Facilitative glucose transporters GLUT

GLUT stands for Glucose Transport Facilitators. Glucose Transporters... 

Doege, H., et al. Characterization of human glucose transporter (GLUT) 11 (encoded by SLC2A11), a novel sugar-transport facilitator specifically expressed in heart and skeletal muscle. Biochem. J. 2001, 359, 443-449. 

Microsomal glucose transport protein (GLUT ), which is a member of the family of facilitative glucose transport proteins (Chapter 13) and which transports glucose into the cytosol. 

GLUT 2 Glucose transporter isoform 2, a facilitative glucose transporter present in the liver, the p-cells of the pancreas, and the basolateral surface of intestinal epithelial cells. 

GLUT 5 A facilitative glucose transporter isoform present in the small intestine and other tissues that will transport fructose (and glucose to a lesser extent) across the plasma membrane. 

SLC2 (11) Facilitated glucose transporters 1 GLUT brain, retina Most cells... 

By far the most complete study of the kinetics of mammalian passive glucose transporters has been done on the GLUT-1 isoform in the human erythrocyte. The transport of glucose in this cell type is a classic example of facilitated diffusion, the... 

Most known saturable transporters at the BBB are facilitated diffusion systems (Davson and Segal, 1996c). For example, GLUT-1, the transporter for glucose, is a facilitated diffusion transporter. If the level of glucose is artificially raised above that of serum (or if radioactive glucose is introduced into the CNS, but not the serum), efflux of glucose can be shown. 

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