Ascorbic acid transport into cultured pituitary cells

Conference · Thu May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1986 · Fed. Proc., Fed. Am. Soc. Exp. Biol.; (United States)

OSTI ID:7246648

Cullen, E I; May, V; Eipper, R A

An amidating enzyme designated peptidyl-glycine ..cap alpha..-amidating monooxygenase (PAM) has been studied in a variety of tissues and is dependent on molecular oxygen and stimulated by copper and ascorbic acid. To continue investigating the relationship among cellular ascorbic acid concentrations, amidating ability, and PAM activity, the authors studied ascorbic acid transport in three cell preparations that contain PAM and produce amidated peptides: primary cultures of rat anterior and intermediate pituitary and mouse AtT-20 tumor cells. When incubated in 50 ..mu..M (/sup 14/C)ascorbic acid all three cell preparations concentrated ascorbic acid 20- to 40-fold, producing intracellular ascorbate concentrations of 1 to 2 mM, based on experimentally determined cell volumes. All three cell preparations displayed saturable ascorbic acid uptake with half-maximal initial rates occurring between 9 and 18 ..mu..M ascorbate. Replacing NaCl in the uptake buffer with choline chloride significantly diminished ascorbate uptake in all three preparations. Ascorbic acid efflux from these cells was slow, displaying half-lives of 7 hours. Unlike systems that transport dehydroascorbic acid, the transport system for ascorbic acid in these cells was not inhibited by glucose. Thus, ascorbate is transported into pituitary cells by a sodium-dependent, active transport system.

• Research Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Medical School, Baltimore, MD
• OSTI ID: 7246648
• Report Number(s): CONF-8606151-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Fed. Proc., Fed. Am. Soc. Exp. Biol.; (United States) Journal Volume: 45:7
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
ANIMAL CELLS
ANIMALS
ASCORBIC ACID
BIOLOGICAL HALF-LIFE
BODY
CARBON 14 COMPOUNDS
CELL CULTURES
ENDOCRINE GLANDS
ENZYME ACTIVITY
ENZYMES
GLANDS
ISOTOPE APPLICATIONS
LABELLED COMPOUNDS
MAMMALS
MEMBRANE TRANSPORT
MICE
ORGANS
OXIDOREDUCTASES
OXYGENASES
PITUITARY GLAND
RODENTS
TRACER TECHNIQUES
TUMOR CELLS
VERTEBRATES
VITAMINS