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Nissen G, Ben-Meir E, Kopp M, Shaw M, Ratjen F, Grasemann H. Interleukin-1 beta is a potential mediator of airway nitric oxide deficiency in cystic fibrosis. J Cyst Fibros 2022; 21:623-625. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcf.2022.02.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2022] [Revised: 02/22/2022] [Accepted: 02/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Barilli A, Visigalli R, Ferrari F, Borsani G, Dall'Asta V, Rotoli BM. Flagellin From Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Stimulates ATB 0,+ Transporter for Arginine and Neutral Amino Acids in Human Airway Epithelial Cells. Front Immunol 2021; 12:641563. [PMID: 33841424 PMCID: PMC8029981 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.641563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2020] [Accepted: 02/08/2021] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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At present, the central role played by arginine in the modulation of the inflammatory cellular responses is well-recognized, and many pro-inflammatory stimuli are known to modulate the expression and activity of its transmembrane transporters. In this regard, we have addressed the effects of bacterial flagellin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa (FLA-PA) on the uptake of the amino acid in human epithelial respiratory cells. Among the arginine transporters, only ATB0,+, y+L, and y+ were operative in bronchial epithelial Calu-3 cells under control conditions; however, only the expression and activity of ATB0,+ were stimulated upon incubation with flagellin, whereas those of systems y+L and y+ were not stimulated. As a result, this induction, in turn, led to an increase in the intracellular content of arginine without making any change to its metabolic pathway. In addition, flagellin upregulated the amount of other amino acids substrates of ATB0,+, in particular, all the essential amino acids, such as valine, isoleucine, and leucine, along with the non-essential glutamine. At the molecular level, these effects were directly referable to the stimulation of a toll-like receptor-5 (TLR5) signaling pathway and to the induction of nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) transcription factor. An induction of ATB0,+ expression has been observed also in EpiAirway™, a model of primary human normal tracheal-bronchial epithelial cells that mimics the in vitro pseudostratified columnar epithelium of the airways. In this tissue model, the incubation with flagellin is associated with the upregulation of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) for the chemokine IL-8 and for the cytokines IL-6 and interleukin-1β (IL-1β); as for the latter, a marked secretion in the extracellular medium was also observed due to the concomitant activation of caspase-1. The overall findings indicate that, in human respiratory epithelium, flagellin promotes cellular responses associating the increase of intracellular amino acids through ATB0,+ with the activation of the inflammasome. Given the role of the ATB0,+ transporter as a delivery system for bronchodilators in human airway epithelial cells, its induction under inflammatory conditions gains particular relevance in the field of respiratory pharmacology.
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- Amelia Barilli
- Laboratory of General Pathology, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Laboratory of General Pathology, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Laboratory of General Pathology, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Section of Biology and Genetics, Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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- Laboratory of General Pathology, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Laboratory of General Pathology, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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Macleod CL, Kakuda DK. Regulation of CAT: Cationic amino acid transporter gene expression. Amino Acids 2013; 11:171-91. [PMID: 24178686 DOI: 10.1007/bf00813859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/1996] [Accepted: 02/27/1996] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The majority of mammalian cationic amino acid transport is mediated by the transport system y(+) which facilitates Na(+) independent cationic amino acid (arginine, lysine, & ornithine) transport and Na(+) dependent zwitterionic amino acid (glutamine & homoserine) transport. Other transport systems y(+)L, b(0,+) and B(0,+) also mediate cationic amino acid transport. Their broad substrate specificities and overlapping expression patterns confound biochemical analysis. The isolation of cDNA clones has permitted an analysis of their regulation and opens the opportunity to define the role of each protein in specific cell types. Two genes,Cat1 andCat2 encode transporters with properties similar to the y(+) transport system. Thecat2 gene from the mouse encodes two distinct proteins. mCAT2, and mCAT2A via alternate splicing; each protein has distinctly different transport properties. The regulation of mCAT1, mCAT2 and mCAT2A proteins are reviewed here. The implications of this gene specific regulation on cationic amino acid transport is discussed.
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- C L Macleod
- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego and Cancer Center Cancer Genetics Program, 9500 Gilman Drive, 92093-0684, La Jolla, California, USA
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Mohammadi E, Bigdeli M. Effects of preconditioning with normobaric hyperoxia on Na+/Ca2+ exchanger in the rat brain. Neuroscience 2013; 237:277-84. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.01.064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2012] [Revised: 01/28/2013] [Accepted: 01/29/2013] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Takaishi K, Kitahata H, Kawahito S. Local anesthetics inhibit nitric oxide production and l-arginine uptake in cultured bovine aortic endothelial cells. Eur J Pharmacol 2013; 704:58-63. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2013.02.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2012] [Revised: 02/03/2013] [Accepted: 02/07/2013] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Cerrito MG, Scagliarini A, Froio A, Liloia A, Busnelli M, Giovannoni R, Otterbein LE, Mainetti L, Villa M, Bach FH, Leone BE, Biasi GM, Lavitrano M. Heme Oxygenase-1 Inhibition Prevents Intimal Hyperplasia Enhancing Nitric Oxide-Dependent Apoptosis of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells. Biol Pharm Bull 2011; 34:1204-14. [DOI: 10.1248/bpb.34.1204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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- Vascular Surgery Unit, Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca
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- Vascular Surgery Unit, Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca
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- Molecular Medicine Laboratory, University of Milano-Bicocca
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- Molecular Medicine Laboratory, University of Milano-Bicocca
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- Molecular Medicine Laboratory, University of Milano-Bicocca
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- Immunobiology Research Center, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
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- Vascular Surgery Unit, Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca
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Bigdeli MR, Rahnema M, Khoshbaten A. Preconditioning with Sublethal Ischemia or Intermittent Normobaric Hyperoxia Up-regulates Glutamate Transporters and Tumor Necrosis Factor-α Converting Enzyme in the Rat Brain. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2009; 18:336-42. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2008.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2008] [Revised: 11/26/2008] [Accepted: 12/16/2008] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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da Silva Krause M, de Bittencourt PIH. Type 1 diabetes: can exercise impair the autoimmune event? TheL-arginine/glutamine coupling hypothesis. Cell Biochem Funct 2008; 26:406-33. [DOI: 10.1002/cbf.1470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Chin-Dusting JPF, Willems L, Kaye DM. l-Arginine transporters in cardiovascular disease: A novel therapeutic target. Pharmacol Ther 2007; 116:428-36. [PMID: 17915331 DOI: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2007.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2007] [Accepted: 08/06/2007] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The amino acid l-arginine participates in a variety of key biochemical and physiological activities, including its well-recognized role as the key substrate for nitric oxide (NO) biosynthesis. The current review describes the cellular influences on arginine metabolism with particular focus on the transport of l-arginine in the endothelium. It details the processes by which intracellular and extracellular levels of l-arginine may influence nitric oxide production and further documents the imbalance that is evident in various cardiovascular disease states. In man, impairment of l-arginine transport has been observed in hypertension, heart failure, and renal disease, and it may thus be a relevant therapeutic target for rectification of nitric oxide pathogenesis in these conditions.
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- J P F Chin-Dusting
- Alfred and Baker Medical Unit, Baker Heart Research Institute and Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road, Melbourne 3004, Victoria, Australia
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Silva MA, Mirza DF, Buckels JAC, Bramhall SR, Mayer D, Wigmore SJ, Murphy N, Richards DA. Arginine and Urea Metabolism in the Liver Graft: A Study Using Microdialysis in Human Orthotopic Liver Transplantation. Transplantation 2006; 82:1304-11. [PMID: 17130779 DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000241099.93794.d6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND Arginine is an amino acid having a central role in the metabolism of urea and nitric oxide in the liver. We present our findings of the behavior of these metabolites during the process of transplantation of the liver. METHODS Urea, arginine, ornithine, citrulline, gamma-aminobutyric acid, glutamate, and glutamine levels in 15 livers were studied during the process of retrieval, following storage during the backtable procedure, and for 48 hours postreperfusion using microdialysis. Arginase levels in donor and recipient serum were also analyzed using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay specific for type I human arginase. Data was analyzed using one-way analysis of variance, with post-hoc comparison to the value at two hours using Dunnett's test (P < 0.05 significant). RESULTS Levels of metabolites measured in the donor liver were seen to decline significantly in the stored liver. Immediately postreperfusion, there was a significant rise in arginase I levels in the recipient serum with low arginine levels recorded in the liver. The high arginase I levels significantly reduced six hours postreperfusion with a corresponding rise in extracellular arginine levels. Urea levels in the graft increased significantly immediately postreperfusion. CONCLUSIONS Arginine levels were found to be low with correspondingly high serum arginase I levels in the early postreperfusion phase. High serum arginase I levels in early postreperfusion may influence nitric oxide production in this phase since considering Vmax and Km values, arginase I could compete with inducible nitric oxide synthase for arginine. Urea metabolism in the liver recommences immediately postreperfusion.
