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Linolenic Acid Transport in Hamster Intestinal Cells Is Carrier-Mediated

Laboratoire de Physiologie et Biophysique Cellulaires, Faculté des Sciences Pharmaceutiques, 37042 Tours Cedex, France

The intestinal uptake of [1-¹⁴C]linolenic acid [18:3(n-3)], an essential fatty acid, was investigated in isolated hamster intestinal cells using a rapid filtration method and 20 mmol/L taurocholate as solubilizing agent. Under these conditions, the initial rate of -linolenic acid uptake was not a linear function of external monomer concentrations in the range of 2 to 2250 nmol/L, but rather the transport system was characterized by saturation kinetics with V_max = 11.37 nmol·mg protein^-1·min^-1 and K_m = 382 nmol/L. Temperature and metabolic poisons (2,4-dinitrophenol, antimycin A) drastically decreased the initial rate of uptake, as did replacement of Na⁺. The presence of excess unlabeled -linolenic acid in the incubation medium significantly inhibited the uptake of [1-¹⁴C]linolenic acid, whereas L-alanine and D-glucose had no effect. Other long-chain fatty acids (saturated or unsaturated), as well as cholesterol, inhibited the uptake of [1-¹⁴C]linolenic acid. We concluded that an active, carrier-mediated mechanism was involved in the intestinal transport of -linolenic acid. Inhibition data are compatible with the hypothesis that intestinal uptake of -linolenic acid is mediated by a carrier common to long-chain fatty acids.

KEY WORDS: • essential fatty acids • linolenic acid • intestinal absorption • hamsters • carrier-mediated transport

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Manuscript received 27 April 1992. Revision accepted 4 September 1992.

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