AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, Vol 267, Issue 1 71-G79, Copyright © 1994 by American Physiological Society

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Rapid reversible substrate regulation of fructose transporter expression in rat small intestine and kidney

C. F. Burant and M. Saxena
Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637.

To understand the regulation of fructose transport in the small intestine and kidney, we provided rats with "control" diets (46% glucose as starch) and with diets enriched in fructose, glucose, or sucrose (60% each of simple carbohydrate) and measured the concentration of facilitative glucose transporter isoform (GLUT5) protein and mRNA in these tissues. The fructose-enriched diet resulted in a five- and eightfold increase in GLUT5 protein at 1 and 7 days, respectively, in the small intestine, which declined rapidly with reversion to control diet. No change in GLUT5 protein levels was seen after glucose- or sucrose-enriched diets. Glucose, and to a lesser extent fructose, feeding resulted in an increase in the basolateral GLUT2 protein. Feeding glucose to the rats caused a rise in sodium-dependent glucose transporter isoform (SGLT1) protein levels compared with the control diet. There was a transient increase in the small intestine GLUT5 mRNA 1 day after fructose feeding, which returned to normal by 7 days. In the kidney, both fructose and sucrose increased GLUT5 protein levels three- to fourfold, whereas glucose had no effect. Fructose-enriched diet did not increase the levels of GLUT5 protein or mRNA in a segment of small intestine that was isolated from the rest of the small intestine but continued to have mesenteric blood supply. The results suggest that the levels of GLUT5 protein are regulated by fructose, its in vivo substrate, in both the small intestine and kidney, and the regulation requires fructose to interact with the brush border of the small intestine, possibly stabilizing the protein.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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