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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 23, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms23052561
Keywords
glycine; transporter; glycinergic inhibition; homeostasis; inhibitory synapse
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Glycine plays a crucial role in protein biosynthesis and metabolism, and also serves as an important inhibitory neurotransmitter in the caudal regions of the brain. To maintain its functions, tight regulation of glycine concentration is required in both synaptic clefts and intracellular/extracellular compartments. This regulation is achieved by confining glycine synthesis and degradation to mitochondria, and through the action of high-affinity, large-capacity glycine transporters.
In addition to being involved in protein biosynthesis and metabolism, the amino acid glycine is the most important inhibitory neurotransmitter in caudal regions of the brain. These functions require a tight regulation of glycine concentration not only in the synaptic cleft, but also in various intracellular and extracellular compartments. This is achieved not only by confining the synthesis and degradation of glycine predominantly to the mitochondria, but also by the action of high-affinity large-capacity glycine transporters that mediate the transport of glycine across the membranes of presynaptic terminals or glial cells surrounding the synapses. Although most cells at glycine-dependent synapses express more than one transporter with high affinity for glycine, their synergistic functional interaction is only poorly understood. In this review, we summarize our current knowledge of the two high-affinity transporters for glycine, the sodium-dependent glycine transporters 1 (GlyT1; SLC6A9) and 2 (GlyT2; SLC6A5) and the alanine-serine-cysteine-1 transporter (Asc-1; SLC7A10).
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