Table 1

Measurement of extracellular UDP-glucose and ATP on resting cells

UDP-GlucoseATP
nM
COS-722  ± 410  ± 3
Calu-316  ± 44  ± 1
CF bronchial14  ± 33  ± 2
Normal bronchial12  ± 52  ± 1
1321N110  ± 43  ± 1
CHO-K16  ± 35  ± 1
C61  ± 11  ± 0.5

Cells were incubated for 2 h in 0.3 ml of DMEM and UDP-glucose and ATP accumulation in the extracellular medium were quantified as indicated under Materials and Methods. The data represent the mean value (± S.D.) from at least three experiments with duplicate samples.