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Query: EC:3.5.4.17 (adenosine deaminase)
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The counterregulatory action of catecholamines on insulin-stimulated glucose transport and its relation to glucose transporter phosphorylation were studied in isolated rat adipose cells. Plasma membranes exhibiting reduced glucose transport activity were prepared as described previously (Joost, H. G., Weber, T. M., Cushman, S. W., and Simpson, I. A. (1986) J. Biol. Chem. 261, 10033-10036) from cells treated with insulin, and subsequently with isoproterenol and adenosine deaminase. In these membranes, transporter affinity for cytochalasin B binding was significantly reduced (KD = 133.5 +/- 14 versus 89.8 +/- 11 nM, means +/- S.E.) with no change in number of sites or immunoreactivity of the transporter on Western blots. Reconstituted plasma membrane transport was significantly lower with isoproterenol treatment (0.50 +/- 0.12 versus 0.97 +/- 0.27 nmol/mg protein/10 s). In contrast, transport activity reconstituted from corresponding intracellular transporters (from low density microsomes) was unchanged (5.4 +/- 2.2 versus 6.9 +/- 1.2 nmol/mg protein/10 s). Thus, the intrinsic activity change of the transporter produced by catecholamines appears to reflect a structural modification that is confined to the plasma membrane and not recycled into the intracellular compartment. In cells equilibrated with [32P]phosphate, neither insulin nor isoproterenol induced [32P]phosphate incorporation into the glucose transporter immunoprecipitated from plasma membranes. Conversely, phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate stimulated significant incorporation of [32P]phosphate into the glucose transporter in insulin-stimulated cells without any change in plasma membrane transport activity or transporter concentration. Thus, the phosphorylation state of the glucose transporter does not seem to be involved in either signaling transporter translocation or triggering changes in transporter intrinsic activity.
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PMID:Activity and phosphorylation state of glucose transporters in plasma membranes from insulin-, isoproterenol-, and phorbol ester-treated rat adipose cells. 330 53

Glucose is an important fuel for rat brown adipose tissue in vivo and its utilization is highly sensitive to insulin. In this study, the different glucose metabolic pathways and their regulation by insulin and norepinephrine were examined in isolated rat brown adipocytes, using [6-14C]glucose as a tracer. Glucose utilization was stimulated for insulin concentrations in the range of 40-1000 microU/ml. Furthermore, the addition of adenosine deaminase (200 mU/ml) or adenosine (10 microM) did not alter insulin sensitivity of glucose metabolism. The major effect of insulin (1 mU/ml) was a respective 7-fold and 5-fold stimulation of lipogenesis and lactate synthesis, whereas glucose oxidation remained very low. The 5-fold stimulation of total glucose metabolism by 1 mU/ml of insulin was accompanied by an 8-fold increase in glucose transport. In the presence of norepinephrine (8 microM), total glucose metabolism was increased 2-fold. This was linked to a 7-fold increase of glucose oxidation, whereas lipogenesis was greatly inhibited (by 72%). In addition, norepinephrine alone did not modify glucose transport. The addition of insulin to adipocytes incubated with norepinephrine, induced a potentiation of glucose oxidation, while lipogenesis remained very low. In conclusion, in the presence of insulin and norepinephrine glucose is a oxidative substrate for brown adipose tissue. However the quantitative importance of glucose as oxidative fuel remains to be determined.
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PMID:Effects of insulin and norepinephrine on glucose transport and metabolism in rat brown adipocytes. Potentiation by insulin of norepinephrine-induced glucose oxidation. 331 19

The human erythrocyte membrane carriers for hexoses and nucleosides have several structural features in common. In order to assess functional similarities, the effects of adenosine derivatives on hexose transport and cytochalasin B binding sites were studied. Adenosine inhibited zero-trans uptake of 3-O-methylglucose half-maximally at 5 mM, while more hydrophobic adenosine deaminase-resistant derivatives were ten- to 20-fold more potent transport inhibitors. However, degradation of adenosine accounted for very little of this difference in potency. Hexose transport was rapidly inhibited by N6-(L-2-phenylisopropyl)adenosine at 5 degrees C in a dose-dependent fashion (EC50 = 240 microM), to lower the transport Vmax without affecting the Km. A direct interaction with the carrier protein was further indicated by the finding that N6-(L-2-phenylisopropyl)adenosine competitively inhibited [3H]cytochalasin B binding to erythrocytes (Ki = 143 microM) and decreased [3H]cytochalasin B photolabeling of hexose carriers in erythrocyte ghosts. The cross-reactivity of adenosine and several of its derivatives with the hexose carrier suggests further homologies between the carriers for hexoses and nucleosides, possibly related to their ability to transport hydrophilic molecules through the lipid core of the plasma membrane.
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PMID:Inhibition of hexose transport by adenosine derivatives in human erythrocytes. 337 99