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- Michael A Silva
- The Liver Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Machado DP, Nunes FB, Simões Pires MG, D'Avila LC, Leite CE, Ruschel RE, da Cunha AA, Saciura VC, Poloni JAT, Lunardelli A, de Oliveira JR, Alves Filho JCF, Cunha FQ, Dias FS, Poli de Figueiredo CE. Effects of beta-lactam antibiotics and L-arginine in the treatment of experimental sepsis in rats. Int J Antimicrob Agents 2006; 28:478-80. [PMID: 17049210 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2006.07.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2006] [Revised: 07/19/2006] [Accepted: 07/20/2006] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Wang Y, Maciejewski BS, Weissmann G, Silbert O, Han H, Sanchez-Esteban J. DNA microarray reveals novel genes induced by mechanical forces in fetal lung type II epithelial cells. Pediatr Res 2006; 60:118-24. [PMID: 16864689 DOI: 10.1203/01.pdr.0000227479.73003.b5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Mechanical forces are essential for normal fetal lung development. However, the cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating this process are still poorly defined. In this study, we used oligonucleotide microarrays to investigate gene expression in cultured embryonic d 19 rat fetal lung type II epithelial cells exposed to a level of mechanical strain similar to the developing lung. Significance Analysis of Microarrays (SAM) identified 92 genes differentially expressed by strain. Interestingly, several members of the solute carrier family of amino acid transporter (Slc7a1, Slc7a3, Slc6a9, and tumor-associated protein 1) genes involved in amino acid synthesis (Phgdh, Psat1, Psph, Cars, and Asns), as well as the amiloride-sensitive epithelial sodium channel gene (Scnn1a) were up-regulated by the application of force. These results were confirmed by quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR). Thus, this study identifies genes induced by strain that may be important for amino acid signaling pathways and protein synthesis in fetal type II cells. In addition, these data suggest that mechanical forces may contribute to facilitate lung fluid reabsorption in preparation for birth. Taken together, the present investigation provides further insights into how mechanical forces may modulate fetal lung development.
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- Yulian Wang
- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, Providence, RI 02905, USA
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Thongsong B, Subramanian RK, Ganapathy V, Prasad PD. Inhibition of amino acid transport system a by interleukin-1beta in trophoblasts. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 12:495-503. [PMID: 16202926 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsgi.2005.06.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2005] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The current study sought to investigate the influence of interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) on the function of the amino acid transport system A in trophoblasts. METHODS BeWo choriocarcinoma cells were exposed to recombinant human IL-1beta in serum-free medium. Cells incubated with serum-free medium in the absence of IL-1beta were used as control. System A activity was determined in control and treated cells by measuring the uptake of alpha-(methylamino)isobutyric acid. The results obtained were confirmed by measuring system A activity in placental brush border membrane vesicles isolated from pregnant rats injected with IL-1beta. RESULTS Treatment of BeWo cells with IL-1beta resulted in a time- and dose- dependent inhibition of system A. Treatment with IL-1beta also inhibited the uptake of arginine, and glutamate but had no significant effect on the uptake of leucine, tryptophan, and ascorbate. The inhibition of system A activity by IL-1beta was abolished in the presence of IL-1beta receptor antagonist. The inhibitory effect was associated with a decrease in the maximal velocity of the transport system with no effect on the substrate affinity. Steady-state levels of both SNAT1 and SNAT2 mRNA were reduced by IL-1beta treatment as evidenced by semiquantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis. In rat placental brush border membrane vesicles isolated from IL-1beta-treated pregnant rats, system A activity was found to be decreased by approximately 40% compared to activity in control membrane vesicles. CONCLUSIONS IL-1beta decreases SNAT1 and SNAT2 mRNA levels in trophoblasts, which is associated with a decrease in system A-mediated transport activity at the functional level. These findings may have important consequences under both physiologic conditions and pathologic conditions during pregnancy that are associated with elevated levels of IL-1beta.
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- Boonrit Thongsong
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia 30912-2100, USA
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Yang JH, Pan CS, Jia YX, Zhang J, Zhao J, Pang YZ, Yang J, Tang CS, Qi YF. Intermedin1-53 activates l-arginine/nitric oxide synthase/nitric oxide pathway in rat aortas. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2006; 341:567-72. [PMID: 16434024 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.01.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2006] [Accepted: 01/05/2006] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Intermedin (IMD), a novel member of the calcitonin/calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) family, has similar or more potent vasodilatory and hypotensive actions than adrenomedullin (ADM) and CGRP. The present study was designed to observe the effects of synthetic rat IMD1-53 on L-arginine (L-Arg) cellular transport, nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activity, and nitric oxide (NO) production in the isolated rat aortic ring to illustrate its direct effect on the L-Arg/NOS/NO pathway in vasculature. IMD1-53 significantly increased NO production and cNOS activity in rat aortas and was more potent than equivalent ADM. But the peptides of both IMD and ADM had no effect on inducible NOS expression and activity. Otherwise, IMD1-53 induced a concentration-dependent increase in [3H]L-Arg transport and its effect was more potent than that of an equivalent concentration of ADM. Semiquantitative RT-PCR revealed that IMD1-53 significantly increased cationic amino acid transport (CAT)-1 and CAT-2B mRNA expression, and its effect was similar to that of ADM. All these results suggest that IMD1-53 might regulate vessel function homeostasis via upregulating the L-Arg/NOS/NO pathway.
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- Jing-Hui Yang
- Institute of Cardiovascular Research, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing 100034, China
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Pradillo JM, Hurtado O, Romera C, Cárdenas A, Fernández-Tomé P, Alonso-Escolano D, Lorenzo P, Moro MA, Lizasoain I. TNFR1 mediates increased neuronal membrane EAAT3 expression after in vivo cerebral ischemic preconditioning. Neuroscience 2006; 138:1171-8. [PMID: 16442237 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2005.12.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2005] [Revised: 11/23/2005] [Accepted: 12/01/2005] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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A short ischemic event (ischemic preconditioning) can result in subsequent resistance to severe ischemic injury (ischemic tolerance). Glutamate is released after ischemia and produces cell death. It has been described that after ischemic preconditioning, the release of glutamate is reduced. We have shown that an in vitro model of ischemic preconditioning produces upregulation of glutamate transporters which mediates brain tolerance. We have now decided to investigate whether ischemic preconditioning-induced glutamate transporter upregulation takes also place in vivo, its cellular localization and the mechanisms by which this upregulation is controlled. A period of 10 min of temporary middle cerebral artery occlusion was used as a model of ischemic preconditioning in rat. EAAT1, EAAT2 and EAAT3 glutamate transporters were found in brain from control animals. Ischemic preconditioning produced an up-regulation of EAAT2 and EAAT3 but not of EAAT1 expression. Ischemic preconditioning-induced increase in EAAT3 expression was reduced by the TNF-alpha converting enzyme inhibitor BB1101. Intracerebral administration of either anti-TNF-alpha antibody or of a TNFR1 antisense oligodeoxynucleotide also inhibited ischemic preconditioning-induced EAAT3 up-regulation. Immunohistochemical studies suggest that, whereas the expression of EAAT3 is located in both neuronal cytoplasm and plasma membrane, ischemic preconditioning-induced up-regulation of EAAT3 is mainly localized at the plasma membrane level. In summary, these results demonstrate that in vivo ischemic preconditioning increases the expression of EAAT2 and EAAT3 glutamate transporters the upregulation of the latter being at least partly mediated by TNF-alpha converting enzyme/TNF-alpha/TNFR1 pathway.
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MESH Headings
- ADAM Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors
- ADAM Proteins/metabolism
- ADAM17 Protein
- Animals
- Antibodies/pharmacology
- Brain Ischemia/metabolism
- Brain Ischemia/physiopathology
- Cell Membrane/metabolism
- Cerebral Cortex/blood supply
- Cerebral Cortex/metabolism
- Cerebral Cortex/physiopathology
- Disease Models, Animal
- Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology
- Excitatory Amino Acid Transporter 2/metabolism
- Excitatory Amino Acid Transporter 3/metabolism
- Glutamic Acid/metabolism
- Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery/metabolism
- Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery/physiopathology
- Ischemic Preconditioning
- Male
- Neurons/metabolism
- Oligodeoxyribonucleotides, Antisense/pharmacology
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred F344
- Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor/antagonists & inhibitors
- Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor/genetics
- Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor/metabolism
- Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor, Type I
- Tumor Necrosis Factor Decoy Receptors
- Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/antagonists & inhibitors
- Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/metabolism
- Up-Regulation/physiology
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- J M Pradillo
- Departamento de Farmacología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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Cui Z, Tuladhar R, Hart SL, Marber MS, Pearson JD, Baydoun AR. Rate of transport of l-arginine is independent of the expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase in HEK 293 cells. Nitric Oxide 2004; 12:21-30. [PMID: 15631944 DOI: 10.1016/j.niox.2004.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2004] [Revised: 10/19/2004] [Accepted: 11/08/2004] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) is generally accompanied by a parallel upregulation in l-arginine transport which is dependent, at least in part, on the synthesis of new carrier proteins. It is not clear however whether the induction of iNOS and its subsequent utilisation of l-arginine for NO synthesis contribute to the enhancement in l-arginine transport rates observed following induction of cells with pro-inflammatory mediators. To address this issue, we have transfected an iNOS construct in a pEGFP-N1 vector into HEK-293 cells and investigated the effects this has on l-arginine transport. The expression of iNOS through transfection resulted in the production of significant quantities of NO as detected by the standard Griess assay. Under these conditions, the transport of l-arginine was found to be unaltered, with rate of uptake being comparable in both transfected and non-transfected cells. Characterisation of the transporter(s) involved with uptake of l-arginine revealed features characteristic of the classical cationic amino acid transport system y(+). Further analysis of the expression profile of the cationic amino acid transporter (CAT) involved revealed the presence of transcripts for CAT-1 and CAT-2B. These data demonstrate that iNOS activity does not drive or enhance l-arginine transport despite the fact that HEK-293 cells transport l-arginine via the CATs, including CAT-2B which is thought to be critical for supply of substrate to iNOS.
