These transporters can be divided into three lessons in keeping with sequence similarity and function/substrate specificity. GLUT2 and GLUT5 are physiologically critical fructose transporters, GLUT9 seems to be a urate transporter at the same time as GLUT13 is a proton/myoinositol cotransporter. The physiologic substrates of a few GLUTs remain to be established. The GLUTs are expressed in a tissue precise manner in which affinity, specificity, and capability for substrate shipping are paramount for tissue characteristic. Although notable strides had been made in characterizing GLUT-catalyzed monosaccharide shipping and mapping GLUT membrane topography and determinants of substrate specificity, a unifying model for GLUT structure and characteristic stays elusive. The GLUTs play a major function in carbohydrate homeostasis and the redistribution of sugar-derived carbons a few of the various organ structures. This is accomplished through a multiplicity of GLUT-established glucose sensing and effector mechanisms that modify monosaccharide ingestion, absorption,distribution, mobile shipping and metabolism, and recovery/retention. Glucose shipping and metabolism have coevolved in mammals to assist cerebral glucose utilization.
Research Article: Journal of Biology and Today's World
Short Communication: Journal of Biology and Today's World
Research Article: Journal of Biology and Today's World
Research Article: Journal of Biology and Today's World
Short Communication: Journal of Biology and Today's World
