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Bradley SA, Banach M, Alvarado N, Smokovski I, Bhaskar SMM. Prevalence and impact of diabetes in hospitalized COVID-19 patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis. J Diabetes 2022; 14:144-157. [PMID: 34939735 PMCID: PMC9060142 DOI: 10.1111/1753-0407.13243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2021] [Revised: 11/07/2021] [Accepted: 11/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Diabetes is a cardiometabolic comorbidity that may predispose COVID-19 patients to worse clinical outcomes. This study sought to determine the prevalence of diabetes in hospitalized COVID-19 patients and investigate the association of diabetes severe COVID-19, rate of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), mortality, and need for mechanical ventilation by performing a systematic review and meta-analysis. METHODS Individual studies were selected using a defined search strategy, including results up until July 2021 from PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials. A random-effects meta-analysis was performed to estimate the proportions and level of association of diabetes with clinical outcomes in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Forest plots were generated to retrieve the odds ratios (OR), and the quality and risk assessment was performed for all studies included in the meta-analysis. RESULTS The total number of patients included in this study was 10 648, of whom 3112 had diabetes (29.23%). The overall pooled estimate of prevalence of diabetes in the meta-analysis cohort was 31% (95% CI, 0.25-0.38; z = 16.09, P < .0001). Diabetes significantly increased the odds of severe COVID-19 (OR 3.39; 95% CI, 2.14-5.37; P < .0001), ARDS (OR 2.55; 95% CI, 1.74-3.75; P = <.0001), in-hospital mortality (OR 2.44; 95% CI, 1.93-3.09; P < .0001), and mechanical ventilation (OR 3.03; 95% CI, 2.17-4.22; P < .0001). CONCLUSIONS Our meta-analysis demonstrates that diabetes is significantly associated with increased odds of severe COVID-19, increased ARDS rate, mortality, and need for mechanical ventilation in hospitalized patients. We also estimated an overall pooled prevalence of diabetes of 31% in hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
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Affiliation(s)
- Sian A. Bradley
- Global Health Neurology and Translational Neuroscience Laboratory, Sydney and Neurovascular Imaging Laboratory, Clinical Sciences StreamIngham Institute for Applied Medical ResearchSydneyNew South WalesAustralia
- University of New South Wales (UNSW)South‐Western Sydney Clinical SchoolSydneyNew South WalesAustralia
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- Polish Mother's Memorial Hospital Research Institute and Department of HypertensionMedical University of LodzLodzPoland
- Cardiovascular Research CentreUniversity of Zielona GóraZielona GoraPoland
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- Peripheral Neurophysiology ServiceNEUROMED‐ArgentinaGodoy CruzArgentina
- Department of NeurophysiologyMendoza Medical CenterGodoy CruzArgentina
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- University Clinic of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders Skopje, Faculty of Medical SciencesUniversity Goce Delčev ŠtipŠtipNorth Macedonia
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- Global Health Neurology and Translational Neuroscience Laboratory, Sydney and Neurovascular Imaging Laboratory, Clinical Sciences StreamIngham Institute for Applied Medical ResearchSydneyNew South WalesAustralia
- University of New South Wales (UNSW)South‐Western Sydney Clinical SchoolSydneyNew South WalesAustralia
- NSW Brain Clot BankNew South Wales Health PathologySydneyNew South WalesAustralia
- Department of Neurology and Neurophysiology, Comprehensive Stroke CenterLiverpool Hospital and South‐Western Sydney Local Health DistrictSydneyNew South WalesAustralia
- Stroke and Neurology Research GroupIngham Institute for Applied Medical ResearchLiverpoolNew South WalesAustralia
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Bradley SA, Spring KJ, Beran RG, Chatzis D, Killingsworth MC, Bhaskar SMM. Role of diabetes in stroke: Recent advances in pathophysiology and clinical management. Diabetes Metab Res Rev 2022; 38:e3495. [PMID: 34530485 DOI: 10.1002/dmrr.3495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2021] [Revised: 08/28/2021] [Accepted: 08/31/2021] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The increasing prevalence of diabetes and stroke is a major global public health concern. Specifically, acute stroke patients, with pre-existing diabetes, pose a clinical challenge. It is established that diabetes is associated with a worse prognosis after acute stroke and the various biological factors that mediate poor recovery profiles in diabetic patients is unknown. The level of association and impact of diabetes, in the setting of reperfusion therapy, is yet to be determined. This article presents a comprehensive overview of the current knowledge of the role of diabetes in stroke, therapeutic strategies for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease and/or stroke in diabetes, and various therapeutic considerations that may apply during pre-stroke, acute, sub-acute and post-stroke stages. The early diagnosis of diabetes as a comorbidity for stroke, as well as tailored post-stroke management of diabetes, is pivotal to our efforts to limit the burden. Increasing awareness and involvement of neurologists in the management of diabetes and other cardiovascular risk factors is desirable towards improving stroke prevention and efficacy of reperfusion therapy in acute stroke patients with diabetes.
