Gibco™ Rat MRP2 Vesicles

Description

• Rat MRP2 Vesicles are insect derived purified plasma membranes with inserted MRP2 transport protein (multidrug resistance-associated protein, ABCC2)
• Our Rat MRP2 Vesicles can be used to evaluate test compounds and drug interactions with MRP2 in in vitro assays
• MRP2 is an ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter that carries organic anions
• Use Rat MRP2 Vesicles to: Investigate the transporter interactions of your drug candidates Assess potential for transporter-mediated drug-drug interactions Obtain high quality results with a large signal to noise ratios Concept Behind ABC Transporter Vesicles ABC transporter vesicles are easy-to-use, efficient reagents for early assessment of a drug candidate's substrate and drug interaction potential
• While ABC transporters typically mediate the export of substrates out of cells, transporters expressed on these inside-out vesicles import substrates into the vesicles
• It is therefore possible to quantitatively evaluate transport activity for your compound by determining the amount incorporated into the vesicles
• Clear and Reliable Results Prepared from Sf9 cells which have been engineered to over-express specific ABC transporters, these 'inside-out' vesicles provide high levels of transporter activity with low background, giving you a clear signal if your compound is a substrate or inhibitor of a specific efflux transporter
• Transporter Vesicle Details Rat MRP2 Vesicles are part of a larger group of transporter vesicles known as ABC transporter vesicles
• They are prepared from purified plasma membranes isolated from an insect cell system (Sf9 cells transfected with baculovirus) expressing MRP2
• MRP2 is expressed in various organs, and is thought to play a role in excretion of various compounds from the kidney and liver, based on its localization on the canalicular plasma membrane of hepatocytes and brush border membrane of tubular epithelial cells.