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Teixeira E, Silva C, Martel F. The role of the glutamine transporter ASCT2 in antineoplastic therapy. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol 2021; 87:447-464. [PMID: 33464409 DOI: 10.1007/s00280-020-04218-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Accepted: 12/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Cancer cells are metabolically reprogrammed to support their high rates of proliferation, continuous growth, survival, invasion, metastasis, and resistance to cancer treatments. Among changes in cancer cell bioenergetics, the role of glutamine metabolism has been receiving increasing attention. Increased glutaminolysis in cancer cells is associated with increased expression of membrane transporters that mediate the cellular uptake of glutamine. ASCT2 (Alanine, Serine, Cysteine Transporter 2) is a Na+-dependent transmembrane transporter overexpressed in cancer cells and considered to be the primary transporter for glutamine in these cells. The possibility of inhibiting ASCT2 for antineoplastic therapy is currently under investigation. In this article, we will present the pharmacological agents currently known to act on ASCT2, which have been attracting attention in antineoplastic therapy research. We will also address the impact of ASCT2 inhibition on the prognosis of some cancers. We conclude that ASCT2 inhibition and combination of ASCT2 inhibitors with other anti-tumor therapies may be a promising antineoplastic strategy. However, more research is needed in this area.
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- Estefânia Teixeira
- Department of Biomedicine, Unit of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Al Prof. Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319, Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Biomedicine, Unit of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Al Prof. Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319, Porto, Portugal
- Instituto de Investigação E Inovação Em Saúde (i3S), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Biomedicine, Unit of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Al Prof. Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319, Porto, Portugal.
- Instituto de Investigação E Inovação Em Saúde (i3S), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
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Ni F, Yu WM, Li Z, Graham DK, Jin L, Kang S, Rossi MR, Li S, Broxmeyer HE, Qu CK. Critical role of ASCT2-mediated amino acid metabolism in promoting leukaemia development and progression. Nat Metab 2019; 1:390-403. [PMID: 31535081 PMCID: PMC6750232 DOI: 10.1038/s42255-019-0039-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Amino acid (AA) metabolism is involved in diverse cellular functions, including cell survival and growth, however it remains unclear how it regulates normal hematopoiesis versus leukemogenesis. Here, we report that knockout of Slc1a5 (ASCT2), a transporter of neutral AAs, especially glutamine, results in mild to moderate defects in bone marrow and mature blood cell development under steady state conditions. In contrast, constitutive or induced deletion of Slc1a5 decreases leukemia initiation and maintenance driven by the oncogene MLL-AF9 or Pten deficiency. Survival of leukemic mice is prolonged following Slc1a5 deletion, and pharmacological inhibition of ASCT2 also decreases leukemia development and progression in xenograft models of human acute myeloid leukemia. Mechanistically, loss of ASCT2 generates a global effect on cellular metabolism, disrupts leucine influx and mTOR signaling, and induces apoptosis in leukemic cells. Given the substantial difference in reliance on ASCT2-mediated AA metabolism between normal and malignant blood cells, this in vivo study suggests ASCT2 as a promising therapeutic target for the treatment of leukemia.
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- Fang Ni
- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Hematology/Medical Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Hematology/Medical Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
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Cai C, Zeng B, Zeng J, Xin H, Tang C. [Effect of ASCT2 gene knock-down by shRNA on biological behaviors of colorectal cancer cells]. Zhonghua Wei Chang Wai Ke Za Zhi 2017; 20:450-454. [PMID: 28440528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of ASCT2 gene (glutamine transporter) knock-down by shRNA on biological behaviors of colorectal cancer cells. METHODS shRNA was transfected into colorectal cancer cells Lovo and SW480 to knockdown ASCT2 mediated by Lipofectamine 2000. Reverse transcription-PCR and Western blot were used to examine the mRNA and protein expression of ASCT2. MTT and transwell assay were used to determine the proliferation and invasiveness of Lovo and SW480 cells. Radioactive-tracer was used to detect the uptake of glutamine. RESULTS ASCT2 mRNA and protein levels were significantly down-regulated by shRNA in Lovo and SW480 cells(P<0.01). MTT and transwell assays showed that ASCT2 knock-down could significantly inhibit the proliferation of Lovo and SW480 cells (A490) and decrease the number of invasive Lovo and SW480 cells from the membrane (both P<0.01). The number of membrane Lovo cells in shASCT group and control group was 46.3±5.9 and 197.7±9.1, respectively while the number of membrane SW480 cells in shASCT group and control group was 29.7±3.8 and 139.0±9.5, respectively. Radioactive-tracer showed that shASCT2 transfection could significantly reduce the uptake of glutamine, with an inhibition rate of 79.15% in Lovo and 67.22% in SW480 cells (both P<0.01). CONCLUSIONS ASCT2 plays an oncogenic role in colonic cancer, and its promotion mechanism may be associated with glutamine metabolism. ASCT2 may be a novel therapeutic target of colonic cancer.