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- Sian A Bradley
- University of New South Wales (UNSW), South Western Sydney Clinical School, Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia
- Neurovascular Imaging Laboratory, Clinical Sciences Stream, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- University of New South Wales (UNSW), South Western Sydney Clinical School, Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia
- NSW Brain Clot Bank, NSW Health Pathology, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Medical Oncology Group, Liverpool Clinical School, Western Sydney University & Ingham Institute of Applied Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- University of New South Wales (UNSW), South Western Sydney Clinical School, Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia
- Department of Neurology and Neurophysiology, Liverpool Hospital and South Western Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Medical School, Griffith University, Southport, Queensland, Australia
- Sechenov Moscow First State University, Moscow, Russia
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- University of New South Wales (UNSW), South Western Sydney Clinical School, Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia
- Neurovascular Imaging Laboratory, Clinical Sciences Stream, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- NSW Brain Clot Bank, NSW Health Pathology, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Department of Anatomical Pathology, Correlatively Microscopy Facility, NSW Health Pathctology, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- University of New South Wales (UNSW), South Western Sydney Clinical School, Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia
- Neurovascular Imaging Laboratory, Clinical Sciences Stream, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- NSW Brain Clot Bank, NSW Health Pathology, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Department of Neurology and Neurophysiology, Liverpool Hospital and South Western Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Pritchard MG, Townend JN, Lester WA, England DW, Kearins O, Bradley SA. Management of patients taking antiplatelet or anticoagulant medication requiring invasive breast procedures: United Kingdom survey of radiologists' and surgeons' current practice. Clin Radiol 2008; 63:305-11. [PMID: 18275871 DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2007.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2007] [Accepted: 09/14/2007] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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AIM To determine the current practice in the UK National Health Service Breast Screening Programme for invasive diagnostic procedures and surgery in patients taking anticoagulant and antiplatelet medication. MATERIALS AND METHODS Lead radiologists and surgeons at each breast screening service were surveyed to determine current practice. One hundred and five respondents provided information regarding their services, protocols, and willingness to proceed with combinations of procedures and anti-haemostatic medications. RESULTS Between units there was wide variation in practice. Within 21 services providing more than one response, 10 (48%) disagreed on whether protocols existed. Decisions to perform biopsies were unrelated to professional group. The taking of a drug history was variable. Surgeons reported more adverse effects than radiologists [21 (48%) versus 12 (26%)], but no difference in self-assessment of knowledge. CONCLUSION Both radiologists and surgeons have expressed uncertainty about their understanding of anticoagulant and antiplatelet treatment. This is reflected in a wide range of practice. Guidance regarding the management of these patients is suggested.
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- M G Pritchard
- West Midlands Breast Screening Quality Assurance Reference Centre, West Midlands Cancer Intelligence Unit, University of Birmingham, and University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
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Dhillon MS, Bradley SA, England DW. Mammotome biopsy: impact on preoperative diagnosis rate. Clin Radiol 2006; 61:276-81. [PMID: 16488210 DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2005.08.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2005] [Revised: 08/04/2005] [Accepted: 08/15/2005] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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AIM To assess the impact of mammotome biopsy on preoperative diagnosis rate. METHODS A prospective study was undertaken to examine the referral patterns, radiological abnormalities, sensitivity, specificity and outcome of the first 150 patients undergoing mammotome biopsy at our institution. Most of the referrals were from the NHS Breast Screening Programme (85/100). RESULTS The commonest radiological abnormality was microcalcification (87%). The accuracy of this biopsy technique for the target lesion was over 99%. Post-biopsy, 11 patients needed to proceed to a diagnostic surgical biopsy (7%). Forty-two malignancies were identified at final histology; 41 were diagnosed preoperatively. The positive predictive of mammotome biopsy was 98% for the present study. The present results for mammotome biopsy with regard to predicting invasion were: sensitivity 71.4% (10/14); specificity 100% (0/0); positive predictive value 100% (10/10); and negative predictive value 87% (27/31). CONCLUSION Prone mammotome biopsy has proven to be highly accurate, considerably improving the preoperative diagnosis within our unit, and obviating the majority of diagnostic excision biopsies.
