Glucose transport in human red cell membranes. Dependence of age, ATP, and insulin |
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Authors: | Michael Reinhold Jensen Jesper Brahm |
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Abstract: | Glucose self-exchange flux (Jex) and net efflux (Jnet) in human red cells and ghosts were studied at 25°C and pH 7.2 by means of the combined use of the Millipore-Swinnex filtering method and the continuous flow tube method to show the dependence of time of storage after aspiration, ATP and insulin. In fresh cells (RBC), ghosts (G), ghosts with 2 mM ATP (G+), and cells stored at 4°C > 60 days (OC) both Jex and Jnet follow simple Michaelis-Menten kinetics where . Jexmax and Jnetmax (nmol · cm−2 · s−1), respectively, was: (RBC) 0.27 and 0.19, (G) 0.24 and 0.27, (G +) 0.23 and 0.24, (OC) 0.23 and 0.20. and (mM), respectively, was: (RBC) 7.5 and 1.3, (G) 4.8 and 14.2, (G +) 11.6 and 6.8, (OC) 3.8 and 9.0. In ghosts, the ATP-dependent fraction of the permeability shows a hyperbolic dependence on glucose concentrations lower than 80 mM. Insulin up to 1 μM had effect on neither Jex nor Jnet in RBC. Based on reported values of cytochalasin B binding sites the turnover rate per site in RBC appears to be as high as in maximally insulin-stimulated fat cells. Our results suggest that the number of transport sites remains constant, independent of age, ATP and insulin. |
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Keywords: | Glucose transport Red cell membrane Insulin Age ATP (Human) |
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