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Intracellular monosaccharide and amino acid concentrations and activities and the mechanisms of insulin action.

Abstract：

:Current amino acid and monosaccharide transport models are based on an assumption which equates the intracellular chemical activity of a solute with its concentration. This assumption was tested for alpha-aminoisobutyric acid and 3-O-methylglucose in a giant cell, the amphibian oocyte, by using recently developed cryomicrodissection and internal reference phase techniques. We found the following. (i) alpha-Aminoisobutyric acid and 3-O-methylglucose activities were much greater in cytoplasm than was suggested by concentration data; i.e., activity coefficients were higher than in ordinary water solutions. This is attributable to the inaccessibility of considerable water as solvent (solute exclusion). (ii) Solute concentrations varied regionally as follows: nucleus > > animal cytoplasm > vegetal cytoplasm. Insulin increased the nucleus/cytoplasm concentration asymmetry, apparently by increasing cytoplasmic solute exclusion. (iii) Nuclear activity coefficients more closely resembled those of ordinary saline solutions so that nucleus/ extracellular concentration ratios reflected transmembrane activity gradients better than did cytoplasm (or whole cell)/extracellular ratios. (iv) Mediated passive alpha-aminoisobutyric acid and 3-O-methylglucose transport were constituent oocyte membrane properties. Membrane active transport was initiated with time (in the presence of substrate) and by insulin. (v) Increased temperature mimicked insulin in enhancing transmembrane alpha-aminoisobutyric acid activity gradients and increasing the nucleus/cytoplasm concentration asymmetry. These results indicated that concentration data are a misleading measure of cellular amino acid and monosaccharide activity; some consequences of this observation were explored. A model is proposed in which cell water has reduced solvent capacity or is compartmentalized (considered less likely) and is susceptible to physiological modulation. The model accounts for many observations in small cells, suggesting generality of the exclusion phenomenon and a previously unrecognized metabolic control mechanism.

journal_name

Mol Cell Biol

journal_title

Molecular and cellular biology

authors

Horowitz SB,Pearson TW

doi

10.1128/mcb.1.9.769

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1981-09-01 00:00:00

pages

769-84

issue

eissn

0270-7306

issn

1098-5549

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Intracellular monosaccharide and amino acid concentrations and activities and the mechanisms of insulin action.