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Some Vertebrates Go with the GLO

Marie-Berengere Troadec and Jerry Kaplan

Cell 132(6):2 (2008) PMID 18358804

Most vertebrates synthesize vitamin C (ascorbate) de novo from glucose, but humans and certain other mammals cannot. In this issue, Montel-Hagen et al. (2008) demonstrate that erythrocytes from these ascorbate auxotrophs switch the preference of their glucose transporter Glut1 from glucose to dehydroascorbate (DHA), the oxidized form of vitamin C. This substrate preference switch is mediated by the membrane protein stomatin and is an evolutionary adaptation to vitamin C deficiency.

DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2008.03.005
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