1. Differential expression of Na+/d-glucose cotransport in isolated cells of Marsupenaeus japonicus hepatopancreas.
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Vilella, S., Zilli, L., Ingrosso, L., Schiavone, R., Zonno, V., Verri, T., and Storelli, C.
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GASTROINTESTINAL system , *DECAPODA , *CRUSTACEA , *GLUCOSE , *BIOLOGICAL transport , *B cells - Abstract
d-Glucose absorptive processes at the gastrointestinal tract of decapod crustaceans are largely under-investigated. We have studied Na+-dependent d-glucose transport (Na+/d-glucose cotransport) in the hepatopancreas of the Kuruma prawn, Marsupenaeus japonicus, using both brush-border membrane vesicles and purified R and B hepatopancreatic cell suspensions. As assessed by brush-border membrane vesicle studies, Na+/d-glucose cotransport was inhibited by phloridzin and responsive to the (inside negative) membrane potential. Furthermore, it was strongly activated by protons (although only in the presence of an inside-negative membrane potential), which correlates with the fact that the lumen of crustacean hepatopancreatic tubules is acidic. When assayed in purified R and B cell suspensions, Na+/d-glucose cotransport activity was restricted to B cells only. Mab 13, a monoclonal antibody recognizing an 80- to 85-KDa protein at the brush-border membrane location, inhibited Na+/D-glucose cotransport in brush-border membrane vesicles as well as in enriched B cell suspensions. Primers designed after comparison of highly homologous regions of various mammalian sodium-glucose transporter) nucleotide sequences failed to produce RT-PCR amplification products from Kuruma prawn hepatopancreatic RNA. The molecular nature of this Na+/d-glucose cotransport system is still to be established. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2003
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