Fluoroquinolone (ciprofloxacin) secretion by human intestinal epithelial (Caco‐2) cells
- 1 August 1997
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in British Journal of Pharmacology
- Vol. 121 (8), 1567-1578
- https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjp.0701302
Abstract
1. Human intestinal epithelial Caco-2 cells were used to investigate the mechanistic basis of transepithelial secretion of the fluoroquinolone antibiotic ciprofloxacin. 2. Net secretion and cellular uptake of ciprofloxacin (at 0.1 mM) were not subject to competitive inhibition by sulphate, thiosulphate, oxalate, succinate and para-amino hippurate, probenecid (10 mM), taurocholate (100 microM) or bromosulphophthalein (100 microM). Similarly tetraethylammonium and N-'methylnicotinamide (10 mM) were without effect. 3. Net secretion of ciprofloxacin was inhibited by the organic exchange inhibitor 4,4'-diisothiocyanostilbene-2-2'-disulphonic acid (DIDS, 400 microM). 4. Net secretion of ciprofloxacin was partially inhibited by 100 microM verapamil, whilst net secretion of the P-glycoprotein substrate vinblastine was totally abolished under these conditions. Ciprofloxacin secretion was unaltered after preincubation of cells with two anti-P-glycoprotein antibodies (UIC2 and MRK16), which both significantly reduced secretory vinblastine flux (measured in the same cell batch). Ciprofloxacin (3 mM) failed to inhibit vinblastine net secretin in Caco-2 epithelia, and was not itself secreted by the P-glycoprotein expressing and vinblastine secreting dog kidney cell line, MDCK. 5. Net secretion and cellular uptake of ciprofloxacin (at 0.1 mM) were not subject to alterations of either cytosolic or medium pH, or dependent on the presence of medium Na+, Cl- or K+ in the bathing media. 6. The substrate specificity of the ciprofloxacin secretory transport in Caco-2 epithelia is distinct from both the renal organic anion and cation transport. A role for P-glycoprotein in ciprofloxacin secretion may also be excluded. A novel transport mechanism, sensitive to both DIDS and verapamil mediates secretion of ciprofloxacin by human intestinal Caco-2 epithelia.This publication has 53 references indexed in Scilit:
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