scholarly journals ADP modifies the function of the glucose transporter: studies with reconstituted liposomes

1993 ◽  
Vol 292 (3) ◽  
pp. 877-881 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Sofue ◽  
Y Yoshimura ◽  
M Nishida ◽  
J Kawada

Modification of function of the glucose transporter by nucleotides was studied by using liposomes reconstituted with the human erythrocyte glucose transporter. ADP enclosed in the liposomes inhibited the uptake of D-glucose and nicotinamide in a dose-dependent manner, but other enclosed nucleotides (ATP, AMP, CDP, GDP, UDP) showed no effect on the uptake of both. Only intraliposomal ADP was effective, and extra-liposomal ADP was not, under our experimental conditions. Intraliposomal ADP did not change Km, but decreased Vmax to approximately one-third of control for uptake of both D-glucose and nicotinamide. However, the binding and the affinity of cytochalasin B to the reconstituted liposomes were not affected by intraliposomal ADP. The uptake of uridine was not changed in the presence of ADP, indicating that the nucleoside transporter co-existing in the liposomal membranes is not regulated by ADP. Human erythrocytes whose intracellular ATP was decreased by Ca2+ ionophore A23187 also showed decreased uptake of 2-deoxy-D-glucose and nicotinamide. This phenomenon was very similar to that found in the liposomes. These findings suggest the possibility that the function of the glucose transporter is directly and negatively modified by an increased concentration of intracellular ADP.

1992 ◽  
Vol 288 (2) ◽  
pp. 669-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Sofue ◽  
Y Yoshimura ◽  
M Nishida ◽  
J Kawada

A kinetic study of the uptake of nicotinamide by reconstituted liposomes containing the human erythrocyte glucose transporter, compared with that of D-glucose, demonstrated that the Km and Vmax. values were almost the same for each compound, and that the uptake of D-glucose was competitively inhibited by nicotinamide. At 20 mM concentration, 2-deoxy-D-glucose, 3-O-methyl-D-glucose and 4,6-O-ethylidene-D-glucose all caused 50% inhibition of nicotinamide uptake, but L-glucose and nicotinic acid were not inhibitory. Similar results were obtained for the uptake of D-glucose. Cytochalasin B binding to the liposomes was inhibited in a dose-dependent manner by either nicotinamide or D-glucose. Antibody for glucose transporter detected in band 4.5 by SDS/PAGE inhibited the uptake of D-glucose and nicotinamide. A possible uptake of nicotinamide by nucleoside transporter was excluded. In human erythrocytes, cytochalasin B binding was inhibited dose-dependently by either nicotinamide or D-glucose, and cytochalasin B depressed the uptake of both nicotinamide and 2-deoxy-D-glucose. These findings were well reproduced in the reconstituted liposomes. The very close similarities between uptake of nicotinamide and D-glucose suggest that the glucose transporter plays a direct role in transport of nicotinamide, which is structurally quite different from monosaccharides, and thus that the transporter is probably multifunctional.


1980 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
H C Lee ◽  
N Auersperg

Epithelial morphogenesis in many organs involves asymmetric microfilament-mediated cellular contractions. Similar contractions, in terms of ultrastructure and cytochalasin B sensitivity, can be induced in the carcinoma cell line C-4II in culture. This line was used to compare total intracellular calcium levels ([Ca]i) in contracted monolayer fragments and in control cultures, and to determine whether epithelial cell contraction depends on influx of extracellular Ca. [Ca]i, defined as Ca not displaceable by lanthanum, was measured by atomic absorption spectrophotometry. Degrees of contraction were determined from shape changes of monolayer fragments. Detachment from the growth surface initiated cellular contractions and caused an immediate increase in [Ca]i, from 1.0 to 4.0-5.0 micrograms Ca/mg protein in early confluent cultures, and from 0.3 to 1.0-2.0 micrograms Ca/mg protein in crowded cultures. This increase was followed by a gradual decline in [Ca]i, though Ca levels remained higher than in controls and contraction progressed for 30 min. Contraction was inhibited completely by cold (7 degrees C) and by Ca-free medium, and in a dose-dependent manner by papaverine (2.5 x 10(-6) M-2.5 x 10(-4) M), lanthanum (1.0 x 10(-6) M-1.0 x 10(-4) M); and D-600 (1.0-2.0 x 10(-4) M). The Ca ionophore A23187 had no effect at 5.0 x 10(-6) M and was inhibitory at higher concentrations. The results provided direct evidence for increased [Ca]i in contracting epithelial cells, and suggest that Ca influx is required for such contraction to take place.