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Qingyuan General Hospital, Guangdong Qingyuan 510120, China.
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Timosenko E, Ghadbane H, Silk JD, Shepherd D, Gileadi U, Howson LJ, Laynes R, Zhao Q, Strausberg RL, Olsen LR, Taylor S, Buffa FM, Boyd R, Cerundolo V. Nutritional Stress Induced by Tryptophan-Degrading Enzymes Results in ATF4-Dependent Reprogramming of the Amino Acid Transporter Profile in Tumor Cells. Cancer Res 2016; 76:6193-6204. [PMID: 27651314 PMCID: PMC5096689 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-15-3502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2016] [Accepted: 08/26/2016] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Tryptophan degradation is an immune escape strategy shared by many tumors. However, cancer cells' compensatory mechanisms remain unclear. We demonstrate here that a shortage of tryptophan caused by expression of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) and tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase (TDO) resulted in ATF4-dependent upregulation of several amino acid transporters, including SLC1A5 and its truncated isoforms, which in turn enhanced tryptophan and glutamine uptake. Importantly, SLC1A5 failed to be upregulated in resting human T cells kept under low tryptophan conditions but was enhanced upon cognate antigen T-cell receptor engagement. Our results highlight key differences in the ability of tumor and T cells to adapt to tryptophan starvation and provide important insights into the poor prognosis of tumors coexpressing IDO and SLC1A5. Cancer Res; 76(21); 6193-204. ©2016 AACR.
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- Elina Timosenko
- MRC Human Immunology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- MRC Human Immunology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- MRC Human Immunology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- MRC Human Immunology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- MRC Human Immunology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- MRC Human Immunology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Ludwig Cancer Research, New York, New York
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- Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
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- The Computational Biology Research Group (CBRG), Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Oncology, Old Road Campus Research Building, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- MRC Human Immunology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom.
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Oppedisano F, Pochini L, Galluccio M, Indiveri C. The glutamine/amino acid transporter (ASCT2) reconstituted in liposomes: electrical nature of the glutamine/glutamate antiport. Ital J Biochem 2007; 56:275-278. [PMID: 19192626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The glutamine/amino acid transporter solubilized from rat renal apical plasma membrane (brush-border membrane) with C12E8 and reconstituted into liposomes has been previously identified as the ASCT2 transporter. The reconstituted transporter catalyses an antiport reaction in which extraliposomal glutamine and Na+ are cotransported in exchange with intraliposomal neutral amino acids. Differently from other neutral amino acid transporters, ASCT2 accepts also glutamate as substrate, as demonstrated by the glutamine/glutamate antiport measured in proteoliposomes. The electrical nature of the homologous glutamine/glutamine antiport and of the heterologous glutamine/glutamate antiport has been investigated by imposing a K+ diffusion potential (positive outside) across the proteoliposomal membrane in the presence of valinomycin. The membrane potential did not affect the glutamine/glutamine antiport whereas it stimulated about two fold the glutamine/glutamate antiport rate.
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Jiang X, Yang F, Brailoiu E, Jakubowski H, Dun NJ, Schafer AI, Yang X, Durante W, Wang H. Differential regulation of homocysteine transport in vascular endothelial and smooth muscle cells. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2007; 27:1976-83. [PMID: 17715404 PMCID: PMC5539765 DOI: 10.1161/atvbaha.107.148544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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OBJECTIVE We previously reported that homocysteine (Hcy) inhibits endothelial cell (EC) growth and promotes vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) proliferation. This study characterized and directly compared Hcy transport in cultured human aortic ECs (HAECs) and smooth muscle cells (HASMCs). METHODS AND RESULTS Hcy (10 micromol/L) was transported into both cell types in a time-dependent fashion but was approximately 4-fold greater in HASMCs, and is nonstereoenantiomer specific. Hcy transport in HAECs had a Michaelis-Menten constant (Km) of 39 micromol/L and a maximal transport velocity (Vmax) of 873 pmol/mg protein/min. In contrast, Hcy transport in HASMCs had a lower affinity (Km = 106 micromol/L) but a higher transport capacity (Vmax = 4192 pmol/mg protein/min). Competition studies revealed that the small neutral amino acids tyrosine, cysteine, glycine, serine, alanine, methionine, and leucine inhibited Hcy uptake in both cell types, but the inhibition was greater for tyrosine, serine, glycine, and alanine in HAECs. Sodium-depletion reduced Hcy transport to 16% in HAECs and 56% in HASMCs. Increases in pH from 6.5 to 8.2 or lysosomal inhibitors blocked Hcy uptake only in HAECs. In addition, Hcy shares carrier systems with cysteine, in a preferable order of alanine-serine-cysteine (ASC) > aspartate and glutamate (X(AG)) = large branched-chain neutral amino acids (L) transporter systems in HAECs and ASC > L > X(AG) in HASMCs. The sodium-dependent system ASC plays a predominant role for Hcy transport in vascular cells. CONCLUSIONS Transport system ASC predominantly mediates Hcy transport in EC and is lysosomal dependent.
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- Xiaohua Jiang
- Temple University School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, 3420 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA
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Glutamine has many important functions in mammalian cells, and glutamine transport across cell membranes has accordingly been extensively studied. In the past few years a number of important glutamine transport proteins have been sequenced and their molecular properties have been characterised. In general, four major transporters are important physiologically. These are known as (i) SNAT3 (System N) which is important in glutamine uptake in periportal cells in liver and in across the basolateral membrane of renal proximal tubule cells and is also involved in glutamine release by liver perivenous cells and by astrocytes; a variant of this protein catalyses glutamine release from skeletal muscle. (ii) SNAT1 (a specific System A sub-type) which is important in glutamine uptake by neuronal cells (iii) ASCT2 which is essential for glutamine uptake by rapidly growing epithelial cells and tumour cells in culture and (iv) the recently discovered brush border membrane transporter B0 AT1 (SLC6A19). Recent studies considered both the importance of ASCT2 in tumour cell growth and the regulation of ASCT2 expression. In SK-Hep hepatoma cells, knockdown of ASCT2 using antisense mRNA has been shown to cause apoptosis. Expression of the ASCT2 transporter in HepG2 hepatoma cells is stimulated by glutamine by a pathway involving the promoter element AGGTGAATGACTT which binds FXR/RXR dimers.
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- John D McGivan
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Bristol, School of Medical Sciences, University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TD, United Kingdom.
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Dun Y, Mysona B, Itagaki S, Martin-Studdard A, Ganapathy V, Smith S. Functional and molecular analysis of D-serine transport in retinal Müller cells. Exp Eye Res 2006; 84:191-9. [PMID: 17094966 PMCID: PMC3773703 DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2006.09.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2006] [Revised: 09/21/2006] [Accepted: 09/22/2006] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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D-serine, an endogenous co-agonist of NMDA receptors in vertebrate retina, may modulate glutamate sensitivity of retinal neurons. This study determined at the functional and molecular level the transport process responsible for D-serine in retinal Müller cells. RT-PCR and immunoblotting showed that serine racemase (SR), the synthesizing enzyme for D-serine, is expressed in the rMC-1 Müller cell line and primary cultures of mouse Müller cells (1 degrees MCs). The relative contributions of different amino acid transport systems to d-serine uptake were determined based on differential substrate specificities and ion dependencies. D-serine uptake was obligatorily dependent on Na+, eliminating Na+-independent transporters (asc-1 and system L) for D-serine in Müller cells. The Na+:substrate stoichiometry for the transport process was 1:1. D-serine transport was inhibited by alanine, serine, cysteine, glutamine, and asparagine, but not anionic amino acids or cationic amino acids, suggesting that D-serine transport in Müller cells occurs via ASCT2 rather than ASCT1 or ATB0,+. The expression of mRNAs specific for ASCT1, ASCT2, and ATB0,+ was analyzed by RT-PCR confirming the expression of ASCT2 (and ASCT1) mRNA, but not ATB0,+, in Müller cells. Immunoblotting detected ASCT2 in neural retina and in 1 degrees MCs; immunohistochemistry confirmed these data in retinal sections and in cultures of 1 degrees MCs. The efflux of D-serine via ASCT2 by ASCT2 substrates was demonstrable using the Xenopus laevis oocyte heterologous expression system. These data provide the first molecular evidence for SR and ASCT2 expression in a Müller cell line and in 1 degrees MCs and suggest that D-serine, synthesized in Müller cells by SR, is effluxed via ASCT2 to regulate NMDA receptors in adjacent neurons.
