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In this work, regulation of organic cation transporter type 2 from rat (rOCT2) stably transfected in HEK293 cells was investigated by microfluorimetry with 4-(4-(dimethylamino)styryl)-N-methylpyridinium as substrate. The transport mediated by rOCT2 was specifically stimulated by PKA, phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase, p56lck tyrosine kinase, mitogen-extracellular-signal-regulated-kinase-1/2, calmodulin (CaM), and CaM-kinase-II. The regulatory pattern of rOCT2 differs markedly quantitatively and qualitatively from that of other OCT isoforms. Only CaM-dependent upregulation is conserved throughout the OCT family. For this reason, CaM regulation of rOCT2 was also investigated in isolated S3-segments (known to express only rOCT2) of male and female rat proximal tubules. Inhibition of CaM by calmidazolium significantly decreased rOCT2 activity (−49.0 ± 13.6%, n = 4) in male but not female (9.0 ± 13.0%, n = 4) rats. Real-time PCR and Western blot investigations of CaM expression in rat kidneys showed that male animals have significantly higher CaM expression. This is the first study describing post-translational gender-dependent rOCT2 regulation.
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Received 26 February 2009; accepted 16 March 2009
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Wilde, S., Schlatter, E., Koepsell, H. et al. Calmodulin-associated post-translational regulation of rat organic cation transporter 2 in the kidney is gender dependent. Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 66, 1729–1740 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00018-009-9145-z
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