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- Zhaoqiang Cui
- Department of Biosciences, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Herts AL10 9AB, UK
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Visigalli R, Bussolati O, Sala R, Barilli A, Rotoli BM, Parolari A, Alamanni F, Gazzola GC, Dall'Asta V. The stimulation of arginine transport by TNFalpha in human endothelial cells depends on NF-kappaB activation. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2004; 1664:45-52. [PMID: 15238257 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2004.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2003] [Revised: 03/12/2004] [Accepted: 04/06/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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In human saphenous vein endothelial cells (HSVECs), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNFalpha) and bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS), but neither interferon gamma (IFNgamma) nor interleukin 1beta (IL-1beta), stimulate arginine transport. The effects of TNFalpha and LPS are due solely to the enhancement of system y+ activity, whereas system y+L is substantially unaffected. TNFalpha causes an increased expression of SLC7A2/CAT-2B gene while SLC7A1/CAT-1 expression is not altered by the cytokine. The suppression of PKC-dependent transduction pathways, obtained with the inhibitor chelerytrhine, the inhibitor peptide of PKCzeta isoform, or chronic exposure to phorbol esters, does not prevent TNFalpha effect on arginine transport. Likewise, ERK, JNK, and p38 MAP kinases are not involved in the cytokine effect, since arginine transport stimulation is unaffected by their specific inhibitors. On the contrary, inhibitors of NF-kappaB pathway hinder the increase in CAT2B mRNA and the stimulation of arginine uptake. These results indicate that in human endothelial cells the activation of NF-kappaB pathway mediates the TNFalpha effects on arginine transport.
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- Rossana Visigalli
- Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale, Sezione di Patologia Generale e Clinica, Università degli Studi di Parma, Via Volturno, 39 Parma 43100, Italy
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Hadkar V, Sangsree S, Vogel SM, Brovkovych V, Skidgel RA. Carboxypeptidase-mediated enhancement of nitric oxide production in rat lungs and microvascular endothelial cells. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2004; 287:L35-45. [PMID: 14977629 DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00346.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Membrane-bound regulatory carboxypeptidases cleave only COOH-terminal basic residues from peptides and proteins. To investigate whether carboxypeptidase-generated arginine can increase nitric oxide (NO) synthesis we perfused rat lungs from animals challenged with LPS or used rat lung microvascular endothelial cells (RLMVEC) stimulated with LPS and IFN-γ, conditions that induced inducible NO synthase (iNOS) expression. Addition of carboxypeptidase substrate furylacryloyl-Ala-Arg (Fa-A-R) or Arg to the lung perfusate increased NO production two- to threefold. The carboxypeptidase inhibitor 2-mercaptomethyl-3-guanidinoethylthiopropanoic acid (MGTA) blocked the effect of Fa-A-R but not free Arg. Lysine, an Arg transport inhibitor, blocked the increase in NO stimulated by Fa-A-R. HPLC analysis showed that Fa-A-R hydrolysis was blocked by MGTA but not lysine. In cytokine-treated RLMVEC, Fa-A-R also stimulated NO production inhibited by MGTA or lysine. Membrane fractions from rat lungs or RLMVEC contained carboxypeptidase M-like activity at neutral pH that increased twofold in RLMVEC treated with LPS + IFN-γ. The kinetics of NO production in RLMVEC was measured with a porphyrinic microsensor. Addition of 1 mM Arg or Fa-A-R to cells preincubated in Arg-free medium resulted in a slowly rising, prolonged (>20 min) NO output. NO production stimulated by Fa-A-R was blocked by MGTA or iNOS inhibitor 1400W. HPLC analysis of Fa-A-R hydrolysis revealed only 3.7 μM Arg was released over 20 min. Thus NO production in RLMVEC is stimulated more efficiently by Arg released from carboxypeptidase substrates than free Arg. These studies reveal a novel mechanism by which the Arg supply for NO production in inflammatory conditions may be maintained.
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- Vaishali Hadkar
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, 60612, USA
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Carter BW, Chicoine LG, Nelin LD. L-lysine decreases nitric oxide production and increases vascular resistance in lungs isolated from lipopolysaccharide-treated neonatal pigs. Pediatr Res 2004; 55:979-87. [PMID: 15155866 DOI: 10.1203/01.pdr.0000127722.55965.b3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Nitric oxide (NO) production may depend on the uptake of L-arginine (L-arg), the substrate for NO synthase in inflammatory lung diseases. The cellular transport of L-arg occurs via the cationic amino acid transporters (CAT), and L-lysine (L-lys) competitively inhibits CAT. Neonatal pigs were treated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or vehicle for 4 h. LPS increased exhaled NO (exNO; 0.026 +/- 0.003 to 0.046 +/- 0.003 nmol. kg(-1). min(-1); p < 0.005) and decreased mean systemic arterial blood pressure (89 +/- 4 to 67 +/- 4 mm Hg; p < 0.05), whereas vehicle did not affect exNO or mean systemic arterial blood pressure. The lungs were then isolated and perfused; exNO was greater in lungs from LPS-treated animals (0.08 +/- 0.01 nmol/kg/min) than in lungs from vehicle-treated animals (0.05 +/- 0.01 nmol. kg(-1). min(-1); p < 0.05). The addition of L-arg (0.3 mM) significantly (p < 0.05) increased exNO production in both groups of lungs (mean increase 0.04 +/- 0.01 nmol. kg(-1). min(-1) LPS-treated lungs, p < 0.05; mean increase 0.02 +/- 0.01 nmol. kg(-1). min(-1) vehicle-treated lungs); however, L-arg decreased pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) only in LPS-treated lungs (mean decrease 0.03 +/- 0.01 mm Hg. ml(-1). kg(-1). min(-1), p < 0.05). L-lys caused a dose-dependent decrease in exNO production and a dose-dependent increase in PVR in LPS-treated lungs. L-lys decreased exNO only at 30 mM and had no effect on PVR in vehicle-treated lungs. In four lungs each from vehicle- and LPS-treated animals, reverse transcriptase-PCR demonstrated CAT-2 mRNA only in LPS-treated animals. These results suggest that the increased NO production in the lungs from LPS-treated animals depends on the uptake of vascular L-arg.
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- Barney W Carter
- Vascular Physiology Group, Department of Pediatrics, University of New Mexico HSC, Albuquerque 87131, USA
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Shirhan M, Moochhala SM, Kerwin SYL, Ng KC, Lu J. Influence of selective nitric oxide synthetase inhibitor for treatment of refractory haemorrhagic shock. Resuscitation 2004; 61:221-9. [PMID: 15135199 DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2004.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2003] [Revised: 12/29/2003] [Accepted: 01/07/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Haemorrhagic shock (HS) is implicated in the induction of inducible nitric oxide synthase that leads to increased production of nitric oxide (NO). We investigated the influence of aminoguanidine (AG), a selective iNOS inhibitor, N(G)-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME), a non-selective inhibitor and S-Nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine (SNAP), a NO donor, each of which was given with (+) or without (-) angiotensin II (ANGII), a vasoconstrictor, on the survival rate of HS decompensatory phased (HSDP) rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS HSDP was achieved via a constant pressure method. Organs were harvested and analyzed from rats sacrificed 72 h after HSDP or upon death. Plasma collected from HSDP rats were used to measure nitrate/nitrite, GOT and creatinine levels. RESULTS AG+ANGII-treated rats had significantly higher survival rates compared to the other treatment groups, 72 h following HSDP. A marked increase in MABP level was observed in AG+ANGII-treated rats when compared to other treatment groups. Histological examinations also showed a reduction of organ damage in AG+ANGII-treated rats compared to other treatment groups. Nitrate/nitrite level, glutamic oxalacetic transaminase (GOT) level and creatinine level were also significantly improved in AG+ANGII-treated rats compared to the other groups. CONCLUSIONS A greater beneficial effect was achieved with treatment by the AG+ANGII combination. Our experiments showed that the inhibition of excessive NO formation that occurred during HSDP, had augmented the vascular responsiveness effect of ANGII following protracted HS.
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- Md Shirhan
- Department of Pharmacology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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Romera C, Hurtado O, Botella SH, Lizasoain I, Cárdenas A, Fernández-Tomé P, Leza JC, Lorenzo P, Moro MA. In vitro ischemic tolerance involves upregulation of glutamate transport partly mediated by the TACE/ADAM17-tumor necrosis factor-alpha pathway. J Neurosci 2004; 24:1350-7. [PMID: 14960606 PMCID: PMC6730348 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1596-03.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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A short ischemic event [ischemic preconditioning (IPC)] can result in a subsequent resistance to severe ischemic injury (ischemic tolerance). Although tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) contributes to the brain damage found after cerebral ischemia, its expression and neuroprotective role in models of IPC have also been described. Regarding the role of TNF-alpha convertase (TACE/ADAM17), we have recently shown its upregulation in rat brain after IPC induced by transient middle cerebral artery occlusion and that subsequent TNF-alpha release accounts for at least part of the neuroprotection found in this model. We have now used an in vitro model of IPC using rat cortical cultures exposed to sublethal oxygen-glucose deprivation (OGD) to investigate TACE expression and activity after IPC and the subsequent mechanisms of ischemic tolerance. OGD-induced cell death was significantly reduced in cells exposed to IPC by sublethal OGD 24 hr before, an effect that was inhibited by the TACE inhibitor BB3103 (1 microm) and anti-TNF-alpha antibody (2 microg/ml) and that was mimicked by TNF-alpha (10 pg/ml) preincubation. Western blot analysis showed that TACE expression is increased after IPC. IPC caused TNF-alpha release, an effect that was blocked by the selective TACE inhibitor BB-3103. In addition, IPC diminished the increase in extracellular glutamate caused by OGD and increased cellular glutamate uptake and expression of EAAT2 and EAAT3 glutamate transporters; however, only EAAT3 upregulation was mediated by increased TNF-alpha. These data demonstrate that neuroprotection induced by IPC involves upregulation of glutamate uptake partly mediated by TACE overexpression.
