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Mehta A. The cystic fibrosis transmembrane recruiter the alter ego of CFTR as a multi-kinase anchor. Pflugers Arch 2007; 455:215-21. [PMID: 17805562 PMCID: PMC2629509 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-007-0290-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2006] [Revised: 04/27/2007] [Accepted: 05/11/2007] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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This review focuses on a newly discovered interaction between protein kinases involved in cellular energetics, a process that may be disturbed in cystic fibrosis for unknown reasons. I propose a new model where kinase-mediated cellular transmission of energy provides mechanistic insight to a latent role of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR). I suggest that CFTR acts as a multi-kinase recruiter to the apical epithelial membrane. My group finds that, in the cytosol, two protein kinases involved in cell energy homeostasis, nucleoside diphosphate kinase (NDPK) and AMP-activated kinase (AMPK), bind one another. Preliminary data suggest that both can also bind CFTR (function unclear). The disrupted role of this CFTR-kinase complex as ‘membrane transmitter to the cell’ is proposed as an alternative paradigm to the conventional ion transport mediated and CFTR/chloride-centric view of cystic fibrosis pathogenesis. Chloride remains important, but instead, chloride-induced control of the phosphohistidine content of one kinase component (NDPK, via a multi-kinase complex that also includes a third kinase, CK2; formerly casein kinase 2). I suggest that this complex provides the necessary near-equilibrium conditions needed for efficient transmission of phosphate energy to proteins controlling cellular energetics. Crucially, a new role for CFTR as a kinase controller is proposed with ionic concentration acting as a signal. The model posits a regulatory control relay for energy sensing involving a cascade of protein kinases bound to CFTR.
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- Anil Mehta
- Department of Maternal and Child Health Sciences, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee DD1 9SY, UK.
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Guinez C, Mir AM, Leroy Y, Cacan R, Michalski JC, Lefebvre T. Hsp70-GlcNAc-binding activity is released by stress, proteasome inhibition, and protein misfolding. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2007; 361:414-20. [PMID: 17645866 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.07.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2007] [Accepted: 07/06/2007] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Numerous recent works strengthen the idea that the nuclear and cytosolic-specific O-GlcNAc glycosylation protects cells against injuries. We have first investigated O-GlcNAc level and Hsp70-GlcNAc-binding activity (HGBA) behaviour after exposure of HeLa and HepG(2) cells to a wide variety of stresses. O-GlcNAc and HGBA responses were different according to the stress and according to the cell. HGBA was released for almost all stresses, while O-GlcNAc level was modified either upwards or downwards, depending to the stress. Against all expectations, we demonstrated that energy charge did not significantly vary with stress whereas UDP-GlcNAc pools were more dramatically affected even if differences in UDP-GlcNAc contents were not correlated with O-GlcNAc variations suggesting that O-GlcNAc transferase is itself finely regulated during cell injury. Finally, HGBA could be triggered by proteasome inhibition and by L-azetidine-2-carboxylic acid (a proline analogue) incorporation demonstrating that protein misfolding is one of the key-activator of this Hsp70 property.
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- Céline Guinez
- UMR-CNRS 8576, UGSF, IFR 147, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
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Sakyo T, Naraba H, Teraoka H, Kitagawa T. The intrinsic structure of glucose transporter isoforms Glut1 and Glut3 regulates their differential distribution to detergent-resistant membrane domains in nonpolarized mammalian cells. FEBS J 2007; 274:2843-53. [PMID: 17459098 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2007.05814.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The hexose transporter family, which mediates facilitated uptake in mammalian cells, consists of more than 10 members containing 12 membrane-spanning segments with a single N-glycosylation site. We previously demonstrated that glucose transporter 1 is organized into a raft-like detergent-resistant membrane domain but that glucose transporter 3 distributes to fluid membrane domains in nonpolarized mammalian cells. In this study, we further examined the structural basis responsible for the distribution by using a series of chimeric constructs. Glucose transporter 1 and glucose transporter 3 with a FLAG-tagged N-terminus were expressed in detergent-resistant membranes and non-detergent-resistant membranes of CHO-K1 cells, respectively. Replacement of either the C-terminal or N-terminal cytosolic portion of FLAG-tagged glucose transporter 1 and glucose transporter 3 did not affect the membrane distribution. However, a critical sorting signal may exist within the N-terminal half of the isoforms without affecting transport activity and its inhibition by cytochalasin B. Further shortening of these regions altered the critical distribution, suggesting that a large proportion or several parts of the intrinsic structure, including the N-terminus of each isoform, are involved in the regulation.
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- Tomoko Sakyo
- Pharmaceutical Research Center, School of Pharmacy, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Iwate 028-3694, Japan
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Kasturi S, Bederman IR, Christopher B, Previs SF, Ismail-Beigi F. Exposure to azide markedly decreases the abundance of mRNAs encoding cholesterol synthetic enzymes and inhibits cholesterol synthesis. J Cell Biochem 2007; 100:1034-44. [PMID: 17131385 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.21092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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This study was performed to identify genes that are regulated in the adaptive response to prolonged inhibition of oxidative phosphorylation. Gene microarray analysis in control Clone 9 cells and Clone 9 cells exposed to 5 mM azide for 24 h was carried out as a condition of "Chemical hypoxia." Among several hundred mRNAs whose abundances were either increased or decreased, we noted that the abundance of mRNAs encoding enzymes that catalyze the sequential steps of cholesterol synthesis was decreased; this finding was verified by real-time PCR. Exposure to azide for 24 h markedly inhibited the biosynthesis of cholesterol by approximately 90% and decreased the cellular content of cholesterol by 30%, similar results were observed in HepG2 cells. The abundance of sterol regulatory element binding protein (SREBP)-2 mRNA decreased to 0.37 and 0.25 that of controls after 2 and 24 h exposure, respectively. After 24 h of exposure to azide the precursor and nuclear forms of SREBP-2 protein decreased by approximately 80% and approximately 50%, respectively. Stimulation of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) by AICAR in Clone 9 cells increased the abundance of mRNAs encoding cholesterol biosynthetic enzymes and that of SREBP-1c, and had no effect on SREBP-2 mRNA abundance. We conclude that the decrease in the abundance of multiple mRNAs encoding cholesterol biosynthetic enzymes may be mediated by decreased expression of SREBP-2 mRNA and protein and does not involve stimulation of AMPK. The decrease in SREBP-2 mRNA and protein abundance in the face of decreased cell cholesterol content raises the possibility of a novel regulatory pathway.
