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Skeletal muscles in patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) are resistant to insulin; i.e., the effect of insulin on
glucose
disposal is reduced compared with the effect in control subjects. This defect has been found to be localized to the nonoxidative pathway of
glucose
disposal; hence, the deposition of
glucose
, as glycogen, is abnormally low. This defect may be inherited, because it is present in first-degree relatives to NIDDM patients two to three decades before they develop frank diabetes mellitus. The cellular defects responsible for the abnormal insulin action in NIDDM patients is reviewed in this article. The paper focuses mainly on convalent insulin signaling. Insulin is postulated to stimulate
glucose
storage by initiating a cascade of phosphorylation and dephosphorylation events, which results in dephosphorylation and hence activation of the enzyme glycogen synthase. Glycogen synthase is the key enzyme in regulation of glycogen synthesis in the skeletal muscles of humans. This enzyme is sensitive to insulin, but in NIDDM patients it has been shown to be completely resistant to insulin stimulation when measured at euglycemia. The enzyme seems to be locked in the glucose-6-phosphate (G-6-P)-dependent inactive D-form. This hypothesis is favored by the finding of reduced activity of the glycogen synthase phosphatase and increased activity of the respective kinase
cAMP-dependent protein kinase
. A reduced glycogen synthase activity has also been found in normoglycemic first-degree relatives of NIDDM patients, indicating that this abnormality precedes development of hyperglycemia in subjects prone to develop NIDDM. Therefore, this defect may be of primary genetic origin. However, it does not appear to be a defect in the enzyme itself, but rather a defect in the covalent activation of the enzyme system. Glycogen synthase is resistant to insulin but may be activated allosterically by G-6-P. This means that the defect in insulin activation can be compensated for by increased intracellular concentrations of G-6-P. In fact, we found that both hyperinsulinemia and hyperglycemia are able to increase the G-6-P level in skeletal muscles. Thus, insulin resistance in the nonoxidative pathway of
glucose
processing can be overcomed (compensated) by hyperinsulinemia and hyperglycemia. In conclusion, we hypothesize that insulin resistance in skeletal muscles may be a primary genetic defect preceding the diabetic state. The cellular abnormality responsible for that may be a reduced covalent insulin activation of the enzyme glycogen synthase.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:Insulin resistance in skeletal muscles in patients with NIDDM. 155 9
Insulin treatment in vivo provoked rapid dose-related increases in diacylglycerol content and/or translocation of
protein kinase
-C (PKC) from cytosol to membranes in rat soleus and gastrocnemius muscles. These effects were apparent with 1) insulin doses that provoked submaximal and maximal increases in
glucose
utilization, and 2)
glucose
-stimulated endogenous insulin secretion. Insulin-stimulated PKC translocation was evident when PKC was assayed by 1) histone or protamine phosphorylation after PKC purification by Mono Q column chromatography, and 2) immunoblotting for PKC beta and PKC epsilon. Dose-related effects of insulin on PKC translocation were also observed in the rat soleus in vitro, and this was associated with increased phosphorylation of 40- and 80-kilodalton proteins, which were also phosphorylated by phorbol ester treatment. A role for diacylglycerol-PKC signalling in insulin-stimulated
glucose
transport was suggested by studies of [3H]2-deoxyglucose ([3H]2-DOG) uptake in the rat soleus in vitro in that 1) PKC translocation and 2-DOG uptake were correlated; and 2) stimulatory effects of insulin and phorbol esters on 2-DOG uptake were apparently nonadditive.
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PMID:Effects of insulin on diacylglycerol/protein kinase-C signalling and glucose transport in rat skeletal muscles in vivo and in vitro. 159 46
We have investigated overlapping activation pathways for two families of stress genes that are expressed in cells exposed to hypoxia. The growth arrest and DNA damage (gadd) genes are induced by DNA damage and irradiation, and their expression is associated with growth arrest. The
glucose
-regulated proteins (GRPs) are induced by chemical agents that disrupt protein trafficking in the endoplasmic reticulum such as tunicamycin and A23187 and by hypoxia. Here, we demonstrate that the treatment of NIH-3T3 cells with chemical inducers of GRPs results in increased levels of gadd45 and gadd153 mRNA as well as GRP78 mRNA. In addition, hypoxia was also able to increase gadd45, gadd153, and GRP78 mRNA. Therefore the GRP and gadd genes can be activated by similar stimuli (e.g., hypoxia and chemical inducers). However, the mechanisms leading to increased levels of GRP78 and gadd gene mRNA are different and may involve distinct protein kinases. Increased expression of GRPs after treatment with chemical inducers is sensitive to cycloheximide and the
protein kinase
inhibitors genistein, 2-aminopurine, and H7, whereas the increase in gadd gene mRNA could be blocked by the
protein kinase
inhibitors H7 and 2-aminopurine but not by genistein or cycloheximide. GRP78 induction occurs by a pathway that requires protein synthesis and is sensitive to genistein, H7, and 2-aminopurine, whereas gadd gene induction is independent of protein synthesis and is inhibited by H7 and 2-aminopurine only.
