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Institute of Animal Nutrition, Physiology and Metabolism, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, D-24098 Kiel, Germany
1To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: wolffram{at}aninut.uni-kiel.de.
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KEY WORDS: flavonoids quercetin isoquercitrin intestine SGLT1
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Apart from local effects within the gastrointestinal tract, absorption of the flavonoids and/or their biologically active metabolites is a prerequisite for any systemic effect. Some publications indicate a higher bioavailability of quercetin derived from quercetin-glucosides as present in onions compared with the free aglycon or the quercetin-glucorhamnoside rutin (16
19
). From these findings, an involvement of the intestinal sodium-dependent glucose transporter-1 (SGLT1)2
in the absorption of quercetin glucosides has been deduced. Although experimental evidence for the absorption of intact glucosides into the systemic circulation is scanty (20
,21
), several studies have demonstrated interactions between SGLT1 and quercetin glucosides at the intestinal brush border membrane (BBM) (22
24
). In accordance with those studies, we recently demonstrated a competitive inhibition of quercetin-3-glucoside (Q3G) and quercetin-4'-glucoside on mucosal glucose uptake (25
). Although inhibition by quercetin glucosides of glucose or galactose transport across the BBM clearly indicates an interaction with SGLT1, it does not necessarily mean that these glucosides are transported by this carrier mechanism (25
). To our knowledge, there is only one study to date demonstrating glucose-inhibitable uptake of quercetin-4'-ß-glucoside into Caco-2 cells and Chinese hamster ovary cells stably transfected with rabbit SGLT1 (24
). Interestingly, quercetin-4'-ß-glucoside is secreted across the luminal membrane of Caco-2 cells by the multidrug resistance-associated protein (MRP)2 (26
), explaining the lack of net absorption of this glucoside across Caco-2 cell monolayers (26
,27
).
The aim of the present study was to obtain some more direct evidence for an involvement of the glucose carrier SGLT1 in the transport of Q3G across the intestinal BBM. For this purpose, rat jejunum and proximal colon were mounted in Ussing-type chambers and the disappearance of Q3G as influenced by D-glucose, D-fructose, Na+ and phloridzin was monitored.
| MATERIALS AND METHODS |
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The following protocol was approved by the Animal Subjects Committee of the Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany. Intestinal tissues (mid-jejunum, proximal colon) were obtained from male Wistar rats (Wistar Hannover, Institute of Physiology, University Kiel) with a body weight of 350380 g. Rats had free access to a pelleted commercial standard diet (ssniff R/M-H, Spezialdiäten GmbH; Soest; Germany; crude nutrients: 19% protein, 66.1% carbohydrates, 3.3% fat, 4.9% fiber, 6.7% ash, supplemented with vitamins and minerals; 12.2 MJ metabolizable energy) and to tap water and were deprived of food 12 h before the experiment. The rats were anesthetized with diethylether and subsequently killed by exsanguination after removal of the intestinal segments, which were immediately transferred into chilled oxygenated Krebs-Henseleit phosphate buffer (KHPB, in mmol/L: 120.8 NaCl, 4.8 KCl, 1.2 MgSO4, 16.5 Na2HPO4, pH adjusted to 6.8 with HCl and NaOH) and opened longitudinally along the mesenteric border. Intestinal contents were thoroughly removed by rinsing with the buffer solution taking special care not to damage the mucosa.
Experimental set-up.
Small intestinal pieces (
1.5 cm) were mounted in modified Ussing chambers and bathed with a volume of 4 mL of KHPB with the addition of 10 mmol/L of D-mannose or D-glucose on the mucosal and serosal side, respectively. Na+-free buffer solutions were prepared by isomolar replacement of NaCl and Na2HPO4 by choline chloride and H3PO4 (pH adjusted to 6.8 with tetramethylammoniumhydroxide). Each chamber was equipped with a water jacket, allowing a constant temperature of 37°C during the course of the experiments. Tissues were continuously gassed with pure oxygen and short-circuited by an automatic voltage clamp device (Aachen Microclamp, AC Copy Datentechnik, Aachen, Germany) with correction for solution resistance. The exposed surface of the tissue was 1 cm2. A current of ± 100 µA was applied to the tissue at 1-min intervals and the change in voltage measured. The tissue conductance (Gt) was calculated from these values according to Ohms law. Values for Gt and the continuously applied short-circuit current (Isc) were registered in 6-s intervals. After an equilibration period of at least 30 min, the test substances (Fig. 1
) quercetin, rutin (purity
98.5%, Roth, Karlsruhe, Germany), and Q3G (purity
98.5%, Extraysynthese, Genay, France) at a final concentration of 100 µmol/L [dissolved in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), final concentration of DMSO 0.25%] were added either to the mucosal or serosal compartment. Samples (150 µL) for HPLC analysis of flavonoids were removed immediately after the addition of the test substance and after 1 and 2 h from the mucosal and serosal compartment, respectively. The viability of the tissue was routinely checked by means of the Gt (tissues with a Gt > 50 mS/cm2 were excluded) and by the Isc response to D-Glucose (20 mmol/L, mucosal, mid-jejunum) or to forskolin (1 µmol/L, serosal, colon) at the end of the experiments. Data from tissues that did not respond to D-glucose or forskolin, respectively, with an increase in Isc of at least 30% were discarded. Figure 2
shows a representative example of the Isc response of jejunal and colonic tissue after an experimental period of 2 h.
