The Mammalian Glucose Transporters

Targeting of mammalian glucose transporters.

Glucose transporters in mammalian brain.

(;lucose is the primary energy source for mammalian brain and a continuous supply is vital for normal cerebral function. At rest, the brain is responsible for metabolizing up to 60% of the available circulating glucose, and the efficient transport of glucose across the blood-brain barrier (BRH) and into the various cells that make up the brain is essential. Of the six facilitative glucose trans...

Avian and Mammalian Facilitative Glucose Transporters

The GLUT members belong to a family of glucose transporter proteins that facilitate glucose transport across the cell membrane. The mammalian GLUT family consists of thirteen members (GLUTs 1-12 and H⁺-myo-inositol transporter (HMIT)). Humans have a recently duplicated GLUT member, GLUT14. Avians express the majority of GLUT members. The arrangement of multiple GLUTs across all somatic tissues ...

Mammalian Sugar Transporters

Glucose represents the major energy source of mammalian cells. Due to its hydrophilic nature, glucose requires specific transporters in order to cross cellular membranes. Such transport is, in the case of glucose and also other monosaccharides, mediated by energy-coupled as well as facilitative mechanisms represented by protein families of sodium-driven sugar cotransporters (SGLTs) and glucose ...

Glucose transporters in obesity

L’obCsitC, pathologie frtquente dans les sociCtCs industrialiskes, est caractQiste par un sur-diveloppement du tissu adipeux. Nous avons CtudiC un moditle animal d’obksitk, le rat Zucker gCnCtiquement obkse. D b l’iige de 30 jours, les cellules adipeuses des rats mutants transportent beaucoup plus de glucose que celles des temoins normaux des memes portCes. Cette anomalie repose sur une augment...