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- Y. Dun
- Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA
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- Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA
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- Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA
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- Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA
- Department of Ophthalmology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA
- Please send correspondence to: Sylvia B. Smith, Ph.D., Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Medical College of Georgia, 1459 Laney-Walker Blvd., CB 2820, Augusta, GA 30912-2000, 706-721-7392 (phone), 706-721-6839 (fax),
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Cancer cells can fuse spontaneously with normal host cells, including endothelial cells, and such fusions may strongly modulate the biological behaviour of tumors. However, the underlying mechanisms are unknown. We now show that human breast cancer cell lines and 63 out of 165 (38%) breast cancer specimens express syncytin, an endogenous retroviral envelope protein, previously implicated in fusions between placental trophoblast cells. Additionally, endothelial and cancer cells are shown to express ASCT-2, a receptor for syncytin. Syncytin antisense treatment decreases syncytin expression and inhibits fusions between breast cancer cells and endothelial cells. Moreover, a syncytin inhibitory peptide also inhibits fusions between cancer and endothelial cells. These results are the first to show that syncytin is expressed by human cancer cells and is involved in cancer-endothelial cell fusions.
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- B Bjerregaard
- Anatomy and Cell Biology, IBHV, KVL, Gronnegaardsvej 7, 1870 Frederiksberg C, Copenhagen, Denmark
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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] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [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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Büdy B, O’Neill R, DiBello PM, Sengupta S, Jacobsen DW. Homocysteine transport by human aortic endothelial cells: identification and properties of import systems. Arch Biochem Biophys 2006; 446:119-30. [PMID: 16455044 PMCID: PMC2846170 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2005.12.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2005] [Revised: 12/16/2005] [Accepted: 12/20/2005] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Hyperhomocysteinemia is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Transport of L-homocysteine into and out of the human vascular endothelium is poorly understood. We hypothesized that cultured human aortic endothelial cells (HAEC) would import L-homocysteine on one or more of the L-cysteine transport systems. Inhibitors of the transporters were used to characterize the uptake of [35S]L-homocysteine, [35S]L-homocystine, and [35S]L-cysteine. We found that L-homocysteine uptake is mediated by the sodium-dependent cysteine transport systems X(AG), ASC, and A, and the sodium-independent transport system L. Thus, HAEC utilize multiple cysteine transporters (X(AG) > or = L > ASC > A) to import L-homocysteine. Kinetic analysis supported the uptake results. Michaelis-Menten constants (Km) for the four systems yielded values of 19.0, 27.1, 112, and 1000 microM for systems L, X(AG), ASC, and A, respectively. The binding and uptake of [35S]L-homocystine, the disulfide homodimer of L-homocysteine, was mediated by systems X(AG), L, and ASC but not by system A. In contrast to [35S]L-homocysteine, system x(c) was active for [35S]L-homocystine uptake. A similar pattern was observed for [35S]L-cysteine. Thus, L-homocysteine and L-homocystine found in hyperhomocysteinemic subjects can gain entry into the vascular endothelium by way of multiple L-cysteine transporters.
