Abstract:
:The cell membrane having a transport system is inferred to be flexible when its function is being activated. For the brush border membrane vesicles prepared from rat small intestine, which have the co-transport system of Na+ and glucose, the membrane elasticity was measured as a function of the d-glucose concentration in the presence of Na+ ions. The elastic modulus of the vesicle membrane was obtained by an osmotic swelling method. Osmolality was changed by diluting the extravesicular d-mannitol concentration. The change in the diameter of the membrane vesicle in response to an osmolality change was measured by the dynamic light-scattering method. The elastic modulus of the vesicle membrane decreased from 150 dyn/cm to 80 (45) dyn/cm with the increase of d-glucose, from 0 mM to 10(30) mM in the presence of 10 mM Na+ ions. On the other hand, in the presence of 1 mM phlorizin, a glucose-transport inhibitor, the elastic modulus remained at a constant value of 160 dyn/cm in the same range of the d-glucose concentration. This indicates that the vesicle membrane becomes flexible when its transport function is activated. In a broad osmolality range, the brush border membrane vesicle showed cycles of "swell-burst-reseal". The vesicle membrane became flexible after every cycle, namely, the modulus was 150, 120, and 55 in units of dyn/cm in the presence of 1 mM d-glucose and 50 mM Na+ ions.
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Miyamoto S,Maeda T,Fujime Sdoi
10.1016/S0006-3495(88)83130-8subject
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1988-04-01 00:00:00pages
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0006-3495issn
1542-0086pii
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