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- M S Dhillon
- Breast Assessment Unit, University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust, Birmingham Women's Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
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Francis A, England DW, Rowlands DC, Wadley M, Walker C, Bradley SA. The diagnosis of invasive lobular breast carcinoma. Does MRI have a role? Breast 2004; 10:38-40. [PMID: 14965557 DOI: 10.1054/brst.2000.0183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Invasive lobular breast carcinoma accounts for approximately 15% of all breast cancers and is difficult to detect using conventional breast imaging techniques. We report a comparison between clinical, ultrasound scan (USS), mammographic and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of 22 patients with invasive lobular breast carcinomas. Actual tumour size was ascertained by histopathology. MRI detected 21 of the 22 invasive lobular cancers whilst mammography and USS detected 16 and 20 respectively. 19 tumours were clinically palpable. MRI was more accurate at assessing tumour size than USS and clinical examination, both of which underestimated tumour size.
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- A Francis
- Department of Surgery, University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust, UK
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Accidental injury to the female breast can cause symptoms and signs which may mimic carcinoma and can also be painful or disfiguring. Nine women who sustained injury to the breast are presented, illustrating some of the manifestations of traumatic injury to the female breast, the majority of which are attributable to fat necrosis. A brief discussion of the clinical and imaging features of fat necrosis is included. These cases reinforce the importance of triple assessment in any woman presenting with a breast lump, even with a clear history of trauma.
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- H J Williams
- Department of Clinical Radiology, University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham B29 6JD, UK
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High-angle annular dark-field or Z-contrast microscopy was used to demonstrate that well dispersed metal supported catalysts consist of nanometer sized clusters. Depending upon the impregnated metal, different cluster sizes were observed. Grouping of Pd clusters could also be confirmed by analytical electron microscopy.
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- S A Bradley
- UOP Research Center, Des Plaines, Illinois 60017
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Muiry JA, Gunn TC, McDonald TP, Bradley SA, Tate CG, Henderson PJ. Proton-linked L-rhamnose transport, and its comparison with L-fucose transport in Enterobacteriaceae. Biochem J 1993; 290 ( Pt 3):833-42. [PMID: 8384447 PMCID: PMC1132357 DOI: 10.1042/bj2900833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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1. An alkaline pH change occurred when L-rhamnose, L-mannose or L-lyxose was added to L-rhamnose-grown energy-depleted suspensions of strains of Escherichia coli. This is diagnostic of sugar-H+ symport activity. 2. L-Rhamnose, L-mannose and L-lyxose were inducers of the sugar-H+ symport and of L-[14C]rhamnose transport activity. L-Rhamnose also induced the biochemically and genetically distinct L-fucose-H+ symport activity in strains competent for L-rhamnose metabolism. 3. Steady-state kinetic measurements showed that L-mannose and L-lyxose were competitive inhibitors (alternative substrates) for the L-rhamnose transport system, and that L-galactose and D-arabinose were competitive inhibitors (alternative substrates) for the L-fucose transport system. Additional measurements with other sugars of related structure defined the different substrate specificities of the two transport systems. 4. The relative rates of H+ symport and of sugar metabolism, and the relative values of their kinetic parameters, suggested that the physiological role of the transport activity was primarily for utilization of L-rhamnose, not for L-mannose or L-lyxose. 5. L-Rhamnose transport into subcellular vesicles of E. coli was dependent on respiration, was optimal at pH 7, and was inhibited by protonophores and ionophores. It was insensitive to N-ethylmaleimide or cytochalasin B. 6. L-Rhamnose, L-mannose and L-lyxose each elicited an alkaline pH change when added to energy-depleted suspensions of L-rhamnose-grown Salmonella typhimurium LT2, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Klebsiella aerogenes, Erwinia carotovora carotovora and Erwinia carotovora atroseptica. The relative rates of subsequent acidification varied, depending on both the organism and the sugar. L-Fucose promoted an alkaline pH change in all the L-rhamnose-induced organisms except the Erwinia species. No L-rhamnose-H+ symport occurred in any organism grown on L-fucose. 7. All these results showed that L-rhamnose transport into the micro-organisms occurred by a system different from that for L-fucose transport. Both systems are energized by the trans-membrane electrochemical gradient of protons. 8. Neither steady-state kinetic measurements nor binding-protein assays revealed the existence of a second L-rhamnose transport system in E. coli.
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- J A Muiry
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, U.K
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Computed tomographic (CT) examinations of 50 acute calcaneal fractures were compared with a further series of 77 fractures in which the date of injury preceded the CT by 6 months or more. 42 (84%) of the fractures in the acute group and 55 (71%) in the chronic group were classified as intra-articular and they form the basis of this study. The alteration in the position of the peroneal tendons in the two groups was similar, with a 5% or less difference in each category. In the acute group the peroneal tendons were normally located in 40.4% of the cases, entrapped by bone in 11.9%, subluxed in 33.3% and dislocated in 14.2%. Structural abnormalities of the peroneal tendons and surrounding soft tissues were identified in 52.4% of the acute group and in 61.1% of the chronic group. The incidence of partial rupture of the peroneal tendons in the chronic group was approximately one third that in the acute group, but the low incidence of complete tendon rupture remained unchanged. The inference from these observations is that, in the majority of cases, partial peroneal tendon rupture is reversible, whereas complete rupture is not. Seven fractures were common to both series and from this limited group the identification of haemorrhage around the peroneal tendons in the acute phase was shown not to be related to the subsequent development of chronic stenosing tenosynovitis. Various abnormalities of the medial tendons of the hindfoot were identified in 17% of the acute group and in 18% of the chronic group. Following calcaneal fracture, CT in both the immediate post-fracture period and in the late phase can be used to detect and classify the soft tissue changes. The limitations of comparing the two groups in this study are discussed.
