... gland, essentially all of the glucose consumed was converted to lactate. Glucose uptake in the gas gland shows a very high dependence upon facilitated transport as evidenced by saturation of uptake of 2-deoxyglucose at a low extracellular concentration and a requirement for high levels of cytochalasin B...

.... exp. Biol . 196 , 197 – 212 . * To whom reprint requests should be addressed. ©The Company of Biologists Limited 1994 facilitated transport uniport GLUT glucose arginine cystine lysine mCAT rBAT 4F2hc Xenopus expression Transport proteins regulate...