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For glucose metabolism to occur the sugar must do what first?

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Enter a cell

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Can glucose alone diffuse across lipid membranes?

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No, its polar

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How does it get around the inability of glucose to be transported through the cell?

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Bound to transport proteins

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How is glucose entry facilitated?

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Facilitated transport via glut transporters (I-5)

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What are the two types of transport proteins on epithelial cells that transport glucose?

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Sodium dependent, facilitative glucose transporters

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Describe the structure of a facilitated glucose transporter.

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12 transmembrane helices, the amino and carboxy terminals are cytoplasmic, family of five glucose transporters

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What GLUT transporter is expressed on all tissues? Liver and pancreatic beta cells only? Muscle and fat cells? Small intestine?

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1 and 3, 2, 4, 5

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How does glucose bind its transport protein?

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Via interaction with the transport proteins hydroxyl groups

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What are signs of hypoglycemia?

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18-54mg/dL blood sugar, lightheadedness, dizziness, coma

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What is the only way glucose gets into brain?

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Transport proteins

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What enzyme phosporylates glucose once it enters the cell?

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Hexokinase I-IV depending on location, forms glc-6-phosphate which is a branch point for many pathways

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What is the function of glycolysis? Pentose phosphate pathway? Glycogen synthesis?

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Source of ATP; NADPH and ribose precursors; storage of glucose

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Why do we phosphorylate glucose once its taken up?

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Activates glucose for metabolism; keeps glc within cell can’t be transported back out; determines direction of glc metabolism

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What enzyme removes the phosphate on G6P?

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Glucose 6 phosphatase (irreversible rxn. ; found in liver and kidney not in muscle)

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What is different about HK IV? Aka glucokinase?

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Higher Km, therefore lower affinity, therefore takes higher conc. Of glucose to alter its activity (reaction velocity)  better regulatory control of glucose in liver

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Where is glucose 6 phosphatase found? (organs)

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Liver and kidney, NOT MUSCLE

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What cellular compartment is glucose 6 phosphatase found?

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ER

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Where are CHO converted to glucose, galactose, and fructose?

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intestinal tract

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T/F galactose and fructose are converted to glucose or glucose intermediates

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True

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What molecule is a branch point for several metabolic pathways and allows for glucose entry and phosphorylation? Can this molecule be transported out of the cell?

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G-6-P

No

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When ATP reaches a threshold, what process occurs?

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How does glucose enter a cell?

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absorption by intestinal epithelium via GLUT-5 transporters after CHO broken down to monosaccharides

23
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Why can glucose not diffuse across the hydrophobic phospholipid bilayer? How does it cross

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  • it is polar

- glucose binds to transport proteins

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What are the 2 types of transport proteins in intestinal epithelial cells?

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  1. Na dependent glucose transporter (usually luminal side of intestinal epithelia)
  2. Facilitative glucose transporter (usually at basal membrane) => GLUT transporters
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Which glucose transporter is a symporter? How does this help glucose?
- Na dependent glucose transporter | - enables cells to transport glucose against its concentration gradient
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T/F Glucose and Na are coupled so transport can occur in a concentration from low to high direction
False, Na/K pumps keep intracellular Na low so Na moves from high to low while glucose moves from low to high concentrations
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Describe the function of GLUT transporters (facilitative glucose transporters)
1. move glucose from high to low concentration 2. Proteins contain 12 transmembrane alpha helices 3. Both N and C terminus
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Describe GLUT 1 WRT location, KM, comments
location=> all mammalian tissues Km=> 1mM Comments=> basal glucose uptake
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Describe GLUT 2 WRT location, KM, comments
location=> liver and pancreatic B cells Km=> 15-20 Km comments=> in pancreas-plays a role in regulation of insulin -in liver, removes excess glucose from blood
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Describe GLUT 3 WRT location, KM, comments
location=> neuronal cells and all mammalian tissues Km=>1mM Comments=> basal glucose uptake
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Describe GLUT 4 WRT location, KM, comments
location=> muscle, fat cells Km=> 5mM comments=> amount in muscle plasma membrane increases with endurance training
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Describe GLUT 5 WRT location, KM, comments
location=> small intestine | comments=> primarily a fructose transporter
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Glucose binds to the transport protein via what?
interactions with its hydroxyl groups undergoes a conformational change
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What GLUT is found in RBC?
GLUT 1
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How is glucose transport increased in muscle and adipose tissue?
Insulin stimulate recruitment of GLUT 4 to the membrane
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Describe GLUT 2 found in the liver
- Km is high as the important fxn of liver is to maintain blood glucose levels - liver will convert glucose to other energy storage molecules only when blood glucose is high
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Describe GLUT 2 in pancreas
-stimulates glucose uptake in pancreatic B cells - metabolized via glycolysis generating ATP resulting in elevated ATP/ADP ratio in cells RESULTS: INCREASE IN CYTOSOLIC Ca that triggers fusion of insulin containing vesicles with plasma membrane releasing insulin
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What occurs when glucose transport is disrupted through the blood-brain barrier?
- hypoglycemia - Sx decreased supply of glucose to brain-lightheadedness, dizziness, coma - Due to slow rate of glucose transport through blood brain barrier
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What GLUT is present between the blood brain barrier?
GLUT 1 transporters
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Describe the 5 characteristics of neural GLUT 1 transporters
1. tight jxns bw endothelial cells 2. narrow intercellular space 3. lack of pinocytosis 4. continuous basement membrane 5. glucose transporters in both membranes
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What occurs once glucose enters a cell? How does glucose enter a number of different metabolic pathways?
- phosphorylation by one of hexokinase isozymes | - phosphorylation of glucose into G-6-P
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What are the 3 pathways G-6-P is used in?
- glycolysis (source of ATP for cells) - pentose phosphate pathway (source of NADPH) - glycogen synthesis (storage polymer of glucose when ATP is elevated)
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What are the fxns of glucose phosphorylation?
1. controls amount of glucose taken up by cells 2. activates glucose for further metabolism 3. keeps glucose within cell since G-6-P cannot be transported across plasma membrane 4. determine direction of glucose metabolism
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Describe how G-6-P can be converted back to glucose
Glucose-6-phosphatase that is only expressed in liver and kidney
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What catalyzes the first step in glucose metabolism? What is the result?
hexokinases | RESULT: transfer of phosphate from ATP to glucose resulting in G-6-P
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Describe HK I-III wrt tissue distribution, Km for glucose, regulation
tissue distribution=> all cells Km => 0.1 mM or lower Regulation (end product) => inhibited by G-6-P (glucose not phosphorylated by cell unless G-6-P is utilized in a metabolic path)
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Describe HK IV or glucokinase (GK) wrt tissue distribution, Km for glucose, regulation
tissue distribution=> Liver, Beta cells of pancreas Km=> 10-20 mM (lower in fasting) regulation=> induced by insulin
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What is the last step of glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis?
G-6-Pase
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What are characteristics of G-6-Pase?
- irreversible rxn - allows reversal of GK rxn - essential for hepatic control of blood glucose - FOUND IN LIVER AND KIDNEY ONLY - membrane-assoc. enzyme complex found in ER
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What transporter is used at basal glucose levels?
GLUT 1
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What transporter is used when glucose is high? what are the results?
GLUT 2 which results in insulin being released with fuses with plasma membrane at certain levels

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