title: On the activity of gamma-aminobutyric acid and glutamate transporters in chick embryonic neurons and rat synaptosomes.
abstract: The uptake of radioactive gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and D-aspartate and the effect of SKF 89976-A, a non-substrate inhibitor of the GABA transporter, on this uptake have been investigated. Neuronal cultures from eight-day-old chick embryos grown for three or six days in vitro, were used as a model. For comparison, we also used the P2-fraction from rat. Neuronal cultures grown for three and six days expressed high-affinity uptake systems for [3H]GABA and for D-[3H]aspartate with an increasing Vmax during this period. The lipophilic non-substrate GABA uptake inhibitor, SKF 89976-A, inhibited transporter mediated uptake of GABA both in cell cultures from chicken, and in P2-fractions from rat. The results also showed that SKF 89976-A was a poor inhibitor of the uptake of D-aspartate. We found no non-saturable uptake of D-aspartate.
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoophysiology, University of Umeå, Sweden.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lewin
authors.forename: M O
authors.initials: MO
authors.lastname: Mattsson
authors.forename: D K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Rassin
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sellström
mesh_terms: D027322:Amino Acid Transport System X-AG; D000818:Animals; D001224:Aspartic Acid / Q000378:metabolism; D001692:Biological Transport / Q000502:physiology; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002642:Chick Embryo; D005260:Female; D050485:GABA Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins; D006023:Glycoproteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins; D009474:Neurons / Q000378:metabolism*; D009557:Nipecotic Acids / Q000494:pharmacology; D027361:Organic Anion Transporters; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013574:Synaptosomes / Q000378:metabolism*; D005680:gamma-Aminobutyric Acid / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D027322:Amino Acid Transport System X-AG; D002352:Carrier Proteins; D050485:GABA Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins; D006023:Glycoproteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins; D009557:Nipecotic Acids; D027361:Organic Anion Transporters; D001224:Aspartic Acid; D005680:gamma-Aminobutyric Acid; C045598:N-(4,4-diphenyl-3-butenyl)nipecotic acid