A study of the dependence of the human erythrocyte glucose transport system on membrane sulfhydryl groups |
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Authors: | R. P. P. Smith G. L. Ellman |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco;(2) Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, 94122 San Francisco, California;(3) Present address: Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, 98195 Seattle, Washington |
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Abstract: | Summary A brief review of the data relating the glucose transport system and other membrane functions of red cells to surface sulfhydryl groups is presented. The effect of a variety of sulfhydryl reagents on glucose efflux rates from loaded red cells was studied. Neither iodoacetate nor iodoacetamide at 5mm inhibited efflux. Several maleimide derivatives and disulfides inhibited efflux in 0.7 to 2.0mm concentrations. Organomercury compounds, on the other hand, were active in the 0.07 to 0.1mm range. These data suggest that, if sulfhydryl groups are important in the glucose efflux process, they are not equally accessible to the above reagents; and that the primary effect of these reagents may be on structural elements near membrane sulfhydryl groups. |
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