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Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 282: F465-F471, 2002; doi:10.1152/ajprenal.00267.2001
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Vol. 282, Issue 3, F465-F471, March 2002

Mechanism and regulation of vitamin B6 uptake by renal tubular epithelia: studies with cultured OK cells

Hamid M. Said1,2, Alvaro Ortiz1,2, and Nike D. Vaziri2

1 Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Long Beach, 90822; and 2 University of California College of Medicine, Irvine, California 92697

The kidneys play an important role in regulating vitamin B6 body homeostasis, but limited information exists regarding the mechanism of pyridoxine uptake by renal epithelial cells, and no study exists on its regulation. To address these issues, we used the renal opossum-derived tubular epithelial (opossum kidney; OK) cells and found pyridoxine uptake to 1) be temperature and energy dependent, 2) be pH dependent, with a higher uptake at alkaline or neutral buffer pH compared with acidic pH, 3) be Na+ independent, 4) involve a saturable component (apparent Michaelis- Menten constant of 2.40 ± 0.23 µM), 5) be inhibited by structural analogs, and 6) be amiloride sensitive. Maintaining OK cells in a vitamin B6-deficient growth medium (for 48 h) led to a significant upregulation of pyridoxine uptake. This upregulation was found to be specific for pyridoxine, inhibited by cyclohexamide and actinomycin D, reversible, and mediated via an increase in maximal velocity. Pretreating OK cells with modulates of a Ca2+/calmodulin-mediated pathway led to a significant downregulation in pyridoxine uptake via inhibition of maximal velocity. These results demonstrate that pyridoxine uptake by renal tubular epithelial OK cells is via a specialized pH-sensitive carrier-mediated mechanism. This mechanism appears to be regulated by extracellular vitamin B6 levels and an intracellular Ca2+/calmodulin-mediated pathway.

transport; calcium/calmodulin; opossum kidney cells


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