scholarly journals Protein Expression and Functional Relevance of Efflux and Uptake Drug Transporters at the Blood–Brain Barrier of Human Brain and Glioblastoma

2019 ◽  
Vol 107 (5) ◽  
pp. 1116-1127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xun Bao ◽  
Jianmei Wu ◽  
Youming Xie ◽  
Seongho Kim ◽  
Sharon Michelhaugh ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (Supplement_6) ◽  
pp. vi86-vi86
Author(s):  
Xun Bao ◽  
Jianmei Wu ◽  
Youming Xie ◽  
Seongho Kim ◽  
Sharon Michelhaugh ◽  
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Abstract BACKGROUND Mechanistic understanding and quantitative prediction of drug penetration across the human blood-brain barrier (BBB) is critical to rational drug development and treatment for brain cancer especially glioblastoma. However, prediction of drug brain/tumor penetration has been significantly hindered mainly due to the lack of quantitation data on transporter protein expression levels at the human BBB. This study was to determine protein expression levels of major transporters and markers at the BBB of human brain and glioblastoma. METHOD The absolute protein expression levels of major transporters and markers were determined in isolated microvessels of human brain (N=30), glioblastoma (N=47), rat (N=10) and mouse brain (N=10), using liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) based targeted proteomics. RESULTS In isolated microvessels of 30 human brain specimens, the median protein abundances for ABCB1, ABCG2, GLUT1, GLUT3, LAT1, MCT1, Na/K ATPase, and Claudin-5 were 3.38, 6.21, 54.51, 7.17, 3.42, 5.71, 32.14, and 1.15 fmol/µg protein, respectively. In glioblastoma microvessels, ABCB1, ABCG2, MCT1, GLUT1, Na/K ATPase, and Claudin-5 protein levels were significantly reduced, while LAT1 was increased and GLU1 remained the same. ABCC4, OATP1A2, OATP2B1, and OAT3 were undetectable in isolated microvessels of both human brain and glioblastoma. There was species difference in transporter protein expression levels in isolated microvessels of human, rat and mouse brain. Specifically, rodent BBB expressed significantly higher ABCB1 but similar ABCG2, as compared to human BBB. CONCLUSION The physical and biochemical barriers of the BBB in glioblastomas are largely disrupted, as indicated by the loss or significant reduction in protein expression of the tight junction marker (claudin-5), brain endothelial cell marker (GLUT1), and major efflux transporters (ABCB1 and ABCG2) as compared to normal human BBB. Differential BBB transporter protein expression levels provides mechanistic and quantitative basis for the prediction of heterogeneous drug penetration into human normal brain and glioblastoma.



2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kotaro Omori ◽  
Masanori Tachikawa ◽  
Shirou Hirose ◽  
Ayaka Taii ◽  
Shin-ichi Akanuma ◽  
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2011 ◽  
Vol 100 (9) ◽  
pp. 3939-3950 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katsuaki Ito ◽  
Yasuo Uchida ◽  
Sumio Ohtsuki ◽  
Sanshiro Aizawa ◽  
Hirotaka Kawakami ◽  
...  


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyler D. Brown ◽  
Maksymilian Nowak ◽  
Alexandra V. Bayles ◽  
Balabhaskar Prabhakarpandian ◽  
Pankaj Karande ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 2305-2314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony R. Bain ◽  
Philip N. Ainslie ◽  
Ryan L. Hoiland ◽  
Otto F. Barak ◽  
Ivan Drvis ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gwenaëlle Le Roux ◽  
Rafika Jarray ◽  
Anne-Cécile Guyot ◽  
Serena Pavoni ◽  
Narciso Costa ◽  
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Abstract The development of effective central nervous system (CNS) drugs has been hampered by the lack of robust strategies to mimic the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and cerebrovascular impairments in vitro. Recent technological advancements in BBB modeling using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) allowed to overcome some of these obstacles, nonetheless the pertinence for their use in drug permeation study remains to be established. This mandatory information requires a cross comparison of in vitro and in vivo pharmacokinetic data in the same species to avoid failure in late clinical drug development. Here, we measured the BBB permeabilities of 8 clinical positron emission tomography (PET) radioligands with known pharmacokinetic parameters in human brain in vivo with a newly developed in vitro iPSC-based human BBB (iPSC-hBBB) model. Our findings showed a good correlation between in vitro and in vivo drug brain permeability (R2 = 0.83; P = 0.008) which contrasted with the limited correlation between in vitro apparent permeability for a set of 18 CNS/non-CNS compounds using the in vitro iPSCs-hBBB model and drug physicochemical properties. Our data suggest that the iPSC-hBBB model can be integrated in a flow scheme of CNS drug screening and potentially used to study species differences in BBB permeation.



