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BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 92, Issue 7, Pages 2621-2632Publisher
BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.100776
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The sodium-coupled neutral amino acid transporter SNAT2 mediates cellular uptake of glutamine and other small, neutral amino acids. Here, we report the existence of a leak anion pathway associated with SNAT2. The leak anion conductance was increased by, but did not require the presence of, extracellular sodium. The transported substrates L-alanine, L-glutamine, and alpha-(methylamino) isobutyrate inhibited the anion leak conductance, each with different potency. A transporter with the mutation H-304A did not catalyze alanine transport but still catalyzed anion leak current, demonstrating that substrate transport is not required for anion current inhibition. Both the substrate and Na+ were able to bind to the SNAT2(H-304A) transporter normally. The selectivity sequence of the SNAT2(H-304A) anion conductance was SC- >> NO- > 3. I-> Br- > Cl- > Mes(-). Anion. ux mediated by the more hydrophobic anion SCN- was not saturable, whereas nitrate. ux demonstrated saturation kinetics with an apparent Km of 29 mM. SNAT2, which belongs to the SLC38 family of transporters, has to be added to the growing number of secondary, Na+-coupled transporters catalyzing substrate- gated or leak anion conductances. Therefore, we can speculate that such anionconducting pathways are general features of Na+-transporting systems.
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