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Unilamellar liposomes with native phospholipid fatty acid composition were prepared from rat liver mitochondrial inner membrane
phospholipids by extrusion in medium containing 50 mm potassium. They were diluted into low potassium medium to establish a transmembrane potassium gradient. A known membrane
potential was imposed by addition of valinomycin, and proton flux into liposomes was measured. Valinomycin in the range 10
pm–1nm was sufficient to fully establish membrane potential. Valinomycin concentrations above 3 nm catalyzed additional proton flux and were avoided. At 300 pm valinomycin, proton flux depended nonlinearly on membrane potential. At 160 mV membrane potential the flux was 30 nmol H+/min/mg phospholipid—approximately 5% of the proton leak flux under comparable conditions in isolated mitochondria, indicating
that leak pathways through bulk phospholipid bilayer account for only a small proportion of total mitochondrial proton leak.
Received: 5 August 1996/Revised: 1 October 1996 相似文献
2.
Abstract
Ferulic and syringic acids are methoxylated aromatic compounds that often serve as models of the subunits of lignin. Although
these compounds have important implications for global carbon cycles, there is limited information on their fate in anoxic
environments. Enrichment cultures were established on these two model compounds under methanogenic, sulfidogenic, and denitrifying
conditions, using a Raritan River (New Jersey) marsh sediment as the inoculum. All cultures completely degraded ∼1.5 mm of both substrates. Methane production in the methanogenic cultures corresponded to the stoichiometric values expected for
complete mineralization to CO2 and CH4. Sulfate and nitrate reduction in their respective cultures were both greater than 60% of the amounts predicted for complete
mineralization. Aromatic intermediates of ferulic and syringic acid metabolism were identified, and pathways of degradation
under sulfidogenic and denitrifying conditions are proposed. Syringic acid is sequentially O-demethylated to gallic acid under
both sulfate and nitrate-reducing conditions before ring cleavage occurs. Ferulic acid undergoes propenoate side chain reduction,
O-demethylation, removal of an acetate moiety from the side chain, and decarboxylation to form catechol. Catechol is further
degraded under sulfidogenic conditions. Under denitrifying conditions, ferulic acid undergoes loss of an acetate moiety, prior
to O-demethylation, to form protocatechuic acid, the last product detected before ring cleavage.
Received: 23 February 1996; Revised: 20 May 1996; Accepted: 24 May 1996 相似文献
3.
Mouse liver microsomes treated with octylthioglucoside (OTG-microsomes) were examined for copper-stimulated ATPase activity.
The activity was about 1 μmol Pi/mg protein/hr under optimal conditions [300 mm KCl, 3 mm MgSO4, 10 mm GSH, 0.5 μm CuSO4, 3 mm ATP and 50 mm acetate buffer at pH5.0]. A reducing agent such as GSH or dithiothreitol was required for the activity, and removal of Cu+ from the reaction mixture by bathocuporinedisulfonate resulted in a complete loss of copper-stimulated ATPase activity. Vanadate
inhibited the copper-stimulated ATPase activity. The OTG-microsomes were phosphorylated in a hydroxylamine-sensitive and copper-stimulated
way. Iron used instead of copper also stimulated both ATPase and phosphorylation. These results suggest that microsomes from
mouse liver contain copper/iron-stimulated P-type ATPase.
Received: 2 September 1998/Revised: 16 March 1999 相似文献
4.
The relationship between the inhibition of DT diaphorase [NAD(P)H dehydrogenase (quinone): EC.1.6.99.2] by 4-hydroxycoumarin and the 1,3-indandione derivates was investigated. Evidence is presented that these two classes of anticoagulants, although both acting as competitive inhibitors with respect to NAD(P)H, bind to different sites of the enzyme in a synergistic fashion. These findings are interpreted as indicative of a cooperativity between different substrate-binding sites of the enzyme.Neutral phospholipids exert effects on partially purified rat-liver DT diaphorase similar to those earlier obtained with nonionic detergents. The effects concern several kinetic parameters of the enzyme, including V, Km for electron donor and acceptor, and Ki for various inhibitors. The changes in the kinetic parameters vary in extent and direction according to the individual phospholipids. 相似文献
5.
Using 5% ethanol as a deciliating agent, 20 mm colchicine to prevent reciliation and 1 mm amiloride to affect ion fluxes in Paramecium we examined the compartmentation and function of Ca2+ fluxes employing the biosynthesis of cGMP and the stereotypic swimming behavior as indicators for Ca2+ entry. As a function of extracellular Ca2+
Paramecia responded to colchicine and amiloride with a short-lived ciliary augmentation (fast swimming) which indicated hyperpolarization,
and formation of cGMP, i.e., the reported hyperpolarization-activated Ca2+ inward current in the somatic membrane is coupled to intracellular generation of cGMP. This is comparable to the coupling
of the depolarization-activated, ciliary Ca2+ inward current and ciliary cGMP formation.
Ethanol-deciliated cells and ethanol-treated, yet ciliated control cells did not respond to a depolarization with backward
swimming or formation of cGMP. Both responses recovered with similar kinetics. A persistent effect of an ethanol exposure
on the axonemal apparatus or on guanylyl cyclase activity of ciliated control cells was excluded using permeabilized cells
and cell-free enzyme, respectively. Further, in the presence of 20 mm colchicine ethanol-treated cells only recovered the depolarization-dependent avoiding reaction whereas the formation of cGMP
remained depressed, i.e., the drug dissected both responses. Similarly, ethanol exposure of Paramecia did not affect the fast swimming response towards the hyperpolarizing agent amiloride whereas the cGMP formation was abrogated
and recovered over a period of 7 hr, i.e., amiloride dissected the hyperpolarization-elicited behavioral response from the
intracellular cGMP formation.
The data demonstrate that in Paramecium depolarization- and hyperpolarization-stimulated behavioral responses and cGMP formation are not coupled. The behavioral
changes are triggered by smaller Ca2+ inward currents than the formation of intracellular cGMP.
Received: 8 August 1996/Revised: 15 November 1996 相似文献
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A.E. Alekseev L.A. Gomez L.A. Aleksandrova P.A. Brady A. Terzic 《The Journal of membrane biology》1997,157(2):203-214
Opening of ATP-sensitive K+ (KATP) channels by the uncoupler of oxidative phosphorylation, 2,4 dinitrophenol (DNP), has been assumed to be secondary to metabolic
inhibition and reduced intracellular ATP levels. Herein, we present data which show that DNP (200 μm) can induce opening of cardiac KATP channels, under whole-cell and inside-out conditions, despite millimolar concentrations of ATP (1–2.5 mm). DNP-induced currents had a single channel conductance (71 pS), inward rectification, reversal potential, and intraburst
kinetic properties (open time constant, τopen: 4.8 msec; fast closed time constant, τclosed(f): 0.33 msec) characteristic of KATP channels suggesting that DNP did not affect the pore region of the channel, but may have altered the functional coupling
of the ATP-dependent channel gating. A DNP analogue, with the pH-titrable hydroxyl replaced by a methyl group, could not open
KATP channels. The pH-dependence of the effect of DNP on channel opening under whole-cell, cell-attached, and inside-out conditions
suggested that transfer of protonated DNP across the sarcolemma is essential for activation of KATP channels in the presence of ATP. We conclude that the use of DNP for metabolic stress-induced KATP channel opening should be reevaluated.
