RGD Reference Report - Oxidative stress induces internalization of the bile salt export pump, Bsep, and bile salt secretory failure in isolated rat hepatocyte couplets: a role for protein kinase C and prevention by protein kinase A. - Rat Genome Database

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Oxidative stress induces internalization of the bile salt export pump, Bsep, and bile salt secretory failure in isolated rat hepatocyte couplets: a role for protein kinase C and prevention by protein kinase A.

Authors: Perez, LM  Milkiewicz, P  Elias, E  Coleman, R  Sanchez Pozzi, EJ  Roma, MG 
Citation: Perez LM, etal., Toxicol Sci. 2006 May;91(1):150-8. Epub 2006 Feb 1.
RGD ID: 1598577
Pubmed: PMID:16452108   (View Abstract at PubMed)
DOI: DOI:10.1093/toxsci/kfj113   (Journal Full-text)

We have shown that Ca2+-mediated protein kinase C (PKC) activation induces impairment of bile salt secretory function and F-actin redistribution in hepatocyte couplets. Because oxidative stress induces Ca2+ elevation, we tested here whether PKC inhibition or protein kinase A (PKA) activation, which often counteracts PKC-dependent effects, can prevent and reverse these alterations. The pro-oxidant compounds tert-butylhydroperoxide (tBOOH, 100 microM) and 2,3-dimethoxy-1,4-naphthoquinone (30 microM), reduced by -41% and -29%, respectively, the percentage of couplets accumulating the fluorescent bile salt analog, cholyl-lysylfluorescein in their canalicular vacuoles (p < 0.01). tBOOH-induced bile salt secretory failure was accompanied by internalization of the canalicular bile salt export pump (Bsep), and disarrangement of cytoskeletal F-actin. All these deleterious effects were fully prevented by the intracellular Ca2+ chelator BAPTA/AM (20 microM), the pan-specific PKC inhibitors H7 (100 microM) and staurosporine (1 microM), the inhibitor of Ca2+-dependent PKCs, Go6976 (2 microM), and the PKA activator dibutyryl-cAMP (500 microM). H7, Go6976, and dibutyryl-cAMP not only prevented but also fully reversed the decrease in the cholyl-lysyl-fluorescein accumulation. In conclusion, these results suggest that low levels of oxidative stress impair bile salt secretion by internalizing Bsep through a Ca2+-dependent, PKC-mediated mechanism, and that inhibition of PKC, or activation of PKA, prevents and reverses these effects. Alterations in actin organization may be a causal factor.

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TermQualifierEvidenceWithReferenceNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
response to oxidative stress  IEP 1598577 RGD 

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Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Abcb11  (ATP binding cassette subfamily B member 11)


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