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AJP - Cell Physiology, Vol 260, Issue 4 C778-C783, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society
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O. Frohlich, R. I. Macey, J. Edwards-Moulds, J. J. Gargus and R. B. Gunn
Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322.
The activity of the urea transporter was determined in human erythrocytes of the Kidd blood type Jk(a-b-) by measuring unidirectional urea and thiourea fluxes in tracer flux experiments and urea net fluxes in light-scattering experiments. When compared with control cells, Jk(a-b-) cells exhibited diminished urea and thiourea fluxes and lacked the kinetic characteristics of mediated transport, suggesting that in these cells urea and thiourea moved only by simple diffusion through the lipid bilayer. Control experiments showed that anion, water, and ethylene glycol permeabilities were the same in Jk(a-b-) and control cells. These experiments thus demonstrate that Jk(a-b-) cells lack mediated urea transport and strongly support the notion that urea transport function is separate from the transport for anions, water, and ethylene glycol, probably because different proteins are responsible for these transport functions.
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