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INFgamma stimulates arginine transport through system y+L in human monocytes
Bianca Maria Rotoli1, Ovidio Bussolati, Roberto Sala
1Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale, Sezione di Patologia Generale e Clinica, Plesso Biotecnologico Integrato, Università degli Studi di Parma, Via Volturno 39, 43100 Parma, Italy.
Abstract:
Freshly isolated human monocytes transport L-arginine mostly through a sodium independent, NEM insensitive pathway inhibited by L-leucine in the presence, but not in the absence of sodium. Interferon-gamma (IFNgamma) stimulates this pathway, identifiable with system y+L, and markedly enhances the expression of SLC7A7, the gene that encodes for system y+L subunit y+LAT1, but not of SLC7A6, that codes for the alternative subunit y+LAT2. System y+ plays a minor role in arginine uptake by monocytes and the expression of system y+-related genes, SLC7A1 and SLC7A2, is not changed by IFNgamma. These results demonstrate that system y+L is sensitive to IFNgamma.
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