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- Cristina Romera
- Departamento de Farmacología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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Manner CK, Nicholson B, MacLeod CL. CAT2 arginine transporter deficiency significantly reduces iNOS-mediated NO production in astrocytes. J Neurochem 2003; 85:476-82. [PMID: 12675924 DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.2003.01695.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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We have previously demonstrated that genetic ablation of cationic amino acid transporter 2 (Cat2) significantly inhibits nitric oxide (NO) production by inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) in activated macrophages. Here we report that iNOS activity is impaired by 84% in activated Cat2-deficient astrocytes. Cat2 ablation appears to reduce astrocyte NO synthesis by decreasing the uptake of the sole precursor, arginine, as well as by reducing the expression of iNOS following activation. Excessive or dysregulated NO production by activated astrocytes and other CNS cell types has been implicated in the pathogenesis of neurological disorders. Our results support the idea that manipulation of CAT2 transporter function might be useful for the therapeutic modulation of iNOS activity.
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- Cathyryne K Manner
- Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, Cancer Center and Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA.
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Reade MC, Young JD. Of mice and men (and rats): implications of species and stimulus differences for the interpretation of studies of nitric oxide in sepsis. Br J Anaesth 2003; 90:115-8. [PMID: 12538363 DOI: 10.1093/bja/aeg033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Mann GE, Yudilevich DL, Sobrevia L. Regulation of amino acid and glucose transporters in endothelial and smooth muscle cells. Physiol Rev 2003; 83:183-252. [PMID: 12506130 DOI: 10.1152/physrev.00022.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 319] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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While transport processes for amino acids and glucose have long been known to be expressed in the luminal and abluminal membranes of the endothelium comprising the blood-brain and blood-retinal barriers, it is only within the last decades that endothelial and smooth muscle cells derived from peripheral vascular beds have been recognized to rapidly transport and metabolize these nutrients. This review focuses principally on the mechanisms regulating amino acid and glucose transporters in vascular endothelial cells, although we also summarize recent advances in the understanding of the mechanisms controlling membrane transport activity and expression in vascular smooth muscle cells. We compare the specificity, ionic dependence, and kinetic properties of amino acid and glucose transport systems identified in endothelial cells derived from cerebral, retinal, and peripheral vascular beds and review the regulation of transport by vasoactive agonists, nitric oxide (NO), substrate deprivation, hypoxia, hyperglycemia, diabetes, insulin, steroid hormones, and development. In view of the importance of NO as a modulator of vascular tone under basal conditions and in disease and chronic inflammation, we critically review the evidence that transport of L-arginine and glucose in endothelial and smooth muscle cells is modulated by bacterial endotoxin, proinflammatory cytokines, and atherogenic lipids. The recent colocalization of the cationic amino acid transporter CAT-1 (system y(+)), nitric oxide synthase (eNOS), and caveolin-1 in endothelial plasmalemmal caveolae provides a novel mechanism for the regulation of NO production by L-arginine delivery and circulating hormones such insulin and 17beta-estradiol.
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- Giovanni E Mann
- Centre for Cardiovascular Biology and Medicine, Guy's, King's, and St. Thomas' School of Biomedical Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
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Koga T, Zhang WY, Gotoh T, Oyadomari S, Tanihara H, Mori M. Induction of citrulline-nitric oxide (NO) cycle enzymes and NO production in immunostimulated rat RPE-J cells. Exp Eye Res 2003; 76:15-21. [PMID: 12589771 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-4835(02)00274-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Nitric oxide (NO) has been implicated in many physiological and pathological conditions in the eyes. The induction of inducible NO synthase (iNOS) and NO production have been noted in immunostimulated retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells. Cellular NO production depends on the availability of arginine, a substrate for NOS. Arginine can be regenerated from citrulline, another product of the NOS reaction, by argininosuccinate synthetase and argininosuccinate lyase, forming the citrulline-NO cycle. When rat RPE-J cells were treated with interferon-gamma (IFNgamma), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNFalpha) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS), and expression of the citrulline-NO cycle enzymes and related enzymes was analyzed, iNOS and argininosuccinate synthetase were highly induced at both mRNA and protein levels. On the other hand, argininosuccinate lyase was not induced. Among other related enzymes and transporters, mRNA for cationic amino acid transporter (CAT)-1 was weakly induced, whereas those for CAT-2, arginase I and II, ornithine aminotransferase and ornithine decarboxylase remained little changed. NO was produced by cells after stimulation with TNFalpha, IFNgamma and LPS. The induction of iNOS mRNA and the production of NO by these immunostimulated cells was further enhanced by cAMP. NO was produced from citrulline as well as from arginine. Our findings indicate that in activated RPE-J cells citrulline-arginine recycling is important for NO production.
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- Takahisa Koga
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, Honjo 2-2-1, Kumamoto, Japan
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Nicholson B, Manner CK, MacLeod CL. Cat2 L-arginine transporter-deficient fibroblasts can sustain nitric oxide production. Nitric Oxide 2002; 7:236-43. [PMID: 12446172 DOI: 10.1016/s1089-8603(02)00116-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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High-output nitric oxide (NO) production by nitric oxide synthase 2 (NOS2) contributes to normal cellular processes and pathophysiological conditions. The transport of L-arginine, the substrate for NOS2, is required for sustained NO production by NOS2. L-Arginine can be transported by several kinetically defined transport systems, although the majority of arginine uptake is mediated by transport system y(+), encoded by the Cat1-3 gene family. Using macrophages from Cat2-deficient mice, we previously determined that arginine uptake via CAT2 is absolutely required for sustained NO production. Because NO production by fibroblasts is important in wound healing, we sought to determine whether CAT2 is required for NO production in cytokine-stimulated Cat2-deficient and wild-type embryonic fibroblasts. Although macrophages and fibroblasts both required extracellular L-arginine for NO production, NO synthesis by activated Cat2(-/-) fibroblasts was reduced only 19%, whereas Cat2(-/-) macrophages were virtually unable to produce NO. As expected, activated Cat2(-/-) fibroblasts had reduced system y(+)-mediated arginine uptake. However, their reduced NO output was not the result of a significant difference in intracellular L-arginine levels following cytokine stimulation. Uptake experiments revealed that the L-arginine transport system y(+)L was the major cationic amino acid carrier in fibroblasts of both genotypes. We conclude that NO production in embryonic fibroblasts is only partially dependent on CAT2 and that other compensating transporters provide arginine for NOS2-mediated NO synthesis. The data demonstrate that fibroblasts and macrophages have differential dependence on CAT2-mediated L-arginine transport for NO synthesis. The important physiological implication of this finding is discussed.
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- Benjamin Nicholson
- San Diego Cancer Center, University of California, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0064 USA
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Mochizuki T, Satsu H, Shimizu M. Tumor necrosis factor alpha stimulates taurine uptake and transporter gene expression in human intestinal Caco-2 cells. FEBS Lett 2002; 517:92-6. [PMID: 12062416 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(02)02584-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The effect of cytokines on the taurine uptake by human intestinal epithelial Caco-2 cells was investigated. Among the various cytokines tested, tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) markedly increased the taurine uptake by Caco-2 cells, resulting in an increase in the intracellular taurine level. TNF-alpha did not induce up-regulation of the taurine uptake in hepatic HepG2, renal human embryo kidney 293, and macrophage-like THP-1 cells. The uptake of glycine, L-leucine, and L-glutamic acid by Caco-2 cells was not affected by TNF-alpha. A kinetic analysis of the taurine uptake by TNF-alpha-treated Caco-2 cells suggests that this up-regulation was associated with both an increase in the amount of the taurine transporter (TAUT) and an increase in its affinity. TNF-alpha-treated cells showed a higher mRNA level of the TAUT than did the control cells.
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- Tetsunosuke Mochizuki
- Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Sala R, Rotoli BM, Colla E, Visigalli R, Parolari A, Bussolati O, Gazzola GC, Dall'Asta V. Two-way arginine transport in human endothelial cells: TNF-alpha stimulation is restricted to system y(+). Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2002; 282:C134-43. [PMID: 11742806 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.2002.282.1.c134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Human umbilical vein endothelial cells transport arginine through two Na(+)-independent systems. System y(+)L is insensitive to N-ethylmaleimide (NEM), inhibited by L-leucine in the presence of Na(+), and referable to the expression of SLC7A6/y(+)LAT2, SLC7A7/y(+)LAT1, and SLC3A2/4F2hc. System y(+) is referable to the expression of SLC7A1/CAT1 and SLC7A2/CAT2B. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) and bacterial lipopolysaccharide induce a transient stimulation of arginine influx and efflux through system y(+). Increased expression of SLC7A2/CAT2B is detectable from 3 h of treatment, while SLC7A1 expression is inhibited at later times of incubation. System y(+)L activity and expression remain unaltered. Nitric oxide synthase type 2 mRNA is not detected in the absence or presence of TNF-alpha, while the latter condition lowers nitric oxide synthase type 3 expression at the mRNA and the protein level. Nitrite accumulation is comparable in cytokine-treated and control cells up to 48 h of treatment. It is concluded that modulation of endothelial arginine transport by TNF-alpha or lipopolysaccharide occurs exclusively through changes in CAT2B and CAT1 expression and is dissociated from stimulation of nitric oxide production.