Received: 10 September 1996/Revised: 27 December 1996 相似文献
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The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is a cAMP-activated, ATP-dependent chloride channel which
may have additional functions. Recent reports that CFTR mediates substantial electrodiffusion of ATP from epithelial cells
have led to the proposal that CFTR regulates other ion channels through an autocrine mechanism involving ATP. The aim of this
study was to determine the ATP conductance of wild-type CFTR channels stably expressed in Chinese hamster ovary cells using
patch clamp techniques. In the cell-attached configuration with 100 mm Mg · ATP or Tris · ATP solution in the pipette and 140 mm NaCl in the bath, exposing cells to forskolin caused the activation of a low-conductance channel having kinetics resembling
those of CFTR. Single channel currents were negative at the resting membrane potential (V
m
), consistent with net diffusion of Cl from the cell into the pipette. The transitions decreased in amplitude, but did not
reverse direction, as V
m
was clamped at increasingly positive potentials to enhance the driving force for inward ATP flow (>+80 mV). In excised patches,
single channel currents did not reverse under essentially biionic conditions (Clin/ATPout or ATPin/Clout), although PKA-activated currents were clearly visible in the same patches at voltages where they would be carried by chloride
ions. Moreover, with NaCl solution in the bath and a mixture of ATP and Cl in the pipette, the single channel I/V curve reversed at the predicted equilibrium potential for chloride. CFTR channel currents disappeared when patches were exposed
to symmetrical ATP solutions and were restored by reexposure to Cl solution. Finally, in the whole-cell configuration with
NaCl in the bath and 100 mm MgATP or TrisATP in the pipette, cAMP-stimulated cells had time-independent, outwardly rectifying currents consistent with
CFTR selectivity for external Cl over internal ATP. Whole-cell currents reversed near V
m
=−55 mV under these conditions, however the whole cell resistance measured at −100 mV was comparable to that of the gigaohm
seal between the plasma membrane and glass pipette (7 GΩ). We conclude that CFTR does not mediate detectable electrodiffusion
of ATP.
Received: 8 November 1995/Revised: 23 January 1996 相似文献
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The dependence of currents through the cyclic nucleotide-gated (CNG) channels of mammalian olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs)
on the concentration of NaCl was studied in excised inside-out patches from their dendritic knobs using the patch-clamp technique.
With a saturating concentration (100 μm) of adenosine 3′, 5′-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP), the changes in the reversal potential of macroscopic currents were studied
at NaCl concentrations from 25 to 300 mm. In symmetrical NaCl solutions without the addition of divalent cations, the current-voltage relations were almost linear,
reversing close to 0 mV. When the external NaCl concentration was maintained at 150 mm and the internal concentrations were varied, the reversal potentials of the cAMP-activated currents closely followed the
Na+ equilibrium potential indicating that P
Cl/P
Na≈ 0. However, at low external NaCl concentrations (≤100 mm) there was some significant chloride permeability. Our results further indicated that Na+ currents through these channels: (i) did not obey the independence principle; (ii) showed saturation kinetics with K
ms in the range of 100–150 mm and (iii) displayed a lack of voltage dependence of conductance in asymmetric solutions that suggested that ion-binding sites
were situated midway along the channel. Together, these characteristics indicate that the permeation properties of the olfactory
CNG channels are significantly different from those of photoreceptor CNG channels.
Received: 7 November 1996/Revised: 24 March 1997 相似文献
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A highly purified reconstituted system isolated from the microsomes of 3-methylcholanthrene-treated rats consisting of cytochrome P-448, NADPH-cytochrome reductase and synthetic dilauroyl phosphatidylcholine had no DT diaphorase activity, but hydroxylated benzo[a]pyrene at a faster rate than microsomes from 3-methylcholanthrene-treated rats. DT diaphorase purified from liver microsomes of 3-methylcholanthrene-treated rats when added to this reconstituted system did not stimulate or inhibit benzo[a]pyrene hydroxylation, nor could it replace or NADPH-cytochrome reductase in supporting the reaction. We therefore conclude that microsomal DT diaphorase is not involved in microsomal hydroxylation of benzo[a]pyrene to its phenolic products despite the observation that both DT diaphorase activity and the hydroxylation of benzo[a]pyrene are induced by 3-methylcholanthrene and 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo--dioxin 相似文献
10.
