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Mannitol and glucose movement across the Golgi membrane of lactating-rat mammary gland.


ABSTRACT: 1. Purified Golgi-membrane vesicles of lactating-rat mammary gland were penetrated by glucose. 3-O-methylglucose, mannose, fructose, sorbitol and mannitol, but not by lactose or sucrose. 2. The kinetics of mannitol uptake and release were followed at 2-6 degrees C with the aid of fine filters (0.45 micrometers pore size) to separate the vesicles from the medium. 3. Mannitol efflux exhibited apparent first-order kinetics with k approximately 1 min-1. Neither saturability, nor inhibition by excess sorbitol or glucose, could be observed. 4. Mannitol efflux at 18 degrees C was about seven times faster than at 1 degrees C, and rates at higher temperatures were too fast to be measured. The rate of glucose efflux at 2-6 degrees C exceeded that of mannitol severalfold. 5. These findings imply a channel or carrier of definite, but limited, specificity straddling the Golgi membrane and able to supply glucose for lactose synthesis.

SUBMITTER: White MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1162730 | biostudies-other | 1981 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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