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Organic anion-transporting polypeptides.

  • Stieger B Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, University Hospital, Zürich, Switzerland. Electronic address: bstieger@kpt.uzh.ch.
  • Hagenbuch B Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA.
  • 2014-04-22
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  • Current topics in membranes. - 2014
Drug
OATP
Organic anion
Transport
Animals
Biological Products
Biological Transport
Gene Expression Regulation
Humans
Organic Anion Transporters
Protein Processing, Post-Translational
Transcription, Genetic
English Organic anion-transporting polypeptides or OATPs are central transporters in the disposition of drugs and other xenobiotics. In addition, they mediate transport of a wide variety of endogenous substrates. The critical role of OATPs in drug disposition has spurred research both in academia and in the pharmaceutical industry. Translational aspects with clinical questions are the focus in academia, while the pharmaceutical industry tries to define and understand the role these transporters play in pharmacotherapy. The present overview summarizes our knowledge on the interaction of food constituents with OATPs and on the OATP transport mechanisms. Further, it gives an update on the available information on the structure-function relationship of the OATPs and, finally, covers the transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation of OATPs.
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