Ulf Schulze, Sabine Brast, Alexander Grabner, Christian Albiker, Beatrice Snieder, Svenja Holle, Eberhard Schlatter, Rita Schröter, Hermann Pavenstädt, Edwin Herrmann, Carsten Lambert, Gilles A Spoden, Luise Florin, Paul Saftig, Giuliano Ciarimboli
CD63 is a ubiquitously expressed member of the tetraspanin superfamily. Using a mating-based split-ubiquitin-yeast 2-hybrid system, pull-down experiments, total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy, Förster resonance energy transfer, and biotinylation assays, we found that CD63 interacts with human organic cation transporter 2 (hOCT2), which transports endogenous and exogenous substrates, such as neurotransmitters and drugs in several epithelial cells. CD63 overexpression affects cellular localization of hOCT2 expressed in human embryonic kidney (HEK)293 cells...
April 2017: FASEB Journal: Official Publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology