L-cysteine influx and efflux in human erythrocytes: the role of red blood cells in redox and metabolite homeostasis in the plasma
dc.contributor.author | Yildiz, D | |
dc.contributor.author | Ates, BH | |
dc.contributor.author | Uslu, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Oztas, H | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-09-18T20:19:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-09-18T20:19:50Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2006 | |
dc.department | Hatay Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | The objective of this study was to investigate L-cysteine influx and efflux in human erythrocytes. L-cysteine is an amino acid required for glutathione synthesis in erythrocytes. In addition to being incorporated into glutathione, the soluble antioxidant L-cysteine plays a role in the maintenance of a proper intracellular or extracellular redox status. Recent investigations have pointed out that L-cysteine may contribute to redox homeostasis in the plasma and in the periplasm of some bacteria. Thus L-cysteine availability in the plasma may influence the oxidized/reduced state of several other metabolites normally found in the plasma. Our L-cysteine uptake studies demonstrated that erythrocytes can respond to an increase in the L-cysteine concentration in the extracellular media and influx L-cysteine in a concentration dependent-manner. The L-cysteine efflux is also time and concentration dependent. Erythrocytes pretreated with higher concentration of L-cysteine displayed higher efflux rates. Erythrocytes pretreated with L-cysteine 1 mM displayed efflux and increased the free-SH concentrations up to 0.184 +/- 0.010 mM in the incubation media in 1 hr. While this concentration reached 0.843 +/- 0.012 mM in 10 mM-L-cysteine pretreated erythrocytes. Our results also showed that the L-cysteine efflux is partly mediated by the Alanine-Serine-Cysteine (ASC) system. The presence of alanine or serine in the incubation media decreased the rate of efflux by about 16%. Our results also showed that the L-cysteine efflux process is not a simple diffusion but a carrier-mediated process. When compared with N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC), which is known to diffuse through the membranes, L-cysteine displayed a higher efflux rate under the same conditions. Pretreatment of erythrocytes with L-cysteine 4 mM increased the free-SH concentration to 0.48 +/- 0.005 mM whereas the same concentration of NAC brought the free-SH concentration to 0.36 +/- 0.01 mM in the incubation media. Our results suggest that erythrocytes may contribute to redox and metabolite homeostasis of the plasma. | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1248/jhs.52.118 | |
dc.identifier.endpage | 123 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1344-9702 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1347-5207 | |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopus | 2-s2.0-33645516721 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopusquality | N/A | en_US |
dc.identifier.startpage | 118 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1248/jhs.52.118 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12483/9895 | |
dc.identifier.volume | 52 | en_US |
dc.identifier.wos | WOS:000237303100004 | en_US |
dc.identifier.wosquality | Q4 | en_US |
dc.indekslendigikaynak | Web of Science | en_US |
dc.indekslendigikaynak | Scopus | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Pharmaceutical Soc Japan | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Health Science | en_US |
dc.relation.publicationcategory | Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı | en_US |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_US |
dc.subject | erythrocytes | en_US |
dc.subject | cysteine efflux | en_US |
dc.subject | redox homeostasis | en_US |
dc.title | L-cysteine influx and efflux in human erythrocytes: the role of red blood cells in redox and metabolite homeostasis in the plasma | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
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