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- Beatrix Büdy
- Department of Cell Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH 44115, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH 44115, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH 44115, USA
- Corresponding author. Fax: +1 216 445 5480. (D.W. Jacobsen)
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Weiss MD, Rossignol C, Sumners C, Anderson KJ. A pH-dependent increase in neuronal glutamate efflux in vitro: Possible involvement of ASCT1. Brain Res 2005; 1056:105-12. [PMID: 16122709 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2005.07.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2005] [Revised: 07/05/2005] [Accepted: 07/10/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Efflux of glutamate from intracellular pools during hypoxia-ischemia has been postulated to be mediated by amino acid transporters and can lead to excitotoxicity. In addition, a decrease in pH seen during global hypoxia-ischemia may influence which transporter is responsible for this glutamate efflux. For example, the neutral amino acid transporter ASCT1 is an effective transporter of glutamate at low pH. We have examined the effects of pH, pH and temperature, and hypoxia on glutamate efflux in a rat primary neuronal cell culture model. We observed a marked increase of glutamate efflux as pH was decreased from 7.4 to 5.5. This pH-dependent efflux is likely due to a transporter-mediated process because it was seen in the presence of tetrodotoxin and was blunted by decreasing the temperature to either 35 degrees C or 33 degrees C. In addition, no increase in LDH was seen at pH 5.5 suggesting that increased glutamate levels were not due to cellular death. No change in glutamate levels was seen when the oxygen tension of the medium was lowered from 150 mm Hg to either 30 or 15 mm Hg. Given that EAAT transporters are inhibited by low pH, other transporters, such as ASCT1, may be responsible for this pH-dependent efflux of glutamate.
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- Michael D Weiss
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610-0296, USA.
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The infectious agent of Legionnaires' disease, Legionella (L) pneumophila, multiplies intracellularly in eukaryotic cells. This study has been performed to explore the nutrient requirements of L. pneumophila during intracellular replication. In human monocytes, bacterial replication rate was reduced by 76% in defined medium lacking L-cysteine, L-glutamine or L-serine. SLC1A5 (hATB(0,+)), a neutral amino acid transporter, was upregulated in the host cells after infection with L. pneumophila. Inhibition of SLC1A5 by BCH, a competitive inhibitor of amino acid uptake as well as siRNA silencing of the slc1a5 gene blocked intracellular multiplication of L. pneumophila without compromising viability of host cells. These observations suggest that replication of L. pneumophila depends on the function of host cell SLC1A5.
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- Hagen Wieland
- Institute of Physiology, University of Tuebingen, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
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The blood-brain barrier (BBB) segregates the circulating blood from interstitial fluid in the brain and restricts drug permeability into the brain. Our latest studies have revealed that the BBB transporters play important physiological roles in maintaining the brain environment. For an energy-storing system, the creatine transporter localized at the brain capillary endothelial cells (BCECs) mediates the supply of creatine from the blood to the brain. The BBB is involved in the brain-to-blood efflux transport of gamma-aminobutyric acid, and GAT2/BGT-1 mediates this transport process. BCECs also express serotonin and norepinephrine transporters. Organic anion transporter 3 (OAT3) and ASCT2 are localized at the abluminal membrane of the BCECs. OAT3 is involved in the brain-to-blood efflux of a dopamine metabolite, a uremic toxin, and thiopurine nucleobase analogues. ASCT2 plays a role in L-isomer-selective aspartic acid efflux transport at the BBB. Dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate and small neutral amino acids undergo brain-to-blood efflux transport mediated by organic anion transporting polypeptide 2 and ATA2, respectively. The BBB transporters are regulated by various factors: ATA2 by osmolarity, taurine transporter by tumor necrosis factor-alpha, and L-cystine/L-glutamic acid exchange transporter by oxidative stress. Clarifying the physiological roles of BBB transport systems should give important information allowing the development of better central nervous system (CNS) drugs and improving our understanding of the relationship between CNS disorders and BBB function.
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- Sumio Ohtsuki
- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan.
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Hirabayashi Y. [Functional coupling between neuron and glia in neuronal sphingolipid biosynthesis]. Tanpakushitsu Kakusan Koso 2004; 49:2391-6. [PMID: 15552991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/01/2023]
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Pineda M, Wagner CA, Bröer A, Stehberger PA, Kaltenbach S, Gelpí JL, Martín Del Río R, Zorzano A, Palacín M, Lang F, Bröer S. Cystinuria-specific rBAT(R365W) mutation reveals two translocation pathways in the amino acid transporter rBAT-b0,+AT. Biochem J 2004; 377:665-74. [PMID: 14561219 PMCID: PMC1223896 DOI: 10.1042/bj20030956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2003] [Revised: 10/09/2003] [Accepted: 10/15/2003] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Apical reabsorption of dibasic amino acids and cystine in kidney is mediated by the heteromeric amino acid antiporter rBAT/b(0,+)AT (system b(0,+)). Mutations in rBAT cause cystinuria type A, whereas mutations in b(0,+)AT cause cystinuria type B. b(0,+)AT is the catalytic subunit, whereas it is believed that rBAT helps the routing of the rBAT/b(0,+)AT heterodimeric complex to the plasma membrane. In the present study, we have functionally characterized the cystinuria-specific R365W (Arg(365)-->Trp) mutation of human rBAT, which in addition to a trafficking defect, alters functional properties of the b(0,+) transporter. In oocytes, where human rBAT interacts with the endogenous b(0,+)AT subunit to form an active transporter, the rBAT(R365W) mutation caused a defect of arginine efflux without altering arginine influx or apparent affinities for intracellular or extracellular arginine. Transport of lysine or leucine remained unaffected. In HeLa cells, functional expression of rBAT(R365W)/b(0,+)AT was observed only at the permissive temperature of 33 degrees C. Under these conditions, the mutated transporter showed 50% reduction of arginine influx and a similar decreased accumulation of dibasic amino acids. Efflux of arginine through the rBAT(R365W)/b(0,+)AT holotransporter was completely abolished. This supports a two-translocation-pathway model for antiporter b(0,+), in which the efflux pathway in the rBAT(R365W)/b(0,+)AT holotransporter is defective for arginine translocation or dissociation. This is the first direct evidence that mutations in rBAT may modify transport properties of system b(0,+).
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- Marta Pineda
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona Science Park, Barcelona 08028, Spain
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Kudo Y, Boyd CAR, Sargent IL, Redman CWG. Hypoxia alters expression and function of syncytin and its receptor during trophoblast cell fusion of human placental BeWo cells: implications for impaired trophoblast syncytialisation in pre-eclampsia. Biochim Biophys Acta 2003; 1638:63-71. [PMID: 12757936 DOI: 10.1016/s0925-4439(03)00043-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The fundamental process of placental trophoblast cell fusion (syncytiotrophoblast formation or syncytialisation) which is a characteristic of this tissue is poorly understood. Pre-eclampsia is associated with placental hypoxia and suppressed syncytiotrophoblast formation. We therefore have studied the effect of low-oxygen tensions on the rate of cell fusion, relative abundance of mRNAs encoding syncytin and its receptor, amino acid transport system B(0), which are thought to be involved in trophoblast cell fusion (as well as the activity of amino acid transport through this system) in a cell model of syncytialisation (BeWo cells following forskolin treatment). Forskolin-induced cell fusion (determined by a quantitative flow cytometry assay) was reversibly suppressed in 2% oxygen compared to 20% oxygen. This was associated with suppressed secretion of human chorionic gonadotropin. Forskolin stimulated relatively less syncytin mRNA (determined by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction) in 2% than in 20% oxygen and there was no stimulation after 48 h in 2% oxygen. There was a spontaneous, time-dependent increase of amino acid transporter B(0) mRNA in vehicle, which was suppressed by 2% oxygen and by forskolin treatment in 20% oxygen. Forskolin-induced changes in amino acid transport system B(0) function were not seen in cells cultured for 48 h in 2% oxygen. These observations suggest that under conditions of low ambient oxygen, dysregulation of expression of syncytin and of its receptor may suppress the normal process of cell fusion necessary for syncytiotrophoblast formation and contributes to syncytiotrophoblast abnormalities characteristic of pre-eclampsia.
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- Yoshiki Kudo
- Department of Human Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, OX1 3QX, Oxford, UK.