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PMID:Gadd45 and Gadd153 messenger RNA levels are increased during hypoxia and after exposure of cells to agents which elevate the levels of the glucose-regulated proteins. 161 53
The effects of protein phosphorylation and dephosphorylation on
glucose
transport activity reconstituted from adipocyte membrane fractions and its relationship to the phosphorylation state of the adipose/muscle-type glucose transporter (GLUT4) were studied. In vitro phosphorylation of membranes in the presence of ATP and
protein kinase A
produced a stimulation of the reconstituted
glucose
transport activity in plasma membranes and low-density microsomes (51% and 65% stimulation respectively), provided that the cells had been treated with insulin prior to isolation of the membranes. Conversely, treatment of membrane fractions with alkaline phosphatase produced an inhibition of reconstituted transport activity. However, in vitro phosphorylation catalysed by protein kinase C failed to alter reconstituted
glucose
transport activity in membrane fractions from both basal and insulin-treated cells. In experiments run under identical conditions, the phosphorylation state of GLUT4 was investigated by immunoprecipitation of
glucose
transporters from membrane fractions incubated with [32P]ATP and protein kinases A and C. Protein kinase C stimulated a marked phosphate incorporation into GLUT4 in both plasma membranes and low-density microsomes. Protein kinase A, in contrast to its effect on reconstituted
glucose
transport activity, produced a much smaller phosphorylation of the GLUT4 in plasma membranes than in low-density microsomes. The present data suggest that
glucose
transport activity can be modified by protein phosphorylation via an insulin-dependent mechanism. However, the phosphorylation of the GLUT4 itself was not correlated with changes in its reconstituted transport activity.
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PMID:Phosphorylation of the adipose/muscle-type glucose transporter (GLUT4) and its relationship to glucose transport activity. 163 3
Improved methodology was used to establish that the phosphorylation of a serine located 10 residues from the N-terminus of glycogen synthase (N10) increases from 0.12 mol.mol-1 to 0.54 mol.mol-1 in vivo in response to adrenalin. The only 'N10 kinase' detected in muscle extracts was
casein kinase
-1 (CK1), although its activity was unaffected by injection of adrenalin in vivo or by incubation with cyclic-AMP-dependent
protein kinase
and MgATP in vitro. Prior phosphorylation of the serine residue N7 by phosphorylase kinase increased sixfold the rate of phosphorylation of glycogen synthase by CK1, and altered the specificity of CK1 so that it phosphorylated the serine residue N10 specifically. Stoichiometric phosphorylation of N7 decreased the activity ratio (+/-
glucose
6-phosphate) of glycogen synthase from 0.80 to 0.45, and subsequent phosphorylation of N10 to 0.8 mol.mol-1 produced a further decrease to 0.17, demonstrating that N10 phosphorylation inhibits glycogen synthase. The major 'N10 phosphatase' in skeletal muscle extracts was identified as the glycogen-associated form of protein phosphatase-1 (PP1G), accounting for approximately 75% of the N10 phosphatase activity in the extracts and about 90% of the activity in isolated glycogen particles. Phosphorylation of N10, after prior phosphorylation of N7, decreased the rate of dephosphorylation of N7. These results, in conjunction with previous findings, establish that adrenalin inhibits glycogen synthase by increasing the phosphorylation of N7, N10 and three further serines located 30, 34 and 38 residues from the start of the C-terminal CNBr peptide (termed the region C30-C38). They also indicate that increased phosphorylation of N10, the region C30-C38, and perhaps N7, is initiated through the inhibition of PP1G by adrenalin, which results from phosphorylation of its glycogen-targetting subunit by cyclic-AMP-dependent
protein kinase
[Hubbard, M.J. & Cohen, P. (1989) Eur. J. Biochem. 186, 711-716]. The conclusion that direct phosphorylation of glycogen synthase by cyclic-AMP-dependent
protein kinase
makes little contribution to inhibition by adrenalin, is at variance with the teachings of the major textbooks of biochemistry.
