title: A glucose transport protein expressed predominately in insulin-responsive tissues.
abstract: Using low-stringency hybridization to the rat brain glucose transporter (GT), a 2489-base-pair cDNA clone was isolated from a rat soleus lambda gt10 cDNA library. It encodes a 509-amino acid protein whose sequence and predicted membrane structure is very similar to those of the rat brain and liver GTs. The muscle GT-like protein is 65% identical in amino acid sequence to the rat brain GT and 52% identical to the rat liver GT; the major differences are in the NH2- and COOH-terminal hydrophilic segments. This GT-like mRNA is expressed predominately in tissues where glucose transport is sensitive to insulin, including striated muscle, cardiac muscle, and adipose tissue; low-level expression is also detected in smooth muscle and kidney mRNA. This GT-like cDNA is the fourth member of the mammalian GT-related gene family identified to date. We propose that it encodes an insulin-sensitive GT.
authors.affiliation: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142.
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Charron
authors.forename: F C
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Brosius
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Alper
authors.forename: H F
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Lodish
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics; D007328:Insulin / Q000502:physiology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009004:Monosaccharide Transport Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D005810:Multigene Family; D009132:Muscles / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D014018:Tissue Distribution
chemical_list: D007328:Insulin; D009004:Monosaccharide Transport Proteins; D004247:DNA