High-affinity glutamate transporter GLAST/EAAT1 regulates cell surface expression of glutamine/neutral amino acid transporter ASCT2 in human fetal astrocytes

Neurochemistry International
Marina GegelashviliGeorgi Gegelashvili

Abstract

Neutral amino acid transporter ASCT2, together with high-affinity glutamate transporters, belongs to the SLC1 gene family of Na(+)-dependent solute carriers and is one of the major transporters of glutamine in cultured astrocytes. Besides glutamine and other high-affinity substrates--alanine, serine, cysteine or threonine, ASCT2 can also translocate protonated glutamate. The present study elucidated substrate-dependent trafficking of ASCT2 in differentiated primary cultures of human fetal astrocytes. The differentiation induced by 8-bromo-cAMP caused dramatic up-regulation of two co-localized and functionally linked astroglial proteins--glutamate transporter GLAST, that is the only high-affinity router of glutamate into cultured astrocytes, and glutamine synthetase (GS), a cytosolic enzyme that converts at least a part of the arriving glutamate into glutamine. In order to distinguish individual intracellular effects of these two substrates on ASCT2, in some cultures glutamine synthetase was effectively knocked down using siRNA silencing technique. In control conditions, regardless of GS levels, almost the entire ASCT2 immunoreactivity was restricted to the cytosol. Both glutamine and alanine, though to different extents, induce...Continue Reading

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