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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 280, Issue 28, 26055-26062, July 15, 2005

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Differential Regulation of Amino Acid Transporter SNAT3 by Insulin in Hepatocytes^*

Sumin Gu, Carla J. Villegas, and Jean X. Jiang

From the Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229-3900

The liver is a metabolism and transfer center of amino acids as well as the prime target organ of insulin. In this report, we characterized the regulation of system N/A transporter 3 (SNAT3) in the liver of dietary-restricted mice and in hepatocytes treated with serum starvation and insulin. The expression of SNAT3 was up-regulated in dietary-restricted mice. The expression of SNAT3 protein was detected on the plasma membrane of hepatocyte-like H2.35 cells with a half-life of 6–8 h. When H2.35 cells were depleted of serum, the expression of SNAT3 was increased. An increased concentration of insulin, however, suppressed SNAT3 expression. Interestingly, the down-regulation of SNAT3 expression by insulin was blocked by the specific phosphoinositide 3-kinase inhibitor LY294002 and mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitor, but not by MAPK inhibitor PD98059, suggesting that insulin exerts its effect on SNAT3 through phosphoinositide 3-kinase-mammalian target of rapamycin signaling. Surface biotinylation assay showed an increased level of SNAT3 on the cell surface after 0.5 h of insulin treatment, although no effect was observed after 24 h of treatment. Consistently, the transport of the substrate L-histidine was increased with short, but not long, treatment by insulin in both H2.35- and SNAT3-transfected COS-7 cells. The L-histidine uptake was inhibited significantly by L-histidine followed by 2-endoamino-bicycloheptane-2-carboxylic acid and L-cysteine and to a lesser extent by L-alanine and aminoisobutyric acid, but was not inhibited by -(methylamino)isobutyric acid, implying that uptake of L-histidine in H2.35 cells is primarily mediated by system N transporters. In conclusion, differential regulation of SNAT3 by insulin and serum starvation reinforces the functional significance of this transporter in liver physiology.

Received for publication, April 21, 2005 , and in revised form, May 16, 2005.

^* This work was supported by Welch Foundation Grant AQ-1507 and by National Institutes of Health grants (to J. X. J.). The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

To whom correspondence should be addressed: Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Dr., San Antonio, TX 78229-3900. Tel.: 210-567-3796; Fax: 210-567-6595; E-mail: jiangj{at}uthscsa.edu.

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