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Expressions of hepatobiliary organic anion transporters and bilirubin-conjugating enzyme in differentiating embryonic stem cells.

Mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells are clonal cell lines derived from the inner cell mass of developing blastocysts and have multi-lineage differentiation ability. We previously reported that ES cells can be made to differentiate into hepatocytes possessing high metabolic activities by transfection of hepatocyte nuclear factor-3beta (HNF-3beta). In the present study, we investigated the expression of hepatobiliary organic anion transporters and bilirubin uridine diphosphate glucuronosyltransferase (ugt1a1) in undifferentiated and differentiating HNF-3beta-transfected ES (HNF-3beta-ES) cells. The expression of organic anion transporting polypeptide 1 (oatp1), multidrug resistance-associated protein 1 ( mrp1), mrp2, mrp3, and ugt1a1 was not seen in the undifferentiated HNF-3beta-ES cells by RT-PCR, whereas all were expressed in differentiating HNF-3beta-ES cells. Protein expression for oatp1, mrp1, mrp2, mrp3, and ugt1a1 was also observed in the differentiating HNF-3beta-ES cells by Western blotting. An immunofluorescence examination revealed that oatp1 was co-located with desmoplakin, a marker for the basolateral (sinusoidal) membrane, and mrp2 was co-localized with CD26, a marker for the apical (canalicular) membrane, though they were both expressed throughout most of the cell membranes.[1]

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  1. Expressions of hepatobiliary organic anion transporters and bilirubin-conjugating enzyme in differentiating embryonic stem cells. Tanaka, Y., Yoshikawa, M., Kobayashi, Y., Kuroda, M., Kaito, M., Shiroi, A., Yamao, J., Fukui, H., Ishizaka, S., Adachi, Y. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. (2003) [Pubmed]
 
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