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PMID:The molecular mechanism by which adrenalin inhibits glycogen synthesis. 165 Dec 42
Okadaic acid, a potent inhibitor of Type 1 and Type 2A protein phosphatases, was used to investigate the mechanism of insulin action on membrane-bound low Km cAMP phosphodiesterase in rat adipocytes. Upon incubation of cells with 1 microM okadaic acid for 20 min, phosphodiesterase was stimulated 3.7- to 3.9-fold. This stimulation was larger than that elicited by insulin (2.5- to 3.0-fold). Although okadaic acid enhanced the effect of insulin, the maximum effects of the two agents were not additive. When cells were pretreated with 1-(5-isoquinolinylsulfonyl)-2-methylpiperazine (H-7), the level of phosphodiesterase stimulation by okadaic acid was rendered smaller, similar to that attained by insulin. In cells that had been treated with 2 mM KCN, okadaic acid (like insulin) failed to stimulate phosphodiesterase, suggesting that ATP was essential. Also, as reported previously, the effect of insulin on phosphodiesterase was reversed upon exposure of hormone-treated cells to KCN. This deactivation of previously-stimulated phosphodiesterase was blocked by okadaic acid, but not by insulin. The above KCN experiments were carried out with cells in which
A-kinase
activity was minimized by pretreatment with H-7. Okadaic acid mildly stimulated basal
glucose
transport and, at the same time, strongly inhibited the action of insulin thereon. It is suggested that insulin may stimulate phosphodiesterase by promoting its phosphorylation and that the hormonal effect may be reversed by a protein phosphatase which is sensitive to okadaic acid. The hypothetical
protein kinase
thought to be involved in the insulin-dependent stimulation of phosphodiesterase appears to be more H-7-resistant than
A-kinase
.
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PMID:Effects of okadaic acid on insulin-sensitive cAMP phosphodiesterase in rat adipocytes. Evidence that insulin may stimulate the enzyme by phosphorylation. 165 32
The addition of D(+)-
glucose
(final concentration 50 mM) to a cell suspension of yeasts (wild type and several mutants of the cell cycle, the
cAMP-dependent protein kinase
system, and a mutant of the adenylate cyclase gene) triggers a rapid increase in the concentrations of cAMP and cGMP in the wild strain. In contrast to cAMP, an increase of cGMP was also found in the mutants. cAMP and cGMP have been characterized as second messengers in eucaryotic cells. Cyclic nucleotide activation of the protein kinases enables them to perform their only known function in eukaryotes, the phosphorylation of substrate proteins. The results, described here by using selected yeast mutants as a model for higher eukaryotes, indicate that there exist two different regulatory systems for the control of the cAMP and cGMP levels.
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PMID:[Modification of intracellular cAMP and cGMP concentration in yeast wild strains and in selected mutants from Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a regulation model for higher eukaryotes]. 165 13
We have reported yeast 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase (EC 2.7.1.105) as having a ca. 96-kDa subunit size, as well as isolation of its structural gene, PFK26. Sequencing now shows an open reading frame of 827 amino acids and 93.5 kDa. The deduced amino acid sequence has 42% identity with the 55-kDa subunit of the bifunctional 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase/fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase from rat liver with extra material at both ends. Although the yeast sequence is especially similar to the liver one in its bisphosphatase domain, the essential His-258 of the liver enzyme is, in yeast, a serine, which may explain the apparent lack of bisphosphatase activity. Also, the yeast enzyme known to be activated via
protein kinase A
, has a putative phosphorylation site near its C-terminus and lacks the N-terminal phosphorylation sequence involved in inhibition of the liver enzyme. In a chromosomal null mutant strain, pfk26::LEU2, activity was marginal and the protein was not detectable as antigen. The mutant strain grew well on
glucose
and contained a near-normal level of fructose 2,6-P2. But in its growth on pyruvate, by contrast with the wild-type strain, no fructose 2,6-P2 was detectable, and it did not form after
glucose
addition in the presence of cycloheximide either. Such resting cells, however, metabolized
glucose
at the normal high rate.
