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. 1980 Aug 15;190(2):377–383. doi: 10.1042/bj1900377

Nucleoside transport in human and sheep erythrocytes. Evidence that nitrobenzylthioinosine binds specifically to functional nucleoside-transport sites.

S M Jarvis, J D Young
PMCID: PMC1162103  PMID: 7470056

Abstract

Nitrobenzyl[35S]thioinosine binding and nitro[3H]benzylthioinosine binding to nucleoside-permeable and nucleoside-impermeable sheep erythrocyte membranes was investigated, and compared with that found for human erythrocytes. High-affinity nitrobenzylthioinosine-binding sites (apparent KD congruent to 1 nM) were present on human and nucleoside-permeable but not nucleoside-impermeable sheep erythrocyte membranes (8400 and 18 sites/cell for human and sheep nucleoside-permeable sheep erythrocytes was displaced by nitrobenzylthioguanosine and dipyridamole. Uridine, inosine and adenosine inhibited binding. The smaller number of nitrobenzylthioinosine sites on nucleoside-permeable cells compared with human erythrocytes corresponded to a considerably lower Vmax. for uridine influx in these cells (0.53 X 10(-20) mol/cell per s at 25 degrees C compared with 254 X 10(-20) mol/cell per s). It is suggested that high-affinity nitrobenzylthioinosine binding represents a specific interaction with functional nucleoside-transport sites. The uridine-translocation capacity for each transport site at 25 degrees C is 180 molecules/site per s for both nucleoside-permeable sheep cells and human erythrocytes (assuming a 1:1 interaction between nitrobenzylthioinosine and the nucleoside-transport system).

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