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Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) is associated with reduced placental amino acid transport (AAT). However, it remains to be established if changes in AAT contribute to restricted fetal growth. We hypothesized that reduced in vivo placental AAT precedes the development of IUGR in baboons with maternal nutrient restriction (MNR). Baboons were fed either a control (ad libitum) or MNR diet (70% of control diet) from gestational day (GD) 30. At GD 140, in vivo transplacental AA transport was measured by infusing nine (13)C- or (2)H-labeled essential amino acids (EAAs) as a bolus into the maternal circulation at cesarean section. A fetal vein-to-maternal artery mole percent excess ratio for each EAA was measured. Microvillous plasma membrane (MVM) system A and system L transport activity were determined. Fetal and placental weights were not significantly different between MNR and control. In vivo, the fetal vein-to-maternal artery mole percent excess ratio was significantly decreased for tryptophan in MNR. MVM system A and system L activity was markedly reduced in MNR. Reduction of in vivo placental amino acid transport precedes fetal growth restriction in the non-human primate, suggesting that reduced placental amino acid transfer may contribute to IUGR.

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1. Introduction

Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) affects about 30 million babies each year worldwide and is a significant cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality [1][2][3]. In addition, IUGR is also linked to an increased risk of developing cardiovascular dysfunction, insulin resistance, and other metabolic disorders in adulthood [4][5][6]. In the developed world, the failure of the normal increase in uteroplacental blood flow is believed to be the most common etiology of IUGR. In contrast, maternal undernutrition remains the leading cause of in utero restricted growth [7] in developing regions. Furthermore, more than 50 million Americans live in households experiencing food insecurity or hunger sometime during the year [8]. Therefore, exploring the effects of maternal undernutrition on placental function is highly relevant not only to many parts of the world where inadequate food intake in pregnant women is still a significant concern. Moreover, different etiologies of IUGR are associated with strikingly similar changes in placental signaling and function, including downregulation of insulin/IGF-1 and mTOR signaling and decreased amino acid transport capacity [7][9][10][11][12]. Thus, it is possible that studies of IUGR due to nutrient restriction to mother may also increase our understanding of IUGR due to compromised uteroplacental blood flow.
The syncytiotrophoblast, the transporting epithelium of the human placenta, mediates the transport of nutrients from the maternal to the fetal circulation. The System L amino acid transporter is a sodium-independent exchanger. It mediates cellular uptake of essential amino acids, consists of branched-chain (such as L-leucine) and neutral aromatic amino acids (including L-phenylalanine) [13]. The functional System L transporter is a heterodimer, consisting of a light chain (typically LAT1, SLC7A5 or LAT2, SLC7A8) covalently attached to a heavy chain (4F2hc/CD98; 4F2 cell-surface antigen heavy chain/cluster of differentiation 98, SLC3A2) [14]. Both LAT1 and LAT2 transporters contribute to trophoblast system L transport capacity [15].
System A catalyzes the sodium-dependent net uptake of non-essential neutral amino acids into the cell [16]. All three isoforms of System A (SNAT1, SLC38A1; SNAT2, SLC38A2 and SNAT4, SLC38A4) are expressed in the human placenta. Trophoblast-specific SNAT2 or SNAT4 gene knockout studies indicate that placental system A amino acid transport activity is critical to placental and fetal growth in mice [17]. Furthermore, placental system A and L amino acid transport activity is decreased in human IUGR, suggesting that changes in placental amino acid transport activity may directly contribute to fetal growth restriction [18][19][20][21][22][23]. However, the mechanistic link between changes in placental amino acid transport capacity and the development of IUGR in women is unknown. This information is needed to better understand the pathophysiology of IUGR and future efforts to develop interventions to improve placental function and alleviate restricted fetal growth. Importantly, this question cannot be easily addressed in human pregnancy.
In rats, we demonstrated that maternal protein restriction causes down-regulation of placental amino acid transport several days before fetal size reductions were observed [9][12]. However, the rodent placenta is very different from the human placenta, and it is not entirely clear if this information can be extrapolated to women. Given the striking similarities in placental structure and the close evolutionary relationship to humans, studies using non-human primate models are likely more informative. We have developed a baboon model of 30% global caloric maternal nutrient restriction (MNR), which results in IUGR, reduced fetal circulating levels of essential amino acids, and structural and functional changes in a range of fetal organs [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] and long term increased risk for poor health.
Using this model, we reported that at gestational day (GD) 165, which is approximately 90% of gestation (term~GD 184), MNR was linked to decreased placental amino acid transport and IUGR [11]. Similarly, we demonstrated that System A amino acid transporters activity decreased in isolated syncytiotrophoblast microvillous plasma membranes at GD 120 (~65% of gestation) [34]; at this point in gestation, there was no reduction in fetal size [34]. Here, using control and MNR baboons at GD 140, we tested the hypothesis that decreased in vivo placental amino acid transport precedes the development of IUGR in baboons with MNR (maternal nutrient restriction).

