Na/d-glucose cotransport in renal brush-border membrane vesicles of an early teleost (oncorhynchus mykiss). Freire, C. A., E. Kinne-Saffran, K. W. Beyenbach,and R. K. H. Kinne. Max-Planck-Institut fur molekulare Physiologie, Abteilung Epithelphysiologie, Rheinlanddamm 201, 44139 Dortmund, Germany; AND Section of Physiology, Veterinary Research Tower T9-026, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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Brush-border membrane vesicles (BBMV), enriched with alkaline phosphatase (8.1-fold) and [gamma]-glutamyl transpeptidase (11.5 -fold), were prepared from the rainbow trout kidney. 3H-D-glucose uptake was stimulated by inward Na gradients, but not by K, choline, Li, N-methyl-glucamine, or mannitol gradients. Na-dependent glucose uptake displayed overshoot in voltage-polarized vesicles (VPV, negative inside), but not in short-circuited vesicles (SCV). Recognition of carbons 2-3 of the glucopyranose ring was essential for glucose uptake. Phlorizin inhibited Na-dependent D-glucose uptake with a Ki of 11.4 [mu]M. The Km(glucose) was 0.58 mM in VPV and increased to 1.49 mM in SCV. Km(Na) was 193 mM in VPV and similar in SCV. Vmax(Na) was reduced in SCV. The Hill coefficient was 1 for both Na and glucose in VPV and SCV. Our studies indicate a single Na/D -glucose cotransporter which transports Na and glucose with a 1:1 stoichiometry and voltage-dependent kinetics. The transporter shares functional properties with both mammalian transporters, SGLT1 and SGLT2.

Received 19 December 1994; accepted in final form 28 February
1995.
APS Manuscript Number R717-4.
Article publication pending Am. J. Physiol. (Regulatory Integrative
Comp. Physiology).
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Published in APStracts on  6 April 1995.