Evidence for an internal pool of nucleoside transporters in mammalian reticulocytes

Biochim Biophys Acta. 1992 Apr 29;1106(1):189-96. doi: 10.1016/0005-2736(92)90238-h.

Abstract

Comparisons of the site specific binding of nitrobenzylthioinosine (NBMPR) to intact and lysed red cells from various mammalian and avian species suggest the presence of a cytoplasmic pool of nucleoside transporters. In some species the cytoplasmic pool is about 50% of the total (mouse). On the average, the cytoplasmic pool is approx. 20% of the surface pool of NBMPR-binding sites. In sheep reticulocytes, both pools disappear in an energy-dependent manner during the maturation of the reticulocyte in vitro.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • 4-Chloromercuribenzenesulfonate / pharmacology
  • Affinity Labels
  • Animals
  • Binding Sites
  • Blood Proteins / metabolism
  • Carrier Proteins / metabolism*
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Chick Embryo
  • Erythrocyte Membrane / metabolism
  • Membrane Proteins / metabolism*
  • NADH Dehydrogenase / metabolism
  • Nucleoside Transport Proteins
  • Reticulocytes / metabolism*
  • Sheep
  • Thioinosine / analogs & derivatives
  • Thioinosine / metabolism
  • Trypsin / metabolism

Substances

  • Affinity Labels
  • Blood Proteins
  • Carrier Proteins
  • Membrane Proteins
  • Nucleoside Transport Proteins
  • Thioinosine
  • 4-Chloromercuribenzenesulfonate
  • NADH Dehydrogenase
  • Trypsin
  • 4-nitrobenzylthioinosine