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. 1995 Apr 1;484(Pt 1):173–182. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1995.sp020656

Dipeptide transport and hydrolysis in isolated loops of rat small intestine: effects of stereospecificity.

N Lister 1, A P Sykes 1, P D Bailey 1, C A Boyd 1, J R Bronk 1
PMCID: PMC1157930  PMID: 7602518

Abstract

1. Isolated jejunal loops of rat small intestine were perfused by a single pass of bicarbonate Krebs-Ringer solution containing either D- or L-phenylalanine or one of eight dipeptides formed from D- or L-alanine plus D- or L-phenylalanine. 2. At 0.5 mM L-phenylalanyl-L-alanine increased serosal phenylalanine appearance to forty times the control rate giving a value similar to that found with 0.5 mM free L-phenylalanine. No serosal dipeptide could be detected. 3. Perfusions with the two mixed dipeptides with N-terminal D-amino acids (D-alanyl-L-phenylalanine and D-phenylalanyl-L-alanine) gave rise to the appearance of intact dipeptides in the serosal secretions although there were substantial differences in their rates of absorption and subsequent hydrolysis. 4. L-Alanyl-D-phenylalanine was absorbed from the lumen three to five times as fast as L-phenylalanyl-D-alanine. At 1 mM L-alanyl-D-phenylalanine transferred D-phenylalanine across the epithelial layer at more than seven times the rate found with the same concentration of the free D-amino acid. 5. Perfusions with D-alanyl-D-phenylalanine or D-phenylalanyl-D-alanine showed that these two dipeptides are poor substrates for both transport and hydrolysis by the rat small intestine. 6. Analysis of mucosal tissue extracts after perfusion with the two mixed dipeptides with N-terminal D-amino acids revealed that both dipeptides were accumulated within the mucosa and suggested that exit across the basolateral membrane was rate limiting for transepithelial dipeptide transport.

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