title: Intracellular trafficking of bile salt export pump (ABCB11) in polarized hepatic cells: constitutive cycling between the canalicular membrane and rab11-positive endosomes.
abstract: The bile salt export pump (BSEP, ABCB11) couples ATP hydrolysis with transport of bile acids into the bile canaliculus of hepatocytes. Its localization in the apical canalicular membrane is physiologically regulated by the demand to secrete biliary components. To gain insight into how such localization is regulated, we studied the intracellular trafficking of BSEP tagged with yellow fluorescent protein (YFP) in polarized WIF-B9 cells. Confocal imaging revealed that BSEP-YFP was localized at the canalicular membrane and in tubulo-vesicular structures either adjacent to the microtubule-organizing center or widely distributed in the cytoplasm. In the latter two locations, BSEP-YFP colocalized with rab11, an endosomal marker. Selective photobleaching experiments revealed that single BSEP-YFP molecules resided in canalicular membranes only transiently before exchanging with intracellular BSEP-YFP pools. Such exchange was inhibited by microtubule and actin inhibitors and was unaffected by brefeldin A, dibutyryl cyclic AMP, taurocholate, or PI 3-kinase inhibitors. Intracellular carriers enriched in BSEP-YFP elongated and dissociated as tubular elements from a globular structure adjacent to the microtubule-organizing center. They displayed oscillatory movement toward either canalicular or basolateral membranes, but only fused with the canalicular membrane. The pathway between canalicular and intracellular membranes that BSEP constitutively cycles within could serve to regulate apical pools of BSEP as well as other apical membrane transporters.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA.
authors.forename: Yoshiyuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wakabayashi
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lippincott-Schwartz
authors.forename: Irwin M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Arias
mesh_terms: D000074020:ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 11; D018528:ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism*; D000199:Actins / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D001648:Bile Canaliculi / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D016764:Cell Polarity; D011992:Endosomes / Q000737:chemistry / Q000502:physiology*; D022781:Hepatocytes / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008566:Membranes / Q000737:chemistry; D008870:Microtubules / Q000378:metabolism; D021381:Protein Transport; D051381:Rats; D020691:rab GTP-Binding Proteins / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism*; D000099193:rab11 GTP-Binding Proteins
chemical_list: D000074020:ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 11; D018528:ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters; D000199:Actins; D020691:rab GTP-Binding Proteins; D000099193:rab11 GTP-Binding Proteins; C490548:Abcb11 protein, rat