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- Roberto Sala
- Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale, Sezione di Patologia Generale e Clinica, Università degli Studi di Parma, 43100 Parma, Italy
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Kawahara K, Gotoh T, Oyadomari S, Kajizono M, Kuniyasu A, Ohsawa K, Imai Y, Kohsaka S, Nakayama H, Mori M. Co-induction of argininosuccinate synthetase, cationic amino acid transporter-2, and nitric oxide synthase in activated murine microglial cells. BRAIN RESEARCH. MOLECULAR BRAIN RESEARCH 2001; 90:165-73. [PMID: 11406294 DOI: 10.1016/s0169-328x(01)00100-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Nitric oxide (NO) produced by activated microglia has been implicated in many pathophysiological events in the brain including neurodegenerative diseases. Cellular NO production depends absolutely on the availability of arginine, a substrate of NO synthase (NOS). Murine microglial MG5 cells were treated with bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma), and expression of inducible NO synthase (iNOS) and arginine-supplying enzymes was investigated by RNA blot analysis. iNOS mRNA was strongly induced after treatment and reached a maximum at 6-12 h. mRNA for argininosuccinate synthetase (AS), a citrulline-arginine recycling enzyme, increased at 6 h and reached a maximum at 12 h. Immunoblot analysis showed that iNOS and AS proteins were also induced. In addition, mRNA encoding the cationic amino acid transporter-2 (CAT-2) was strongly induced shortly after treatment. Induction of mRNAs for iNOS, AS, and CAT-2 by LPS/IFN-gamma was also observed following stimulation of rat primary microglial cells. These results strongly suggest that both arginine transport by CAT-2 and citrulline-arginine recycling are important for high-output production of NO in activated microglial cells.
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- K Kawahara
- Department of Biofunctional Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University, 5-1 Ohe-Honmachi, 862-0973, Kumamoto, Japan
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Nicholson B, Manner CK, Kleeman J, MacLeod CL. Sustained nitric oxide production in macrophages requires the arginine transporter CAT2. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:15881-5. [PMID: 11278602 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m010030200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 173] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The aberrant production of nitric oxide (NO) contributes to the pathogenesis of diseases as diverse as cancer and arthritis. Sustained NO production via the inducible enzyme, nitric-oxide synthase 2 (NOS2), requires extracellular arginine uptake. Three closely related cationic amino acid transporter genes (Cat1-3) encode the transporters that mediate most arginine uptake in mammalian cells. Because CAT2 is induced coordinately with NOS2 in numerous cell types, we investigated a possible role for CAT2-mediated arginine transport in regulating NO production. The complexity of arginine transport systems and their biochemically similar transport properties called for a genetic approach to determine the role of CAT2. CAT2-deficient mice were generated and found to be healthy and fertile in contrast to Cat1(-/-) animals. Analysis of cytokine-activated macrophages from Cat2(-/-) mice revealed a 92% reduction in NO production and a 95% reduction in l-Arg uptake. The reduction in NO production was not due to differences in NOS2 protein expression, NOS2 activity, or intracellular l-arginine content. In conclusion, our results show that sustained abundant NO synthesis by macrophages requires arginine transport via the CAT2 transporter.
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- B Nicholson
- Cancer Center and Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0064, USA
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Schwartz IF, Schwartz D, Wollman Y, Chernichowski T, Blum M, Levo Y, Iaina A. Tetrahydrobiopterin augments arginine transport in rat cardiac myocytes through modulation of CAT-2 mRNA. THE JOURNAL OF LABORATORY AND CLINICAL MEDICINE 2001; 137:356-62. [PMID: 11329533 DOI: 10.1067/mlc.2001.114338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) has been shown to be required for dimerization and acquisition of nitric oxide (NO) generating capacity by nitric oxide synthase (NOS). In the present study we have investigated the hypothesis that BH4 may affect NOS activity through a novel mechanism-namely, modulating arginine transport in rat cardiac myocytes. Cardiac myocytes have been previously shown to express cationic amino acid transport proteins (y+ system) CAT-1 and CAT-2. Increasing extracellular BH4 concentrations up to 0.5 mmol/L augments arginine transport in 1 mmol/L arginine media (no BH4, 558 +/- 42 fmol arginine/microg protein/min; 0.1 mmol/L BH4, 580 +/- 11 fmol arginine/microg protein/min; 0.5 mmol/L BH4, 944 +/- 71* fmol arginine/microg protein/min; 1.0 mmol/L BH4, 983+/-84* fmol arginine/microg protein/min, n = 4; *: P <.05 vs no BH4). Treating the cells with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) (10 microg/mL) significantly augmented arginine transport only in the presence of BH4 (no BH4, 600 +/- 33 fmol arginine/microg protein/min; 0.1 mmol/L BH4, 691 +/- 29*dagger fmol arginine/microg protein/min; 0.5 mmol/L BH4, 1123 +/- 32*dagger fmol arginine/microg protein/min; 1.0 mmol/L BH4, 1296 +/- 42*dagger fmol arginine/microg protein/min, n = 4; *: P <.01 vs no BH4, dagger: P <.05 vs no LPS). The administration of biopterin, sodium nitroprusside (NO donor), 2,4-diamino-6-hydroxy-pyrimidine (inhibitor of BH4 synthesis), and sepiapterin (the precursor of de novo synthesis of BH4) to unstimulated cells had no effect on arginine uptake values. Using reverse trancriptase-polymerase chain reaction, we next studied the steady state levels for CAT-1 and CAT-2 mRNA. Incubation with BH4 significantly increased CAT-2 mRNA expression in a concentration-dependent manner in 0.1, 0.5, and 1 mmol/L BH4, respectively. Northern blotting analysis further confirmed this observation. We also found that in the presence of BH4 in these concentrations, CAT-1 mRNA expression was abolished. We suggest that BH4 augments intracellular arginine availability by modulating CAT-2 mRNA expression and suggest that its presence is required for the LPS effect on trans-membrane arginine traffic.
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- I F Schwartz
- Department of Nephrology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel
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Durante W, Liao L, Reyna SV, Peyton KJ, Schafer AI. Transforming growth factor-beta(1) stimulates L-arginine transport and metabolism in vascular smooth muscle cells: role in polyamine and collagen synthesis. Circulation 2001; 103:1121-7. [PMID: 11222476 DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.103.8.1121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND Transforming growth factor-beta(1) (TGF-beta(1)) contributes to arterial remodeling by stimulating vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) growth and collagen synthesis at sites of vascular injury. Because L-arginine is metabolized to growth-stimulatory polyamines and to the essential collagen precursor L-proline, we examined whether TGF-beta(1) regulates the transcellular transport and metabolism of L-arginine by VSMCs. METHODS AND RESULTS TGF-beta(1) increased L-arginine uptake, and this was associated with a selective increase in cationic amino acid transporter-1 (CAT-1) mRNA. In addition, TGF-beta(1) stimulated L-arginine metabolism by inducing arginase I mRNA and arginase activity. TGF-beta(1) also stimulated L-ornithine catabolism by elevating ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) and ornithine aminotransferase (OAT) activity. TGF-beta(1) markedly increased the capacity of VSMCs to generate the polyamine putrescine and L-proline from extracellular L-arginine. The TGF-beta(1)-mediated increase in putrescine and L-proline production was reversed by methyl-L-arginine, a competitive inhibitor of cationic amino acid transport, or by hydroxy-L-arginine, an arginase inhibitor. Furthermore, the formation of putrescine was inhibited by the ODC inhibitor alpha-difluoromethylornithine, and L-proline generation was blocked by the OAT inhibitor L-canaline. L-Canaline also inhibited TGF-beta(1)-stimulated type I collagen synthesis. CONCLUSIONS These results demonstrate that TGF-beta(1) stimulates polyamine and L-proline synthesis by inducing the genes that regulate the transport and metabolism of L-arginine. In addition, they show that TGF-beta(1)-stimulated collagen production is dependent on L-proline formation. The ability of TGF-beta(1) to upregulate L-arginine transport and direct its metabolism to polyamines and L-proline may contribute to arterial remodeling at sites of vascular damage.