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Samples drawn from the mucosal and serosal compartments of the Ussing chambers were analyzed directly for their flavonoid content. Some samples were treated with 5 x 105 U/L ß-glucuronidase and 2.5 x 104 U/L sulfatase (crude extract from Helix pomatia, Sigma-Aldrich AG, Deisenhofen, Germany) and incubated for 30 min at 37°C before analysis to liberate quercetin from glucuronides and sulfates possibly formed within the intestinal epithelium and secreted into the incubation medium (28
32
). This enzymatic treatment also cleaves the ß-glycosidic bond present in Q3G. For HPLC analysis, 30- or 80-µL aliquots of the final samples were injected by an autosampler (950-AS) connected to a C18-Kromasil column (dimension: 250 x 4 mm, particle size 5 µm) protected by a C-18 Inertsil ODS-2 precolumn (10 x 4 mm, 5 µm particle size). The columns were placed in a column oven set at 30°C. The eluent was composed of 0.025 mmol/L NaH2PO4 solution, pH 2.4, acetonitrile and methanol (68:27:5 v/v/v) delivered at a rate of 1 mL/min (980-PU-ND pump). Flavonoids were detected using a UV-detector (MD 1510) at a wave length of 254 nm. The HPLC equipment was purchased from Jasco, Groß-Umstadt, Germany. HPLC chromatograms were evaluated using the Borwin chromatography software (version 1.22.03 B, JMBS Developments, Grenoble, France). Flavonoids were identified by their retention times compared with authentic substances. Concentrations were calculated from the peak areas using calibration curves for Q3G, quercetin and the methylated quercetin metabolites isorhamnetin and tamarixetin, which might be formed within the intestinal epithelium during absorption (30
).
Statistics.
Data are presented as mean values ± SEM; n indicates the total number of preparations with 23 preparations from each rat. The unpaired two-tailed Students t test (33
) was used to compare means. Calculations were performed on a personal computer using the program GraphPad Instat (34
). Differences with P
0.05 were considered significant.
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10% of the initial amount was present after 2 h (results not shown). Spontaneous decomposition of quercetin, which can be prevented by protein binding, may occur in neutral or slightly alkaline buffer solutions containing phosphate (35
In the absence of D-glucose from the mucosal medium (KHPB), the concentration of Q3G decreased continuously with time. After 1 and 2 h only 43 and 14% of the initial concentration, respectively, were still present in the mucosal medium (Fig. 3
). Addition of 10 mmol/L D-glucose, however, significantly lessened the disappearance of Q3G, with 35% of the initial concentration remaining after 2 h (Fig. 3
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Because the experiments on the disappearance of Q3G described above suggested the involvement of a glucose-inhibitable mechanism, e.g., SGLT1, we further investigated the disappearance of Q3G under conditions with SGLT1 maximally silenced by omission of Na+ from the mucosal medium and addition of the specific SGLT1 inhibitor phloridzin (0.1 mmol/L). Under these conditions, 54% of the initial Q3G dose remained in the mucosal compartment after 2 h (Fig. 4
) compared with 14% under control conditions (with Na+, no phloridzin).
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| DISCUSSION |
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With jejunal tissues mounted into Ussing chambers, the disappearance of Q3G from the mucosal solution as well as the parallel appearance of the free aglycone quercetin was significantly reduced in the presence of D-glucose. Furthermore, reducing the transport activity of SGLT1 by omitting Na+ from the mucosal bathing solution and simultaneously adding phloridzin, a potent inhibitor of SGLT1, drastically reduced the concentration decline of Q3G observed under control conditions. Because autolysis of Q3G was excluded in preliminary experiments, these findings can be explained either by an extracellular enzymatic cleavage of the glucose moiety from Q3G or by uptake of intact Q3G and intracellular cleavage with subsequent diffusion of quercetin back into the mucosal medium. Extracellular hydrolysis of Q3G can be catalyzed by the BBM enzyme lactase phloridzin hydrolase (LPH) with the majority of the activity stemming from the lactase domain rather than from the phloridzin hydrolase domain of LPH (36
). LPH purified from sheep jejunum is capable of hydrolyzing a range of flavonol and isoflavone glucosides, including Q3G and quercetin-4'-glucoside (36
). Although extracellular hydrolysis of Q3G could explain the disappearance of Q3G as well as the appearance of free quercetin in the mucosal compartment, the inhibitory influence of D-glucose, the Na+ dependence and the effect of phloridzin observed in our experiments are difficult to reconcile with extracellular hydrolysis of Q3G by LPH. Therefore, our results are best explained by uptake of intact Q3G via the SGLT1 and subsequent intracellular hydrolysis. Because the aglycone is more lipophilic, quercetin might diffuse across the BBM back into the mucosal solution. Although we found quercetin to be rather unstable in the absence of intestinal tissue, a spontaneous decomposition of quercetin might have been prevented by binding to proteins in the presence of intestinal tissue.
Intracellular ß-glucosidases have been found in human and rat small intestine (37
,38
). The enzymes derived from human and rat small intestine both hydrolyze quercetin-4'-glucoside, whereas the rat enzyme also cleaves Q3G although at a considerably lower rate than the 4'-glucoside (38
). The quercetin glucorhamnoside rutin is not hydrolyzed by intracellular ß-glucosidases (37
,38
). In addition, recirculation of the intact glucoside might occur at the BBM, consisting of uptake by the SGLT1 and subsequent secretion by MRP2 as demonstrated in Caco-2 cells (24
,26
).
Although neither Q3G nor free quercetin was detected in the serosal compartment, this does not necessarily mean that Q3G, or more likely, free quercetin does not cross the basolateral membrane of the epithelial cells; rather, it indicates that the adjacent tissue layers (subepithelial tissue, muscle tissue), which were still present in our preparations, hindered diffusion into the serosal bathing solution.
In in vivo studies on the bioavailability of quercetin in humans, rats and pigs after oral application of quercetin or quercetin glucosides, it was consistently found that the vast majority of quercetin absorbed into the circulation was present as glucuronides and sulfates of quercetin and methylated forms of quercetin such as isorhamnetin and tamarixetin (32
,39
42
). Conjugation can already occur in the intestinal mucosa subsequent to the cleavage of the glucose moiety (41
). Quercetin glucuronides and sulfates are not only absorbed into the blood but may also be secreted into the intestinal lumen across the BBM (41
). In our study we did not detect glucuronides in either the serosal or the mucosal compartment of the Ussing chambers. In addition, in some preliminary experiments on the retention of quercetin, Q3G and quercetin conjugates within the intestinal wall after incubation of small intestinal preparations in the presence of Q3G in the mucosal bathing solution, we found only free quercetin, not the intact glucoside or conjugates of quercetin (results not shown). We do not know the exact reasons for this discrepancy from the in vivo situation, but factors such as an insufficient energy supply in the intestinal mucosa for formation of glucuronides/sulfates, or an instability of such conjugates under our experimental conditions might have contributed.
Even in the absence of Na+ and simultaneous presence of phloridzin, incubation conditions in which SGLT1 should not substantially contribute to the disappearance of Q3G from the mucosal bathing solution, Q3G concentration declined considerably over the 2-h incubation period. Because fructose had no effect under these conditions, a contribution of Na+- independent uptake of Q3G by the intestinal fructose carrier GLUT5 appears to be unlikely. For intestinal glucose transport across the BBM, however, recent data indicate a substantial role of GLUT2 in this process, at least under in vivo conditions (43
). Transport of Q3G by facilitated diffusion mediated by GLUT2 together with simple diffusion could explain the Na+-independent component of the disappearance of Q3G in our experiments.
Taken together, our results demonstrate that SGLT1 is involved in the uptake of Q3G across the small intestinal BBM. This conclusion is supported by the inhibitory effect of D-glucose, phloridzin and Na+-free medium on the disappearance of Q3G from the mucosal bathing solution. Furthermore, Q3G was not taken up by the proximal colon, a tissue lacking SGLT1.
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Manuscript received 24 September 2001. Initial review completed 8 November 2001. Revision accepted 3 January 2002.
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I. C. W. Arts, A. L. A. Sesink, and P. C. H. Hollman Quercetin-3-Glucoside Is Transported by the Glucose Carrier SGLT1 across the Brush Border Membrane of Rat Small Intestine J. Nutr., September 1, 2002; 132(9): 2823 - 2823. [Full Text] [PDF] |
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S. Wolffram Reply to Arts, Sesink and Hollman J. Nutr., September 1, 2002; 132(9): 2824 - 2824. [Full Text] [PDF] |
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