Two immunologically different DT diaphorases were isolated on an affinity column containing Dicumarol as ligand from the cytosol fraction of rat liver. With a specific antiserum raised in rabbits against the DT diaphorase fraction eluted from the column, the two DT diaphorases were shown with immunodiffusion methods to be present in the microsomal and mitochondrial as well as in the cytosol fraction of rat liver. The NAD(P)H oxidizing activity in the immunoprecipitates containing the two DT diaphorases was found to be inhibited by 10?4m Dicumarol but not by 10?3m 2-pivaloyl-1,3-indandione or warfarin. With the anti-DT diaphorase antiserum the two DT diaphorases were also demonstrated to be present in other organs but with a somewhat different distribution. One of them appeared predominantly in kidney and heart and the other in lung, brain, testis, and spleen. The latter DT diaphorase was also found to be retained in four 3-methylcholanthrene-induced rat hepatomas. These findings indicate different physiological functions for the two DT diaphorases which at present are unknown. 相似文献
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Extremophiles are microorganisms that thrive under extreme conditions such as temperatures above 65°C, pHs below 4 or above 10, salt concentrations above 0.5 m, or pressures of 600 atm. While studies of enzymes either isolated from extremophiles, or generated using site-specific mutagenesis, or adapted by in vivo or in vitro selection have established a precedent for the engineering and application of proteins at extreme conditions, generalization of the approaches to more complex multimolecular or multitask systems has remained elusive. Here we demonstrate that a significantly more complex system—a bacteriophage—can over a number of generations be adapted to tolerate a hostile and unnatural environment. An in vitro selection strategy was used to adapt phage to urea, a protein denaturing agent. As the concentration of urea employed in selections over 20 generations was gradually increased from 5 to 9 m, the surviving phages steadily improved their tolerance, finally achieving a greater than 350-fold stability enhancement over the original population.Correspondence to: J. Yin 相似文献
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J.D. Kibble S.L. Greenwood L.H. Clarson C.P. Sibley 《The Journal of membrane biology》1996,151(2):131-138
Whole-cell patch clamp experiments were performed on cultured human cytotrophoblast cells incubated for 24–48 hr after their
isolation from term placentas. Cl−-selective currents were examined using K+-free solutions. Under nonstimulated conditions, most cells initially expressed only small background leak currents. However,
inclusion of 0.2 mm GTPγS in the electrode solution caused activation of an outwardly rectifying conductance which showed marked time-dependent
activation at depolarized potentials above +20 mV. Stimulation of this conductance by GTPγS was found to be Ca2+-dependent since GTPγS failed to activate currents when included in a Ca2+-free electrode solution. In addition, similar currents could be activated by increasing the [Ca2+] of the pipette solution to 500 nm. The Ca2+-activated conductance was judged to be Cl−-selective, since reversal potentials were predicted by Nernst equilibrium potentials for Cl−. This conductance could also be reversibly inhibited by addition of the anion channel blocker DIDS to the bath solution at
a dose of 100 μm. Preliminary experiments indicated the presence of a second whole-cell anion conductance in human cytotrophoblast cells,
which may be activated by cell swelling. Possible roles for the Ca2+-activated Cl− conductance in human placental trophoblast are discussed.
Received: 9 November 1995/Revised: 18 January 1996 相似文献
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C. H. S. Carvalho N. Bohorova P. N. Bordallo L. L. Abreu F. H. Valicente W. Bressan E. Paiva 《Plant cell reports》1997,17(1):73-76
A total of 113 maize inbreds adapted to tropical conditions were evaluated for their tissue culture response. Additionally,
four media combinations of 15 or 30 μm dicamba with or without 88 μm AgNO3 were used to study the effect of dicamba and AgNO3 on type II callus production and plant regeneration from 42 of the inbred lines. Inbreds 48, 389 and 1345 of the populations
BR 105, BR 112, and Catete, respectively, showed a high capacity for type II callus production and plant regeneration. The
production of type II calli increased significantly when the concentration of dicamba was changed from 15 to 30 μm and when AgNO3 was added to the medium. A synergistic effect between 88 μm AgNO3 and 30 μm dicamba (CM-30Ag medium) was observed, leading to additional production of type II callus. Medium CM-30Ag allowed the best
tissue culture performance and plant regeneration capacity.
Received: 5 October 1996 / Revision received: 21 April 1997 / Accepted: 9 May 1997 相似文献
14.
M.G. Leonardi P. Parenti M. Casartelli B. Giordana 《The Journal of membrane biology》1997,159(3):209-217
The mechanical properties of brush border membrane vesicles, BBMV, from rabbit kidney proximal tubule cells, were studied
by measuring the initial and final equilibrium volumes of vesicles subjected to different osmotic shocks, using cellobiose
as the impermeant solute in the preparation buffer.
