The reduction of cystine during its transpot into rat jejunal eveted segments and sacs.
1. Everted segments and sacs of rat jejunum were incubated in buffer containing [(35)S]cystine. 2. Concentration gradients were achieved by both segments and sacs, and the effects of duration of incubation and of cystine concentration on the isotope distribution ratios were determined. 3. Kinetic constants were determined for the uptake of cystine by both segments and sacs, and the differences between the two systems are discussed. 4. Reduction to cysteine was virtually complete intracellularly and in the sac lumen. Extensive reduction in the medium occurred only when segments were incubated. 5. Anaerobiosis prevented a concentration gradient being obtained between the medium and the tissue, but had little effect on the extent of reduction to cysteine in the tissue and sac lumen. 6. It is concluded that cystine is transported by an active process into rat jejunum, where it is present almost entirely in the reduced form, and that efflux of cysteine occurs through the serosal surface.
D000818:Animals; D001693:Biological Transport, Active; D003545:Cysteine / Q000378:metabolism; D003553:Cystine / Q000378:metabolism*; D004058:Diffusion; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000378:metabolism; D007583:Jejunum / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D010100:Oxygen; D010313:Partial Pressure; D051381:Rats; D012704:Serous Membrane / Q000378:metabolism; D013460:Sulfur Isotopes; D013997:Time Factors
D013460:Sulfur Isotopes; D003553:Cystine; D003545:Cysteine; D010100:Oxygen
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