title: Cloning and functional expression of a mammalian Na+/nucleoside cotransporter. A member of the SGLT family.
abstract: Complementary DNAs encoding seven different proteins related to the rabbit intestinal Na+/glucose cotransporter, SGLT1, were isolated from a rabbit renal cDNA library at relatively high stringency. The messages for RK-B to RK-F were single mRNA species at 2.3 kilobases (kb) in heart and kidney. The message for RK-A was 4 kb and was found in brain, lung, intestine, liver, and kidney. RK-I mRNA was approximately 3 kb and was found in all tissues tested. The most abundant clone, RK-C, constituted nucleotides 66-2150 of the sodium-nucleoside cotransporter, SNST1. The 672-amino acid protein encoded by SNST1 is 61% identical and 80% similar in sequence to SGLT1. Expression of SNST1c in Xenopus oocytes resulted in nucleoside-stimulated 22Na uptake and sodium-dependent [3H]uridine uptake. The uptake of [3H]uridine was inhibited by a range of nucleosides, including the anti-human immunodeficiency virus drug, dideoxycytidine. The results of this study show that there is a family of SGLT1-related proteins found in a wide variety of tissues and that one of these is a Na+/nucleoside cotransporter.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, UCLA School of Medicine 90024-1751.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Pajor
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Wright
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001693:Biological Transport, Active; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics; D015870:Gene Expression; D007668:Kidney / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009206:Myocardium / Q000378:metabolism; D009705:Nucleosides / Q000378:metabolism*; D011487:Protein Conformation; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism; D011817:Rabbits; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D012964:Sodium / Q000378:metabolism*; D027981:Symporters; D014018:Tissue Distribution; D014981:Xenopus
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; D009705:Nucleosides; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D027981:Symporters; C073034:sodium-nucleoside cotransporter; D004247:DNA; D012964:Sodium