An elevated intracellular hydrostatic pressure was inferred from osmotic balance requirements in dilute solutions. For vesicles
prepared in 18 and 85 mosm solutions, these pressures are close to 17 mosm (290 mm Hg). The corresponding membrane surface tension is 6.0 × 10−5 N cm−1 while the membrane surface area is expanded by at least 2.2%. When these vesicles are exposed to very dilute solutions the
internal hydrostatic pressure rises to an estimated 84 mosm (1444 mm Hg) just prior to lysis. The corresponding maximal surface tension (pre-lysis) is 18.7 × 10−5 N cm−1, and the maximal expansion of membrane area is 6.8%. The calculated area compressibility elastic modulus was 2.8 × 10−3 N cm−1.
Received: 8 August 1996/Revised: 4 March 1997 相似文献
15.
The mutagenic effect of 0.05m and 1m HA onMycobacterium phlei PA was investigated. To establish the mutagenic effect the inactivating effect was studied under the same experimental conditions.
Hydroxylamine at a higher concentration (1m) exhibited relatively high mutagenic effect. This was indicated by about 100-fold and 10-fold higher frequency of INHr and STMr mutants, respectively (as compared with spontaneous mutations) and induction of auxotrophic mutants. On the other hand, the
mutagenic effect of 0.05m hydroxylamine was low under the same experimental conditions.
The inactivating effect of a higher HA concentration (1m under given experimental conditions) was considerably higher when using the given model microorganism than that of the lower
one (0.05m under the same experimental conditions). This finding does not agree with literature data obtained in other experimental
models. 相似文献
16.
High-frequency conversion of abnormal peanut somatic embryos 总被引:17,自引:0,他引:17
Peanuts (Arachis hypogaea L.) are widely cultivated as a rich source of protein and oil. Although protocols for the regeneration of peanut via somatic
embryogenesis and organogenesis have been developed, most of them have resulted in low frequencies of plant recovery. In this
report, we describe a protocol for plantlet formation at high frequency from somatic embryos. Morphologically abnormal somatic
embryos germinated and produced roots only in medium devoid of growth regulators. Shoots emerged from the undeveloped plumule
of these rooted embryos in medium containing both 6-benzyladenine (BA) and kinetin (KN), or in medium with thidiazuron (TDZ)
alone. In Murashige and Skoog basal medium supplemented with 8.9 μm BA and 14 μm KN, 86% of the embryos developed shoots. Substitution of BA and KN with 22.7 μm TDZ increased plant recovery from 86% to 92%. Plants grown on TDZ had multiple shoots. Eighty-four percent of these plants
survived in sandy soil and were grown to maturity.
Received: 12 February 1996 / Revision received: 11 July 1996 / Accepted 30 April 1997 相似文献
17.
We here report on studies on the frog skin epithelium to identify the nature of its excretory H+ pump by comparing transport studies, using inhibitors highly specific for V-ATPases, with results from immunocytochemistry
using V-ATPase-directed antibodies. Bafilomycin A1 (10 μm) blocked H+ excretion (69 ± 8% inhibition) and therefore Na+ absorption (61 ± 17% inhibition after 60 min application, n= 6) in open-circuited skins bathed on their apical side with a 1 mm Na2SO4 solution, ``low-Na+ conditions' under which H+ and Na+ fluxes are coupled 1:1. The electrogenic outward H+ current measured in absence of Na+ transport (in the presence of 50 μm amiloride) was also blocked by 10 μm bafilomycin A1 or 5 μm concanamycin A. In contrast, no effects were found on the large and dominant Na+ transport (short-circuit current), which develops with apical solutions containing 115 mm Na+ (``high-Na+ conditions'), demonstrating a specific action on H+ transport. In immunocytochemistry, V-ATPase-like immunoreactivity to the monoclonal antibody E11 directed to the 31-kDa subunit
E of the bovine renal V-ATPase was localized only in mitochondria-rich cells (i) in their apical region which corresponds
to apical plasma membrane infoldings, and (ii) intracellularly in their neck region and apically around the nucleus. In membrane
extracts of the isolated frog skin epithelium, the selectivity of the antibody binding was tested with immunoblots. The antibody
labeled exclusively a band of about 31 kDa, very likely the corresponding subunit E of the frog V-ATPase. Our investigations
now deliver conclusive evidence that H+ excretion is mediated by a V-ATPase being the electrogenic H+ pump in frog skin.
