title: Glucose transport in human red cell membranes. Dependence of age, ATP, and insulin.
abstract: Glucose self-exchange flux (Jex) and net efflux (Jnet) in human red cells and ghosts were studied at 25 degrees C and pH 7.2 by means of the combined use of the Millipore-Swinnex filtering method and the continuous flow tube method to show the dependence of time of storage after aspiration, ATP and insulin. In fresh cells (RBC), ghosts (G), ghosts with 2 mM ATP (G +), and cells stored at 4 degrees C greater than 60 days (OC) both Jex and Jnet follow simple Michaelis-Menten kinetics where J = Jmax X Ci X (K1/2 + Ci)-1. Jmaxex and Jmaxnet (nmol X cm-2 X s-1), respectively, was: (RBC) 0.27 and 0.19, (G) 0.24 and 0.27, (G +) 0.23 and 0.24, (OC) 0.23 and 0.20. K1/2,ex and K1/2,net (mM), respectively, was: (RBC) 7.5 and 1.3, (G) 4.8 and 14.2, (G +) 11.6 and 6.8, (OC) 3.8 and 9.0. In ghosts, the ATP-dependent fraction of the permeability shows a hyperbolic dependence on glucose concentrations lower than 80 mM. Insulin up to 1 microM had effect on neither Jex nor Jnet in RBC. Based on reported values of cytochalasin B binding sites the turnover rate per site in RBC appears to be as high as in maximally insulin-stimulated fat cells. Our results suggest that the number of transport sites remains constant, independent of age, ATP and insulin.
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Jensen
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Brahm
mesh_terms: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism*; D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes; D004905:Erythrocyte Aging; D004910:Erythrocyte Membrane / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007328:Insulin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D007700:Kinetics; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose; D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes; D007328:Insulin; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate