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Glucose transporters: Structure, function and consequences of deficiency
Author(s) -
Brown G. K.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of inherited metabolic disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.462
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1573-2665
pISSN - 0141-8955
DOI - 10.1023/a:1005632012591
Subject(s) - glucose transporter , endocrinology , glut1 , medicine , carbohydrate metabolism , glut2 , glycosuria , glucose transporter type 1 , biology , transporter , chemistry , biochemistry , diabetes mellitus , insulin , gene
There are two mechanisms for glucose transport across cell membranes. In the intestine and renal proximal tubule, glucose is transported against a concentration gradient by a secondary active transport mechanism in which glucose is cotransported with sodium ions. In all other cells, glucose transport is mediated by one or more of the members of the closely related GLUT family of glucose transporters. The pattern of expression of the GLUT transporters in different tissues is related to the different roles of glucose metabolism in different tissues. Primary defects in glucose transport all appear to be extremely rare and not all possible deficiencies have been identified. Deficiency of the secondary active sodium/glucose transporters result in glucose/galactose malabsorption or congenital renal glycosuriäGLUT1 deficiency produces a seizure disorder with low glucose concentration in cerebrospinal fluid and GLUT2 deficiency is the basis of the Fanconi–Bickel syndrome, which resembles type I glycogen storage disease.