Glucose transporters in chromaffin cells: subcellular distribution and characterization |
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Authors: | E G Delicado M Torres M T Miras-Portugal |
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Affiliation: | Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. |
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Abstract: | The glucose transporter was identified and characterized by cytochalasin B binding in subcellular membrane fractions of chromaffin tissue. The binding was saturable with Kd of about 0.3 microM for each subcellular fraction. The Bmax capacity was 12-16 pmol/mg protein for enriched plasma membrane fractions, 6.3 pmol/mg protein for microsomal membrane preparations and 5.4 pmol/mg protein for chromaffin granule membranes. Irreversible photoaffinity labelling of the glucose-protectable binding sites with [3H]cytochalasin B followed by solubilization and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis from enriched plasma membrane preparations demonstrated the presence of three molecular species: 97 +/- 10, 51.5 +/- 6 and 30 +/- 4 kDa. The chromaffin granule membranes showed only a molecular species of 80 +/- 10 kDa. |
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