Author:
Baer Hans P.,Moorji A.,Ogbunude P. O. J.,Serignese V.
Abstract
Mouse splenocytes and hamster peritoneal exudate cells (PEC), including macrophages, were shown to contain a predominantly Na+-dependent and inhibitor (6-[(4-nitrobenzyl)-mercapto]purine ribonucleoside, NBMPR)-resistant transport system for adenosine and other nucleosides. Adenosine (1 μM) was transported about equally in mouse thymocytes and human monocytes from peripheral blood by a Na+-dependent system and the NBMPR-sensitive facilitated diffusion system. Hamster PEC also transported inosine, tubercidin, formycin B, uridine, and thymidine in a NBMPR-insensitive manner. With the exception of formycin B, all nucleosides were phosphorylated intracellularly to varying degree, adenosine being almost fully phosphorylated. During the time course of routine experiments (30 s) formycin B was concentrated twofold over external medium levels (1 μM) without any drop-off in the transport rate. On the basis of metabolic studies it was estimated that uridine and tubercidin were also transported against a concentration gradient. Inosine, guanosine, 2′-deoxyadenosine, tubercidin, formycin B, and the pyrimidines uridine, thymidine, and cytidine (all 100 μM) inhibited transport of adenosine and inosine about 50–100%, while 3′-deoxyinosine showed weak inhibitory action. Transport of thymidine was strongly inhibited by nucleosides except by 3′-deoxyinosine. The Na+-dependent, active, and concentrative transport system appears to be a feature of many immune-type cells, and its presence offers particular conceptual possibilities for the therapy of infections located in these cells.Key words: immune cells, macrophage, nucleoside transport, sodium dependence, nucleoside analogs.
Publisher
Canadian Science Publishing
Subject
Physiology (medical),Pharmacology,General Medicine,Physiology
Cited by
6 articles.
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