A critique of the alternating access transporter model of uniport glucose transport

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    摘要 INTRODUCTIONThealternatingaccesstransportermodel(AATM)wasinitiallyconstructedtorationalizeandexplainafewreadilyquantifiableandreproducibleexperimentalfindings.TheAATM,asoriginallyconceived,consistsofsinglespecificbindingsitecentrallysituatedwithinthecellmembrane.Thesitealternatelyfacesinwardsandoutwards.Duringtheinversionprocess,thesitecantransportsugaracrossthemembrane,anddissociationintothealternatebathingsolutionresultsinnettransport.ReturnoftheemptysitereinitiatesthetransportcycleasillustratedinFig.1A.Glucosetransport,whichwasdemonstratedfirstinhumanredcells(LeFevreandLeFevre1952)andsheepplacenta(Widdas1951),hashighstereospecificityforD-pyranosesugars,likeD-glucoseandD-xyloseinpreferencetoL-sugars,e.g.L-fructoseornon-transportedL-glucose.Thistransportprocesshassimilaritiestoenzymekinetics:bothhavesaturationkinetics,theKmbeingtheconcentrationatwhichhalfmaximaltransportvelocity,Vmaxobtained,isameasureofapparentaffinityofligandforthetransporter(Fig.1B).Theprocessispassiveinthehumanredcell,sinceatequilibriumtheglucoseconcentrationsintheextraandintracellularsolutionsarethesame;i.e.netuphillaccumulationdoesnotoccur.
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    出版日期 2018年06月16日(中国Betway体育网页登陆平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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