV) isolated from surface and/or crypt cells. Butyrate stimulation of Cl-independent, DIDS-insensitive 5-nitro-3-(3-phenylpropyl-amino)benzoic acid-insensitive HCO₃ secretion is greater than that by isobutyrate, suggesting that both SCFA transport and metabolism are critical for HCO₃ secretion. Both lumen and serosal 25 mM butyrate inhibit cAMP-induced HCO₃ secretion to a comparable degree (98 vs. 90%). In contrast, Cl-dependent HCO₃ secretion is downregulated by lumen 25 mM butyrate considerably more than by serosal butyrate (98 vs. 37%). Butyrate did not induce HCO₃ secretion in isolated microperfused crypts, whereas an outward-directed HCO₃ gradient-driven induced ¹⁴C-butyrate uptake by surface but not crypt cell AMV. Both ³⁶Cl/HCO₃ exchange and potential-dependent ³⁶Cl movement in AMV were inhibited by 96–98% by 20 mM butyrate. We conclude that 1) SCFA-dependent HCO₃ secretion is the result of SCFA transport across the apical membrane via a SCFA/HCO₃ exchange more than intracellular SCFA metabolism; 2) SCFA-dependent HCO₃ secretion is most likely a result of an apical membrane SCFA/HCO₃ exchange in surface epithelial cells; 3) SCFA downregulates Cl-dependent and cAMP-induced HCO₃ secretion secondary to SCFA inhibition of apical membrane Cl/HCO₃ exchange and anion channel activity, respectively.

Cl/HCO₃ exchange; short-chain fatty acid/HCO₃ exchange; anion channel; pH stat; colonic mucosa

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