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- S A Bradley
- Department of Radiology, Birmingham Accident Hospital, UK
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A prospective study following double-contrast knee arthrography was undertaken to compare pain and discomfort experienced at the conclusion of the procedure and for 7 days afterwards. The patients were divided into two groups. Half had the air aspirated at the end of the examination and the other half did not. Twice as many patients in the aspirated group were totally asymptomatic (48% compared with 22%); however, by 7 days after the procedure the numbers of asymptomatic patients were similar in the two groups (64% and 63%, respectively). Thus our conclusion is that air aspiration after double-contrast knee arthrography does reduce short-term morbidity.
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- S A Bradley
- Department of Radiology, Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital, UK
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Twenty-five post-menopausal women with one or more insufficiency fractures of the pelvic ring are reported. In 80% of cases the fractures were multiple and a total of 79 insufficiency fractures was identified. Twelve iliac insufficiency fractures were present in 11 patients located at one of three sites: above and parallel to the acetabular roof ("supra-acetabular"), extending diagonally across the iliac ala from the greater sciatic notch ("oblique iliac"), and adjacent to the sacro-iliac joint ("superomedial iliac"). The plain radiographic appearances of these iliac fractures were typically subtle with ill defined medullary sclerosis, due to trabecular compression, the cardinal sign. Scintigraphy revealed the fractures as foci of increased activity which, in the presence of multiple pelvic insufficiency fractures, may be mistaken for metastatic disease. Computed tomography can be helpful in confirming the presence of suspected fractures, revealing further occult fractures and also excluding the likelihood of malignancy.
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- A M Davies
- Department of Radiology, Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham, UK
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Prolonged pain and disability are common complications of calcaneal fractures. A prospective study was conducted on the value of computed tomography (CT) in 63 patients with 73 calcaneal fractures sustained more than 6 months before. The fractures were classified from the initial plain radiographs, and the patients' current clinical condition assessed in terms of a "disability score". The mean disability scores (MDS) associated with the different types of fracture were correlated with the CT findings. The highest MDS was found in the intra-articular fracture group which comprised 71% of the series. In this group the MDS was increased in the presence of post-traumatic osteoarthrosis of the subtalar joint (61% of cases), involvement of the calcaneocuboid joint (39% of cases) and subluxation/dislocation of the peroneal tendons (47% of cases). Structural abnormalities of the peroneal tendons were associated with a higher MDS including chronic tenosynovitis (eight cases), chronic partial tendon rupture (eight cases), complete peroneus brevis tendon rupture (two cases) and scarring indicating stenosing tenosynovitis (14 cases). A similar spectrum of appearances affecting the medial tendons of the hindfoot was identified in eight cases. Direct CT measurements of the degree of comminution did not correlate well with the patients' MDS. In the patient with persistent symptoms, CT is of value in the later assessment of long-term complications by revealing abnormalities of the subtalar joints and adjacent tendons.
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- S A Bradley
- Department of Radiology, Birmingham Accident Hospital, Bath Row
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Duddy MJ, Bradley SA, Chapman S. Fibromuscular dysplasia of renal arteries and acute loin pain. BMJ 1990; 300:469. [PMID: 2107919 PMCID: PMC1662206 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.300.6722.469-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- R G Doucet
- Allied Signal Engineered Materials Research Center, Des Plaines, Illinois 60017
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1. Addition of L-fucose to energy-depleted anaerobic suspensions of Escherichia coli elicited an uncoupler-sensitive alkaline pH change diagnostic of L-fucose/H+ symport activity. 2. L-Galactose or D-arabinose were also substrates, but not inducers, for the L-fucose/H+ symporter. 3. L-Fucose transport into subcellular vesicles was dependent upon respiration, displayed a pH optimum of about 5.5, and was inhibited by protonophores and ionophores. 4. These results showed that L-fucose transport into E. coli was energized by the transmembrane electrochemical gradient of protons. 5. Neither steady state kinetic measurements nor assays of L-fucose binding to periplasmic proteins revealed the existence of a second L-fucose transport system.
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- S A Bradley
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, U.K
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