Magnesium and calcium effects on uptake of hexoses and uridine by chick embryo fibroblasts.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1977 April; 74(4): 1585–1589.

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D F Bowen-Pope and H Rubin

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Abstract

Cultures of chick embryo fibroblasts were incubated for varying periods in media containing different concentrations of Ca2+ and Mg2+-Mg2+ deprivation produced a gradual decrease in the Vmax of the glucose transport system for the D-glucose analogues 3-O-[3H]methyl-D-glucose and 2-deoxy-D-[3H]glucose and a parallel decrease in the rate of production of lactate from glucose in the medium. It greatly reduced the rates of [3H]uridine uptake and incorporation by decreasing the Vmax of the uridine transport system. Addition of Mg2+ to Mg2+-deprived cultures rapidly increased the rate of [3H]uridine uptake without requiring protein synthesis and increased the rate of 2-deoxy-D-[3H]glucose uptake without requiring RNA synthesis. These effects of changes in Mg2+ concentration qualitatively reproduce the effects of such variables as cell density and serum and insulin concentrations. Ca2+ deprivation resulted in similar, though much smaller, changes in the activities of the two transport systems, but also greatly increased the "leakiness" of the cells to the nontransported hexose L-[3H]glucose.

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