Journal
JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY
Volume 135, Issue 6, Pages 1062-1079Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jnc.13348
Keywords
addiction; emotional and cognitive behavior; glioblastoma; glutamate; neurological disorders; system x(c)(-)
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- Medical Foundation Queen Elisabeth
- Fund for Scientific Research Flanders [G.0384.12N, G.OA65.13N]
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel [SRP40]
- Thierry Latran Foundation
- Association pour la Recherche sur la Sclerose Laterale Amyotrophic (ARSLA)
- NIDA [DA033436, DA037270]
- NIH/NINDS [R01NS051445-07]
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System x(c)(-) is a cystine/glutamate antiporter that exchanges extracellular cystine for intracellular glutamate. Cystine is intracellularly reduced to cysteine, a building block of GSH. As such, system x(c)(-) can regulate the antioxidant capacity of cells. Moreover, in several brain regions, system x(c)(-) is the major source of extracellular glutamate. As such this antiporter is able to fulfill key physiological functions in the CNS, while evidence indicates it also plays a role in certain brain pathologies. Since the transcription of xCT, the specific subunit of system x(c)(-), is enhanced by the presence of reactive oxygen species and inflammatory cytokines, system x(c)(-) could be involved in toxic extracellular glutamate release in neurological disorders that are associated with increased oxidative stress and neuroinflammation. System x(c)(-) has also been reported to contribute to the invasiveness of brain tumors and, as a source of extracellular glutamate, could participate in the induction of peritumoral seizures. Two independent reviews (Pharmacol. Rev. 64, 2012, 780; Antioxid. Redox Signal. 18, 2013, 522), approached from a different perspective, have recently been published on the functions of system x(c)(-) in the CNS. In this review, we highlight novel achievements and insights covering the regulation of system x(c)(-) as well as its involvement in emotional behavior, cognition, addiction, neurological disorders and glioblastomas, acquired in the past few years.
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