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- Sriram Kasturi
- Division of Clinical and Molecular Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-4951, USA
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The AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) system is a regulator of energy balance at both the cellular and whole-body levels that, once activated by low energy status, effects a switch from ATP-consuming anabolic pathways to ATP-producing catabolic pathways. It now appears to be the major target for two existing classes of drug used to treat type 2 diabetes, i.e., the biguanides and thiazolidinediones. However, in both cases these activate AMPK indirectly, and an interesting question concerns whether a drug that directly activated AMPK would retain the therapeutic benefits of the existing drugs while eliminating unwanted side effects. AMPK activators also now have potential as anticancer drugs.
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- D Grahame Hardie
- Division of Molecular Physiology, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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The AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) system acts as a sensor of cellular energy status that is conserved in all eukaryotic cells. It is activated by increases in the cellular AMP:ATP ratio caused by metabolic stresses that either interfere with ATP production (eg, deprivation for glucose or oxygen) or that accelerate ATP consumption (eg, muscle contraction). Activation in response to increases in AMP involves phosphorylation by an upstream kinase, the tumor suppressor LKB1. In certain cells (eg, neurones, endothelial cells, and lymphocytes), AMPK can also be activated by a Ca(2+)-dependent and AMP-independent process involving phosphorylation by an alternate upstream kinase, CaMKKbeta. Once activated, AMPK switches on catabolic pathways that generate ATP, while switching off ATP-consuming processes such as biosynthesis and cell growth and proliferation. The AMPK complex contains 3 subunits, with the alpha subunit being catalytic, the beta subunit containing a glycogen-sensing domain, and the gamma subunits containing 2 regulatory sites that bind the activating and inhibitory nucleotides AMP and ATP. Although it may have evolved to respond to metabolic stress at the cellular level, hormones and cytokines such as insulin, leptin, and adiponectin can interact with the system, and it now appears to play a key role in maintaining energy balance at the whole body level. The AMPK system may be partly responsible for the health benefits of exercise and is the target for the antidiabetic drug metformin. It is a key player in the development of new treatments for obesity, type 2 diabetes, and the metabolic syndrome.
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- Mhairi C Towler
- Division of Molecular Physiology, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
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Muimo R, Crawford RM, Mehta A. Nucleoside diphosphate kinase A as a controller of AMP-kinase in airway epithelia. J Bioenerg Biomembr 2007; 38:181-7. [PMID: 17039396 PMCID: PMC2785893 DOI: 10.1007/s10863-006-9033-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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This review integrates recent understanding of a novel role for NDPK-A in two related directions: Firstly, its role in an airway epithelial cell when bound to the luminal (apical) membrane and secondly in the cytosol of many different cells (epithelial and non-epithelial) where an isoform-specific interaction occurs with a regulatory partner, AMPKalpha1. Thus NDPK-A is present in both a membrane and cytosolic environment but in the apical membrane, its roles are not understood in detail; preliminary data suggest that it co-localises with the cystic fibrosis protein (CFTR). In cytosol, we find that NDPK-A is coupled to the catalytic alpha1 isoform of the AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPKalpha subunit), which is part of a heterotrimeric protein complex that responds to cellular energy status by switching off ATP-consuming pathways and switching on ATP-generating pathways when ATP is limiting. We find that ATP is located within this complex and 'fed' from NDPK to AMPK without ever 'seeing' bulk solution. Importantly, the reverse can also happen such that AMPK activity can be made to decline when NDPK-A 'steals' ATP from AMPK. Thus we propose a novel paradigm in NDPK-A function by suggesting that AMP-kinase can be regulated by NDPK-A, independently of AMP.
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- Richmond Muimo
- Academic Unit of Child Health, Stephenson Wing, Sheffield Children’s Hospital, Sheffield, S10 2TH UK
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- Department of Maternal and Child Health Sciences, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, DD1 9SY UK
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- Department of Maternal and Child Health Sciences, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, DD1 9SY UK
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Leybaert L, De Bock M, Van Moorhem M, Decrock E, De Vuyst E. Neurobarrier coupling in the brain: Adjusting glucose entry with demand. J Neurosci Res 2007; 85:3213-20. [PMID: 17265466 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.21189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Glucose transport over the blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a nonrate-limiting step and has therefore received little attention as a possible adjustment point within the transport reaction cascade from blood glucose to brain cell glycolysis. Considerations of the normal working point of facilitated BBB glucose shuttling via the GLUT-1 protein indicate that the transport is working at about one-third of T(max) under basal conditions. Substitution of T(max) estimates indicates that the transport is then just enough to keep up with glucose consumption, maintaining the steady state. After brain activation, glucose transport has to be stimulated, and this can be accomplished by increasing the driving force or changing the T(max) and/or K(t) parameters of BBB transport. The first possibility involves a decrease of brain interstitial glucose with subsequent flow stimulation according to the law of mass action (LMA), whereas the second possibility involves signaling from activated neurons to the BBB, a regulation loop that we propose to be called "neurobarrier coupling" (NBC). Theoretical analysis of the LMA effect and comparison with data on glucose dynamics during brain activation suggest that this factor alone only covers about half of the stimulation necessary to bring glucose delivery into line with the elevated glucose consumption during activation. Adjusting glucose entry with demand thus probably involves both LMA and NBC effects, depending on the degree of brain activation. Further work is needed to demonstrate NBC effects following physiological brain activation in vivo and to identify the signals that lead to NBC in in vitro experiments.
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- Luc Leybaert
- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
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The stress-signaling protein, adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase (AMPK), regulates a variety of pathways in cells that 1) increase the provision and utilization of energy-providing substrates such as glucose and fatty acids, 2) inhibit energy-requiring pathways such as cholesterol biosynthesis and protein synthesis, and 3) increase the transcription of genes involved in energy metabolism and mitochondrial biogenesis. In the heart, AMPK therefore becomes very important in protecting against ischemia-reperfusion injury and regulating substrate metabolism in the face of changes in workload. This review summarizes the regulation of AMPK activity in the heart and discusses the effects of AMPK activation.
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- Raymond Russell
- Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, FMP 3, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
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Roelofs B, Tidball A, Lindborg AE, TenHarmsel A, Vander Kooy TO, Louters LL. Acute activation of glucose uptake by glucose deprivation in L929 fibroblast cells. Biochimie 2006; 88:1941-6. [PMID: 17010494 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2006.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2006] [Accepted: 08/17/2006] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Glucose is a very important energy source for a wide variety of cells, and the ability of cells to respond to changes in glucose availability or other cell stresses is of critical importance. Many mammalian cells respond to acute stress by increasing the V(max) of transport through GLUT1; the most ubiquitously expressed glucose transporter isoform. This study investigated the acute response of glucose uptake to glucose deprivation in L929 fibroblast cells--a cell line that expresses only the GLUT1 transporter. Results indicated that glucose deprivation of only a minute activated glucose uptake 10-fold and reached a maximum of 20-fold within 10 min. The activation was dose dependent and only partially muted by addition of up to 20mM pyruvate as an alternate energy source. In contrast to the kinetics of acute metabolic stress, glucose deprivation decreased the K(m) of transport, but did not alter the V(max). Maximal activation of glucose transport by glucose deprivation was completely additive to activation of transport by methylene blue--a stimulant that increased the V(max) of transport without a change in the K(m). Glucose-deprived activation of glucose transport was not inhibited by wortmannin or herbimycin A, but was completely inhibited by phenylarsine oxide. Altogether, the data indicate that L929 fibroblast cells respond quickly and robustly to the cell stress of glucose deprivation and methylene blue treatment by two distinct activation pathways.
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- Brian Roelofs
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Calvin College, 3201 Burton SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546, USA
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Onlamoon N, Hudson K, Bryan P, Mayne AE, Bonyhadi M, Berenson R, Sundstrom BJ, Bostik P, Ansari AA, Villinger F. Optimization of in vitro expansion of macaque CD4 T cells using anti-CD3 and co-stimulation for autotransfusion therapy. J Med Primatol 2006; 35:178-93. [PMID: 16872281 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0684.2006.00182.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND Our laboratory has previously shown that adoptive transfer of in vitro-expanded autologous purified polyclonal CD4(+) T cells using anti-CD3/CD28-coated beads induced antiviral responses capable of controlling SIV replication in vivo. METHODS As CD4(+) T cells comprise several phenotypic and functional lineages, studies were carried out to optimize the in vitro culture conditions for maximal CD4(+) T-cell expansion, survival and delineate the phenotype of these expanded CD4(+) T cells to be linked to maximal clinical benefit. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS The results showed that whereas anti-monkey CD3gamma/epsilon was able to induce T-cell proliferation and expansion in combination with antibodies against multiple co-stimulatory molecules, monkey CD3epsilon cross reacting antibodies failed to induce proliferation of macaque CD4(+) T cells. Among co-stimulatory signals, anti-CD28 stimulation was consistently superior to anti-4-1BB, CD27 or ICOS while the use of anti-CD154 failed to deliver a detectable proliferation signal. Increasing the relative anti-CD28 co-stimulatory signal relative to anti-CD3 provided a modest enhancement of expansion. Additional strategies for optimization included attempts to neutralize free radicals, enhancement of glucose uptake by T cells or addition of T-cell stimulatory cytokines. However, none of these strategies provided any detectable proliferative advantage. Addition of 10 autologous irradiated feeder cells/expanding T cell provided some enhancement of expansion; however, given the high numbers of T cell needed, this approach was deemed impractical and costly, and lower ratios of feeder to expanding T cells failed to provide such benefit. The most critical parameter for efficient expansion of purified CD4(+) T cells from multiple monkeys was the optimization of space and culture conditions at culture inception. Finally, anti-CD3/28-expanded CD4(+) T cells uniformly exhibited a central memory phenotype, absence of CCR5 expression, marked CXCR4 expression in vitro, low levels of caspase 3 but also of Bcl-2 expression.
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- Nattawat Onlamoon
- Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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Niesler CU, Myburgh KH, Moore F. The changing AMPK expression profile in differentiating mouse skeletal muscle myoblast cells helps confer increasing resistance to apoptosis. Exp Physiol 2006; 92:207-17. [PMID: 16945942 DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2006.034736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) functions as a alpha/beta/gamma heterotrimer to preserve ATP levels and so cell viability during stressful conditions. However, its role in aiding survival of adult skeletal muscle precursor cells is unclear. Using the differentiating mouse C2C12 postnatal skeletal muscle myoblast cell line, we have determined that proteins for the AMPK subunit isoforms alpha2 and gamma2 are constitutively expressed, while those for alpha1, beta1 and beta2 are undetectable in undifferentiated myoblasts but increasingly expressed with differentiation to myotubes. Although the gamma3 subunit is expressed at a low level in myoblasts, it too is expressed increasingly with differentiation to myotubes. The p50 but not the p72 isoform of the embryonic alpha subunit homologue MELK is expressed only in proliferating myoblasts, while the ARK5 alpha subunit homologue is increasingly expressed with differentiation. Myotubes displayed higher basal and stimulated alpha1/alpha2 AMPK activation than myoblasts. Furthermore, serum starvation resulted in less apoptosis of differentiated myotubes than of undifferentiated myoblasts. This reflects, in part, the increased expression of functional AMPK in the myotubes, since specific inhibition of AMPK activity with 6-[4-(2-piperidin-1-ylethoxy)-phenyl]-3-pyridin-4-ylpyrazolo[1,5-alpha] pyrimidine (Compound C) exacerbated the apoptosis resulting from serum withdrawal. If these in vitro events can also occur in vivo, they could have implications for pathologies such as muscle wasting, in which undifferentiated satellite stem cells may be easier apoptotic targets than their differentiated counterparts. Furthermore, these results suggest that when interpreting results from in vitro or in vivo experiments on AMPK, the subunit expression profile should be taken into account.
