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Renal brush border glutamine transport: comparison between in situ and isolate membrane vesicle uptake

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, ISSN: 0005-2736, Vol: 902, Issue: 3, Page: 301-306
1987
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Glutamine uptake by renal cortical brush-border vesicles was compared to transport expressed by the functioning isolated kidney. Comparisons were made with regard to sodium dependency and the adaptive increase induced by chronic metabolic acidosis in the rat. The results show an absolute dependency upon a sodium gradient; sodium-independent glutamine uptake has no counterpart in situ. In addition, acidosis-induced adaptive increase in vesicle glutamine uptake has no counterpart in situ. Rather, the apparent adaptation reflects extravesicular γ-glutamyltransferase-mediated conversion to glutamate and subsequent accumulation; acidosis-induced adaptation of this enzyme largely explains the apparent adaptation in glutamine uptake. Consequently the role of membrane transport in glutamine flux regulation can be assessed providing metabolic conversion is controlled.

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