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. 1997 Nov;73(5):2503–2510. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(97)78278-X

Sodium leak pathway and substrate binding order in the Na+-glucose cotransporter.

X Z Chen 1, M J Coady 1, F Jalal 1, B Wallendorff 1, J Y Lapointe 1
PMCID: PMC1181151  PMID: 9370443

Abstract

The Na+-glucose cotransporter (SGLT1) expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes was shown to generate a phlorizin-sensitive sodium leak in the absence of sugars. Using the current model for SGLT1, where the sodium leak was presumed to occur after two sodium ions are bound to the free carrier before glucose binding, a characteristic concentration constant (Kc) was introduced to describe the relative importance of the sodium leak versus Na+-glucose cotransport currents. Kc represents the glucose concentration at which the Na+-glucose cotransport current is equal to the sodium leak. As both the sodium leak and the Na+-glucose cotransport current are predicted to occur after the binding of two sodium ions, the model predicted that Kc should be sodium-independent. However, by using a two-microelectrode voltage-clamp technique, the observed Kc was shown to depend strongly on the external sodium concentration ([Na+]o): it was four times higher at 5 mM [Na+]o than at 20 mM [Na+]o. In addition, the magnitude of the sodium leak varied as a function of [Na+]o in a Michaelian fashion, and the sodium affinity constant for the sodium leak was 2-4 times lower than that for cotransport in the presence of low external glucose concentrations (50 or 100 microM), whereas the current model predicted a sigmoidal sodium dependence of the sodium leak and identical sodium affinities for the sodium leak and the Na+-glucose cotransport. These observations indicate that the sodium leak occurs after one sodium ion is associated with the carrier and agree with predictions from a model with the binding order sodium-glucose-sodium. This conclusion was also supported by experiments performed where protons replaced Na+ as a "driving cation."

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