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BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 360, Issue 1, Pages 295-298Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.06.072
Keywords
ascorbic acid transport; erythroblasts; developmental maturation; erythrocytes; mouse; human
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [R01 DK050435, R01 DK050435-10, DK050435] Funding Source: Medline
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Erythrocytes have the same intracellular concentration of ascorbate as plasma, which is much lower than that of nucleated cells. To determine why erythrocytes are unable to concentrate ascorbate, we tested for the presence of ascorbate transporters in these cells. Human erythrocytes had very low rates of uptake of radiolabeled ascorbate, which was accounted for by the lack of ascorbate transporter SVCT2 in immunoblots. Using a cell culture model of Friend virus-infected mouse erythroblasts, immunoblots showed that the SVCT2 was present in the erythroblast stages, but was lost following extrusion of the nucleus in the formation of the reticulocyte stage. Rates of specific ascorbate transport correlated with the presence of the SVCT2. These results show that mature erythrocytes fail to concentrate ascorbate due to the loss of SVCT2 during maturation in the bone marrow. (c) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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