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Immunological Identification of Vesicular Nucleotide Transporter in Intestinal L Cells

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Title
Immunological Identification of Vesicular Nucleotide Transporter in Intestinal L Cells
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Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin, January 2014
DOI 10.1248/bpb.b14-00275
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Yuika Harada, Miki Hiasa

Abstract

It is well established that vesicular nucleotide transporter (VNUT) is responsible for vesicular storage of nucleotides such as ATP, and that VNUT-expressing cells can secrete nucleotides upon exocytosis, playing an important role in purinergic chemical transmission. In the present study, we show that VNUT is expressed in intestinal L cells. Immunohistochemical evidence indicated that VNUT is present in glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) containing cells in rat intestine. VNUT immunoreactivity is not co-localized with GLP-1, a marker for secretory granules, and synaptophysin, a marker for synaptic-like microvesicles (SLMVs). Essentially the same results were obtained for GLUTag clonal L cells. Sucrose density gradient analysis confirmed that VNUT is present the light fraction, unlike secretory granules. These results demonstrate that intestinal L cells express VNUT in either the unidentified organelles at light density other than secretory granules and SLMVs or a subpopulation of SLMVs, and suggest that L cells are purinergic in nature and secrete nucleotides independent of GLP-1 secretion.

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Spain 1 5%
Unknown 19 95%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 5 25%
Student > Bachelor 4 20%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 15%
Professor 2 10%
Lecturer 1 5%
Other 4 20%
Unknown 1 5%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 30%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 25%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 20%
Neuroscience 2 10%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 1 5%
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