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The Journal of Neuroscience, December 1, 1999, 19(23):10193-10200
Glutamate Induces Rapid Upregulation of Astrocyte Glutamate
Transport and Cell-Surface Expression of GLAST
Shumin
Duan,
Christopher M.
Anderson,
Becky A.
Stein, and
Raymond A.
Swanson
Department of Neurology, University of California, San
Francisco, and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco,
California 94121
Glutamate transporters clear glutamate from the extracellular space
by high-affinity binding and uptake. Factors that regulate glutamate
transporter expression and activity can thereby influence excitatory
neurotransmission. Transporter function in GABAergic and other systems
has been shown to be regulated by transporter substrates. Here,
glutamate regulation of glutamate transport was studied using primary
murine astrocyte cultures that express the GLAST (EAAT1)
and GLT-1 (EAAT2) transporter subtypes. Glutamate was
found to stimulate glutamate transport capacity
(Vmax) in a dose- and time-dependent
manner. The maximal increase was 100%, with an ED50 of 40 µM glutamate and with onset beginning ~15 min after
onset of glutamate exposure. The uptake stimulation was reproduced by
D-aspartate, which is also a transporter substrate, but not
by nontransported glutamate receptor agonists. Moreover, glutamate
incubation did not stimulate transport when performed in a sodium-free
medium, suggesting that the stimulatory effect of glutamate is
triggered by increased transporter activity rather than receptor
activation. Treatment with the actin-disrupting agents cytochalasin B
or cytochalasin D prevented the glutamate-induced increase in glutamate
uptake. Biotinylation labeling of membrane surface proteins showed that
glutamate incubation produced an increase in GLAST expression at the
astrocyte cell surface. These results suggest that cell-surface
expression of GLAST can be rapidly regulated by glutamate through a
process triggered by GLAST activity and involving the actin
cytoskeleton. This feedback loop provides a mechanism by which changes
in extracellular glutamate concentrations could rapidly modulate
astrocyte glutamate transport capacity.
Key words:
EAAT1; EAAT2; GLT-1; GLAST; actin; cytochalasin; glutamate uptake; trafficking
Copyright © 1999 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/99/192310193-08$05.00/0
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