Human HL-60 myeloid leukemia cells transport dehydroascorbic acid via the glucose transporters and accumulate reduced ascorbic acid Journal Article


Authors: Vera, J. C.; Rivas, C. I.; Zhang, R. H.; Farber, C. M.; Golde, D. W.
Article Title: Human HL-60 myeloid leukemia cells transport dehydroascorbic acid via the glucose transporters and accumulate reduced ascorbic acid
Abstract: The cellular accumulation of vitamin C, a substance critical to human physiology, is mediated by transporters located at the cell membrane, and is regulated in a cell-specific manner. Neoplastic cells may have special needs for vitamin C. Therefore, we investigated the transport of vitamin C in a human myeloid leukemia cell line (HL-60). The HL-60 cells lacked the capacity to transport the reduced form of vitamin C, ascorbic acid, but they showed a remarkable ability to transport the oxidized form of vitamin C, dehydroascorbic acid (DHA). Uptake-accumulation studies indicated that the HL-60 cells accumulated ascorbic acid when provided with DHA. Kinetic analysis showed the presence of two functional activities involved in the uptake of DHA, one with low affinity and one with high affinity. Cytochalasin B and phloretin, which inhibit the passage of glucose through the facilitative glucose transporters, also inhibited the transport of DHA by HL- 60 cells. Transport of DHA was completed by D- but not L-hexoses, and was sensitive to D-hexose-dependent counter transport acceleration. These data support the concept that HL-60 myeloid leukemic cells transport DHA through the facilitative hexose transporters (glucose transporters) and accumulate the reduced form of ascorbic acid.
Keywords: human cell; comparative study; binding affinity; cell viability; cell line; tumor cells, cultured; leukemia, promyelocytic, acute; kinetics; radioactivity; glucose; ascorbic acid; high performance liquid chromatography; receptor affinity; dehydroascorbic acid; biological transport; oxidation-reduction; vitamin blood level; myeloid leukemia; glucose transporter; cytochalasin b; isomerism; deoxyglucose; cell strain hl 60; monosaccharide transport proteins; human; priority journal; article; support, non-u.s. gov't; support, u.s. gov't, p.h.s.; 3-o-methylglucose; vitamin receptor; phloretin; methylglucosides
Journal Title: Blood
Volume: 84
Issue: 5
ISSN: 0006-4971
Publisher: American Society of Hematology  
Date Published: 1994-09-01
Start Page: 1628
End Page: 1634
Language: English
PROVIDER: scopus
PUBMED: 8068952
DOI: 10.1182/blood.V84.5.1628.1628
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Notes: Export Date: 14 January 2019 -- Article -- Source: Scopus
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  1. Juan C Vera
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  2. Coralia I Rivas
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  3. David Golde
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  4. Rong Hua Zhang
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