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Sloan JL, Grubb BR, Mager S. Expression of the amino acid transporter ATB 0+ in lung: possible role in luminal protein removal. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2003; 284:L39-49. [PMID: 12388375 DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00164.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Normal lung function requires transepithelial clearance of luminal proteins; however, little is known about the molecular mechanisms of protein transport. Protein degradation followed by transport of peptides and amino acids may play an important role in this process. We previously cloned and functionally characterized the neutral and cationic amino acid transporter ATB(0+) and showed expression in the lung by mRNA analysis. In this study, the tissue distribution, subcellular localization, and function of the transporter in native tissue were investigated. Western blots showed expression of the ATB(0+) protein in mouse lung, stomach, colon, testis, blastocysts, and human lung. Immunohistochemistry revealed that ATB(0+) is predominantly expressed on the apical membrane of ciliated epithelial cells throughout mouse airways from trachea to bronchioles and in alveolar type I cells. Electrical measurements from mouse trachea preparations showed Na(+)- and Cl(-)-dependent, amino acid-induced short-circuit current consistent with the properties of ATB(0+). We hypothesize that, by removing amino acids from the airway lumen, the transporter contributes to protein clearance and, by maintaining a low nutrient environment, plays a role in lung defense.
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- Jennifer L Sloan
- Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology and the Cystic Fibrosis/Pulmonary Research and Treatment Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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Structurally, the simplest amino acid is glycine, and it has a number of important yet distinct functions in the body. This review focuses on the different transport systems and the associated carrier proteins for glycine that are responsible for its movement across biological membranes. Transport proteins in the class GLYT appear to be the most specific for glycine. However, the B0+ system also carries significant amounts of glycine. Other amino acid transport systems capable of carrying small amounts of glycine are ASC, asc and system L. In addition, an ATP-dependent transport process exists that takes up glycine into synaptic vesicles at nerve endings. This is known as the vesicular inhibitory amino acid transporter since, in addition to glycine, it can transport possibly two other inhibitory neurotransmitters.
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- Godfrey Tunnicliff
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Evansville, Ind. 47712, USA.
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Bode BP, Fuchs BC, Hurley BP, Conroy JL, Suetterlin JE, Tanabe KK, Rhoads DB, Abcouwer SF, Souba WW. Molecular and functional analysis of glutamine uptake in human hepatoma and liver-derived cells. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 2002; 283:G1062-73. [PMID: 12381519 DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00031.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Human hepatoma cells take up glutamine at rates severalfold faster than the system N-mediated transport rates observed in normal human hepatocytes. Amino acid inhibition, kinetic, Northern blotting, RT-PCR, and restriction enzyme analyses collectively identified the transporter responsible in six human hepatoma cell lines as amino acid transporter B(0) (ATB(0)), the human ortholog of rodent ASCT2. The majority of glutamine uptake in liver fibroblasts and an immortalized human liver epithelial cell line (THLE-5B) was also mediated by ATB(0). The 2.9-kb ATB(0) mRNA was equally expressed in all cell lines, whereas expression of the system A transporters ATA2 and ATA3 was variable. In contrast, the system N isoforms (SN1 and SN2) were expressed only in well-differentiated hepatomas. ATB(0) mRNA was also expressed in cirrhotic liver and adult and pediatric liver cancer biopsies but was not detectable in isolated human hepatocytes or fetal liver. Although the growth of all hepatomas was glutamine dependent, competitive inhibition of ATB(0)-mediated glutamine uptake blocked proliferation only in poorly differentiated cells lacking SN1 or SN2 expression and exhibiting low glutamine synthetase mRNA levels.
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- Barrie P Bode
- Surgical Oncology Research Laboratories, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.
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Kudo Y, Boyd CAR. Changes in expression and function of syncytin and its receptor, amino acid transport system B(0) (ASCT2), in human placental choriocarcinoma BeWo cells during syncytialization. Placenta 2002; 23:536-41. [PMID: 12175968 DOI: 10.1053/plac.2002.0839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Relative abundance of mRNAs encoding syncytin and its receptor, amino acid transport system B(0), and activity of amino acid transport thought to be through this system have been studied in parallel in a cell model of syncytialization (BeWo cell following forskolin treatment). Relative mRNA abundance (determined by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction) for syncytin showed stimulation by forskolin. In contrast, the level of amino acid transporter B(0) mRNA expression was lower in forskolin treated cells. Na(+)-dependent alpha-(methylamino)isobutyric acid insensitive L -alanine transport was similarly decreased significantly in cells treated with forskolin suggesting that there is modulation of cell surface expression of the syncytin receptor associated with syncytialization.
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- Y Kudo
- Department of Human Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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