2015 ◽  
Vol 308 (10) ◽  
pp. C827-C834 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay M. Sage ◽  
Anthony J. Cura ◽  
Kenneth P. Lloyd ◽  
Anthony Carruthers

Glucose transporter 1 (GLUT1) is the primary glucose transport protein of the cardiovascular system and astroglia. A recent study proposes that caffeine uncompetitive inhibition of GLUT1 results from interactions at an exofacial GLUT1 site. Intracellular ATP is also an uncompetitive GLUT1 inhibitor and shares structural similarities with caffeine, suggesting that caffeine acts at the previously characterized endofacial GLUT1 nucleotide-binding site. We tested this by confirming that caffeine uncompetitively inhibits GLUT1-mediated 3- O-methylglucose uptake in human erythrocytes [ Vmax and Km for transport are reduced fourfold; Ki(app) = 3.5 mM caffeine]. ATP and AMP antagonize caffeine inhibition of 3- O-methylglucose uptake in erythrocyte ghosts by increasing Ki(app) for caffeine inhibition of transport from 0.9 ± 0.3 mM in the absence of intracellular nucleotides to 2.6 ± 0.6 and 2.4 ± 0.5 mM in the presence of 5 mM intracellular ATP or AMP, respectively. Extracellular ATP has no effect on sugar uptake or its inhibition by caffeine. Caffeine and ATP displace the fluorescent ATP derivative, trinitrophenyl-ATP, from the GLUT1 nucleotide-binding site, but d-glucose and the transport inhibitor cytochalasin B do not. Caffeine, but not ATP, inhibits cytochalasin B binding to GLUT1. Like ATP, caffeine renders the GLUT1 carboxy-terminus less accessible to peptide-directed antibodies, but cytochalasin B and d-glucose do not. These results suggest that the caffeine-binding site bridges two nonoverlapping GLUT1 endofacial sites—the regulatory, nucleotide-binding site and the cytochalasin B-binding site. Caffeine binding to GLUT1 mimics the action of ATP but not cytochalasin B on sugar transport. Molecular docking studies support this hypothesis.


1990 ◽  
Vol 268 (3) ◽  
pp. 661-667 ◽  
Author(s):  
P J Bilan ◽  
A Klip

Glycation of human erythrocyte membrane proteins was induced by incubation in vitro with high concentrations (80 mM or 200 mM) of D-glucose for 3 or 6 days. The extent of glycation was quantified from the covalent incorporation of 3H by reduction of the glucose glycation products with NaB3H4. For membranes incubated for 3 days with 80 mM-D-glucose, glycation in vitro of Band 4.5 (containing the glucose transporter) was equivalent to 0.11 mol of glucose/mol of glucose transporter, compared with 3H labelling in 3-day-incubated control membranes of 0.055 mol of glucose/mol of glucose transporter. In membranes incubated for 6 days with 200 mM-D-glucose, glycation increased to 0.21 mol of glucose/mol of glucose transporter, whereas the controls without glucose had 0.11 mol of glucose/mol of glucose transporter. Glycation in vitro was accompanied by a fall in the Bmax of binding of [3H]cytochalasin B (a competitive inhibitor of glucose transport), without any change in the binding affinity. The data suggest that glycated glucose transporters have decreased ability to bind cytochalasin B. It is proposed that glycation can alter glucose transporter activity.


2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (7) ◽  
pp. 685-700 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Rajesh ◽  
K Balasubramanian

Di(2-ethyl hexyl)-phthalate (DEHP) is an endocrine disrupter and is the most abundantly used phthalate derivative, which is suspected to be an inevitable environmental exposure contributing to the increasing incidence of type-2 diabetes in humans. Therefore, the present study was designed to address the dose-dependent effects of DEHP on insulin signaling molecules in L6 myotubes. L6 myotubes were exposed to different concentrations (25, 50, and 100 μM) of DEHP for 24 h. At the end of exposure, cells were utilized for assessing various parameters. Insulin receptor and glucose transporter4 (GLUT4) gene expression, insulin receptor protein concentration, glucose uptake and oxidation, and enzymatic and nonenzymatic antioxidants were significantly reduced, but glutamine fructose-6-phosphate amidotransferase, nitric oxide, lipid peroxidation, and reactive oxygen species levels were elevated in a dose-dependent manner in L6 myotubes exposed to DEHP. The present study in turn shows the direct adverse effect of DEHP on the expression of insulin receptor and GLUT4 gene, glucose uptake, and oxidation in L6 myotubes suggesting that DEHP exposure may have a negative influence on insulin signaling.


1983 ◽  
Vol 245 (3) ◽  
pp. C196-C202 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Chandler ◽  
G. Meusel ◽  
E. Schumaker ◽  
C. Stapleton

The ability of the chemotactic peptide N-formylmethionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine (FMLP) to stimulate beta-glucuronidase release and 45Ca2+ release from rabbit neutrophils was studied. FMLP stimulated enzyme release from cytochalasin B-treated cells either in the presence or the absence of extracellular calcium. Depletion of cell calcium, by exposure to either ethyleneglycol-bis(beta-aminoethylether)-N,N'-tetraacetic acid or the calcium ionophore A23187, blocked the ability of FMLP to stimulate enzyme release and 45Ca2+ release in the absence of extracellular calcium. The ability of A23187 to lower the 45Ca2+ content of neutrophils, to block FMLP-stimulated 45Ca2+ release, and to inhibit FMLP-stimulated enzyme release in the absence of calcium was dose dependent over the same concentration range (10(-8) to 10(-6) M A23187) for all three actions. In contrast, FMLP stimulated enzyme release from A23187-treated cells, provided that extracellular calcium was present. This secretory response was normal as judged by cell ultrastructure and FMLP dose-response relationships. It is concluded that A23187 depletes a pool of intracellular calcium usually released by FMLP and that release of calcium from this pool is necessary for initiation of enzyme secretion in the absence of extracellular calcium.