Received: 21 May 1996/Revised: 24 December 1996 相似文献
18.
In conventional electrooptic studies the sample ionic strength must for technical reasons be kept below about 3 mm, which is only 2% of the ionic strength at physiological conditions. In particular for flexible polyelectrolytic macromolecules
it can in general not be ruled out that both the conformational average and dynamics at ionic strength 3 mm and below may differ significantly from what it is at physiological conditions. Here we report on the first electrooptic
study of human erythroid spectrin dimers and tetramers at ionic strengths higher than 3 mm. All measurements in this study were carried out at both ionic strength 4 mm (2.5 mm HEPES + 1 mm NaCl) and 53 mm (2.5 mm HEPES + 50 mm NaCl). Spectrin tetramers were studied only at 4°C whereas the dimers were studied at both 4 °C and 37°C. At 4°C there is
a striking quantitative similarity between the transient electric birefringence (TEB) of spectrin dimers and tetramers. Also,
the TEB of spectrin dimers at 37°C was very similar to the results at 4°C. The contour length and the molecular weight of
spectrin dimers and tetramers are known. The dominating TEB relaxation time is in all cases only a fraction of what is predicted
theoretically if the spectrin dimers and tetramers are assumed to be stiff and extended molecules. In sum, the new TEB data
constitute strong electrooptic evidence confirming that spectrin dimers and tetramers have a highly flexible structure, and
demonstrate for the first time that a major part of the intrachain dynamics of the spectrin is quite insensitive to an increase
of the ionic strength from 4 mm to 53 mm. Use of the reversing electric field pulse technique for all conditions studied yields TEB data suggesting that the orientation
of both spectrin dimers and tetramers in an electric field is dominated by a permanent rather than an induced electric dipole
moment.
Received: 26 August 1998 / Revised version: 8 February 1999 / Accepted: 11 February 1999 相似文献
19.
Co-localization of nitric oxide synthase immunoreactivity and NADPH diaphorase staining in neurons of the guinea-pig intestine 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
H. M. Young J. B. Furness C. W. R. Shuttleworth D. S. Bredt S. H. Snyder 《Histochemistry and cell biology》1992,97(4):375-378
Summary Neuronal nitric oxide synthase (NOS), an enzyme capable of synthesizing nitric oxide, appears to be identical to neuronal NADPH diaphorase. The correlation was examined between NOS immunoreactivity and NADPH diaphorase staining in neurons of the ileum and colon of the guinea-pig. There was a one-to-one correlation between NOS immunoreactivity and NADPH diaphorase staining in all neurons examined; even the relative staining intensities obtained were similar with each technique. To determine whether pharmacological methods could be employed to demonstrate that NADPH diaphorase staining was due to the presence of NOS, tissue was pre-treated with NG-nitro-l-arginine, a NOS inhibitor, or l-arginine, a natural substrate of NOS. In these experiments on unfixed tissue, it was necessary to use dimethyl thiazolyl tetrazolium instead of nitroblue tetrazolium as the substrate for the NADPH diaphorase histochemical reaction. Neither treatment caused a significant decrease in the level of NADPH diaphorase staining, implying that arginine and NADPH interact at different sites on the enzyme. 相似文献
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Summary The order and stoichiometry of the binding of phlorizin and sodium to the renal brush-border membraned-glucose transporter are studied. The experimental results are consistent with a random-binding sites is one-to-one. When the kinetics of phlorizin binding are measured as a function of increasing sodium concentration no significant variation is found in the apparent number of binding sites; however, the apparent binding constant for phlorizin decreases rapidly from approximately 16 m at [Na]=0 to 0.1 m at [Na]=100mm and approaches 0.05 m as [Na]. The experimental data are fit to a random carrier-type model of the coupled transport of sodium andd-glucose. A complete parameterization of the phlorizin binding properties of this model under sodium equilibrium conditions is given. 相似文献