| Literature DB >> 17575980 |
Carl-Fredrik Flach1, Firdausi Qadri, Taufiqur R Bhuiyan, Nur H Alam, Eva Jennische, Jan Holmgren, Ivar Lönnroth.
Abstract
Vibrio cholerae causes the cholera disease through secretion of cholera toxin (CT), resulting in severe diarrhoea by modulation of membrane transporters in the intestinal epithelium. Genes encoding membrane-spanning transporters identified as being differentially expressed during cholera disease in a microarray screening were studied by real-time PCR, immunohistochemistry and in a CaCo-2 cell model. Two amino acid transporters, SLC7A11 and SLC6A14, were upregulated in acute cholera patients compared to convalescence. Five other transporters were downregulated; aquaporin 10, SLC6A4, TRPM6, SLC23A1 and SLC30A4, which have specificity for water, serotonin (5-HT), magnesium, vitamin C and zinc, respectively. The majority of these changes appear to be attempts of the host to counteract the secretory response. Our results also support the concept that epithelial cells are involved in 5-HT signalling during acute cholera.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID： 17575980 DOI： 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.06.001
Source DB: PubMed Journal: FEBS Lett ISSN： 0014-5793 Impact factor: 4.124