title: The sodium bile salt cotransport family SLC10.
abstract: The SLC10 family of sodium/bile salt cotransporters contains over 50 members in animal, plant and bacterial species. In man, two well-characterized members and three orphan transporters are known. The Na(+)/taurocholate cotransporting polypeptide (NTCP; SLC10A1) and the apical sodium-dependent bile salt transporter (ASBT; SLC10A2) are critical components of the enterohepatic circulation of bile salts. NTCP and ASBT are cotransporters that mediate sodium-dependent, electrogenic uptake of mainly bile salts into hepatocytes (NTCP), biliary epithelial cells, ileal enterocytes and renal proximal tubular cells (ASBT).
authors.affiliation: Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Department of Medicine, University Hospital, 8091, Zurich, Switzerland. Bruno.Hagenbuch@access.unizh.ch
authors.forename: Bruno
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hagenbuch
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dawson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001647:Bile Acids and Salts / Q000378:metabolism*; D001692:Biological Transport / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D005810:Multigene Family / Q000502:physiology; D029363:Organic Anion Transporters, Sodium-Dependent / Q000502:physiology*; D012964:Sodium / Q000378:metabolism*; D027981:Symporters / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D001647:Bile Acids and Salts; D029363:Organic Anion Transporters, Sodium-Dependent; D027981:Symporters; C071908:sodium-bile acid cotransporter; D012964:Sodium