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Brush border membrane vesicles (BBMV) purified from steer jejunum were used to study the kinetics of sodiumd-glucose cotransport under voltage clamped, zero-trans conditions. When the initial rate of glucose transport (J gluc) was measured over a wide range of glucose concentrations ([S]=0.01–20mm), curvature of the Woolf-Augustinsson-Hofstee plots was seen, compatible with a diffusional and one major, high capacity (maximal transport rateJ max=5.8–8.8 nmol/mg·min) saturable system. Further studies indicated that changes incis [Na] altered theK t , but not theJ max, suggesting the presence of a rapid-equilibrium, ordered bireactant system with sodium adding first.Trans sodium inhibitedJ gluc hyperbolically. KCl-valinomycin diffusion potentials, inner membrane face positive, loweredJ gluc, while potentials of the opposite polarity raiseJ gluc. At low glucose concentrations ([S]<0.05mm), a second, minor, high affinity transport system was indicated. Further evidence for this second saturable system was provided by sodium activation curves, which were hyperbolic when [S]=0.5mm, but were sigmoidal when [S]=.0.01mm. Simultaneous fluxes of22Na and [3H]glucose at 1mm glucose and 30mm NaCl yielded a cotransport-dependent flux ratio of 2∶1 sodium/glucose, suggestive of 1∶1 (Na/glucose) high capacity, low affinity system and a ∼3∶1 (Na/glucose) high affinity, low capacity system. Kinetic experiments with rabbit jejunal brush borders revealed two major Na-dependent saturable systems. Extravesicular (cis) Na changed theK t , but not theJ max of the major system.
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Kaunitz, J.D., Wright, E.M. Kinetics of sodiumd-glucose cotransport in bovine intestinal brush border vesicles. J. Membrain Biol. 79, 41–51 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01868525
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