PMID: 490435May 1, 1979Paper

Transport of L-proline and its regulation in Leishmania tropica promastigotes

The Journal of protozoology
S S Law, A J Mukkada

Abstract

Leishmania tropica promastigotes transport L-proline through an active uptake system that has saturation kinetics, temperature dependence, a requirement for metabolic energy and transport against a concentration gradient. In experiments lasting 10 min, less than 10% of the proline transported is incorporated into macromolecules. The remainder is largely unaltered proline with an intracellular concentration nearly 60 times that in the reaction mixture. The uptake system has a relatively broad specificty; it is competitively inhibited by D-proline as well as by alanine, methionine, valine, azetidine-2-carboxylate, thioproline, 3,4-dehydropoline, hydroxyproline and alpha-aminoisobutyric acid. Pre-established intracellular proline pools exchange with external proline as well as compounds that compete with it for uptake. Evidence is presented that feedback inhibition and transinhibition may regulate proline uptake in this organism.

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