Transport asymmetry and the effect of cytoplasmic ATP

Transport asymmetry and the effect of cytoplasmic ATP The results of many kinetic studies have shown that glucose transport in the erythrocyte is markedly asymmetric, the and F ax values for zero-tram efflux being substantially greater than the corresponding values for influx, particularly at low 

0 and 20°C with values predicted by Wheeler and Whelan [65] for the simple asymmetric carrier model 

All the results were obtained from estimates of initial rates made using fresh blood. The predicted values for Km and VmnK (shown in parentheses) are taken from Wheeler and Whelan [65] who fitted the data to the asymmetric carrier model by the procedures described in Wheeler [52], 

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