title: Chronic alcohol consumption and intestinal thiamin absorption: effects on physiological and molecular parameters of the uptake process.
abstract: Thiamin is essential for normal cellular functions, and its deficiency leads to a variety of clinical abnormalities. Humans and other mammals obtain the vitamin via intestinal absorption. The intestine is exposed to two sources of thiamin, a dietary and a bacterial (i.e., normal microflora of the large intestine) source. Chronic alcohol consumption is associated with thiamin deficiency, which is caused (in part) by inhibition in intestinal thiamin absorption. However, little is known about the physiological and molecular aspects of the intestinal thiamin uptake process that are affected by chronic alcohol use. To address these issues, we used rats fed an alcohol-liquid diet and human intestinal epithelial HuTu-80 cells chronically exposed to ethanol as model systems. The results showed that chronic alcohol feeding to rats led to a significant inhibition in carrier-mediated thiamin transport across both the jejunal brush-border membrane and basolateral membrane domains. This was associated with a significant reduction in level of expression of thiamin transporter-1 (THTR-1), but not THTR-2, at the protein and mRNA levels. Level of expression of the heterogenous nuclear RNA of THTR-1 in the intestine of alcohol-fed rats was also decreased compared with their pair-fed controls. Chronic alcohol feeding also caused a significant inhibition in carrier-mediated thiamin uptake in rat colon. Studies with HuTu-80 cells chronically exposed to ethanol also showed a significant inhibition in carrier-mediated thiamin uptake. This inhibition was associated with a reduction in level of expression of human THTR-1 and THTR-2 at the protein, mRNA, and transcriptional (promoter activity) levels. These studies demonstrate that chronic alcohol feeding inhibits intestinal thiamin absorption via inhibition of the individual membrane transport event across the polarized absorptive epithelial cells. Furthermore, the inhibition is, at least in part, mediated via transcriptional mechanism(s).
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Research, VA Medical Center, Long Beach, and Department of Medicine, University of California College of Medicine, Irvine, California, USA.
authors.forename: Sandeep B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Subramanya
authors.forename: Veedamali S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Subramanian
authors.forename: Hamid M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Said
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000009:adverse effects*; D000818:Animals; D001692:Biological Transport; D002460:Cell Line; D002492:Central Nervous System Depressants / Q000633:toxicity*; D003106:Colon / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism; D015536:Down-Regulation; D004847:Epithelial Cells / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism; D000431:Ethanol / Q000633:toxicity*; D006801:Humans; D007408:Intestinal Absorption / Q000187:drug effects*; D007583:Jejunum / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D008871:Microvilli / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D023421:Models, Animal; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D013831:Thiamine / Q000378:metabolism*; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
chemical_list: D002492:Central Nervous System Depressants; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins; C120043:SLC19A2 protein, human; C492291:SLC19A3 protein, human; D000431:Ethanol; D013831:Thiamine
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