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Brush-border membrane vesicles were prepared from superficial rat renal cortex by a Mg2+-precipitation technique. The initial (20 s) [14C]glucose uptake rate from solutions containing 100 mmol/l Na (salt) was found to be dependent upon the anion composition of the medium; in comparison to gluconate-containing medium (0.46±0.05 nmol/mg protein), Cl− accelerated the initial rate to 1.47±0.21 nmol/mg protein (n=4 preparations, ± SEM). This enhancement was reduced by 5-nitro-2-(3-phenylpropylamino)-benzoic acid (NPPB, 0.5 mmol/l), but was unaffected by 4,4′-diisothiocyanatostilbene 2,2′-disulphonate (DIDS, 0.5 mmol/l). When membrane vesicles were pre-equilibrated with 100 mmol/l K (salt) and 100 mmol/l mannitol and glucose uptake was measured from a solution containing 100 mmol/l Na gluconate and 100 mmol/l mannitol in the presence of 80 μmol/l valinomycin (to generate an outward K+ diffusion electrical p. d.), it was found that intravesicular KCl depressed the initial glucose uptake compared to K gluconate. NPPB (0.5 mmol/l) increased the initial glucose uptake with intravesicular KCl towards values seen in K gluconate vesicles. In conditions where the only driving force for glucose uptake was established by an inward anion gradient (Nao=Nai) it was found that inward Cl− gradients could drive uphill glucose transport and that this was sensitive to NPPB (0.5 mmol/l), but insensitive to DIDS. We conclude that a Cl− conductance co-exists with Na-cotransport in rat renal brush-border membrane vesicles prepared from superficial renal cortex and this may function to regulate the activity of electrogenic transport systems at this membrane.
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Brown, C.D.A., King, N. & Simmons, N.L. Co-expression of an anion conductance pathway with Na+-glucose cotransport in rat renal brush-border membrane vesicles. Pflügers Arch. 423, 406–410 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00374934
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