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Expression of a rabbit renal ascorbic acid transporter in Xenopus laevis oocytes

D. L. Dyer, Y. Kanai, M. A. Hediger, S. A. Rubin and H. M. Said
Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Long Beach 90822.

We examined the expression of renal ascorbic acid transporter(s) in Xenopus laevis oocytes after microinjection of cells with poly(A)+ RNA extracted from rabbit kidney cortex. Concomitant expression of the Na+-glucose cotransporter served as a control in these studies. Injection of poly(A)+ RNA into oocytes produced over a fivefold increase in the uptake of [14C]ascorbic acid (570 microM) compared with water-injected cells. Size fractionation of the kidney cortex mRNA by sucrose gradient revealed that the mRNA species that induced ascorbic acid transporter expression in oocytes was present in a fraction centered around 2.0 kilobases (kb) and had a size range of 1.8-3.1 kb. Injection of the active fraction into oocytes produced a > 40-fold increase in ascorbic acid uptake compared with water-injected controls. Expression of ascorbic acid transporter(s) was noticeable as early as 2 days after injection and was maximal after 7 days; it was also dependent on the amount of mRNA injected into oocytes. The induced uptake of [14C]ascorbic acid after injection of mRNA into oocytes was 1) Na+ dependent, as indicated by the almost complete lack of transport on removal of Na+ from the incubation medium; 2) significantly inhibited by unlabeled ascorbic acid and its structural analogue isoascorbic acid but not by D-glucose; and 3) saturable as a function of increasing the substrate concentration in the incubation medium (100-1,000 microM), with an apparent Km of 258 +/- 72.5 microM and a maximum velocity of 29.6 +/- 2.8 pmol.oocyte-1.2 h-1. These data demonstrate that X. laevis oocytes are a suitable system to functionally express the mammalian renal ascorbic acid transporter.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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