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Globally, 13% of the world's adult population is obese, and more than 400 million people suffer from diabetes. These conditions are both associated with significant morbidity, mortality and financial cost. Therefore, finding new pharmacological treatments is an imperative. Relative hyperglucagonaemia is seen in all types of diabetes, and has been implicated in its pathogenesis. Consequently, clinical trials are underway using drugs which block glucagon activity to treat type 2 diabetes. Conversely, exogenous glucagon can increase energy expenditure. Therefore, researchers are designing peptides that combine activation of the glucagon receptor with further incretin properties, which will treat obesity while mitigating the hyperglycaemic effects of glucagon. This review will discuss these conflicting physiological properties of glucagon, and the attempts to harness these effects pharmacologically.
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- R V Scott
- Imperial College London, 6th Floor, Commonwealth Building, Hammersmith Hospital, London, W12 0NN, United Kingdom.
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- Imperial College London, 6th Floor, Commonwealth Building, Hammersmith Hospital, London, W12 0NN, United Kingdom.
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Kashiwagi H, Yamazaki K, Takekuma Y, Ganapathy V, Sugawara M. Regulatory mechanisms of SNAT2, an amino acid transporter, in L6 rat skeletal muscle cells by insulin, osmotic shock and amino acid deprivation. Amino Acids 2008; 36:219-30. [PMID: 18330498 DOI: 10.1007/s00726-008-0050-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2007] [Accepted: 02/15/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Several studies have demonstrated that the activity of system A is upregulated by insulin, osmotic shock and amino acid deprivation. However, the mechanisms are not clear. We carried out studies using L6 rat skeletal muscle cells to clarify the mechanisms of upregulation of system A activity by insulin, osmotic shock and amino acid deprivation. The upregulation was found to be due to an increase in Vmax, not Km. Chloroquine and wortmannin inhibited the upregulation induced by insulin stimulation and amino acid deprivation but not that induced by osmotic shock. On the other hand, cycloheximide and actinomycin D inhibited the upregulation by each stimulation. Moreover, PD98059 and SP600125 inhibited only amino acid deprivation-induced upregulation and SB202190 inhibited only insulin-induced upregulation. Our findings indicate that the mechanisms of upregulation of system A activity by insulin, osmotic shock and amino acid deprivation are different in L6 cells. Western blot and RT-PCR analysis showed an increase in system A at the protein and mRNA levels with each stimulation.
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- Hitoshi Kashiwagi
- Department of Pharmacy, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
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Freeman TL, Thiele GM, Tuma DJ, Machu TK, Mailliard ME. ATA2-mediated amino acid uptake following partial hepatectomy is regulated by redistribution to the plasma membrane. Arch Biochem Biophys 2002; 400:215-22. [PMID: 12054432 DOI: 10.1016/s0003-9861(02)00006-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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System A, the Na(+)-dependent amino acid transport activity, is encoded by the ATA2 gene and up-regulated following partial hepatectomy (PH), and its competitive inhibition interferes with liver regeneration. Rabbit polyclonal antibody was raised against a portion of the ATA2 gene product followed by immunodetection of ATA2 in isolated liver plasma membrane and lysate. The level of ATA2 increased in the plasma membrane following PH, while the relatively high quantity of ATA2 found in liver lysate remained constant. We also have shown that Northern analysis of steady-state ATA2 mRNA revealed no significant change following PH. These data show that ATA2-mediated transport is not regulated by the steady-state level of ATA2 mRNA but is regulated by the amount of ATA2 and redistribution to the plasma membrane. We hypothesize that ATA2 activity is regulated by recruitment of ATA2 protein from an intracellular compartment. In addition, the pattern of expression of System A activity in oocytes, transport kinetics, and sensitivity to chemical modification indicate the presence of a second System A isoform in liver that differs substantially from ATA2.