2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Axel Haarmann ◽  
Michael Schuhmann ◽  
Christine Silwedel ◽  
Camelia-Maria Monoranu ◽  
Guido Stoll ◽  
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Chemokines (C-X-C) motif ligand (CXCL) 5 and 8 are overexpressed in patients with multiple sclerosis, where CXCL5 serum levels were shown to correlate with blood–brain barrier dysfunction as evidenced by gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging. Here, we studied the potential role of CXCL5/CXCL8 receptor 2 (CXCR2) as a regulator of paraendothelial brain barrier function, using the well-characterized human cerebral microvascular endothelial cell line hCMEC/D3. Low basal CXCR2 mRNA and protein expression levels in hCMEC/D3 were found to strongly increase under inflammatory conditions. Correspondingly, immunohistochemistry of brain biopsies from two patients with active multiple sclerosis revealed upregulation of endothelial CXCR2 compared to healthy control tissue. Recombinant CXCL5 or CXCL8 rapidly and transiently activated Akt/protein kinase B in hCMEC/D3. This was followed by a redistribution of tight junction-associated protein zonula occludens-1 (ZO-1) and by the formation of actin stress fibers. Functionally, these morphological changes corresponded to a decrease of paracellular barrier function, as measured by a real-time electrical impedance-sensing system. Importantly, preincubation with the selective CXCR2 antagonist SB332235 partially prevented chemokine-induced disturbance of both tight junction morphology and function. We conclude that human brain endothelial CXCR2 may contribute to blood–brain barrier disturbance under inflammatory conditions with increased CXCL5 and CXCL8 expression, where CXCR2 may also represent a novel pharmacological target for blood–brain barrier stabilization.



2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 64-79
Author(s):  
Blakely B O’Connor ◽  
Thomas Grevesse ◽  
John F Zimmerman ◽  
Herdeline Ann M Ardoña ◽  
Jorge A Jimenez ◽  
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Abstract The blood–brain barrier plays a critical role in delivering oxygen and nutrients to the brain while preventing the transport of neurotoxins. Predicting the ability of potential therapeutics and neurotoxicants to modulate brain barrier function remains a challenge due to limited spatial resolution and geometric constraints offered by existing in vitro models. Using soft lithography to control the shape of microvascular tissues, we predicted blood–brain barrier permeability states based on structural changes in human brain endothelial cells. We quantified morphological differences in nuclear, junction, and cytoskeletal proteins that influence, or indicate, barrier permeability. We established a correlation between brain endothelial cell pair structure and permeability by treating cell pairs and tissues with known cytoskeleton-modulating agents, including a Rho activator, a Rho inhibitor, and a cyclic adenosine monophosphate analog. Using this approach, we found that high-permeability cell pairs showed nuclear elongation, loss of junction proteins, and increased actin stress fiber formation, which were indicative of increased contractility. We measured traction forces generated by high- and low-permeability pairs, finding that higher stress at the intercellular junction contributes to barrier leakiness. We further tested the applicability of this platform to predict modulations in brain endothelial permeability by exposing cell pairs to engineered nanomaterials, including gold, silver–silica, and cerium oxide nanoparticles, thereby uncovering new insights into the mechanism of nanoparticle-mediated barrier disruption. Overall, we confirm the utility of this platform to assess the multiscale impact of pharmacological agents or environmental toxicants on blood–brain barrier integrity.



Author(s):  
Florian Simon ◽  
Laetitia Guyot ◽  
Jessica Garcia ◽  
Gaelle Vilchez ◽  
Claire Bardel ◽  
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