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ArticleBio-protocol2020

Stopped-flow Light Scattering Analysis of Red Blood Cell Glycerol Permeability.

Patrizia Gena, Piero Portincasa, Sabino Matera, Yonathan Sonntag, Michael Rützler, Giuseppe Calamita

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Article in Bio-protocol, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Patrizia GenaDepartment of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Biopharmaceutics, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy.
Piero PortincasaClinica Medica "A. Murri", Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, Medical School, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy.
Sabino MateraDepartment of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Biopharmaceutics, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy.
Yonathan SonntagDepartment of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Michael RützlerDepartment of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Giuseppe CalamitaDepartment of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Biopharmaceutics, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy.
University of Bari Aldo Moro · ITLund University · SE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stopped-Flow Light Scattering (SFLS) is a method devised to analyze the kinetics of fast chemical reactions that result in a significant change of the average molecular weight and/or in the shape of the reaction substrates. Several modifications of the original stopped-flow system have been made leading to a significant extension of its technical applications. One of these modifications allows the biophysical characterization of the water and solute permeability of biological and artificial membranes. Here, we describe a protocol of SFLS to measure the glycerol permeability of isolated human red blood cells (RBCs) and evaluate the pharmacokinetics properties (selectivity and potency) of isoform-specific inhibitors of AQP3, AQP7 and AQP9, three mammalian aquaglyceroporins allowing transport of glycerol across membranes. Suspensions of RBCs (1% hematocrit) are exposed to an inwardly directed gradient of 100 mM glycerol in a SFLS apparatus at 20 °C and the resulting changes in scattered light intensity are recorded at a monochromatic wavelength of 530 nm for 120 s. The SFLS apparatus is set up to have a dead time of 1.6-ms and 99% mixing efficiency in less than 1 ms. Data are fitted to a single exponential function and the related time constant (τ, seconds) of the cell-swelling phase of light scattering corresponding to the osmotic movement of water that accompanies the entry of glycerol into erythrocytes is measured. The coefficient of glycerol permeability (

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AquaglyceroporinsAquaporin inhibitorsErythrocytesGlycerol membrane permeabilityStopped-flow light scattering

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PMID33659385
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