Insulin stimulates β-alanine uptake in skeletal muscle cells in vitro

Lívia Santos, L. S. Gonçalves, Shirin Bagheri-Hanei, Gabriella Berwig Möller, Craig Sale, Ruth M. James, Guilherme Giannini Artioli*

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Abstract

We evaluated whether insulin could stimulate β-alanine uptake by skeletal muscle cells in vitro. Mouse myoblasts (C2C12) (n = 3 wells per condition) were cultured with β-alanine (350 or 700 µmol·L−1), with insulin (100 µU·mL−1) either added to the media or not. Insulin stimulated the β-alanine uptake at the lower (350 µmol·L−1) but not higher (700 µmol·L−1) β-alanine concentration in culture medium, indicating that transporter saturation might blunt the stimulatory effects of insulin.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1763-1766
Number of pages4
JournalAmino Acids
Volume53
Issue number11
Early online date21 Oct 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2021

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
L.S.G: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES); G.G.A: São Paulo Research Foundation—FAPESP (#2014/11948-8; 2019/25032-9). This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior—Brasil (CAPES-Finance Code 001).

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Keywords

  • Carnosine
  • Insulin
  • Taurine transporter
  • β-alanine

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