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- W Durante
- Houston VA Medical Center and the Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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Stathopulos PB, Lu X, Shen J, Scott JA, Hammond JR, McCormack DG, Arnold JM, Feng Q. Increased L-arginine uptake and inducible nitric oxide synthase activity in aortas of rats with heart failure. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2001; 280:H859-67. [PMID: 11158987 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.2001.280.2.h859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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L-Arginine crosses the cell membrane primarily through the system y(+) transporter. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of L-arginine transport in nitric oxide (NO) production in aortas of rats with heart failure induced by myocardial infarction. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha levels in aortas of rats with heart failure were six times higher than in sham rats (P < 0.01). L-Arginine uptake was increased in aortas of rats with heart failure compared with sham rats (P < 0.01). Cationic amino acid transporter-2B and inducible (i) nitric oxide synthase (NOS) expression were increased in aortas of rats with heart failure compared with sham rats (P < 0.05). Aortic strips from rats with heart failure treated with L-arginine but not D-arginine increased NO production (P < 0.05). The effect of L-arginine on NO production was blocked by L-lysine, a basic amino acid that shares the same system y(+) transporter with L-arginine, and by the NOS inhibitor N(G)-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME). Treatment with L-lysine and L-NAME in vivo decreased plasma nitrate and nitrite levels in rats with heart failure (P < 0.05). Our data demonstrate that NO production is dependent on iNOS activity and L-arginine uptake and suggest that L-arginine transport plays an important role in enhanced NO production in heart failure.
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- P B Stathopulos
- Cardiology Research Laboratory, Departments of Medicine, Pharmacology, and Toxicology, London Health Sciences Centre, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 4G5
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Zhang WY, Gotoh T, Oyadomari S, Mori M. Coinduction of inducible nitric oxide synthase and arginine recycling enzymes in cytokine-stimulated PC12 cells and high output production of nitric oxide. BRAIN RESEARCH. MOLECULAR BRAIN RESEARCH 2000; 83:1-8. [PMID: 11072090 DOI: 10.1016/s0169-328x(00)00154-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Nitric oxide (NO) is involved in many physiological and pathological processes in the brain. NO is synthesized from arginine by nitric oxide synthase (NOS), and the citrulline generated as a by-product can be recycled to arginine by argininosuccinate synthetase (AS) and argininosuccinate lyase (AL) via the citrulline-NO cycle. When neuronal PC12 cells differentiated with nerve growth factor were treated with interferon-gamma (IFNgamma) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNFalpha), iNOS and AS mRNAs and proteins were markedly induced, with AL mRNA and protein being weakly induced. Cationic amino acid transporter-1 and -2 were not induced. IFNgamma or TNFalpha alone was ineffective. A large amount of NO (190 microM NO(2)(-) plus NO(3)(-) in culture medium in 24 h) was produced from arginine by cytokine-stimulated cells, and arginine could be replaced by citrulline. iNOS induction and NO production were attenuated by dexamethasone and dibutyryl cAMP and even more strongly so when combined. Therefore, a large amount of NO is produced in cytokine-stimulated PC12 cells following to induction of iNOS and citrulline-arginine recycling is important for NO production.
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- W Y Zhang
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, Honjo 2-2-1, 860-0811, Kumamoto, Japan
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Mori M, Gotoh T. Regulation of nitric oxide production by arginine metabolic enzymes. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2000; 275:715-9. [PMID: 10973788 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2000.3169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 269] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Nitric oxide (NO) is synthesized from arginine by NO synthase (NOS), and the availability of arginine is one of the rate-limiting factors in cellular NO production. Citrulline, which is formed as a by-product of the NOS reaction, can be recycled to arginine by successive actions of argininosuccinate synthetase (AS) and argininosuccinate lyase (AL), forming the citrulline-NO cycle. AS and sometimes AL have been shown to be coinduced with inducible NOS (iNOS) in various cell types including activated macrophages, vascular smooth muscle cells, glial cells, neuronal PC12 cells, and pancreatic beta-cells. Cationic amino acid transporter (CAT)-2 is induced in activated macrophages but not in PC12 cells. On the other hand, arginase can downregulate NO production by decreasing intracellular arginine concentrations. iNOS and arginase activities are regulated reciprocally in macrophages by cytokines, and this may guarantee the efficient production of NO. In contrast, iNOS and arginase isoforms (type I and II) are coinduced in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-activated macrophages. These results indicate that NO production is modulated by the uptake, recycling, and degradation of arginine.
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- M Mori
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, Kumamoto, 860-0811, Japan.
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Durante W, Liao L, Reyna SV, Peyton KJ, Schafer AI. Physiological cyclic stretch directs L-arginine transport and metabolism to collagen synthesis in vascular smooth muscle. FASEB J 2000; 14:1775-83. [PMID: 10973927 DOI: 10.1096/fj.99-0960com] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Application of cyclic stretch (10% at 1 hertz) to vascular smooth muscle cells (SMC) increased L-arginine uptake and this was associated with a specific increase in cationic amino acid transporter-2 (CAT-2) mRNA. In addition, cyclic stretch stimulated L-arginine metabolism by inducing arginase I mRNA and arginase activity. In contrast, cyclic stretch inhibited the catabolism of L-arginine to nitric oxide (NO) by blocking inducible NO synthase expression. Exposure of SMC to cyclic stretch markedly increased the capacity of SMC to generate L-proline from L-arginine while inhibiting the formation of polyamines. The stretch-mediated increase in L-proline production was reversed by methyl-L-arginine, a competitive inhibitor of L-arginine transport, by hydroxy-L-arginine, an arginase inhibitor, or by the ornithine aminotransferase inhibitor L-canaline. Finally, cyclic stretch stimulated collagen synthesis and the accumulation of type I collagen, which was inhibited by L-canaline. These results demonstrate that cyclic stretch coordinately stimulates L-proline synthesis by regulating the genes that modulate the transport and metabolism of L-arginine. In addition, they show that stretch-stimulated collagen production is dependent on L-proline formation. The ability of hemodynamic forces to up-regulate L-arginine transport and direct its metabolism to L-proline may play an important role in stabilizing vascular lesions by promoting SMC collagen synthesis.
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- W Durante
- Houston VA Medical Center and the Departments of Medicine. Pharmacology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
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Zhang WY, Takiguchi M, Koshiyama Y, Gotoh T, Nagasaki A, Iwase K, Yamamoto K, Takeshima H, Negi A, Mori M. Expression of citrulline-nitric oxide cycle in lipopolysaccharide and cytokine-stimulated rat astroglioma C6 cells. Brain Res 1999; 849:78-84. [PMID: 10592289 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(99)01987-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Nitric oxide (NO) is involved in many physiological and pathological processes in the brain. NO is synthesized from arginine by nitric oxide synthase (NOS), with citrulline generated as a by-product of the reaction. Thus, citrulline can by recycled to arginine by argininosuccinate synthetase (AS) and argininosuccinate lyase (AL) via the citrulline-NO cycle. Rat astroglioma C6 cells were treated with bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS), interferon-gamma (IFNgamma) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha, and the expression of the enzymes of the citrulline-NO cycle was investigated by RNA blot and immunoblot analyses. NO production from arginine and citrulline was also assessed. iNOS mRNA and protein were induced 6-12 h after stimulation with LPS and cytokines and decreased at 24 h. AS mRNA increased up to 12 h and decreased at 24 h. AS protein increased gradually up to 48 h. On the other hand, AL mRNA remained unchanged by stimulation. NO production from arginine was enhanced by the treatment with LPS and cytokines. NO production was also observed when arginine was replaced by citrulline. These results indicate that NO production is enhanced in LPS- and cytokine-stimulated C6 cells due to induction of iNOS and that the citrulline-arginine recycling is important for NO production.
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- W Y Zhang
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, Honjo 2-2-1, Kumamoto, Japan
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Carmo A, Cunha-Vaz JG, Carvalho AP, Lopes MC. L-arginine transport in retinas from streptozotocin diabetic rats: correlation with the level of IL-1 beta and NO synthase activity. Vision Res 1999; 39:3817-23. [PMID: 10748917 DOI: 10.1016/s0042-6989(99)00117-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Several evidences suggest that the pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-1 beta and the radical NO are implicated as effectors molecules in the pancreatic beta-cells dysfunction; an event preceding the pathogenesis of diabetes. IL-1 beta induces the expression of the inducible isoform of NO synthase (iNOS), which use L-arginine as substrate to overproduce NO. However, it is not known whether these events may participate in the development of diabetic retinopathy, which is the main cause of blindness. In this work, we found an increased level of IL-1 beta in retinas from streptozotocin-induced (STZ) diabetic rats. We also observed that the activity of the NO synthase (NOS) and the L-arginine uptake are enhanced in retinas from STZ-induced diabetic rats as compared to retinas from control rats. We found that the uptake of L-arginine in retinas from control and diabetic rats occurs through a transporter resembling the Y + system, i.e. it is saturable, not affected over the pH range 6.5 to 7.4, and is independent of the extracellular Na+. Nevertheless, the L-arginine transport in retinas from diabetic rats occurs through a carrier with lower affinity (K(m) = 25 microM) and higher capacity (Vmax = 295 +/- 22.4 pmol L-arginine/mg protein) than in retinas from control rats (K(m) = 5 microM and Vmax = 158 +/- 12.8 pmol L-arginine/mg protein) which is correlated with the increased NOS activity and consequent depletion of the intracellular pool of L-arginine.
