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  • Title: Low- and high-Km transport of dinitrophenyl glutathione in inside out vesicles from human erythrocytes.
    Author: Akerboom TP, Bartosz G, Sies H.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1992 Jan 10; 1103(1):115-9. PubMed ID: 1730013.
    Abstract:
    Kinetic studies on the low- and high-Km transport systems for S-2,4-dinitrophenyl glutathione (DNP-SG) present in erythrocyte membranes were performed using inside-out plasma membrane vesicles. The high-affinity system showed a Km of 3.9 microM a Vmax of 6.3 nmol/mg protein per h, and the low-affinity system a Km of 1.6 mM and a Vmax of 131 nmol/mg protein per h. Both uptake components were inhibited by fluoride, vanadate, p-chloromercuribenzoate (pCMB) and bis(4-nitrophenyl)dithio-3,3'-dicarboxylate (DTNB). The low-Km uptake process was less sensitive to the inhibitory action of DTNB as compared to the high-Km process. N-Ethylmaleimide (1 mM) inhibited the high-Km process only. The high-affinity uptake of DNP-SG was competitively inhibited by GSSG (Ki = 88 microM). Vice versa, DNP-SG inhibited competitively the low-Km component of GSSG uptake (Ki = 3.3 microM). The high-Km DNP-SG uptake system was not inhibited by GSSG. The existence of a common high-affinity transporter for DNP-SG and GSSG in erythrocytes is suggested.
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