Characterization of an electrogenic sodium/glucose cotransporter in a human colon epithelial cell line.

Abstract

In this study, we have characterized the Na/glucose transporter in polarized monolayers formed by the clonal human colon carcinoma cell line HT-29-D4. Isotopic tracer flux measurements show that differentiated HT-29-D4 cells possess a sodium-dependent alpha-methyl-D-glucopyranoside (AMG) uptake that is competed for by increasing concentrations of D-glucose, D-galactose, and phlorizin. This transport is exclusively localized on the apical side of the epithelium. Kinetic data demonstrate the existence of a single Michaelian sodium-dependent AMG transporter with a Km of 1.2 +/- 0.12 mM and a Vmax of 3.24 +/- 0.25 nmol/mg of protein per min. Hill analysis reveals a coefficient of 1.9 +/- 0.03, consistent with at least two sodium ions involved in AMG transport. Interestingly, the cotransporter function is not modulated by glucose in the culture medium. Transepithelial electrical parameter measurements show that the transepithelial potential difference (Vt) is glucose dependent and phlorizin sensitive. Antibodies directed against a peptide of the rabbit intestinal glucose cotransporter (Ser402-Lys420) recognize, in western blot experiments, the characteristic bands of the cotransporter on a crude membrane preparation of differentiated HT-29-D4 cells and react strongly with the apical domain of the monolayer in immunofluorescence experiments. We conclude that HT-29-D4 cells express the sodium/glucose cotransporter SGLT1 at their apical membrane and that this transporter generates the basal transepithelial potential difference.

• Authors: O Delezay, B Verrier, K Mabrouk, J van Rietschoten, J Fantini, J Mauchamp, C Gerard
• Journal: Journal of cellular physiology (J Cell Physiol) Vol. 163 Issue 1 Pg. 120-8 (Apr 1995) ISSN: 0021-9541 [Print] United States
• PMID: 7896888 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)

Chemical References

• Hexoses
• Methylglucosides
• Monosaccharide Transport Proteins
• methylglucoside
• Phlorhizin
• Glucose

Topics

• Blotting, Western
• Cell Line
• Colon (cytology, metabolism)
• Electrophysiology
• Fluorescent Antibody Technique
• Glucose (pharmacology)
• Hexoses (pharmacology)
• Humans
• Intestinal Mucosa (cytology, metabolism)
• Mathematics
• Methylglucosides (antagonists & inhibitors, pharmacokinetics)
• Monosaccharide Transport Proteins (metabolism)
• Phlorhizin (pharmacology)
• Stereoisomerism
• Time Factors
• Tissue Distribution