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- A Carmo
- Center of Ophthalmology, University of Coimbra, Celas, Portugal
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Mahmoud YA, Harada K, Nagasaki A, Gotoh T, Takeya M, Ueda A, Mori M. Expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase and enzymes of arginine metabolism in Fusarium kyushuense-exposed mouse lung. Nitric Oxide 1999; 3:302-11. [PMID: 10444369 DOI: 10.1006/niox.1999.0241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Expression of inducible nitric oxide (NO) synthase (iNOS) and related enzymes of arginine metabolism in the mouse lung exposed to filamentous fungus Fusarium kyushuense was studied by RNA blot, immunoblot, and histological analyses. When mice were exposed intranasally to the fungi only once, no induction of iNOS mRNA was observed. However, when the animals were infected again 6 days after the first exposure, iNOS mRNA was induced, reached a maximum 12-24 h after the exposure, and decreased to an undetectable level at 48 h. mRNAs for cationic amino acid transporter-2 (CAT2) and argininosuccinate synthetase were induced gradually, reached a maximum at 24 h, and decreased at 48 h. Arginase II mRNA increased at 24 h and decreased markedly at 48 h. On the other hand, arginase I mRNA started to increase at 24 h and reached to a much higher level at 48 h. Ornithine decarboxylase and ornithine aminotransferase mRNAs were also induced. Immunoblot analysis showed that iNOS, argininosuccinate synthetase, and arginase I and II proteins were induced with similar kinetics as those of their respective mRNAs. In histological examination, fungal elements were observed in the bronchoalveolar lumen at 3-6 h, decreased at 12 h, and almost disappeared at 48 h. Small granuloma appeared 3 h after the infection and their size increased with time. These results suggest that NO is produced in the mouse lung in response to F. kyushuense exposure and that the NO production is regulated by CAT2, the citrulline-NO cycle, and arginase isoforms. Enhanced synthesis of polyamines and proline (and thus collagen) is also suggested.
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- Y A Mahmoud
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, Kumamoto, 860-0811, Japan
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Stoclet JC, Muller B, György K, Andriantsiothaina R, Kleschyov AL. The inducible nitric oxide synthase in vascular and cardiac tissue. Eur J Pharmacol 1999; 375:139-55. [PMID: 10443572 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-2999(99)00221-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Expression of the inducible form of nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) has been reported in a variety of cardiovascular diseases. The resulting high output nitric oxide (NO) formation, besides the level of iNOS expression, depends also on the expression of the metabolic pathways providing the enzyme with substrate and cofactor. NO may trigger short and long term effects which are either beneficial or deleterious, depending on the molecular targets with which it interacts. These interactions are governed by local factors (like the redox state). In the cardiovascular system, the major targets involve not only guanylyl cyclase, but also other haem proteins, protein thiols, iron-non-haem complexes, and superoxide anion (forming peroxynitrite). The latter has several intracellular targets and may be cytotoxic, despite the existence of endogenous defence mechanisms. These interactions may either trigger NO effects or represent releasable NO stores, able to buffer NO and prolong its effects in blood vessels and in the heart. Besides selectively inhibiting iNOS, a number of other therapeutic strategies are conceivable to alleviate deleterious effects of excessive NO formation, including peroxynitrite (ONOO-) scavenging and inhibition of metabolic pathways triggered by ONOO-. When available, these approaches might have the advantage to preserve beneficial effects of iNOS induction. Counteracting vascular hyper-responsiveness to endogenous vasoconstrictor agonists in septic shock, or inducing cardiac protection against ischaemia-reperfusion injury are examples of such beneficial effects of iNOS induction.
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- J C Stoclet
- Laboratoire de Pharmacologie et Physico-chimie des Interactions Cellulaires et Moléculaires (UMR CNRS), Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg, Faculté de Pharmacie, Illkirch, France.
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Hattori Y, Kasai K, Gross SS. Cationic amino acid transporter gene expression in cultured vascular smooth muscle cells and in rats. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1999; 276:H2020-8. [PMID: 10362683 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.1999.276.6.h2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Immunostimulants trigger vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) to express the inducible isoform of NO synthase (iNOS) and increased arginine transport activity. Although arginine transport in VSMC is considered to be mediated via the y+ system, we show here that rat VSMC in culture express the cat-1 gene transcript as well as an alternatively spliced transcript of the cat-2 gene. An RT-PCR cloning sequence strategy was used to identify a 141-base nucleotide sequence encoding the low-affinity domain of alternatively spliced CAT-2A and a 138-base nucleotide sequence encoding the high-affinity domain of CAT-2B in VSMC activated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in combination with interferon-gamma (IFN). With this sequence as a probe, Northern analyses showed that CAT-1 mRNA and CAT-2B mRNA are constitutively present in VSMC, and the expression of both mRNAs was rapidly stimulated by treatment with LPS-IFN, peaked within 4 h, and decayed to basal levels within 6 h after LPS-IFN. CAT-2A mRNA was not detectable in unstimulated or stimulated VSMC. Arginine transporter activity significantly increased 4-10 h after LPS-IFN. iNOS activity was reduced to almost zero in the absence of extracellular arginine uptake via system y+. Induction of arginine transport seems to be a prerequisite to the enhanced synthesis of NO in VSMC. Moreover, this work demonstrates tissue expression of CAT mRNAs with use of a model of LPS injection in rats. RT-PCR shows that the expression of CAT-1 and CAT-2B mRNA in the lung, heart, and kidney is increased by LPS administration to rats, whereas CAT-2A mRNA is abundantly expressed in the liver independent of LPS treatment. These findings suggest that together CAT-1 and CAT-2B play an important role in providing substrate for high-output NO synthesis in vitro as well as in vivo and implicate a coordinated regulation of intracellular iNOS enzyme activity with membrane arginine transport.
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- Y Hattori
- Department of Endocrinology, Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Tochigi 321-0293, Japan
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Closs EI, Mann GE. Identification of carrier systems in plasma membranes of mammalian cells involved in transport of L-arginine. Methods Enzymol 1999; 301:78-91. [PMID: 9919556 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(99)01071-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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- E I Closs
- Department of Pharmacology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
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Arginine is one of the most versatile amino acids in animal cells, serving as a precursor for the synthesis not only of proteins but also of nitric oxide, urea, polyamines, proline, glutamate, creatine and agmatine. Of the enzymes that catalyse rate-controlling steps in arginine synthesis and catabolism, argininosuccinate synthase, the two arginase isoenzymes, the three nitric oxide synthase isoenzymes and arginine decarboxylase have been recognized in recent years as key factors in regulating newly identified aspects of arginine metabolism. In particular, changes in the activities of argininosuccinate synthase, the arginases, the inducible isoenzyme of nitric oxide synthase and also cationic amino acid transporters play major roles in determining the metabolic fates of arginine in health and disease, and recent studies have identified complex patterns of interaction among these enzymes. There is growing interest in the potential roles of the arginase isoenzymes as regulators of the synthesis of nitric oxide, polyamines, proline and glutamate. Physiological roles and relationships between the pathways of arginine synthesis and catabolism in vivo are complex and difficult to analyse, owing to compartmentalized expression of various enzymes at both organ (e.g. liver, small intestine and kidney) and subcellular (cytosol and mitochondria) levels, as well as to changes in expression during development and in response to diet, hormones and cytokines. The ongoing development of new cell lines and animal models using cDNA clones and genes for key arginine metabolic enzymes will provide new approaches more clearly elucidating the physiological roles of these enzymes.
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- G Wu
- Departments of Animal Science, Medical Physiology, and Veterinary Anatomy and Public Health, and Faculty of Nutrition, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
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Kakuda DK, Finley KD, Maruyama M, MacLeod CL. Stress differentially induces cationic amino acid transporter gene expression. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1998; 1414:75-84. [PMID: 9804899 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2736(98)00155-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The amino acid l-arginine plays a central role in several adaptive metabolic pathways and we postulate that regulated L-arginine transport contributes to important physiological responses. The majority of L-arginine flux is mediated by transport system y+ that is encoded by at least three genes, Cat1, Cat2 and Cat3. Cat2 encodes two distinct protein isoforms (CAT2/CAT2a) that differ by 10-fold in their apparent substrate affinity. Cat2 transcription is controlled by four widely spaced promoters. The expression of CAT2/2a transcripts was tested in skeletal muscle and macrophages following specific stresses or activators. Unexpectedly, CAT2a transcripts accumulated in skeletal muscle in response to surgical trauma (hepatectomy and splenectomy) as well as food deprivation, although neither high affinity CAT2 nor CAT1 were detectably altered. Activated macrophages decreased CAT1 levels, but accumulated CAT2 and iNOS mRNA and protein with parallel kinetics suggesting that CAT2 mediated L-arginine transport might regulate the L-arginine:nitric oxide pathway. In macrophages, liver and skeletal muscle, the most distal CAT2 promoter was predominant. No change in promoter usage was apparent under any stress conditions tested nor was alternate splicing of the CAT2 transcript dictated by promoter usage. The differential regulation of the Cat genes indicates their encoded transporter proteins meet different requirements for cationic amino acids in the intact animal.
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- D K Kakuda
- UCSD Cancer Center, Cancer Genetics Program and Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
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Palacín M, Estévez R, Bertran J, Zorzano A. Molecular biology of mammalian plasma membrane amino acid transporters. Physiol Rev 1998; 78:969-1054. [PMID: 9790568 DOI: 10.1152/physrev.1998.78.4.969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 584] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Molecular biology entered the field of mammalian amino acid transporters in 1990-1991 with the cloning of the first GABA and cationic amino acid transporters. Since then, cDNA have been isolated for more than 20 mammalian amino acid transporters. All of them belong to four protein families. Here we describe the tissue expression, transport characteristics, structure-function relationship, and the putative physiological roles of these transporters. Wherever possible, the ascription of these transporters to known amino acid transport systems is suggested. Significant contributions have been made to the molecular biology of amino acid transport in mammals in the last 3 years, such as the construction of knockouts for the CAT-1 cationic amino acid transporter and the EAAT2 and EAAT3 glutamate transporters, as well as a growing number of studies aimed to elucidate the structure-function relationship of the amino acid transporter. In addition, the first gene (rBAT) responsible for an inherited disease of amino acid transport (cystinuria) has been identified. Identifying the molecular structure of amino acid transport systems of high physiological relevance (e.g., system A, L, N, and x(c)- and of the genes responsible for other aminoacidurias as well as revealing the key molecular mechanisms of the amino acid transporters are the main challenges of the future in this field.
