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Glucose transporters in the 21st Century
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The ability to take up and metabolize glucose at the cellular level is a property shared by the vast majority of existing organisms. Most mammalian cells import glucose by a process of facilitative diffusion mediated by members of the Glut (SLC2A) family of membrane transport proteins. Fourteen Glut proteins are expressed in the human and they include transporters for substrates other than glucose, including fructose, myoinositol, and urate. The primary physiological substrates for at least half of the 14 Glut proteins are either uncertain or unknown. The well-established glucose transporter isoforms, Gluts 1–4, are known to have distinct regulatory and/or kinetic properties that reflect their specific roles in cellular and whole body glucose homeostasis. Separate review articles on many of the Glut proteins have recently appeared in this journal. Here, we provide a very brief summary of the known properties of the 14 Glut proteins and suggest some avenues of future investigation in this area.
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“In particular, insulin facilitates the translocation of GLUT1, GLUT3 and GLUT4 from intracellular pools to the cell membrane to amplify the glucose uptake in adipocytes and muscle cells, while GCs antagonize this process by translocating GLUTs from the cell membrane back to intracellular compartments (26, 27).”
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“In pancreatic beta cells, GLUT1, GLUT2 and GLUT3 are involved in glucose sensing and possess different affinities for extracellular glucose compared to those in fat and muscle cells (26, 28).”
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“GLUTs are also involved in glucose sensing in pancreatic beta cells, with the caveat that the GLUT isoforms present in these insulin-secreting cells possess a different glucose sensitivity threshold than those in fat and muscle cells ( 28-31 ).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Thorens, B., & Mueckler, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Lausanne (CH)
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- Corresponding author
- Mueckler, Mike
- ORCID
- Thorens, Bernard
- Venue
- American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism
- Publisher
- American Physiological Society
- Published
- 2010-02
- Volume
- 298
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- E141-E145
- ISSN
- 0193-1849 (ISSN-L)
- 1522-1555
- PMC
- PMC2822486
- OpenAlex
- W2112331117
- Cited by
- 1,013
- References
- 51
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- FWCI
- 2.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- IRIS (submittedVersion)
- SERVAL (Université de Lausanne) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- U.S. Public Health Service (R0143695)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Ion Transport and Channel Regulation
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
- Keywords
- glucose transporters, GLUT family, glucose homeostasis, fructose transport, urate transport, membrane transporters
- MeSH terms
- Glucose, Humans, Membrane Transport Proteins, Glucose Transport Proteins, Facilitative
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