The biologic actions of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) on insulin binding, glucose uptake and utilization, and on lipolysis were studied. At concentrations between 10(-10) and 10(-7) mol/l VIP influenced neither glucose uptake nor glucose incorporation into lipids under basal and insulin-stimulated conditions. This effect was independent of the presence of adenosine deaminase in the incubation medium. At 10(-8) mol/l VIP increased insulin binding affinity slightly but not significantly, shifting the ID-50 from 12.4 ng/ml to 10.3 ng/ml, without any change in receptor number. However, VIP showed a marked dose-dependent lipolytic activity with the lowest effective concentration at 10(-9) mol/l. At 10(-6) mol/l glycerol release increased 7.3-fold as compared to basal lipolysis. In conclusion, VIP did not affect adipose tissue metabolism at physiologic concentrations. In the rare Verner-Morrison syndrome, however, the potent lipolytic activity of VIP may contribute to the metabolic disturbances observed.
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PMID:Effect of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) on glucose and lipid metabolism of isolated rat adipocytes. 342 Mar 1

The release of adenosine by isolated rat adipocytes into the incubation medium was studied in relation to fat cell size and concentration. Incubations were carried out for 60 min at 37 degrees C in Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate-albumin medium containing 6 mM glucose. 2'-Deoxycoformycin was added to inhibit endogenous adenosine deaminase activity (maximal suppression was achieved at 0.8 microM concentration of the inhibitor). The data show that (a) the amount of adenosine released into the medium was similar for the first and second 30-min incubation periods; (b) increasing adipocyte concentration markedly inhibited adenosine release; and (c) large fat cells (volume greater than 300 pl) released significantly more adenosine (per fat cell) into the medium than smaller fat cells (volume less than 180 pl) when incubated at concentrations of less than or equal to 350,000 cells/ml. Above this cell concentration, differences between adenosine release and cell size were not noted. Adenosine release by isolated rat adipocytes appears to be a precisely regulated process which is exquisitly sensitive to the number of fat cells in the incubation medium and, to a certain extent, to the adipocyte size.
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PMID:Adenosine release from isolated rat adipocytes: influence of fat cell concentration and cell size. 351 50

The regulation of the glucose transport system by catecholamines and insulin has been studied in isolated rat cardiomyocytes. In the basal state, 1-isoproterenol exhibited a biphasic concentration-dependent regulation of 3-O-methylglucose transport. At low concentrations (less than 10 nM), isoproterenol induced a maximal inhibition of 65-70% of the basal rates, while at higher concentrations (greater than 10 nM) a 25-70% stimulation of transport was observed. In the presence of adenosine deaminase, the inhibition of isoproterenol at low doses was attenuated. No effect of adenosine deaminase was observed on the stimulation of transport at high doses of isoproterenol. The inhibitory effect of isoproterenol returned when N6-phenylisopropyladenosine (a non-metabolizable analog of adenosine) was included along with adenosine deaminase. Dibutyryl cAMP and forskolin both inhibited basal transport rates. In the presence of maximally stimulating concentrations of insulin, cardiomyocyte 3-O-methylglucose transport was generally elevated 200-300% above basal levels. In the presence of isoproterenol, insulin stimulation was inhibited at both high and low concentrations of catecholamine, with maximum inhibition occurring at the lowest concentrations tested. When cells were incubated with both adenosine deaminase and isoproterenol, the inhibition of the insulin response was greater at all concentrations of catecholamine and was almost completely blocked at isoproterenol concentrations of 10 nM or less. Dibutyryl cAMP inhibited the insulin response to within 10% of basal transport levels, while forskolin completely inhibited all transport activity in the presence of insulin. These results suggest that catecholamines regulate basal and insulin-stimulated glucose transport via both cAMP-dependent and cAMP-independent mechanisms and that this regulation is modulated in the presence of extracellular adenosine.
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PMID:Interactions of insulin, catecholamines and adenosine in the regulation of glucose transport in isolated rat cardiac myocytes. 351 11

