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    (GLUT4), also known as solute carrier family 2, facilitated glucose transporter member 4, is a protein encoded, in humans, by the SLC2A4 gene. GLUT4 is...
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  • The drug metformin phosphorylates GLUT4, thereby increasing its sensitivity to insulin. During fasting, some GLUT4 transporters will be expressed at the...
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    be important in the insulin pathway with its involvement with GLUT4 trafficking. GLUT4 plays a crucial role in maintaining glucose balance, and is primarily...
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    through the GLUT4 transporter, thus decreasing blood sugar. When insulin binds to the receptors on the cell surface, vesicles containing the GLUT4 transporters...
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    enhances peripheral glucose uptake (by inducing the phosphorylation of GLUT4 enhancer factor), decreases insulin-induced suppression of fatty acid oxidation...
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    regulates a glucose transporter called GLUT4. TUG-UBL1 is an acronym for Tether containing UBX domain for GLUT4-Ubiquitin Like 1, this is encoded for by...
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  • this by decreasing the translocation of glucose transporters (especially GLUT4) to the cell membrane. Based on the significant improvement in insulin sensitivity...
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    transporter GLUT4 to the plasma membrane, and this translocation process is dependent on phosphorylation of AS160. The role of AS160 in GLUT4 translocation...
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  • role in the linkage of the glucose transporter (GLUT4) to the insulin signaling pathway. The activated GLUT4 will translocate to the cell membrane and promotes...
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    highly expressed in nerve cells. Glucose from the bloodstream is taken up by GLUT4 from muscle cells (of the skeletal muscle and heart muscle) and fat cells...
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    Rab-GTPase-activating protein TBC1D1, which ultimately induces fusion of GLUT4 vesicles with the plasma membrane. AMPK stimulates glycolysis by activating...
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    subclasses. Class I comprises the well-characterized glucose transporters GLUT1-GLUT4. Class II comprises: GLUT5 (SLC2A5), a fructose transporter in enterocytes...
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    thought that exercise causes the glucose receptor GLUT4 to translocate to the membrane. As more GLUT4 receptors are present on the membrane more glucose...
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    principal transporter for transfer of glucose between liver and blood Unlike GLUT4, it does not rely on insulin for facilitated diffusion. In humans, this...
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    resistance) by decreasing the translocation of glucose transporters (especially GLUT4) to the cell membrane. Cortisol also increases glycogen synthesis (glycogenesis)...
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  • fats. The fat cells take up glucose through special glucose transporters (GLUT4), whose numbers in the cell wall are increased as a direct effect of insulin...
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    Activated PKB facilitates the fusion of GLUT4 containing endosomes with the cell membrane, resulting in an increase in GLUT4 transporters in the plasma membrane...
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  • transporter GLUT4. He has also been responsible for the molecular dissection of the intracellular trafficking pathways that regulate GLUT4 translocation...
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    It suppresses lipid accumulation through repression of C/EBPα-activated GLUT4-mediated glucose uptake in 3T3-L1 cells. LC Method for Analysis of Three...
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    regulatory element and novel DNA binding protein that regulates the human GLUT4 promoter in transgenic mice". J Biol Chem. 275 (31): 23666–73. doi:10.1074/jbc...
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    against insulin resistance induced by hydrogen peroxide with restoration of GLUT4 translocation". Metabolism. 55 (6): 722–730. doi:10.1016/j.metabol.2006...
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    Dehvari N, Olsen JM, Kocan M, et al. (May 2019). "BRL37344 stimulates GLUT4 translocation and glucose uptake in skeletal muscle via β2-adrenoceptors...
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    information can be found by searching their databases (for an example of the GLUT4 transporter pictured here, see citation). These profiles indicate the level...
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  • via insulin-sensitive pathways (insulin regulated transporters GLUT1 and GLUT4). Instead, fructose is taken in by GLUT5. Fructose in muscles and adipose...
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    insulin and exercise cause translocation of GLUT4 to the plasma membrane. Except for the fundamental process of GLUT4 translocation, [muscle glucose uptake...
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    across plasma membranes. The Hexose Transporter proteins GLUT1, GLUT3 and GLUT4 transfer only the oxydized dehydroascorbic acid (DHA) form of vitamin C...
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    D, inflammation, sex hormone activity, lipoprotein lipase activity, and GLUT4 activity due to long periods of muscular unloading, among others. Sitting...
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    (December 2010). "Pachymic acid stimulates glucose uptake through enhanced GLUT4 expression and translocation". European Journal of Pharmacology. 648 (1–3):...
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  • transporter GLUT4. Mice that produced large amounts of GLUT4 were insulin sensitive and protected against diabetes, while mice with no GLUT4 were insulin...
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    roles in the cell, like vesicular trafficking through its interaction in GLUT4 vesicles with insulin-responsive aminopeptidase (IRAP). It also plays a...
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