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Perron
Cloning of the mouse sodium iodide symporter and its expression in the mammary gland and other tissues.Perron B, Rodriguez AM, Leblanc G, Pourcher T. J Endocrinol. 2001 Jul;170(1):185-96.
"Iodide concentration
in milk by mammals is a necessary step for thyroid hormone
synthesis by the newborn. With the purpose of using the mouse as
an animal model to analyse the role of the sodium iodide
symporter (NIS) in iodide transport and its regulation in the
mammary gland, mouse NIS (mNIS) cDNA was isolated from lactating
mice. The cloned sequence shows an open reading frame of 1854
nucleotides encoding a protein of 618 amino acids highly
homologous to the rat and human NIS (95% and 81% identity
respectively). Expression of mNIS in cultured mammalian cells
induced cellular iodide accumulation. This iodide uptake process
is sodium dependent and inhibited by thiocyanate and perchlorate.
Tissue distribution analysis revealed that mNIS mRNAs are
predominantly expressed in thyroid, stomach and in the lactating
mammary gland and are present to a lower extent in several other
tissues. Our data show for the first time that the level of mNIS
mRNA is upregulated in the mammary gland during lactation." |
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