Glucose
addition to the pfk26 mutant strain in the absence of cycloheximide, on the other hand, caused a ca. 10% normal rate of fructose 2,6-P2 accumulation, presumably employing a
glucose
-inducible second enzyme. Using strains also lacking 6-phosphofructo-1-kinase, affinity chromatography revealed the second enzyme as a minor peak amounting to 6% of 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase activity in a PFK26 strain and as the sole peak, in similar amount, in a pfk26 mutant strain.
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PMID:Yeast 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase: sequence and mutant. 165 52
Phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C (PI-PLC) activity in whole homogenates of mouse pancreatic islets decreased 60-85% when the homogenates were incubated at 37 degrees C for 1 h in the presence of down to micromolar concentrations of Ca2+. Ca(2+)-induced inactivation was augmented by calmodulin, the phorbol ester 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate in the presence of ATP-Mg, and by Mg2+. Inactivation was inhibited when ATP was removed and completely abolished by trifluoperazine and EGTA. Inactivation was not affected by the non-phosphorylating ATP analogue, AMP-PCP, GMP-PNP,
glucose
, Zn2+ or a series of protease inhibitors. These observations suggest that PI-PLC in broken cell preparations of pancreatic islets may be inactivated via phosphorylation by Ca(2+)-calmodulin-stimulated
protein kinase
and/or protein kinase C. Inactivation of PI-PLC was reversible. Reactivation started after approx. 2 h incubation, when the concentration of ATP in the homogenate was below 0.15 x 10(-6) M. PI-PLC activity returned to values approx. 25% higher than the initial values. PI-PLC inactivation via phosphorylation by the mentioned protein kinases may constitute a feedback control on the phosphoinositide response, attenuating subsequent diacylglycerol formation and/or Ca2+ mobilization by inositol trisphosphate.
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PMID:Ca(2+)- and ATP-dependent reversible inactivation of pancreatic islet phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C activity. 166 65
To evaluate the possibility that some of the metabolic effects of GH in rat adipose tissue depend upon phosphorylation-dephosphorylation reactions, we examined the effects of the isoquinoline sulfonamide family (H-7, H-8, and HA-1004) of
protein kinase
inhibitors on the actions of GH. In the course of these studies it became clear that these compounds may also block RNA synthesis. In the concentration range of 50-200 microM, H-7, H-8, and HA-1004 completely blocked lipolysis in response to the combination of 100 ng/ml dexamethasone and 30 ng/ml human GH in segments of epididymal fat from normal rats, but were less effective in blocking lipolysis in response to either 1 mM (Bu)2cAMP or 1 ng/ml isoproterenol, which are known to depend upon activation of
protein kinase
-A. Activation of
protein kinase
-C with phorbol myristate nearly doubled the rate of
glucose
oxidation in segments of normal adipose tissue, and this insulin-like response was completely inhibited with 200 microM H-7. At concentrations as high as 500 microM, H-7, H-8, and HA-1004 failed to inhibit the insulin-like response to GH in tissue segments of either normal or hypophysectomized rats. However, when 200 microM H-7 or H-8, but not HA-1004, was present during the first 3 h of treatment with GH, it prolonged the duration of the insulin-like response (acceleration of
glucose
oxidation) from its normal termination within 2-3 h to more than 4 h. Identical results were obtained with 5 micrograms/ml actinomycin-D. The effect of H-7 or H-8 was reversible and required the continuous presence of these agents, whereas actinomycin-D was required only during the first 60 min after GH. Termination of the insulin-like response normally is followed by a period of several hours in which the tissues are refractory to further insulin-like stimulation by GH. When actinomycin-D, H-7, H-8, or HA-1004 was added to tissues of hypophysectomized rats 60 min after GH, the insulin-like response terminated at its normal time, but the tissues were not refractory to insulin-like stimulation upon reexposure to GH. These agents also prevented GH from sustaining refractoriness in normal adipose tissue.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:The isoquinoline sulfonamide inhibitors of protein phosphorylation, H-7, H-8, and HA-1004, also inhibit RNA synthesis: studies on responses of adipose tissue to growth hormone. 168 12
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