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- Carola U Niesler
- Hormone and Metabolic Research Unit, Christian de Duve Institute of Cellular Pathology, University of Louvain Medical School, ICP-UCL 7529, Avenue Hippocrate 75, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium
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Zachara NE, Hart GW. Cell signaling, the essential role of O-GlcNAc! Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids 2006; 1761:599-617. [PMID: 16781888 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2006.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 291] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2005] [Revised: 04/20/2006] [Accepted: 04/24/2006] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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An increasing body of evidence points to a central regulatory role for glucose in mediating cellular processes and expands the role of glucose well beyond its traditional role(s) in energy metabolism. Recently, it has been recognized that one downstream effector produced from glucose is UDP-GlcNAc. Levels of UDP-GlcNAc, and the subsequent addition of O-linked beta-N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) to Ser/Thr residues, is involved in regulating nuclear and cytoplasmic proteins in a manner analogous to protein phosphorylation. O-GlcNAc protein modification is essential for life in mammalian cells, highlighting the importance of this simple post-translational modification in basic cellular regulation. Recent research has highlighted key roles for O-GlcNAc serving as a nutrient sensor in regulating insulin signaling, the cell cycle, and calcium handling, as well as the cellular stress response.
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- Natasha E Zachara
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins Singapore, 31 Biopolis Way, #02-01 The Nanos, 138669 Singapore
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The LKB1-->AMPK cascade is switched on by metabolic stresses that either inhibit ATP production (e.g. hypoxia, hypoglycaemia) or that accelerate ATP consumption (e.g. muscle contraction). Any decline in cellular energy status is accompanied by a rise in the cellular AMP: ATP ratio, and this activates AMPK by a complex and sensitive mechanism involving antagonistic binding of the nucleotides to two sites on the regulatory gamma subunits of AMPK. Once activated by metabolic stress, AMPK activates catabolic pathways that generate ATP, while inhibiting cell growth and biosynthesis and other processes that consume ATP. While the AMPK system probably evolved in single-celled eukaryotes to maintain energy balance at the cellular level, in multicellular organisms its role has become adapted so that it is also involved in maintaining whole body energy balance. Thus, it is regulated by hormones and cytokines, especially the adipokines leptin and adiponectin, increasing whole body energy expenditure while regulating food intake. Some hormones may activate AMPK by an LKB1-independent mechanism involving Ca2+/calmodulin dependent protein kinase kinases. Low levels of activation of AMPK are likely to play a role in the current global rise in obesity and Type 2 diabetes, and AMPK is the target for the widely used antidiabetic drug metformin.
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- D Grahame Hardie
- Division of Molecular Physiology, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, MSI/WTB/CIR Complex, Dow Street, Dundee DD1 5EH, Scotland, UK.
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Aymerich I, Foufelle F, Ferré P, Casado FJ, Pastor-Anglada M. Extracellular adenosine activates AMP-dependent protein kinase (AMPK). J Cell Sci 2006; 119:1612-21. [PMID: 16569664 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.02865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Adenosine monophosphate (AMP)-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is a heterotrimeric complex that senses intracellular energy status and exerts rapid regulation on energy-demanding and -consuming metabolic pathways. Although alterations in the intracellular adenosine nucleotide pool are traditionally assumed to be the consequence of changes in energy metabolism, in this study we have addressed the question of whether extracellular adenosine contributes to AMPK regulation. In the intestinal rat epithelial cell line IEC-6, addition of adenosine rapidly increases AMP intracellular concentrations and upregulates alpha1AMPK, thus promoting phosphorylation of its downstream target acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC). The effect of adenosine on AMPK signaling is completely blocked by transducing IEC-6 cells with an adenoviral vector expressing a mutated alpha1 subunit, resulting in a dominant-negative effect on endogenous AMPK activity. These effects are blocked by 5'-iodotubercidine (5'-ITU), an inhibitor of adenosine kinase. Moreover, inhibition of adenosine transport through the concentrative adenosine plasma membrane transporter CNT2 with formycin B results in the blockade of adenosine-mediated AMPK signaling. Extracellular adenosine is equally able to activate AMPK and promote ACC phosphorylation in liver parenchymal cell models in a manner that is also inhibited by 5'-ITU. In summary, this study shows that adenosine, when added at physiological concentrations, activates AMPK and promotes ACC phosphorylation. Adenosine must be transported and phosphorylated to exert its action. Thus, nucleoside transporters might be novel players in the complex regulation of AMPK and energy metabolism.
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- Ivette Aymerich
- Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Universitat de Barcelona, 08071 Barcelona, Spain
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Palmada M, Boehmer C, Akel A, Rajamanickam J, Jeyaraj S, Keller K, Lang F. SGK1 kinase upregulates GLUT1 activity and plasma membrane expression. Diabetes 2006; 55:421-7. [PMID: 16443776 DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.55.02.06.db05-0720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3 kinase) inhibition disrupts the ability of insulin to stimulate GLUT1 and GLUT4 translocation into the cell membrane and thus glucose transport. The effect on GLUT4 but not on GLUT1 is mediated by activation of protein kinase B (PKB). The serum- and glucocorticoid-inducible kinase SGK1, a further kinase downstream of PI3 kinase, regulates several transporters by enhancing their plasma membrane abundance. GLUT1 contains a consensus site ((95)Ser) for phosphorylation by SGK1. Thus, the present study investigated whether GLUT1 is regulated by the kinase. Tracer-flux studies in Xenopus oocytes and HEK-293 cells demonstrated that GLUT1 transport is enhanced by constitutively active (S422D)SGK1. The effect requires the kinase catalytical activity since the inactive mutant (K127N)SGK1 failed to modulate GLUT1. GLUT1 stimulation by (S422D)SGK1 is not due to de novo protein synthesis but rather to an increase of the transporter's abundance in the plasma membrane. Kinetic analysis revealed that SGK1 enhances maximal transport rate without altering GLUT1 substrate affinity. These observations suggest that SGK1 regulates GLUT1 and may contribute to or account for the PI3 kinase-dependent but PKB-independent stimulation of GLUT1 by insulin.
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- Monica Palmada
- Institute of Physiology I, University of Tübingen, Germany
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Crawford R, Treharne K, Best O, Muimo R, Riemen C, Mehta A. A novel physical and functional association between nucleoside diphosphate kinase A and AMP-activated protein kinase alpha1 in liver and lung. Biochem J 2005; 392:201-9. [PMID: 16026327 PMCID: PMC1317679 DOI: 10.1042/bj20050269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2005] [Revised: 06/08/2005] [Accepted: 07/18/2005] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Nucleoside diphosphate kinase (NDPK, NM23/awd) belongs to a multifunctional family of highly conserved proteins (approximately 16-20 kDa) containing two well-characterized isoforms (NM23-H1 and -H2; also known as NDPK A and B). NDPK catalyses the conversion of nucleoside diphosphates into nucleoside triphosphates, regulates a diverse array of cellular events and can act as a protein histidine kinase. AMPK (AMP-activated protein kinase) is a heterotrimeric protein complex that responds to cellular energy status by switching off ATP-consuming pathways and switching on ATP-generating pathways when ATP is limiting. AMPK was first discovered as an activity that inhibited preparations of ACC1 (acetyl-CoA carboxylase), a regulator of cellular fatty acid synthesis. We report that NM23-H1/NDPK A and AMPK alpha1 are associated in cytosol from two different tissue sources: rat liver and a human lung cell line (Calu-3). Co-immunoprecipitation and binding assay data from both cell types show that the H1/A (but not H2/B) isoform of NDPK is associated with AMPK complexes containing the alpha1 (but not alpha2) catalytic subunit. Manipulation of NM23-H1/NDPK A nucleotide transphosphorylation activity to generate ATP (but not GTP) enhances the activity of AMPK towards its specific peptide substrate in vitro and also regulates the phosphorylation of ACC1, an in vivo target for AMPK. Thus novel NM23-H1/NDPK A-dependent regulation of AMPK alpha1-mediated phosphorylation is present in mammalian cells.
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- Russell M. Crawford
- *Department of Maternal and Child Health Sciences, Ninewells Hospital, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 9SY, U.K
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- *Department of Maternal and Child Health Sciences, Ninewells Hospital, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 9SY, U.K
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- *Department of Maternal and Child Health Sciences, Ninewells Hospital, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 9SY, U.K
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- †Academic Unit of Child Health, Stephenson Wing, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield S10 2TH, U.K
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- *Department of Maternal and Child Health Sciences, Ninewells Hospital, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 9SY, U.K
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- *Department of Maternal and Child Health Sciences, Ninewells Hospital, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 9SY, U.K
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LaRosa C, Downs SM. Stress stimulates AMP-activated protein kinase and meiotic resumption in mouse oocytes. Biol Reprod 2005; 74:585-92. [PMID: 16280415 DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.105.046524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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This study examined the effects of three different cellular stresses on oocyte maturation in meiotically arrested mouse oocytes. Cumulus-cell enclosed oocytes (CEO) or denuded oocytes (DO) from immature, eCG-primed mice were cultured for 17-18 h in dbcAMP-containing medium plus increasing concentrations of the metabolic poison, sodium arsenite, or the free radical-generating agent, menadione. Alternatively, oocytes were exposed to osmotic stress by pulsing with sorbitol and returned to control inhibitory conditions for the duration of culture. Arsenite and menadione each dose-dependently induced germinal vesicle breakdown (GVB) in both DO and CEO. DO, but not CEO, pulsed for 60 min with 500 mM sorbitol were stimulated to resume maturation. The lack of effect in CEO suggests that the cumulus cells may be playing a protective role in osmotic stress-induced GVB. The AMP-activated protein kinase (PRKA; formerly known as AMPK) inhibitors, compound C and araA, completely blocked the meiosis-stimulating effects of all the tested stresses. Western blots showed that acetyl-CoA carboxylase, an important substrate of PRKA, was phosphorylated before GVB, supporting a role for PRKA in stress-induced maturation. Together, these data show that a variety of stresses stimulate GVB in meiotically arrested mouse oocytes in vitro and suggest that this effect is mediated through activation of PRKA.
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- Cean LaRosa
- Biology Department, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233, USA
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Wiernsperger NF. Is non-insulin dependent glucose uptake a therapeutic alternative? Part 1: physiology, mechanisms and role of non insulin-dependent glucose uptake in type 2 diabetes. DIABETES & METABOLISM 2005; 31:415-26. [PMID: 16357785 DOI: 10.1016/s1262-3636(07)70212-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Several decades of research for treating type 2 diabetes have yielded new drugs but the actual experience with the available oral antidiabetic compounds clearly shows that therapeutic needs are not matched. This highlights the urgent need for exploring other pathways. All cell types have the capacity to take up glucose independently of insulin, whereby basal but also hyperglycaemia-promoted glucose supply is ensured. Although poorly explored, insulin-independent glucose uptake might nevertheless represent a therapeutic target, as an alternative to the clear limits of actual drug treatments. This review not only critically examines some major pathways not requiring insulin (although they may be influenced by the hormone) but importantly, this analysis extends to the clinical applicability of these potential therapeutic principles by also considering their predictable tolerability for long-term therapy. In particular vascular safety (the ultimate problem linked with diabetes) will be envisaged because of the ubiquitous distribution of glucose transporters and some linked mechanisms. Several mechanisms can be identified which do not require insulin for their functioning. The first part of this review deals with the description, the regulation and the limits of some mechanisms representing potential pharmacological targets capable of having a highly significant impact on glucose uptake. These selected topics are: a) unmasking and/or activation of glucose transporters in cell plasma membranes, b) insulin mimetics acting at postreceptor level, c) activation of AMPK, d) increasing nitric oxide and e) increasing glucose-6P and glycogen stores.
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- N F Wiernsperger
- INSERM UMR 585, Bâtiment Louis Pasteur, INSA Lyon, Cedex, France.
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Louters LL, Dyste SG, Frieswyk D, Tenharmsel A, Vander Kooy TO, Walters L, Whalen T. Methylene blue stimulates 2-deoxyglucose uptake in L929 fibroblast cells. Life Sci 2005; 78:586-91. [PMID: 16122762 DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2005.05.082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2005] [Accepted: 05/01/2005] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Methylene blue (MB), a common cell stain, has been shown to inhibit nitric oxide synthase and guanylate cyclase, which has led to the recent use of MB in nitric oxide signaling studies. This study documents the effects of MB on 2-deoxyglucose (2DG) uptake in L929 fibroblast cells where uptake is controlled by a single glucose transporter, GLUT 1. MB significantly activates cytochalasin B-inhibitable glucose transport in a dose dependent fashion within 10 min. A maximal stimulation of up to 800% was achieved by 50 microM MB after a 45-min exposure. The Vmax of transport increased without a change in the Km, which was accomplished without a significant change in the GLUT 1 content. The reduced form of MB, did not stimulate 2DG uptake and potassium ferricyanide, an extracellular redox agent, prevented both the staining and stimulatory effects of MB suggesting MB is reduced at the cell surface before it enters L929 cells. Phenylarsine oxide did not block cell staining as noted in other cells lines, but it did inhibit both basal and MB-stimulated 2DG uptake. Likewise, methyl-beta-cyclodextrin, an agent used to remove membrane cholesterol, blocked both the staining and stimulatory effects of MB. The AMP analog, AICAR, inhibited rather than activated basal 2DG uptake, and it did not alter MB-stimulated uptake suggesting that AMP kinase activation is not critical to the MB effect. Wortmannin, an inhibitor of PI kinase, had no effect on MB-stimulated 2DG uptake. These data provide additional insight into the acute regulation of GLUT 1 transport activity in L929 cells.
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- Larry L Louters
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI 49546, USA.
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Hawley SA, Pan DA, Mustard KJ, Ross L, Bain J, Edelman AM, Frenguelli BG, Hardie DG. Calmodulin-dependent protein kinase kinase-beta is an alternative upstream kinase for AMP-activated protein kinase. Cell Metab 2005; 2:9-19. [PMID: 16054095 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2005.05.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1281] [Impact Index Per Article: 67.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2005] [Revised: 04/29/2005] [Accepted: 05/06/2005] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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The AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is a critical regulator of energy balance at both the cellular and whole-body levels. Two upstream kinases have been reported to activate AMPK in cell-free assays, i.e., the tumor suppressor LKB1 and calmodulin-dependent protein kinase kinase. However, evidence that this is physiologically relevant currently only exists for LKB1. We now report that there is a significant basal activity and phosphorylation of AMPK in LKB1-deficient cells that can be stimulated by Ca2+ ionophores, and studies using the CaMKK inhibitor STO-609 and isoform-specific siRNAs show that CaMKKbeta is required for this effect. CaMKKbeta also activates AMPK much more rapidly than CaMKKalpha in cell-free assays. K(+)-induced depolarization in rat cerebrocortical slices, which increases intracellular Ca2+ without disturbing cellular adenine nucleotide levels, activates AMPK, and this is blocked by STO-609. Our results suggest a potential Ca(2+)-dependent neuroprotective pathway involving phosphorylation and activation of AMPK by CaMKKbeta.
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- Simon A Hawley
- Division of Molecular Physiology University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Burwinkel B, Scott JW, Bührer C, van Landeghem FKH, Cox GF, Wilson CJ, Grahame Hardie D, Kilimann MW. Fatal congenital heart glycogenosis caused by a recurrent activating R531Q mutation in the gamma 2-subunit of AMP-activated protein kinase (PRKAG2), not by phosphorylase kinase deficiency. Am J Hum Genet 2005; 76:1034-49. [PMID: 15877279 PMCID: PMC1196441 DOI: 10.1086/430840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2005] [Accepted: 04/08/2005] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Fatal congenital nonlysosomal cardiac glycogenosis has been attributed to a subtype of phosphorylase kinase deficiency, but the underlying genes and mutations have not been identified. Analyzing four sporadic, unrelated patients, we found no mutations either in the eight genes encoding phosphorylase kinase subunits or in the two genes encoding the muscle and brain isoforms of glycogen phosphorylase. However, in three of five patients, we identified identical heterozygous R531Q missense mutations of the PRKAG2 gene, which encodes the gamma 2-subunit of AMP-activated protein kinase, a key regulator of energy balance. Biochemical characterization of the recombinant R531Q mutant protein showed >100-fold reduction of binding affinities for the regulatory nucleotides AMP and ATP but an enhanced basal activity and increased phosphorylation of the alpha -subunit. Other PRKAG2 missense mutations were previously identified in patients with autosomal dominant hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, characterized by juvenile-to-adult clinical onset, moderate cardiac glycogenosis, disturbed excitation conduction, risk of sudden cardiac death in midlife, and molecular perturbations that are similar to--but less severe than--those observed for the R531Q mutation. Thus, recurrent heterozygous R531Q missense mutations in PRKAG2 give rise to a massive nonlysosomal cardiac glycogenosis of fetal symptomatic onset and rapidly fatal course, constituting a genotypically and clinically distinct variant of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. R531Q and other PRKAG2 mutations enhance the basal activity and alpha -subunit phosphorylation of AMP-activated protein kinase, explaining the dominant nature of PRKAG2 disease mutations. Since not all cases displayed PRKAG2 mutations, fatal congenital nonlysosomal cardiac glycogenosis seems to be genetically heterogeneous. However, the existence of a heart-specific primary phosphorylase kinase deficiency is questionable, because no phosphorylase kinase mutations were found.
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- Barbara Burwinkel
- Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Medizinische Fakultät, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany; Division of Molecular Physiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Wellcome Trust Biocentre, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom; Departments of Neonatology and Neuropathology, Charité Virchow Medical Center, Berlin; Clinical Genetics Program, Children’s Hospital, Boston; and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, University College London Medical School, London
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- Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Medizinische Fakultät, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany; Division of Molecular Physiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Wellcome Trust Biocentre, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom; Departments of Neonatology and Neuropathology, Charité Virchow Medical Center, Berlin; Clinical Genetics Program, Children’s Hospital, Boston; and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, University College London Medical School, London
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- Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Medizinische Fakultät, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany; Division of Molecular Physiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Wellcome Trust Biocentre, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom; Departments of Neonatology and Neuropathology, Charité Virchow Medical Center, Berlin; Clinical Genetics Program, Children’s Hospital, Boston; and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, University College London Medical School, London
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- Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Medizinische Fakultät, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany; Division of Molecular Physiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Wellcome Trust Biocentre, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom; Departments of Neonatology and Neuropathology, Charité Virchow Medical Center, Berlin; Clinical Genetics Program, Children’s Hospital, Boston; and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, University College London Medical School, London
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- Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Medizinische Fakultät, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany; Division of Molecular Physiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Wellcome Trust Biocentre, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom; Departments of Neonatology and Neuropathology, Charité Virchow Medical Center, Berlin; Clinical Genetics Program, Children’s Hospital, Boston; and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, University College London Medical School, London
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- Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Medizinische Fakultät, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany; Division of Molecular Physiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Wellcome Trust Biocentre, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom; Departments of Neonatology and Neuropathology, Charité Virchow Medical Center, Berlin; Clinical Genetics Program, Children’s Hospital, Boston; and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, University College London Medical School, London
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- Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Medizinische Fakultät, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany; Division of Molecular Physiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Wellcome Trust Biocentre, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom; Departments of Neonatology and Neuropathology, Charité Virchow Medical Center, Berlin; Clinical Genetics Program, Children’s Hospital, Boston; and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, University College London Medical School, London
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- Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Medizinische Fakultät, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany; Division of Molecular Physiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Wellcome Trust Biocentre, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom; Departments of Neonatology and Neuropathology, Charité Virchow Medical Center, Berlin; Clinical Genetics Program, Children’s Hospital, Boston; and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, University College London Medical School, London
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Cidad P, Almeida A, Bolaños J. Inhibition of mitochondrial respiration by nitric oxide rapidly stimulates cytoprotective GLUT3-mediated glucose uptake through 5'-AMP-activated protein kinase. Biochem J 2005; 384:629-36. [PMID: 15320870 PMCID: PMC1134149 DOI: 10.1042/bj20040886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Recently, we have reported that the inhibition of mitochondrial respiration by nitric oxide (NO) leads to an up-regulation of glycolysis and affords cytoprotection against energy failure through the stimulation of AMPK (5'-AMP-activated protein kinase) [Almeida, Moncada and Bolanos (2004) Nat. Cell Biol. 6, 45-51]. To determine whether glucose transport contributes specifically to this effect, we have now investigated the possible role of NO in modulating glucose uptake through GLUT3, a facilitative high-affinity glucose carrier that has been suggested to afford cytoprotection against hypoglycaemic episodes. To do so, GLUT3-lacking HEK-293T cells (human embryonic kidney 293T cells) were transformed to express a plasmid construction encoding green fluorescent protein-tagged GLUT3 cDNA. This carrier was preferentially localized to the plasma membrane, was seen to be functionally active and afforded cytoprotection against low glucose-induced apoptotic death. Inhibition of mitochondrial respiration by NO triggered a rapid, cGMP-independent enhancement of GLUT3-mediated glucose uptake through a mechanism that did not involve transporter translocation. Furthermore, the functional disruption of AMPK by the RNA interference strategy rendered cells unable to respond to NO by activating GLUT3-mediated glucose uptake. These results suggest that the inhibition of mitochondrial respiration by NO activates AMPK to stimulate glucose uptake, thereby representing a novel survival pathway during pathophysiological conditions involving transient reductions in the supply of cellular glucose.
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- Pilar Cidad
- *Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Universidad de Salamanca, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, 37007 Salamanca, Spain
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- *Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Universidad de Salamanca, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, 37007 Salamanca, Spain
- †Unidad de Investigación, Hospital Universitario de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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- *Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Universidad de Salamanca, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, 37007 Salamanca, Spain
- ‡Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
- To whom correspondence should be addressed (email )
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Konrad D, Rudich A, Bilan PJ, Patel N, Richardson C, Witters LA, Klip A. Troglitazone causes acute mitochondrial membrane depolarisation and an AMPK-mediated increase in glucose phosphorylation in muscle cells. Diabetologia 2005; 48:954-66. [PMID: 15834551 DOI: 10.1007/s00125-005-1713-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2004] [Accepted: 12/08/2004] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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AIMS/HYPOTHESIS Troglitazone was the first thiazolidinedione (TZD) approved for clinical use, exerting hypoglycaemic effects related to its action as a ligand of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma receptor in adipocytes. However, emerging evidence suggests that mitochondrial function may be affected by troglitazone, and that skeletal muscle cells acutely respond to troglitazone by enhancing glucose uptake. The aim of the present study was to determine the cellular mechanisms by which troglitazone acutely stimulates glucose utilisation in skeletal muscle cells. METHODS L6 cells overexpressing GLUT4myc were incubated with troglitazone. Glucose uptake, transport and phosphorylation as well as AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) signalling and insulin signalling were examined. Changes in mitochondrial membrane potential were measured using the J-aggregate-forming dye JC-1. AMPK signalling was interfered with using AMPK alpha1/alpha2 siRNA. RESULTS Troglitazone acutely (in 10 min) reduced the mitochondrial membrane potential in L6GLUT4myc myotubes and robustly stimulated AMPK activity. Following 30 min of incubation with troglitazone or insulin, 2-deoxyglucose uptake was stimulated 1.5- and 2.1-fold respectively, and in cells treated with troglitazone, a 1.8-fold increase in the 2-deoxyglucose-6-phosphate:2-deoxyglucose ratio was observed. Moreover, contrary to insulin, troglitazone did not significantly stimulate 3-O-methylglucose uptake. Unlike insulin, troglitazone did not increase surface GLUT4myc content and did not increase IRS1-associated phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase activity or Akt phosphorylation on T308 and S473. Interestingly, interfering with troglitazone-induced activation of AMPK by decreasing the expression of the enzyme using siRNA inhibited the stimulation of 2-deoxyglucose uptake by the TZD. CONCLUSIONS/INTERPRETATION We propose that troglitazone acutely increases glucose flux in muscle via an AMPK-mediated increase in glucose phosphorylation.
