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Histamine is an important chemical messenger that regulates multiple physiological processes in both vertebrate and invertebrate animals. Even so, how glial cells and neurons recycle histamine remains to be elucidated.  Drosophila  photoreceptor neurons use histamine as a neurotransmitter, and the released histamine is recycled through neighboring glia, where it is conjugated to β-alanine to form carcinine. However, how carcinine is then returned to the photoreceptor remains unclear. In an mRNA-seq screen for photoreceptor cell-enriched transporters, we identified CG9317, an SLC22 transporter family protein, and named it CarT ( Car cinine  T ransporter). S2 cells that express CarT are able to take up carcinine  in vitro . In the compound eye, CarT is exclusively localized to photoreceptor terminals. Null mutations of  cart  alter the content of histamine and its metabolites. Moreover, null  cart  mutants are defective in photoreceptor synaptic transmission and lack phototaxis. These findings reveal that CarT is required for histamine recycling at histaminergic photoreceptors and provide evidence for a CarT-dependent neurotransmitter trafficking pathway between glial cells and photoreceptor terminals.

Histamine Recycling Is Mediated by CarT, a Carcinine Transporter in Drosophila Photoreceptors