title: Caulis Sinomenii extracts activate DA/NE transporter and inhibit 5HT transporter.
abstract: Caulis Sinomenii (QFT) has analgesic, sedative, and anxiolytic-like actions, and is proven effective for improving drug dependence that is known to be associated with abnormal monoaminergic transmission. We assessed whether QFT would be biologically active in functionally regulating monoamine transporters using CHO cells expressing dopamine transporter (DAT), norepinephrine transporter (NET), or serotonin transporter (SERT) (i.e. D8, N1, or S6 cells, respectively). Here, we showed that its primary extracts, such as QA, QC, QE, QD, and QB (QFT ethanol, chloroform, ethyl acetate, alkaloid-free chloroform, and alkaloid-containing chloroform extract, respectively), and secondary extracts, such as QE-2, - 3, - 5, - 7, QD-1, - 2, - 3, - 4, - 5, and QB-1, - 2, - 3, - 4, - 5 (fractioned from QE, QD, and QB, respectively), in differing degrees, either increased DA/ NE uptake by corresponding D8/N1 cells or decreased 5HT uptake by S6 cells; wherein, QE-2, QD-3, and QE-7 were potent DA/NE uptake activators while both QE-7 and QB-5 were potent 5HT uptake inhibitors. Furthermore, the enhancement of DA/NE uptake was dependent of DAT/NET activity, and the inhibition of 5HT uptake was typical of competition. Thus, QFT extracts, especially QE-2 and QE-7 (both with stronger potencies), are novel monoamine transporter modulators functioning as DAT/ NET activators and/or SERT inhibitors, and would likely improve neuropsychological disorders through regulating monoamine transporters.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yue Yang Road, Shanghai 200031, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Gang
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Cheng
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bi
authors.forename: Guo-Wei
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Qin
authors.forename: Li-He
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Guo
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015306:Biogenic Monoamines / Q000378:metabolism; D001692:Biological Transport / Q000187:drug effects; D016466:CHO Cells; D005591:Chemical Fractionation; D006224:Cricetinae; D003412:Cricetulus; D050483:Dopamine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D050484:Norepinephrine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D010936:Plant Extracts / Q000493:pharmacokinetics / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051381:Rats; D050486:Serotonin Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D032841:Sinomenium / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D015306:Biogenic Monoamines; D050483:Dopamine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins; D050484:Norepinephrine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins; D010936:Plant Extracts; D050486:Serotonin Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins