| 2001 |
GTRAP3-18 specifically interacts with the carboxy-terminal intracellular domain of EAAC1/SLC1A1; overexpression of GTRAP3-18 reduces EAAC1-mediated glutamate transport by lowering substrate affinity without affecting total transporter expression. GTRAP3-18 expression can be upregulated by retinoic acid, producing a specific reduction in EAAC1-mediated transport. |
Co-immunoprecipitation, pulldown mapping of C-terminal domain interaction, glutamate uptake assays in cells with overexpressed GTRAP3-18, retinoic acid treatment |
Nature |
High |
11242046
|
| 1996 |
Activation of protein kinase C (PKC) by phorbol ester (PMA) rapidly increases EAAC1-mediated glutamate transport activity in C6 glioma cells via a 2.5-fold increase in Vmax with no change in Km, independent of protein synthesis. An inactive phorbol ester and the PKC inhibitor chelerythrine block this effect. |
Radiolabeled glutamate uptake assays, kinetic analysis, pharmacological inhibitors (chelerythrine, cycloheximide), inactive phorbol ester controls |
Journal of neurochemistry |
High |
8764574
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| 2000 |
Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) rapidly increases EAAC1 activity and cell surface expression via activation of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K). PDGF causes redistribution of EAAC1 from an intracellular compartment to the plasma membrane; this effect is blocked by PI3K inhibitors wortmannin and LY294002 but not by a PKC inhibitor. |
Membrane-impermeant biotinylation combined with Western blotting to measure surface EAAC1, radiolabeled glutamate uptake, PI3K activity assay, pharmacological inhibitors |
The Journal of biological chemistry |
High |
10671571
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| 2003 |
PKC activation with PMA induces formation of EAAC1-PKCα complexes but not EAAC1-PKCδ complexes in C6 glioma cells, and causes EAAC1 and PKCα to colocalize in clusters at or near the cell surface. EAAC1-PKCα complexes are also detected in rat brain synaptosomes. This interaction is blocked by PKC inhibitors. |
Co-immunoprecipitation in C6 glioma and synaptosomes, confocal microscopy colocalization, pharmacological inhibitors |
The Journal of neuroscience |
High |
12843260
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| 2002 |
PKCα mediates the PKC-dependent increase in EAAC1 cell surface expression, while PKCε mediates an increase in EAAC1 transport activity independent of changes in surface expression (increased Vmax without surface redistribution). Gö6976 (PKCα inhibitor) completely blocks surface expression increase but only partially attenuates activity increase; PKC subtype-selective downregulation confirms this dissociation. |
PKC subtype identification by Western blot, selective inhibitor Gö6976, PKC downregulation by prolonged phorbol ester treatment, biotinylation assay, uptake assays |
Molecular pharmacology |
High |
12237337
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| 2004 |
EAAC1 has a half-life of approximately 5–7 min at the plasma membrane due to rapid constitutive recycling. Both PKC (phorbol ester) and PDGF accelerate delivery of EAAC1 to the cell surface; PKC additionally inhibits endocytosis of EAAC1, whereas PDGF does not. Basal and regulated pools of EAAC1 exist in distinct intracellular compartments, as incubation at 18°C blocks regulated but not basal trafficking. |
Multiple biotinylation strategies (surface labeling at 37°C, reversible biotinylation to measure internalization), temperature block experiments in C6 glioma and primary neuronal cultures |
The Journal of biological chemistry |
High |
15197183
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| 2005 |
A carboxyl-terminal motif (502)YVN(504) in EAAC1 is required for both PDGF-dependent and PKC-dependent regulated trafficking to the cell surface. A 12-amino acid sequence starting at this tyrosine is sufficient to confer PDGF-responsiveness to a non-responsive chimera. The glial transporter GLT-1 carboxyl terminus does not confer regulated trafficking, but replacing it with EAAC1's carboxyl terminus does. |
Domain chimeras between EAAC1 and GLT-1, alanine substitution mutagenesis, truncation mutants, biotinylation surface expression assays in C6 glioma |
The Journal of biological chemistry |
High |
16368696
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| 2005 |
Akt (PKB) is required downstream of PI3K for PDGF-induced redistribution and increased surface expression of EAAC1. A dominant-negative Akt-1 blocks PDGF-induced EAAC1 redistribution; constitutively active Akt-1 increases EAAC1 surface expression; lentiviral CA-Akt-1 increases both surface EAAC1 and Na+-dependent glutamate transport activity. |
Dominant-negative and constitutively active Akt-1 transfection, lentiviral expression of CA-Akt, biotinylation surface expression assay, glutamate uptake assay, Akt phosphorylation (Ser473) measurement |
Neuropharmacology |
High |
16182322
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| 2005 |
Individual subunits within the EAAC1 homotrimer function independently of each other. Coexpression of EAAC1(WT) with EAAC1(R446Q) (transports glutamine not glutamate) produces purely additive anion currents. Coexpression with EAAC1(H295K) (90-fold reduced glutamate affinity) yields two independent populations matching individual subunit affinities. pH-dependence studies with EAAC1(E373Q) similarly show independent subunit function. |
Electrophysiology (anion currents), coexpression of WT and mutant subunits in cells, glutamate concentration-response curves, pH-dependence assays |
Biochemistry |
High |
16128593
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| 2007 |
RTN2B, a reticulon protein localized in the ER and ER exit sites, interacts with EAAC1 and with GTRAP3-18, binding to different regions of RTN2B. RTN2B enhances ER exit and cell surface expression of EAAC1 in heterologous cells. siRNA knockdown of RTN2B decreases EAAC1 protein levels in neurons. Thus RTN2B acts as a positive regulator of EAAC1 trafficking from ER to cell surface, counteracting GTRAP3-18. |
Co-immunoprecipitation of RTN2B with EAAC1 and GTRAP3-18, domain binding analysis, surface expression assays in heterologous cells, siRNA knockdown in neurons, Western blotting |
The Journal of biological chemistry |
High |
18096700
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| 2006 |
Syntaxin 1A promotes endocytic sorting of EAAC1 via clathrin-mediated internalization, leading to functional inhibition of glutamate transport. The H3 coiled-coil domain of syntaxin 1A (in the presence of its transmembrane domain) is necessary and sufficient for this inhibitory effect. Endogenous syntaxin 1A knockdown blocks EAAC1 endocytic sorting and lysosomal degradation triggered by kainic acid. |
Clathrin-mediated endocytosis assays, syntaxin 1A domain deletion constructs, co-immunoprecipitation, siRNA knockdown in rat model, glutamate transport functional assay |
Journal of cell science |
High |
16959903
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| 2006 |
A dominant-negative variant of SNAP-23 (lacking the SNARE domain) decreases EAAC1 surface expression and slows constitutive delivery of EAAC1 to the plasma membrane. C6 glioma expresses syntaxin 4, VAMP2, and SNAP-23 but not syntaxin 1A, VAMP1, or SNAP-25, indicating that SNAP-23-containing SNARE complexes (not syntaxin 1A) are required for constitutive EAAC1 recycling. |
Western blotting of SNARE proteins, co-transfection with dominant-negative SNAP-23, biotinylation surface expression assay, rate-of-delivery assay, Myc-tagged EAAC1 |
Neurochemistry international |
Medium |
16516346
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| 2002 |
Activation of the Gq/11-coupled neurotensin receptor NTS1 rapidly increases EAAC1-mediated aspartate uptake (~70%) in C6 glioma by increasing cell surface expression of EAAC1 via a cytoskeleton-dependent mechanism. Cytochalasin D and colchicine (actin and microtubule disruptors) block this effect, whereas PKC and PI3K inhibitors do not. |
Radiolabeled D-aspartate uptake assay, stable NTS1-expressing C6 glioma, cytoskeletal inhibitors (cytochalasin D, colchicine), PKC and PI3K inhibitor controls |
FEBS letters |
Medium |
12123836
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| 2010 |
In Huntington's disease knock-in neurons, mutant huntingtin causes defective Rab11-dependent recycling endosome trafficking, leading to reduced cell surface levels of EAAC1 and impaired cysteine uptake. Expression of dominant-active Rab11 in HD neurons restores EAAC1 surface expression, cysteine uptake, intracellular glutathione, ROS clearance, and neuronal survival. |