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- Thomas L Freeman
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center and Veterans Administration Medical Center, Alcohol Study Unit, Omaha, NE 68105, USA
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Bussolati O, Dall'Asta V, Franchi-Gazzola R, Sala R, Rotoli BM, Visigalli R, Casado J, Lopez-Fontanals M, Pastor-Anglada M, Gazzola GC. The role of system A for neutral amino acid transport in the regulation of cell volume. Mol Membr Biol 2001; 18:27-38. [PMID: 11396608 DOI: 10.1080/09687680110033756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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System A is a secondary active, sodium dependent transport system for neutral amino acids. Strictly coupled with Na,K-ATPase, its activity determines the size of the intracellular amino acid pool, through a complex network of metabolic reaction and exchange fluxes. Many hormones and drugs affect system A activity in specific cell models or tissues. In all the cell models tested thus far the activity of the system is stimulated by amino acid starvation, cell cycle progression, and the incubation under hypertonic conditions. These three conditions produce marked alterations of cell volume. The stimulation of system A activity plays an important role in cell volume restoration, through an expansion of the intracellular amino acid pool. Under normal conditions, system A substrates represent a major fraction of cell compatible osmolytes, organic compounds that exert a protein stabilizing effect. It is, therefore, likely that the activation of system A represents a portion of a more complex response triggered by exposure to stresses of various nature. Since system A transporters have been recently cloned, the molecular bases of these regulatory mechanisms will probably be elucidated in a short time.
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- O Bussolati
- Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Parma, Italy.
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Kempson SA. Differential activation of system A and betaine/GABA transport in MDCK cell membranes by hypertonic stress. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1998; 1372:117-23. [PMID: 9651499 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2736(98)00051-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Accumulation of osmolytes by renal cells is due in part to increased uptake via specific transporters. These include amino acid transport system A and the betaine/GABA transporter (BGT1). Transport changes have been characterized using intact cells which makes the intracellular mechanisms difficult to determine. In this study the hypertonic upregulation of system A and BGT1 was studied directly at the membrane level in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells. Both system A and BGT1 transport systems were detected in an isolated membrane fraction containing plasma membranes. System A transport was increased in membranes prepared from cells after 6 h hypertonic stress (449 mosmol/kg) but BGT1 activity was minimal and not different from isotonic controls. The increase in system A was blocked by inhibitors of RNA and protein synthesis. BGT1 transport was induced in membranes prepared after 24 h hypertonicity. At this time system A activity in the membrane fraction remained increased, unlike the downregulation observed in intact MDCK cells. We conclude that differential upregulation of system A and BGT1 by hypertonic stress is due to intrinsic changes in these transporters at the membrane level. In contrast, the downregulation of system A in intact cells when hypertonicity is prolonged for 24 h is likely due to the action of an intracellular repressor that is not present in the isolated membranes.
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- S A Kempson
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5120, USA.
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Kempson SA, Hoshaw MJ, Hinesley RS, McAteer JA. Hyperosmotic stress up-regulates amino acid transport in vascular endothelial cells. Kidney Int 1997; 52:1332-9. [PMID: 9350656 DOI: 10.1038/ki.1997.458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Cultured vascular endothelial cells take up L-proline by sodium-dependent transport. Cells incubated in medium made hyperosmotic by addition of sucrose showed a dose-dependent increase in Na+/proline cotransport. Studies with alpha-(methylamino)isobutyric acid revealed that the up-regulation was specific for amino acid transport system A. Up-regulation was blocked by actinomycin D and cycloheximide, indicating roles for gene transcription and protein synthesis. Up-regulation was maximum after five to six hours of hyperosmotic treatment, but returned to control levels when osmotic stress was maintained for 24 hours. The decline at 24 hours was accompanied by a significant increase in Na+/gamma-aminobutyric acid cotransport. The activity of this system, which also transports betaine, remained unchanged after just five hours of hyperosmotic stress. Inclusion of betaine in the hyperosmotic medium reduced up-regulation of system A. Na/Pi cotransport also was up-regulated by five hours of hyperosmotic stress. Up-regulation of system A, but not Na/Pi cotransport, was detected in isolated membrane fractions indicating that increased activity of this membrane transport system may be one mechanism by which vascular endothelial cells accumulate amino acids. The amino acids may act as organic osmolytes to help maintain normal cell volume during the early phase of hyperosmotic stress.
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- S A Kempson
- Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA.