2. Development and Findings

Because of the inaccessibility of the human placenta for detailed functional studies before delivery, we used a well-characterized IUGR model in the baboon involving maternal nutrient restriction to induce fetal growth restriction to test the hypothesis that a reduction in the capacity of the placenta to transport amino acids precedes the development of fetal growth restriction. At GD 140, despite normal fetal growth, we found a robust reduction in the in vitro activity of two critical placental amino acid transporters, system A and L, and a reduction of tryptophan transfer in vivo in the MNR baboon. Studies on sonographic biometric measurements demonstrate that fetal and placental growth in baboons and humans is similar during mid and late gestation [35].
Together with our previous reports on placental amino acid transport in MNR at GD 120 [34] and 165 [36], this data allows us to construct a time course of nutrient transporter activity changes across the second half of pregnancy in response to MNR (Table 2). Our data suggest that down-regulation of placental amino acid transport in response to MNR directly contributes to restricted fetal growth in this maternal nutrition restriction model. Our findings are not consistent with the theory of compensatory up-regulation of placental nutrient transfer to maintain fetal development in response to restricted maternal nutrition [37]. These findings have important implications for our understanding of the pathophysiology of restricted fetal growth and for developing effective intervention strategies in IUGR.
System A transporter activity [22] and SNAT 2 protein expression are reduced in human idiopathic IUGR [18], and MVM System A activity has been reported to be associated with the severity of IUGR [21]. Furthermore, MVM SNAT2 expression is positively correlated with per gram of fetal and placental weight in human IUGR [18][23]. This data suggests that reduced amino acid concentrations [18][36] and decreased system A activity [18][34] in IUGR pregnancy may be due to down-regulated placental SNAT2 expression. These observations in humans are consistent with an essential role for placental System A mediated transport in determining fetal growth trajectories. In the current study, System A activity and SNAT 2 protein expression in MVM was reduced in MNR baboons at GD 140, when fetal growth remained unaffected. A mechanistic link between placental System A mediated amino acid transport and fetal growth is supported by recent studies in mice demonstrating that the trophoblast specific knockdown of System A amino acid transporter isoform is associated with IUGR [17]. Furthermore, MVM and BM system L amino acid transporter activity was reduced in MNR at GD 140, consistent with our previous reports that placental System L activity is decreased in human IUGR placentas [38].
The Fv/M MPE ratio of tryptophan was decreased and positively correlated with birthweight in MNR Baboons at GD140. This data suggested reduced capacity for transplacental transfer of tryptophan in response to MNR. MVM uptake of tryptophan is exclusively mediated via system L transport [39][40], whereas basal plasma membrane transport of tryptophan is mediated by system L and system y+L [40]. It is known that fetal tryptophan depletion impairs fetal cerebral 5-HT synthesis, with negative consequences for brain development [41]. In addition, tryptophan has a vital role in antioxidant activity [42]. It is also necessary for the formation of kynurenic acid, a neuroactive metabolite known to protect from hyperexcitability and anxiety, and an increase in its availability to the fetus is essential [41]. Therefore, reduced transplacental tryptophan transfer may contribute to disrupted neurodevelopment and high rates of aggressive behavior reported in 4-year-old IUGR baboons [43].
The Fv/M MPE enrichment ratio of leucine was positively correlated to the fetal weight in both control and MNR pregnancies. This finding agrees with previous studies demonstrating an impaired leucine flux in human IUGR and that the degree of change in leucine flux was correlated with the clinical severity of IUGR at term [38]. Leucine supplementation has been shown to activate the intracellular mTOR signaling pathways and prevent most growth-related deficits in rats exposed to a low protein diet during pregnancy [44]. Furthermore, the Fv/M MPE ratios for isoleucine, methionine, and histidine were positively correlated to fetal weight in MNR pregnancies, showing that the reduced MVM system A and system L activity contributes to decreased transplacental amino acid transport, which may lead to reduced amino acid concentrations in the fetal circulation. However, we did not find a decrease in Fv/M MPE enrichment ratio of most essential amino acids (except for tryptophan) in MNR despite significant changes in in vitro activity of MVM System A and L transport at GD140. The mechanisms underpinning this discrepancy may include decreased placental utilization of amino acids mediated by decreased placental protein synthesis and/or amino acid metabolism in MNR at GD 140, which may maintain in vivo transplacental transport even when transport capacity per membrane area (as measured in vitro) is reduced.
Maternal and fetal total amino acid concentrations were not measured in the current study. However, we have previously reported maternal and fetal amino acid concentrations in this model at GD 120 [34] and GD 165 [11]. These data show that at GD 120, the fetal and maternal amino acid concentrations are strikingly similar between the control and MNR groups, with no significant differences in maternal concentrations between groups. In addition, the levels of only two amino acids (leucine and isoleucine) were lower in the fetal plasma of MNR animals at GD 120. Similarly, at GD 165, the levels of only a few amino acids are lower in the maternal and fetal circulations, respectively. Because GD 120 and 140 have unaffected fetal growth in common, we suggest that it is likely that maternal and fetal amino acid concentrations at GD 140 are also similar between the control and MNR groups. Under these circumstances, relative differences in Fv/M MPE between the control and MNR groups provide information on the placental amino acid transfer.
