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BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL
Volume 358, Issue -, Pages 517-522Publisher
PORTLAND PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.1042/0264-6021:3580517
Keywords
glucose transporter; GLUT4; insulin
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The subcellular targeting of the two recently cloned novel mammalian glucose transporters, GLUT6 {previously referred to as GLUT9 [Doege, Bocianski, Joost and Schurmann (2000) Biochem. J. 350, 771-776]} and GLUTS, was analysed by expression of haemagglutinin (HA)-epitope-tagged GLUTs in transiently transfected primary rat adipose cells. Similar to HA-GLUT4, both transporters, HA-GLUT6 and HA-GLUT8, were retained in intracellular compartments in non-stimulated cells. In contrast, mutation of the N-terminal dileucine motifs in both constructs led to constitutive expression of the proteins on the plasma membrane. Likewise, when endocytosis was blocked by co-expression of a dominant-negative mutant of the dynamin GTPase, wild-type HA-GLUT6 and HA-GLUT8 accumulated on the cell surface. However, in contrast with HA-GLUT4, no translocation of HA-GLUT6 and HA-GLUT8 to the plasma membrane was observed when the cells were stimulated with insulin, phorbol ester or hyperosmolarity. Thus GLUT6 and GLUTS appear to recycle in a dynamin-dependent manner between internal membranes and the plasma membrane in rat adipose cells, but are unresponsive to stimuli that induce translocation of GLUT4.
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