RT Book, Section
A1 Santer, René
A2 Rudolph, Colin D.
A2 Rudolph, Abraham M.
A2 Lister, George E.
A2 First, Lewis R.
A2 Gershon, Anne A.
SR Print(0)
ID 6726326
T1 Chapter 157. Disorders of Glucose Transporters
T2 Rudolph's Pediatrics, 22e
YR 2011
FD 2011
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-149723-7
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=6726326
RD 2023/09/21
AB D-glucose  and  other  monosaccharides  are  hydrophilic  substances  that  cannot  easily  cross  the  lipophilic  bilayer  of  the  cell  membrane.  Since  carbohydrates  are  most  important  for  supplying  energy  to  essentially  all  cell  types,  specific  transport  mechanisms  have  evolved.  While  vesicle-associated  glucose  transport  has  been  described  only  recently,1-4  transporter  proteins  have  been  known  for  years.  Such  proteins  are  embedded  into  the  cell  membrane  and  function  as  hydrophilic  pores  that  allow  cellular  uptake  and  release  and  allow  transcellular  transport  of  monosaccharides.