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- M Palacín
- Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
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Li S, Huang FL, Feng Q, Liu J, Fan SX, McKenna TM. Overexpression of protein kinase C alpha enhances lipopolysaccharide-induced nitric oxide formation in vascular smooth muscle cells. J Cell Physiol 1998; 176:402-11. [PMID: 9648928 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4652(199808)176:2<402::aid-jcp19>3.0.co;2-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Our previous studies showed that lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced nitric oxide (NO) synthesis in cardiovascular tissues is attenuated by protein kinase C (PKC) inhibitors. In the current study, we identify a specific PKC isotype involved in the LPS signal transduction pathway that leads to NO formation in rat vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC). VSMC were transfected with a mammalian expression vector containing a full length PKCalpha cDNA insert, and a stable transfectant overexpressing PKCalpha was obtained as evidenced by increased expression of PKCalpha mRNA and protein. In response to 100 ng/ml LPS stimulation, the PKCalpha transfectants showed a 1.8-fold increase in PKC activity at 30 min and a twofold increase in NO production over 24 hr compared with cells transfected with control plasmids. The LPS-stimulated increase in NO synthesis in PKCalpha transfectants was blocked by the specific PKCalpha inhibitor Gö 6976. After 6 hr LPS treatment, PKCalpha-transfected and control cells showed equivalent increases in mRNA and protein for the inducible NO synthase. NO synthase activity of the cell extracts assayed in the presence of excess substrate and cofactors was not significantly different between PKCalpha-transfected and control cells after LPS stimulation. However, mRNA levels for GTP cyclohydrolase I, a key enzyme in (6R)-tetrahydro-L-biopterin synthesis, and cationic amino acid transporter-2, involved in L-arginine transport, was enhanced in cells overexpressing PKCalpha compared with control cells. These results suggest that PKCalpha plays an important role in LPS-induced NO formation and that a significant portion of this effect may be by means of enhanced substrate availability to the inducible nitric oxide synthase enzyme.
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- S Li
- Resuscitative Medicine Program, Naval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
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Devés R, Boyd CA. Transporters for cationic amino acids in animal cells: discovery, structure, and function. Physiol Rev 1998; 78:487-545. [PMID: 9562037 DOI: 10.1152/physrev.1998.78.2.487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 346] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The structure and function of the four cationic amino acid transporters identified in animal cells are discussed. The systems differ in specificity, cation dependence, and physiological role. One of them, system y+, is selective for cationic amino acids, whereas the others (B[0,+], b[0,+], and y+ L) also accept neutral amino acids. In recent years, cDNA clones related to these activities have been isolated. Thus two families of proteins have been identified: 1) CAT or cationic amino acid transporters and 2) BAT or broad-scope transport proteins. In the CAT family, three genes encode for four different isoforms [CAT-1, CAT-2A, CAT-2(B) and CAT-3]; these are approximately 70-kDa proteins with multiple transmembrane segments (12-14), and despite their structural similarity, they differ in tissue distribution, kinetics, and regulatory properties. System y+ is the expression of the activity of CAT transporters. The BAT family includes two isoforms (rBAT and 4F2hc); these are 59- to 78-kDa proteins with one to four membrane-spanning segments, and it has been proposed that these proteins act as transport regulators. The expression of rBAT and 4F2hc induces system b[0,+] and system y+ L activity in Xenopus laevis oocytes, respectively. The roles of these transporters in nutrition, endocrinology, nitric oxide biology, and immunology, as well as in the genetic diseases cystinuria and lysinuric protein intolerance, are reviewed. Experimental strategies, which can be used in the kinetic characterization of coexpressed transporters, are also discussed.
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- R Devés
- Programa de Fisiología y Biofísica, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago
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Mori M, Gotoh T, Nagasaki A, Takiguchi M, Sonoki T. Regulation of the urea cycle enzyme genes in nitric oxide synthesis. J Inherit Metab Dis 1998; 21 Suppl 1:59-71. [PMID: 9686345 DOI: 10.1023/a:1005357608129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Nitric oxide (NO) is synthesized from arginine by nitric-oxide synthase (NOS), and citrulline that is generated can be recycled to arginine by argininosuccinate synthase (AS) and argininosuccinate lyase (AL). Rats were injected with bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and expression of the inducible isoform of NOS (iNOS), AS and AL was analysed. In RNA blot analysis, iNOS mRNA was induced by LPS in the lung, heart, liver and spleen, and less strongly in the skeletal muscle and testis. AS and AL mRNAs were induced in the lung and spleen. Kinetic studies showed that iNOS mRNA increased rapidly in both spleen and lung, reached a maximum 2-5 h after the treatment, and decreased thereafter. On the other hand, AS mRNA increased more slowly and reached a maximum in 6-12 h (by about 10-fold in the spleen and 2-fold in the lung). AL mRNA in the spleen and lung increased slowly and remained high up to 24 h. In immunohistochemical analysis, macrophages in the spleen that were negative for iNOS and AS before LPS treatment were strongly positive for both iNOS and AS after this treatment. As iNOS, AS and AL were co-induced in rat tissues and cells, citrulline-arginine recycling seems to be important in NO synthesis under the conditions of stimulation. Arginine is a common substrate of NOS and arginase. Rat peritoneal macrophages were cultured in the presence of LPS and expression of iNOS and livertype arginase (arginase I) was analysed. mRNAs for iNOS and arginase I were induced by LPS in a dose-dependent manner. iNOS mRNA appeared 2 h after LPS treatment and increased up to a near-maximum at 8-12 h. On the other hand, arginase I mRNA began to increase after 4 h with a lag time and reached a maximum at 12 h. Immunoblot analysis showed that iNOS and arginase I proteins were also induced. Induction of iNOS and arginase I mRNAs were also observed in LPS-injected rats in vivo. Thus, arginase I appears to have an important role in downregulating NO synthesis in murine macrophages by decreasing the availability of arginine. A cDNA for human arginase II, an arginase isozyme, was isolated. A polypeptide of 354 amino acid residues including the putative NH2-terminal presequence for mitochondrial import was predicted. It was 59% identical with arginase I. mRNA for human arginase II was present in the kidney and other tissues but was not detected in the liver. Arginase II mRNA was co-induced with iNOS mRNA in murine macrophage-like RAW 264.7 cells by LPS. This induction was enhanced by dexamethasone and dibutyrul cAMP, and was prevented by interferon-gamma. These results indicate that NO synthesis is regulated by arginine-synthesizing and -degrading enzymes in a complicated manner.
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- M Mori
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, Japan
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Durante W, Liao L, Peyton KJ, Schafer AI. Lysophosphatidylcholine regulates cationic amino acid transport and metabolism in vascular smooth muscle cells. Role in polyamine biosynthesis. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:30154-9. [PMID: 9374496 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.48.30154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
Abstract
Lysophosphatidylcholine (lyso-PC) is a major component of atherogenic lipids that stimulate vascular smooth muscle cell (SMC) proliferation. Because cationic amino acids are metabolized to growth-stimulatory polyamines, we examined whether lyso-PC regulates the transcellular transport and metabolism of cationic amino acids by vascular SMC. Treatment of SMC with lyso-PC initially (0-2 h) decreased cationic amino acid uptake, whereas longer exposures (6-24 h) progressively increased transport. Kinetic studies indicated that lyso-PC-induced inhibition was associated with a decrease in affinity for cationic amino acids, but the stimulation was mediated by an increase in transport capacity. Lyso-PC strongly induced the expression of cationic amino acid transporter-2 mRNA while modestly elevating the level of cationic amino acid transporter-1 mRNA. In addition, lyso-PC stimulated intracellular cationic amino acid metabolism by inducing ornithine decarboxylase activity and mRNA expression and also by inducing arginase activity in vascular SMC. In contrast, lyso-PC inhibited the catabolism of L-arginine to nitric oxide by blocking inducible nitric oxide synthase expression. Lyso-PC increased markedly the capacity of SMC to generate putrescine, a polyamine, from extracellular L-ornithine and L-arginine. The lyso-PC-mediated increase in the production of putrescine was reversed by NG-methyl-L-arginine, a competitive inhibitor of cationic amino acid transport, or by alpha-difluoromethylornithine, an ornithine decarboxylase inhibitor. The formation of putrescine from L-arginine was also prevented by arginase inhibitor NG-hydroxy-L-arginine. These results demonstrate that lyso-PC stimulates polyamine synthesis in vascular SMC by inducing the expression of the genes that regulate both the transport and metabolism of cationic amino acids. The actions of lyso-PC in stimulating cationic amino acid uptake and directing their metabolism to growth-stimulatory polyamines while simultaneously inhibiting the synthesis of antiproliferative NO, may contribute to lyso-PC-induced SMC proliferation and atherosclerotic lesion formation.
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Affiliation(s)
- W Durante
- Houston Veterans Administration Medical Center and the Departments of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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