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Bile acid transport across the hepatocyte canalicular membrane

FJ Suchy, CJ Sippel and M Ananthanarayanan
Department of Pediatrics and Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Heaven, Connecticut 06520, USA.

Transport of bile acids across the canalicular membrane of the hepatocyte provides the primary motive force for generation of bile flow and is rate limiting in the vectorial movement of bile acids from blood to bile. Several distinct carriers for bile acids have been defined based on physiological studies in isolated hepatocytes, membrane vesicles, hepatocyte couples, and the perfused rat liver including membrane potential-driven and ATP-dependent mechanisms. Several groups have isolated and functionally reconstituted a canalicular bile acid transport protein of M(r) approximately 110 kDa. The ATP-dependent mechanism for secretion of monovalent bile acids appears to be mediated by a yet to be identified protein of the ATP binding cassette family of transporters. However, it remains conjectural whether the ATP-dependent and membrane potential-driven components of canalicular bile acid transport are mediated by one or more transport proteins. Bile acid sulfates and glucuronides are substrates for the canalicular multispecific organic anion transporter whose activity has recently been associated with the multidrug resistance-associated protein.

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