title: Kinetic characteristics and regulation of hexose transport in a galactokinase-negative Chinese hamster fibroblast cell line: a good model for studies on sugar transport in cultured mammalian cells.
abstract: We report the kinetic characteristics for D-galactose, 2-deoxy-D-glucose and 3-O-methyl-D-glucose transport in a galactokinase null-allele mutant of a Chinese hamster V79 cell line. GalKl cells exhibited a Km and Vmax for D-galactose, 2-deoxy-D-glucose, and 3-O-methyl-D-glucose transport of 8.6 +/- 2.6 mM and 26.1 +/- 7.2 nmol/mg p/min, 4.1 +/- 1.2 mM and 40.3 +/- 9.5 nmol/mg p/min, and 7.01 +/- .85 mM and 11.6 +/- 4.8 nmol/mg p/30 s, respectively. Nonsaturable hexose uptake was determined using cytochalasin B inhibition of galactose uptake (89.6 +/- 3.7% of galactose uptake was cytochalasin B inhibitable) and L-glucose uptake (7.5% of the galactose uptake). D-Galactose was not metabolized and effluxed rapidly from preloaded cells. The Kls for the inhibition of D-galactose transport were 4.5 +/- 2.5 mM for D-glucose, 7.0 +/- 2.0 mM for 2-deoxy-D-glucose, 6 mM for 2-deoxy-D-galactose and 6.0 +/- 0.6 mM for 3-O-methyl-D-glucose. This indicates the operation of a single common carrier. The hexose transport rate decreased 50-60% after 24 h serum deprivation. Addition of insulin was shown to increase hexose transport (more than twofold) in serum-deprived cells. Hexose transport rates increased substantially in glucose-deprived, D-fructose- or D-galactose-fed cells as compared to glucose-fed cells. Since GalKl does not metabolize galactose, the hexose transport increases induced by feeding cells galactose suggest that carrier interaction with ligand is not a significant factor in transport regulation in GalKl. The kinetic and regulatory characteristics of D-galactose transport in the GalKl cell line indicate that this system is a good model to study sugar transport from a mechanistic and regulatory point of view.
authors.affiliation: Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research-Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Germinario
authors.forename: T M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Lakshmi
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Thirion
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D006224:Cricetinae; D003412:Cricetulus; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism*; D005686:Galactokinase / Q000378:metabolism*; D008954:Models, Biological; D009004:Monosaccharide Transport Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D009004:Monosaccharide Transport Proteins; D005686:Galactokinase