China Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine ›› 2019, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (9): 2516-2525.doi: 10.16431/j.cnki.1671-7236.2019.09.003

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SNAT2: A Key Mediator for Methionine to Regulate Proliferation and Autophagy in Bovine Mammary Epithelial Cells

QI Hao, MENG Chunyu, GAO Xuejun, ZHEN Zhen   

  1. Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biological Functional Gene of Heilongjiang Province, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
  • Received:2019-01-18 Online:2019-09-20 Published:2019-09-21

Abstract: The sodium-dependent neutral amino acid transporter 2 (SNAT2) is an amino acid transporter which can transport neutral amino acids and is widely distributed in various cells.Amino acids is not only substrates for protein synthesis,but also key signal molecules regulating cell metabolism.However,it is little known whether SNAT2 mediates the regulation of amino acids on autophagy.In this study,CASY cell count and Western blotting were used to determine the proliferation of BMECs after SNAT2 overexpression and siRNA interference.The effects of SNAT2 on the expression of autophagic biomarker LC3-Ⅱ was detected by Western blotting and the change of autophagic spots (LC3-Ⅱ) in cells was determined by immunofluorescence.The results showed that SNAT2 overexpression increased the expression levels of p-PI3K,p-mTOR and cyclin D1,whereas SNAT2 knockdown had the opposite effects.Furthermore,the expression of LC3-Ⅱ and the autophagy spots were both increased in SNAT2-downregulated cells.The p-mTOR expression was increased and LC3-Ⅱ was decreased in cells treated with the autophagy enhancer trehalose dihydrate (Tre) together with methionine (Met) compared with the control (cells treated with Tre).The expression of p-mTOR was decreased and LC3-Ⅱ was increased in cells treated with Tre together with Met addition and transfected with a SNAT2 siRNA compared with the control (cells treated with Tre and Met).In conclusion,these data demonstrated that SNAT2 mediated the regulation of Met on proliferation of and autophagy in BMECs via PI3K-mTOR/Cyclin D1 signaling pathway.

Key words: SNAT2; BMECs; mTOR; proliferation; autophagy

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