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. 1987 Mar 15;242(3):625–630. doi: 10.1042/bj2420625

Characterization of glucose transport in an insulin-secreting cell line.

M E Trautmann, C B Wollheim
PMCID: PMC1147757  PMID: 3036095

Abstract

The rat insulinoma-derived RINm5F cell line retains many differentiated functions of islet beta-cells. However, it fails to recognize glucose as an insulin secretagogue in the physiological concentration range. With this cell line, glucose-transport kinetics were investigated, by using a double-label technique with the non-metabolizable glucose analogue 3-O-methylglucose (OMG). RINm5F cells possess a passive glucose-transport system with high capacity and low affinity. Equilibration across the plasma membrane of extracellular OMG concentrations up to at least 20 mM is achieved within 2 min at 37 degrees C. The half-saturation of OMG uptake occurs at 32 mM. At lower temperatures OMG uptake is markedly retarded, with a temperature coefficient (Q10) of 2.9. As indicated by efflux measurements, transport is symmetrical. Cytochalasin B at micromolar concentrations and phlorrhizin in millimolar concentrations are potent inhibitors of OMG uptake. Neutralization of the secreted insulin with antibodies does not alter OMG uptake kinetics. The glucose metabolism of RINm5F cells is much exaggerated compared with that of islet beta-cells. Nonetheless, when measured in parallel to uptake, transport exceeds by far the rate of metabolism at glucose concentrations above 3 mM. Measurements of intracellular D-glucose reveal a lower intracellular glucose concentration relative to the extracellular in RINm5F cells. This seems to be due to abnormalities in the subsequent steps of glucose metabolism, rather than to abnormalities in hexose uptake. The loss of glucose-induced insulin release in RINm5F cells cannot be explained by alterations in hexose transport.

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