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Handlogten ME, Dudenhausen EE, Yang W, Kilberg MS. Association of hepatic system A amino acid transporter with the membrane-cytoskeletal proteins ankyrin and fodrin. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1996; 1282:107-14. [PMID: 8679646 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(96)00046-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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System A activity is a highly regulated mechanism for the active transport of zwitterionic amino acids into mammalian cells. Monoclonal antibodies generated against a previously unidentified rat liver plasma membrane-associated protein were shown to immunoprecipitate solubilized System A transport activity. The immunoreactive protein was later determined by immunoblotting and peptide microsequencing to be rat liver alpha-fodrin (non-erythroid spectrin). Antibody against ankyrin, a protein that often serves as a bridge between integral membrane proteins and fodrin, also immunoprecipitated System A transport activity. Fractionation of solubilized plasma membrane proteins on sucrose gradients revealed that the System A transporter co-migrated as a complex with fodrin and ankyrin, even in the presence of detergent and urea. In contrast, the System N amino acid transporter does not co-migrate with ankyrin and fodrin, nor does the anti-fodrin antibody immunoprecipitate System N activity. The present data are the first to demonstrate an association between an organic solute transporter and the membranocytoskeletal proteins ankyrin and fodrin.
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- M E Handlogten
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida, College of Medicine, JHMHC, Gainesville 32610, USA
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Hisano S, Haga H, Miyamoto K, Takeda E, Fukui Y. The basic amino acid transporter (rBAT)-like immunoreactivity in paraventricular and supraoptic magnocellular neurons of the rat hypothalamus. Brain Res 1996; 710:299-302. [PMID: 8963675 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(95)01442-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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In the rat hypothalamus, the basic amino acid transporter (rBAT)-like immunoreactivity was analyzed by immunohistochemistry using an antibody against the 15-amino acid sequence of the deduced rat rBAT protein. In the supraoptic and the paraventricular nuclei, magnocellular neurons exhibited the marked rBAT-like immunoreactivity in intracellular structures but not in the plasma membrane. The results suggest that the rBAT serves as an intracellular amino acid transport system in magnocellular neurons.
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- S Hisano
- Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of Tokushima, Japan
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Mailliard ME, Cariappa R, Banks RK. Impairment of glucagon-induced hepatic system A activity by short-term ethanol administration in the rat. Gastroenterology 1994; 106:480-7. [PMID: 8299914 DOI: 10.1016/0016-5085(94)90608-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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BACKGROUND/AIMS System A is a membrane-bound, hormonally regulated carrier of amino acids that is induced by liver regeneration and impaired by ethanol. The mechanism of ethanol inhibition of system A is unknown; this study examines the effects of ethanol on the subcellular expression of system A activity following hormonal induction. METHODS Following hormonal treatment and short-term ethanol administration to rats, isolated liver Golgi and plasma membrane vesicles were examined for system A transport, and the kinetic parameters were determined. RESULTS Four hours after ethanol administration, the initial rate of system A activity was depressed 30% +/- 9% and 19% +/- 7% into Golgi and plasma membrane vesicles, respectively. The affinity constant of 2-(methylamino)-isobutyric acid uptake was unchanged between control and ethanol-treated vesicles, regardless of their subcellular origin. However, the maximal velocity of system A transport decreased from 1030 to 850 pmol.mg-1 protein.10 s-1 in Golgi vesicles and from 740 to 355 pmol.mg-1 protein.10 s-1 in plasma membrane vesicles. CONCLUSIONS Ethanol impairs hormonally induced system A activity in Golgi as well as in the plasma membrane vesicles. Ethanol potentially reduces glucagon induction of system A activity through an impairment of carrier biosynthesis or expression.
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- M E Mailliard
- Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville
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Bile acid transport into hepatocyte smooth endoplasmic reticulum vesicles is mediated by microsomal epoxide hydrolase, a membrane protein exhibiting two distinct topological orientations. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(20)80706-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Haun R, Tsai S, Adamik R, Moss J, Vaughan M. Effect of myristoylation on GTP-dependent binding of ADP-ribosylation factor to Golgi. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)53145-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Muñoz P, Gumà A, Camps M, Furriols M, Testar X, Palacín M, Zorzano A. Vanadate stimulates system A amino acid transport activity in skeletal muscle. Evidence for the involvement of intracellular pH as a mediator of vanadate action. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)50030-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Identification of an amino acid-regulated mRNA from rat liver as the mammalian equivalent of bacterial ribosomal protein L22. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)47324-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Bode BP, Kilberg MS. Amino acid-dependent increase in hepatic system N activity is linked to cell swelling. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(20)89457-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Bertran J, Roca A, Pola E, Testar X, Zorzano A, Palacín M. Modification of system A amino acid carrier by diethyl pyrocarbonate. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)35243-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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