title: Specific interaction between erythrocytes and a glucose-carrying polymer mediated by the type-1 glucose transporter (GLUT-1) on the cell membrane.
abstract: A reducing glucose-carrying polymer, called poly [3-O-(4'-vinylbenzyl)-D-glucose] (PVG), interacted with erythrocytes carrying the type-1 glucose transporter (GLUT-1) on the cell membrane. The cooperative interaction between a number of GLUT-1s and a number of reducing 3-O-methyl-D-glucose moieties on a PVG polymer chain is responsible for the increase in the interaction with erythrocytes. In contrast to the PVG homopolymer, other sugar-carrying polymers showed lower interaction with erythrocytes. The affinity of erythrocytes and PVG was studied using FITC-labeled glycopolymers. The fluorescence intensity significantly changed, whereas a small change in fluorescence intensity was observed for other homopolymers. The specific interaction between GLUT-1 on erythrocytes and the PVG polymer carrying reducing glucose was suppressed by the inhibitors, phloretin, phloridzin, and cytochalasin B, and a monoclonal antibody to GLUT-1. Direct observation by confocal laser microscopy with the use of FITC-labeled PVG demonstrated that erythrocytes interacted with the soluble form of the PVG polymer via GLUT-1, while fluorescence labeling of the cell surface was prevented on pretreatment with the monoclonal antibody to GLUT-1.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomolecular Engineering, Faculty of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama.
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Takei
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Goto
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Maruyama
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Akaike
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001704:Biopolymers; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D004910:Erythrocyte Membrane / Q000378:metabolism*; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000378:metabolism*; D005434:Flow Cytometry; D016650:Fluorescein-5-isothiocyanate; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D051272:Glucose Transporter Type 1; D016015:Logistic Models; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000097:blood*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009004:Monosaccharide Transport Proteins / Q000097:blood*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley
chemical_list: D001704:Biopolymers; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D051272:Glucose Transporter Type 1; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D009004:Monosaccharide Transport Proteins; C495679:Slc2a1 protein, rat; D016650:Fluorescein-5-isothiocyanate