Cell surface biotinylation, cysteine uptake assays, glutathione measurement, ROS assays, dominant-active Rab11 rescue in primary HD neurons from HD140Q/140Q knock-in mice |
The Journal of neuroscience |
High |
20357106
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| 2010 |
Loss of EAAC1 (EAAC1-/- mice) impairs neuronal cysteine uptake, reduces glutathione synthesis, increases cytosolic and vesicular zinc, and exacerbates hippocampal neuronal death after transient cerebral ischemia (~2-fold). N-acetylcysteine treatment restores glutathione, normalizes zinc levels, and reduces ischemia-induced zinc translocation, superoxide production, and neuronal death. |
EAAC1 knockout mouse model, transient cerebral ischemia model, histological neuronal death quantification, zinc fluorescence, superoxide detection, NAC pharmacological rescue |
The Journal of neuroscience |
High |
21084597
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| 2010 |
Loss-of-function mutations R445W and I395del in SLC1A1 impede or abolish glutamate and cysteine transport, and lead to near-absent surface expression in a kidney cell line, causing human dicarboxylic aminoaciduria. This establishes SLC1A1 as the major renal transporter of glutamate and aspartate in humans. |
Transport assays in kidney cell line expressing mutant SLC1A1, surface expression assays, identification of R445W and I395del mutations in human patients with dicarboxylic aminoaciduria |
The Journal of clinical investigation |
High |
21123949
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| 2004 |
SGK1 (serum- and glucocorticoid-inducible kinase 1) co-localizes with EAAT3 in retinal ganglion cells and stimulates EAAT3-mediated glutamate transport when co-expressed in Xenopus oocytes. Constitutively active SGK1 (S422D) and constitutively active PKB stimulate transport, whereas inactive SGK1 (K127N) does not. |
Immunohistochemistry for colocalization, Xenopus oocyte expression with dual electrode voltage clamp, constitutively active and dominant-negative SGK1 and PKB constructs |
Investigative ophthalmology & visual science |
Medium |
15111600
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| 2006 |
EAAC1 has a unique anti-apoptotic function independent of glutamate removal: during apoptotic stimuli, holocytochrome c synthetase (HCCS) translocates from mitochondria and suppresses XIAP (activating caspase-3). The N-terminus of EAAC1 binds HCCS, interfering with the HCCS-XIAP interaction and thereby maintaining XIAP activity and inhibiting caspase-3. This mechanism rescues PC12 cells from NGF deprivation and protects motor neurons from nerve injury. |
Co-immunoprecipitation of EAAC1 N-terminus with HCCS, binding competition assays (HCCS-XIAP interaction), caspase-3 activity assay, PC12 cell and motor neuron rescue experiments |
The EMBO journal |
High |
16858406
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| 2007 |
GTRAP3-18 negatively regulates neuronal glutathione synthesis by interacting with EAAC1 at the plasma membrane, reducing cysteine uptake. Increasing GTRAP3-18 at the plasma membrane (via methyl-β-cyclodextrin) decreases GSH and increases oxidative stress vulnerability; decreasing GTRAP3-18 with antisense oligonucleotides increases GSH. PKC-stimulated EAAC1 activity increase is blocked by elevated surface GTRAP3-18. |
HEK293 cell model, antisense oligonucleotide knockdown, methyl-β-cyclodextrin to increase surface GTRAP3-18, GSH measurement, oxidative stress assays, PKC activation |
Molecular pharmacology |
High |
17646425
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| 2011 |
GTRAP3-18 regulates neuronal glutathione levels in vivo by controlling EAAC1-mediated cysteine uptake. Increased GTRAP3-18 decreases GSH and increases oxidative stress vulnerability in vitro and in vivo; decreased GTRAP3-18 increases GSH levels in vitro and in vivo. |
In vitro cell culture and in vivo (rodent) experiments, GTRAP3-18 protein level manipulation, GSH measurement, oxidative stress vulnerability assays |
Amino acids |
Medium |
21373771
|
| 2008 |
ARL6IP1 indirectly promotes EAAC1-mediated glutamate transport by binding directly to addicsin (GTRAP3-18/Arl6ip5), competing for addicsin binding to EAAC1. The hydrophobic region (aa 103-117) of addicsin is crucial for both Arl6ip1-addicsin heterodimer and addicsin homodimer formation. In the presence of PKC activation, ARL6IP1 overexpression increases EAAC1-mediated transport by increasing glutamate affinity (not Vmax). The addicsin Y110A/L112A mutant (lacking Arl6ip1 binding) abolishes this enhancement. |
Co-immunoprecipitation, alanine mutagenesis of addicsin binding region, glutamate transport assays, kinetic analysis, PKC activation with PMA |
The Journal of biological chemistry |
Medium |
18684713
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| 2012 |
EAAC1 is expressed in neuronal and glial mitochondria where it participates in glutamate-stimulated ATP production. EAAC1 physically interacts with the sodium/calcium exchanger NCX1 in mitochondria; NCX1 activity is essential for EAAC1-mediated glutamate-stimulated ATP synthesis. Antisense knockdown of either EAAC1 or NCX1 abolishes this mitochondrial metabolic response. |
Western blot, confocal microscopy, immunoelectron microscopy, luciferase-luciferin ATP assay, pharmacological blockers, EAAC1 and NCX1 antisense oligonucleotides, co-immunoprecipitation |
PloS one |
Medium |
22479505
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| 2019 |
SorCS2 acts as a sorting receptor that sustains EAAC1/EAAT3 cell surface expression to facilitate cysteine import and glutathione synthesis. Lack of SorCS2 depletes EAAT3 from the plasma membrane, impairs neuronal cysteine uptake, causes oxidative brain damage, and increases neuronal death and mortality during epilepsy in SorCS2-deficient mice. |
SorCS2-knockout mouse model, EAAT3 surface expression assay, cysteine uptake assay, glutathione measurement, oxidative stress and neuronal death quantification in epilepsy model |
Cell reports |
High |
30840898
|
| 2017 |
EAAT3/SLC1A1 loss in the midbrain (but not striatum) reduces dopamine release in the dorsal striatum. Slc1a1-STOP mice show reduced extracellular dopamine, impaired locomotor and stereotypic responses to amphetamine, reduced D1 receptor binding in the dorsal striatum, and diminished OCD-like grooming behavior. Viral restoration of EAAT3 in the midbrain (but not striatum) partially rescues these phenotypes, consistent with a presynaptic dopaminergic role for EAAT3. |
STOP-cassette conditional knockout mouse, amphetamine locomotor and stereotypy assays, in vivo microdialysis for extracellular dopamine, D1 receptor autoradiography, immediate early gene induction assay, viral vector-mediated regional rescue |
PNAS |
High |
28507136
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| 2018 |
Mice with EAAT3 overexpression driven by CaMKIIα promoter (EAAT3glo/CMKII) display increased anxiety-like and repetitive behaviors, greater fear conditioning, and altered NMDA receptor subunit composition and NMDA-dependent synaptic plasticity at corticostriatal synapses. These behavioral effects are reversed by chronic fluoxetine or clomipramine treatment. |
Cre-dependent transgenic overexpression, behavioral assays (anxiety, repetitive behaviors, fear conditioning), electrophysiology at corticostriatal synapses, NMDA subunit biochemical analysis, pharmacological rescue |
Neuropsychopharmacology |
High |
30622300
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| 2001 |
PKC activation by phorbol ester inhibits EAAC1 in Xenopus oocytes by promoting its retrieval from the plasma membrane, reducing Imax with no change in Km. PMA simultaneously decreased membrane capacitance and increased cytosolic EAAC1 accumulation. This effect is PKC-mediated (blocked by PKC inhibitors; inactive 4α-PDD has no effect). Notably, this is opposite to the stimulatory PKC effect seen in C6 glioma cells, demonstrating cell-type specificity of PKC regulation. |
Xenopus oocyte expression system, [3H]L-glutamate uptake, dual electrode voltage clamp, PKC inhibitors, membrane capacitance measurement, EAAC1 protein localization |
Brain research |
Medium |
11578612
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| 2009 |
Wild-type PIP5K2A (phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate 5-kinase IIα) increases EAAT3 transport activity and membrane abundance in Xenopus oocytes and HEK cells. The schizophrenia-associated mutant (N251S)PIP5K2A exerts a dominant inhibitory effect, decreasing EAAT3 membrane abundance and transport activity, even in the presence of wild-type PIP5K2A. |
Xenopus oocyte co-expression, dual electrode voltage clamp, confocal microscopy, chemiluminescence membrane protein quantification in HEK cells |
Psychopharmacology |
Medium |
19644675
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| 2010 |
AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) downregulates EAAT3 (and EAAT4) by reducing their membrane abundance. Constitutively active AMPK (γR70Q) or wild-type AMPK co-expressed with EAAT3 in Xenopus oocytes significantly decreases maximal glutamate-induced current (Ig) without changing Km; inactive AMPK (αK45R) has no effect. |
Xenopus oocyte expression, dual electrode voltage clamp, confocal microscopy for membrane abundance, Western blotting |
Journal of neurochemistry |
Medium |
20218975
|
| 2012 |
mTOR coexpression significantly increases EAAT3 transport activity (glutamate-induced current) and EAAT3 membrane protein abundance in Xenopus oocytes; this effect is reversed by rapamycin (100 nM). The decay of transport current after brefeldin A treatment is similar with and without rapamycin, suggesting mTOR regulates delivery rather than retrieval of EAAT3. |
Xenopus oocyte co-expression, dual electrode voltage clamp, rapamycin pharmacology, brefeldin A carrier insertion block, chemiluminescence for membrane protein quantification |
Biochemical and biophysical research communications |
Medium |
22483750
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| 2013 |
Three alternative SLC1A1/EAAC1 mRNA isoforms (P2 internal promoter transcript, ex2skip lacking exon 2, ex11skip lacking exon 11) all inhibit glutamate uptake by the full-length EAAC1 transporter. Ex2skip and ex11skip isoforms partially colocalize with and physically interact with the full-length EAAC1 protein. |
Isoform cloning, co-immunoprecipitation, colocalization studies, glutamate uptake inhibition assays |
Translational psychiatry |
Medium |
23695234
|
| 1997 |
EAAC1 protein is localized on the luminal (apical) membrane of S2 and S3 segments of proximal renal tubules, consistent with a role as the apical high-affinity glutamate transporter mediating reabsorption of acidic amino acids in the kidney beyond early S1 segments. |
In situ hybridization, immunofluorescence microscopy with anti-EAAC1 antibodies, Western blotting of kidney cortex and medulla fractions |
The American journal of physiology |
Medium |
9435692
|
| 2000 |
EAAC1 is localized perisynaptically (outside the synaptic specialization) in dendritic membranes and cytoplasm of hippocampal neurons, with membrane-associated EAAC1 not intermingled with GluR2 within the synaptic complex. A significant presynaptic pool of EAAC1 also exists. EAAC1 is not at the postsynaptic density but is ideally positioned to regulate perisynaptic and presynaptic glutamate levels. |
Pre-embedding immunoelectron microscopy, post-embedding double-label immunogold localization, EAAC1 vs. GluR2 spatial mapping in rat hippocampus |
The Journal of comparative neurology |
Medium |
10701825
|
| 2020 |
SLC1A1 actively recycles extracellular glutamate into lung cancer cells, which enhances the efficiency of cystine uptake via the cystine/glutamate antiporter Xc- and promotes glutathione biosynthesis. Depletion of SLC1A1 increases extracellular glutamate, inhibits cystine uptake, blocks GSH synthesis, and induces oxidative stress-mediated cell death. This is demonstrated by stable isotope-assisted metabolomics. |
SLC1A1 knockdown and overexpression, stable isotope-assisted metabolomics (cystine and glutamate flux measurement), extracellular glutamate measurement, GSH quantification, cell death assays |
Cancer research |
High |
33229341
|
| 2022 |
SLC1A1, preferentially expressed in vascular endothelial cells, imports oncometabolite R-2-hydroxyglutarate (R-2-HG) from IDH1-mutant tumor microenvironment into endothelial cells and traffics it to mitochondria. R-2-HG via SLC1A1 promotes mitochondrial Na+/Ca2+ exchange, activates the mitochondrial respiratory chain, and fuels endothelial cell migration and tumor angiogenesis. SLC1A1 deficiency in mice abolishes mIDH1-promoted tumor angiogenesis. |
SLC1A1-knockout mice, tumor angiogenesis assays, R-2-HG uptake and subcellular fractionation, mitochondrial respiration assays, Ca2+ and Na+ flux measurements, endothelial migration assays |
Cell research |
High |
35459936
|