title: Na+-independent sugar transport by cultured renal (LLC-PK1) epithelial cells.
abstract: The LLC-PK1 cell line has been well characterized concerning its proximal tubule-like Na+-dependent active sugar transporter in the apical membrane. In this study, we investigated the uptake of the glucose analogue, 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2DOG), a paradigm substrate for the facilitated diffusion, Na+-independent sugar transporter in the renal basolateral membrane. The uptake of 0.1 mM 2-[14C]DOG by confluent LLC-PK1 cell sheets at 25 degrees C is linear at least to 10 min, at which time greater than 90% of intracellular radioactivity is 2DOG phosphate. The uptake of this analogue by LLC-PK1 cells is Na+ independent, and the transporter appears to be localized to the basolateral cell membrane. Phlorizin is a much less effective inhibitor than its aglycon, phloretin. Cytochalasin B is also an effective inhibitor, but it causes morphological changes in the cells at concentrations required to inhibit transport. Specificity studies indicate that this transport system requires a hexose with a free hydroxyl at C-1, and that the hydroxyls at C-3 and C-4 be preferably in the equatorial position. Glucose starvation causes an increased rate of 2DOG uptake. Subconfluent (cycling) cultures of LLC-PK1 cells have a threefold greater rate of 2DOG uptake than that seen in confluent (noncycling) LLC-PK1 cells.
authors.affiliation: Lankenau Medical Research Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19151.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Mullin
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: McGinn
authors.forename: K V
authors.initials: KV
authors.lastname: Snock
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Kofeldt
mesh_terms: D001692:Biological Transport; D050260:Carbohydrate Metabolism; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003847:Deoxyglucose / Q000378:metabolism; D004848:Epithelium / Q000378:metabolism; D007668:Kidney / Q000378:metabolism*; D010766:Phosphorylation; D012964:Sodium / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship
chemical_list: D003847:Deoxyglucose; D012964:Sodium