1983 ◽  
Vol 245 (3) ◽  
pp. C189-C195 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Sato ◽  
F. Sato

Although methacholine (MCh) and a Ca2+ ionophore A23187 do not enhance the tissue adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) level by themselves, they markedly potentiate isoproterenol (ISO)-induced tissue cAMP accumulation in isolated simian eccrine sweat glands in a dose-dependent manner. The agonist concentration producing 50% of the maximal response of such a potentiated cAMP accumulation was 2.1 X 10(-7) M for MCh, 2.5 X 10(-7) M for ISO, and 2.9 X 10(-6) M for A23187. Unlike cAMP accumulation induced by ISO alone, MCh-stimulated ISO-induced cAMP accumulation is dependent on extracellular Ca2+. MCh- plus ISO-induced cAMP level is tripled by 10(-2) M theophylline (TH), and while the ISO-induced cAMP level was also elevated by TH, it was not enhanced to the level of ISO-plus MCh-induced cAMP accumulation, indicating that phosphodiesterase inhibition is not the major mechanism for the augmentative effect of MCh. The augmentative effect of MCh was seen only in the secretory portion, whereas that of A23187 was seen in both the secretory portion and the duct. The data suggest that MCh-induced augmentation of ISO-stimulated cAMP accumulation is due to increased cAMP formation, not decreased cAMP degradation, and that it may be mediated by an elevated intracellular Ca2+.


1994 ◽  
Vol 186 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. D. Young ◽  
Y. Syn ◽  
C. M. Tse ◽  
A. Davies ◽  
S. A. Baldwin

The characteristics of glucose transport were investigated in erythrocytes of a primitive vertebrate, the Pacific hagfish (Eptatretus stouti) Lockington. Transport of glucose by intact hagfish erythrocytes and by phospholipid vesicles reconstituted with n-octylglucoside extract of hagfish erythrocyte membranes was rapid and mediated by a saturable stereospecific mechanism sensitive to inhibition by cytochalasin B. Covalent photoaffinity labelling experiments with [3H]cytochalasin B identified the hagfish glucose transporter on SDS/polyacrylamide gels as a protein with an apparent average Mr of 55 000. Amino acid sequence homology between the hagfish and human erythrocyte glucose transporters (GLUT 1) was investigated in immunoblotting experiments using a panel of 12 different antipeptide antisera and affinity-purified antibodies raised against cytoplasmic extramembranous regions of the human transporter, and with an antibody to the intact purified human protein. The latter antibody labelled a component in the membrane with the same apparent Mr as cytochalasin B. Two affinity-purified antipeptide antibodies, corresponding to residues 240–255 and 450–467 of the human erythrocyte transporter, also labelled a component in the membrane with this relative molecular mass, demonstrating localised sequence similarity between the polypeptides of the two species within the central cytoplasmic loop and within the cytoplasmic C-terminal region. Glucose transport by hagfish erythrocytes was not coupled to the movement of protons.


1991 ◽  
Vol 131 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Sofue ◽  
Y. Yoshimura ◽  
M. Nishida ◽  
J. Kawada

ABSTRACT Exposure of rat pancreatic β cells in monolayer culture to 2 mmol streptozotocin (STZ)/1 for 1 h followed by thorough washing inhibited their uptake of [14C]nicotinamide and [3H]2-deoxyglucose ([2H]2-DG) to about 50% and also reduced the intracellular ATP concentration to 50% of that in control cells. These changes were not due to a lethal cytotoxic effect of STZ, because cell viability, as estimated by succinic dehydrogenase activity, was 90% of that of control cells. Oligomycin and carbonylcyanide-m-chlorophenylhydrazone (CCCP), an uncoupler of oxidative phosphorylation, caused a dose-dependent decrease in intracellular ATP concentration while maintaining high cell viability. These ATP-depleted cells showed a decrease in insulin release and an inhibition of the uptake of [14C]nicotinamide and [3H]2-DG in a dose-dependent manner. Therefore oligomycin and CCCP reproduced the same effects as those found in β cells treated with STZ. These results suggest that the uptake of nicotinamide and 2-DG by β cells might be regulated by their intracellular ATP concentration. The decreased uptake of nicotinamide in ATP-depleted β cells caused by STZ might explain the lack of protective effect of nicotinamide against STZ cytotoxicity when administered after the latter. Furthermore, the radiotracer experiments demonstrated that the transport of nicotinamide by intact β cells was inhibited in a dose-dependent manner by 2-DG and vice versa, i.e. the transport of 2-DG was inhibited by nicotinamide. These findings suggest the existence of a common transport mechanism in β cells responsible for the uptake of nicotinamide and 2-DG, the transport of which is known to occur by facilitated diffusion. Journal of Endocrinology (1991) 131, 135–138


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