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Transport of a tripeptide, Gly‐Pro‐Hyp, across the porcine intestinal brush‐border membrane
Author(s) -
AitoInoue Misako,
Lackeyram Dale,
Fan Ming Z.,
Sato Kenji,
Mine Yoshinori
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of peptide science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1387
pISSN - 1075-2617
DOI - 10.1002/psc.870
Subject(s) - tripeptide , brush border , vesicle , chemistry , transcellular , dipeptide , biochemistry , oligopeptide , peptide , apical membrane , paracellular transport , intestinal mucosa , membrane , biophysics , biology , medicine , permeability (electromagnetism)
Abstract The transcellular transport of oligopeptides across intestinal epithelial cells has attracted considerable interest in investigations into how biologically active peptides express diverse physiological functions in the body. It has been postulated that the tripeptide, Gly‐Pro‐Hyp, which is frequently found in collagen sequences, exhibits bioactivity. However, the mechanism of uptake of dietary di‐ and tripeptides by intestinal epithelial cells is not well understood. In this study, we used porcine brush‐border membrane (BBM) vesicles to assess Gly‐Pro‐Hyp uptake, because these vesicles can structurally and functionally mimic in vivo conditions of human intestinal apical membranes. The present study demonstrated the time‐dependent degradation of this tripeptide into the free‐form Gly and a dipeptide, Pro‐Hyp, on the apical side of the BBM vesicles. In parallel with the hydrolysis of the tripeptide, the dipeptide Pro‐Hyp was identified in the BBM intravesicular space environment. We found that the transcellular transport of Pro‐Hyp across the BBM was inhibited by the addition of a competitive substrate (Gly‐Pro) for peptide transporter (PEPT1) and was pH‐dependent. These results indicate that Gly‐Pro‐Hyp can be partially hydrolyzed by the brush‐border membrane‐bound aminopeptidase N to remove Gly, and that the resulting Pro‐Hyp is, in part, transported into the small intestinal epithelial cells via the H + ‐coupled PEPT1. Gly‐Pro‐Hyp cannot cross the epithelial apical membrane in an intact form, and Pro‐Hyp is highly resistant to hydrolysis by intestinal mucosal apical proteases. Copyright © 2007 European Peptide Society and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.