Hypoxia reduces expression and function of system A amino acid transporters in cultured term human trophoblasts.

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Nelson DM, Smith SD, Furesz TC, Sadovsky Y, Ganapathy V, Parvin CA, Smith CH

Hypoxia reduces expression and function of system A amino acid transporters in cultured term human trophoblasts.

Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 2003 Feb;284(2):C310-5. Epub 2002 Sep 25.

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Abstract

We tested the hypothesis that hypoxia diminishes the expression and transport of neutral amino acids by system A in full-term human trophoblasts. Cytotrophoblasts from normal human placentas were cultured in standard conditions of 20% O(2) or in 1% and 3% O(2) for 24 h before assay. Neutral amino acid transport for systems A, ASC, and L was assayed at 24 and 72 h by the cluster-tray technique. Hypoxia during the initial 24 h of culture reduced system A transport by 82% in 1% O(2) and by 37% in 3% O(2) (P < 0.01) compared with standard conditions. Hypoxia during the latter 24 h of the 72 h in culture reduced system A transport by 55% in 1% O(2) and by 20% in 3% O(2) (P < 0.05) compared with standard conditions at 72 h. Hypoxia (1% O(2)) also reduced total amino acid transport by 40% in the more differentiated syncytiotrophoblasts present at 72 h. Northern analysis of trophoblasts in standard conditions showed that subtypes of human amino acid transporter A (hATA1 and hATA2) were each expressed in cytotrophoblasts and syncytiotrophoblasts. Hypoxia decreased expression of hATA1 and hATA2 in both trophoblast phenotypes. We conclude that hypoxia downregulates system A transporter expression and activity in cultured human trophoblasts.

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Polypeptides
NameUniProt ID
Sodium-coupled neutral amino acid transporter 1Q9H2H9Details