The data presented in the current study, together with our previous reports on placental amino acid transport in the MNR baboon at GD120 [34] and GD 165 [36], allows us to construct a time course of changes in nutrient transporter activity across the second half of pregnancy in response to MNR in non-human primates (Table 1). In addition, this data addresses the question of cause-and-effect because although fetal weights were not significantly reduced until GD 165, MVM System A activity was decreased in response to MNR already at GD120, before decreased fetal weights were apparent. Moreover, at GD 140, with fetal weight unaffected, both MVM System A and L activity were lower in MNR placentas. This pattern of change in placental amino acid transport function across the third trimester in relation to the effect of MNR on fetal weights is consistent with the model that down-regulation of placental amino acid transport in response to MNR directly contributes to the restricted fetal growth.
Table 1. Comparison of significant changes in the fetal and placental weights, MVM and BM system A/L amino acid transport activity and isoform expression, maternal, fetal amino acid concentration, and in vivo transplacental amnio acid transport activity in MNR baboons as compared to control at different gestation ages.
Parameters Gestation Day 120 Gestation Day 140 Gestation Day 165
Reference [34] Current study [11][36]
Fetal weight ⬌ ⬌ ↓
Placental weight ⬌ ⬌ ↓
MVM System A activity ↓ ↓ ↓
MVM System A amino acid transporter isoforms (SNAT1,2 and 4) expression ⬌ ↓SNAT2 ↓SNAT2; ⬌ SNAT1, SNAT4
MVM System L activity ⬌ ↓ ↓
MVM System L amino acid transporter isoforms expression (LAT1 and 2) ⬌ ↓LAT1 ↓LAT1 and LAT2
MVM Taurine transporter expression ⬌ ⬌ ↓
BM System L activity ⬌ ↓ ↓
BM System L amino acid transporter LAT1 isoform expression ⬌ Not studied Not studied
Maternal plasma concentration of amino acids ⬌ Not studied ↓Aspartic acid, glutamic acid, tyrosine, tryptophan, phenylalanine, leucine, and ornithine; ↑Glycine
Fetal plasma concentration of amino acids ↓ Leucine and isoleucine.
↑Citrulline		 Not studied ↓Taurine, tyrosine, phenylalanine, leucine, and ornithine
In vivo transplacental amino acid transport Not studied ↓Tryptophan ↓Leucine, isoleucine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, and tryptophan
Establishing the time course of changes in placental amino acid transport across the last third of gestation will also allow us to identify compensatory changes in placental acid transport function that may occur in response to MNR. However, at no stage of late gestation could a compensatory up-regulation of placental System A and L amino acid transporter activity be observed (Table 1). A timeline graph showing fetal growth curves of mouse and human pregnancy describes how the current study time point corresponds to human and mice pregnancy (Figure 1).
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Figure 1. A timeline graph showing fetal growth curves for mice, baboons, and humans.
Similarly, the MVM protein expression of GLUT 1, the primary placental glucose transporter in primates, and the taurine transporter were unaffected by MNR at GD 140 in the current study. Thus, although the effect of maternal undernutrition on placental function in animal models appears to depend on the species under investigation and the timing, duration, type, and degree of nutrient restriction [45], these findings are in general agreement with studies of calorie restriction in rats [46][47][48][49]. Similarly, in protein-restricted pregnant rats, a down-regulation of placental amino acid transport preceded IUGR by several days without evidence of compensatory up-regulation [9][12].
In some studies in mice, evidence for compensatory up-regulation of placental nutrient transporters in response to maternal undernutrition [50][51][52] has been reported. The current study suggests that placental nutrient transport in response to maternal nutrient deprivation is regulated differently in the non-human primate compared to the mouse. As discussed elsewhere [45], the distinct placental responses to maternal under-nutrition in the mouse as compared to the rat and the non-human primate may reflect actual species differences, differences in feeding paradigms, or methodology to measure placental transporter activity. These studies in the mouse have led to the proposal that fetal demand signals promote compensatory placental changes, such as up-regulation of placental amino acid transporters, in response to maternal undernutrition. However, although compensatory upregulation prior to GD 120 cannot be excluded, this model is not supported by our data in the baboon.
The small sample size, typical for non-human primates studies, limits our ability to perform more sophisticated statistical analyses and precludes detailed analyses of possible sex differences. Another limitation of our study is that the total concentrations of individual amino acids in the maternal and fetal circulations have not been measured.

3. Conclusions

We report that reducing placental amino acid transport precedes the development of fetal growth restriction in an established baboon model with extensive similarities to the human IUGR. Therefore, maternal supplementation with amino acids could be an option to increase fetal growth in IUGR pregnancies. However, it is essential to thoroughly understand the mechanisms of transplacental transport of amino acids and the impact of individual amino acids on placental metabolism and fetal growth before designing treatments for IUGR. This study represents the first step in understanding transplacental amino acid flux in IUGR in a non-human primate model, which shows extensive similarities to the human IUGR.

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