In the anterogradely perfused rat heart, physiological concentrations of insulin stimulated the rates and efficiencies of protein synthesis in both ventricles and atria. Half-maximal stimulation of ventricular protein synthesis was obtained at about 35 microU/ml. Glucose uptake and lactate release were also stimulated over this range of insulin concentrations. Adenosine deaminase increased protein synthesis rates in ventricles and atria in the presence of submaximally stimulating insulin concentrations (40 microU/ml) but had no effect in the absence of insulin or in the presence of maximally stimulating concentrations. The insulin sensitivities of glucose uptake and lactate release were also increased by adenosine deaminase. Adenosine may be a modulator of insulin sensitivity in the heart.
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PMID:Stimulation of protein synthesis, glucose uptake and lactate output by insulin and adenosine deaminase in the rat heart. 351 83

We have investigated the effects of adenosine on the stimulation of glucose oxidation and lipogenesis by oxytocin and insulin in rat epididymal adipocytes. The addition of adenosine deaminase (1 U/ml) to the assay medium reduced the maximal oxytocin response (glucose oxidation and lipogenesis) to between 25 and 50% of the maximum response in control cells. The maximal response to insulin was not appreciably affected under these conditions. The addition of adenosine (10 or 30 microM) increased the cell sensitivity to oxytocin by elevating the maximum rate of oxytocin-stimulated glucose metabolism. Adenosine also increased the cell sensitivity to insulin by decreasing its ED50. A change in ED50, however, was observed only when control or adenosine-treated cells were compared to adenosine deaminase-treated cells; but not when control and adenosine-treated cells were compared. On its own, adenosine also caused an appreciable increase in both glucose oxidation and lipogenesis (ED50 approximately equal to 3 microM adenosine). The difference in the effect of adenosine on oxytocin action, compared with the effect on insulin action, points to differences in the mechanisms by which insulin and oxytocin stimulate glucose metabolism in adipocytes.
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PMID:Adenosine modulation of fat cell responsiveness to insulin and oxytocin. 354 88

Intravenous norepinephrine increases glycerol release and blood flow in adipose tissue. The vasodilation may be an indirect effect of norepinephrine through the production of adenosine. Adenosine increases glucose uptake and inhibits lipolysis in vitro. To test whether adenosine regulates blood flow and/or metabolism in vivo, adenosine deaminase (ADA) was infused intra-arterially into the inguinal fat pads of anesthetized dogs. In unstimulated tissues, ADA (n = 7) significantly increased vascular resistance and significantly decreased glucose uptake compared with the effects of a control (boiled deaminase, n = 6) infusion. ADA completely blocked the norepinephrine-induced vasodilation (n = 6). No potentiation of basal or catecholamine-stimulated lipolysis was observed with ADA. The presence of ADA in the interstitial space was verified by analysis of lymph effluents. Interstitial levels of ADA were inversely correlated with the tissue contents of adenosine. These data support the hypothesis that adenosine is a regulator of blood flow in basal and stimulated adipose tissue. Adenosine also appears to regulate glucose uptake, but not lipolysis, in vivo.
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PMID:Adenosine regulates blood flow and glucose uptake in adipose tissue of dogs. 371 62

The effect of glucose on lipolytic regulation was studied in isolated human adipocytes. Glucose enhanced adipocyte glycerol release in the presence and absence of the beta-adrenergic agent ritodrine by 150-200% of control rates. The glucose effect was maximal at just greater than 1 mM glucose and could not be attributed to prevention of a time-dependent decline in lipolysis. Glucose not only increased lipolytic stimulation at each of several concentrations of ritodrine but also enhanced the sensitivity to stimulation at low concentrations of the agent. Ritodrine-stimulated lipolysis was inhibited by insulin by 50-60%; although glucose increased absolute rates of lipolysis, it did not affect the relative inhibition of lipolysis by insulin or the sensitivity to the hormone. In investigating a possible cause of the glucose effect on lipolysis, it was found that the addition of adenosine deaminase increased lipolytic rates in the absence of glucose and blunted the relative stimulation of lipolysis by glucose, the latter implicating extracellular adenosine in the mechanism of the glucose effect.
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PMID:Potentiation by glucose of lipolytic responsiveness of human adipocytes. 372 Oct 62


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