May JM. The one-site model of human erythrocyte glucose transport: testing its predictions using network thermodynamic computer simulations.
BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1991;
1064:1-6. [PMID:
2025630 DOI:
10.1016/0005-2736(91)90404-v]
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Abstract
Network thermodynamic computer simulations were carried out using parameters experimentally derived by Lowe and Walmsley ((1987) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 903, 547-550) for two tests of the one-site model of human erythrocyte glucose transport. In the temperature-jump experiment, the simulations predicted the amplitude and relaxation time of accelerated uptake, but underestimated the net uptake due to an unexpectedly low measured basal rate. In the maltose-acceleration experiment, the dissociation constant of maltose was assessed at 0 degrees C by measuring the inhibitory effects of maltose on both cytochalasin B binding and on 3-O-methylglucose uptake, and using this value (52 mM) to calculate the dissociation constant (2.9 mM). The simulated experiment then did show a transient acceleration in uptake comparable in magnitude to that observed experimentally, except that the relaxation time was more than 10-fold longer in the simulations. Measurements of the temperature dependence of the inhibition of cytochalasin B binding by maltose and 3-O-methylglucose indicated that apparent sugar affinity is sensitive to carrier orientation at low temperatures, whereas at more physiologic temperatures the intrinsic dissociation constant predominated.
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