Abstract
The effects of high-fat/low-carbohydrate feeding on glucose transport activity and on the concentrations of glucose transport systems in the plasma and low-density microsomal membranes in isolated rat adipose cells have been examined. Glucose transport activity was assessed by measuring 3-O-methylglucose transport and the concentration of glucose transport systems estimated by measuring specific D-glucose-inhibitable cytochalasin B-binding. Basal glucose transport activity is not significantly influenced by high-fat/low-carbohydrate relative to low-fat/high-carbohydrate feeding and is accompanied by a constant 10 pmol of glucose transport systems/mg of membrane protein in the plasma membrane fraction. In contrast, maximally insulin-stimulated glucose transport activity decreases from 4.72 to 2.29 fmol/min and is accompanied by a decrease from 44 to 26 pmol of glucose transport systems/mg of plasma membrane protein. These diminished effects of insulin on glucose transport activity and the concentration of glucose transport systems in the plasma membrane fraction are paralleled by a 48% decrease in the basal number of glucose transport systems/mg of membrane protein in the low-density microsomal membrane fraction, the source of those glucose transport systems appearing in the plasma membrane in response to insulin. Thus, the 'insulin-resistant' glucose transport of the adipose cell with high-fat/low-carbohydrate feeding may be the consequence of a depletion of glucose transport systems in the intracellular pool.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 589-592 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Unknown Journal |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 7 |
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| State | Published - 1982 |