Compartmentalization of transport and phosphorylation of glucose in a hepatoma cell line.
The first steps of glucose metabolism are carried out by members of the families of GLUTs (glucose transporters) and HKs (hexokinases). Previous experiments using the inhibitor of glucose transport, CB (cytochalasin B), revealed that compartmentalization of GLUTs and HKs is a major factor in the control of glucose uptake in L6 myotubes [Whitesell, Ardehali, Printz, Beechem, Knobel, Piston, Granner, Van Der Meer, Perriott and May (2003) Biochem. J. 370, 47-56]. In the present paper, we evaluate compartmentalization of GLUTs and HKs in a hepatoma cell line, H4IIE, which is characterized by excess GLUT activity, HKI in a particulate and a cytosolic fraction, and insignificant G6Pase (glucose-6-phosphatase) activity. The measured activity of glucose transport exceeded the rate of phosphorylation approx. 30-fold. Treatment with 25 microM CB (K(i) approximately 3 microM in H4IIE cells) paradoxically increased the excess of GLUTs over phosphorylation (GLUTs are inhibited 80%, while phosphorylation is inhibited 98%). The global relationships of the data could be reconciled most simply by a two-compartment model. In this model, phosphorylation of glucose is carried out by a subset of HK molecules supplied by a subset of GLUTs that are more sensitive to CB than the other GLUTs. The agent, DCC (dicyclohexylcarbodi-imide) caused HKI to translocate from the particulate compartment to the cytosolic compartment and potently inhibited glucose phosphorylation. The particulate compartment may represent the mitochondria, to which the more CB-sensitive GLUTs may control the transport of glucose.
Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232-6303, USA. richard.whitesell@vanderbilt.edu
Richard R
RR
Whitesell
Hossein
H
Ardehali
Joseph M
JM
Beechem
Alvin C
AC
Powers
Wieb
W
Van der Meer
Laureta M
LM
Perriott
Daryl K
DK
Granner
D019325:3-O-Methylglucose / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D001693:Biological Transport, Active / Q000502:physiology; D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes / Q000378:metabolism; D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology*; D002451:Cell Compartmentation / Q000502:physiology*; D002457:Cell Extracts / Q000737:chemistry; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D003847:Deoxyglucose / Q000378:metabolism; D004285:Dogs; D005947:Glucose / Q000378:metabolism*; D005952:Glucose-6-Phosphatase / Q000378:metabolism; D006593:Hexokinase / Q000378:metabolism; D008110:Liver Extracts / Q000737:chemistry; D008114:Liver Neoplasms, Experimental / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology*; D009004:Monosaccharide Transport Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D010766:Phosphorylation; D051381:Rats
D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes; D002457:Cell Extracts; D008110:Liver Extracts; D009004:Monosaccharide Transport Proteins; D019325:3-O-Methylglucose; D003847:Deoxyglucose; D006593:Hexokinase; D005952:Glucose-6-Phosphatase; D005947:Glucose