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- D Konrad
- Programme in Cell Biology, Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
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Mayer A, Höckel M, Wree A, Vaupel P. Microregional Expression of Glucose Transporter-1 and Oxygenation Status: Lack of Correlation in Locally Advanced Cervical Cancers. Clin Cancer Res 2005; 11:2768-73. [PMID: 15814659 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-04-2344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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PURPOSE Glucose transporter-1 (GLUT-1), a target gene of hypoxia-inducible factor-1, has been considered a candidate endogenous marker of tumor hypoxia. Expression of GLUT-1 may also serve as an indicator for the induction of the transcriptional response to hypoxia, which has been linked to enhanced proliferation, resistance to therapy, and metastatic propagation of cancer cells. Overexpression of GLUT-1 has been shown to correlate with poor prognosis in several tumor entities, among them cancers of the uterine cervix. The validity of these hypotheses is investigated. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN The expression of GLUT-1 was assessed in 80 biopsies of Eppendorf oxygenation measurement tracks from locally advanced cervical cancers in 47 patients using immunohistochemistry. RESULTS No correlation was found between the expression of GLUT-1 and oxygenation variables (median pO2, HF 2.5 and HF 5). Expression of GLUT-1 was found greater in larger tumors (P = 0.0001) and to exhibit a linear increase with Federation Internationale de Gynecologie et d' Obstetrique stage (P = 0.002). Overall survival (P = 0.004) and recurrence-free survival (P = 0.007) were significantly shorter for patients with expression of GLUT-1. In the subgroup of patients treated with surgery, this effect on prognosis was not independent when pT stage or pN stage were included in a multivariate Cox proportional hazards model. CONCLUSIONS The suitability of GLUT-1 as an endogenous marker of tumor hypoxia seems questionable. The association with prognosis may partially depend on confounding factors.
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- Arnulf Mayer
- Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, University of Mainz, Germany.
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Yang J, Holman GD. Insulin and Contraction Stimulate Exocytosis, but Increased AMP-activated Protein Kinase Activity Resulting from Oxidative Metabolism Stress Slows Endocytosis of GLUT4 in Cardiomyocytes. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:4070-8. [PMID: 15557332 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m410213200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Stimulations of glucose transport produced by insulin action, contraction, or through a change in cell energy status are mediated by separate signaling pathways. These are the wortmannin-sensitive phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase pathway leading to the intermediate Akt and the wortmannin-insensitive AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) pathway. Electrical stimulation of cardiomyocytes produced a rapid, insulin-like, wortmannin-sensitive stimulation of glucose transport activity, but this occurred without extensive activation of Akt. Although AMPK phosphorylation was increased by contraction, this response was not wortmannin-inhibitable and consequently did not correlate with the wortmannin sensitivity of the transport stimulation. Oxidative metabolism stress due to hypoxia or treatment with oligomycin led to increased AMPK activity with a corresponding increase in glucose transport activity. We show here that these separate signaling pathways converge on GLUT4 trafficking at separate steps. The rate of exocytosis of GLUT4 was rapidly stimulated by insulin, but insulin treatment did not alter the endocytosis rate. Like insulin stimulation, electrical stimulation of contraction led to a stimulation of GLUT4 exocytosis without any marked change in endocytosis. By contrast, after oxidative metabolism stress, no stimulation of GLUT4 exocytosis occurred; instead, this treatment led to a reduction in GLUT4 endocytosis.
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- Jing Yang
- Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
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Neurovascular and neurometabolic coupling help the brain to maintain an appropriate energy flow to the neural tissue under conditions of increased neuronal activity. Both coupling phenomena provide us, in addition, with two macroscopically measurable parameters, blood flow and intermediate metabolite fluxes, that are used to dynamically image the functioning brain. The main energy substrate for the brain is glucose, which is metabolized by glycolysis and oxidative breakdown in both astrocytes and neurons. Neuronal activation triggers increased glucose consumption and glucose demand, with new glucose being brought in by stimulated blood flow and glucose transport over the blood-brain barrier. Glucose is shuttled over the barrier by the GLUT-1 transporter, which, like all transporter proteins, has a ceiling above which no further stimulation of the transport is possible. Blood-brain barrier glucose transport is generally accepted as a nonrate-limiting step but to prevent it from becoming rate-limiting under conditions of neuronal activation, it might be necessary for the transport parameters to be adapted to the increased glucose demand. It is proposed that the blood-brain barrier glucose transport parameters are dynamically adapted to the increased glucose needs of the neural tissue after activation according to a neurobarrier coupling scheme. This review presents neurobarrier coupling within the current knowledge on neurovascular and neurometabolic coupling, and considers arguments and evidence in support of this hypothesis.
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- Luc Leybaert
- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
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Type 2 diabetes is a complex disorder with diminished insulin secretion and insulin action contributing to the hyperglycemia and wide range of metabolic defects that underlie the disease. The contribution of glucose metabolic pathways per se in the pathogenesis of the disease remains unclear. The cellular fate of glucose begins with glucose transport and phosphorylation. Subsequent pathways of glucose utilization include aerobic and anaerobic glycolysis, glycogen formation, and conversion to other intermediates in the hexose phosphate or hexosamine biosynthesis pathways. Abnormalities in each pathway may occur in diabetic subjects; however, it is unclear whether perturbations in these may lead to diabetes or are a consequence of the multiple metabolic abnormalities found in the disease. This review is focused on the cellular fate of glucose and relevance to human type 2 diabetes.
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- Clara Bouché
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Bazuine M, van der Zon GCM, van de Ven R, van den Broek PJA, Antonie Maassen J. Rottlerin inhibits multiple steps involved in insulin-induced glucose uptake in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. Biochem Pharmacol 2004; 68:105-12. [PMID: 15183122 DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2004.02.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2003] [Accepted: 02/25/2004] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Recently, it was shown that rottlerin inhibits insulin-stimulated glucose uptake and reduces intracellular adenosine triphosphate (ATP) levels in 3T3-L1 adipocytes, suggesting that these two events are causally linked. However, several other reports show that ATP-depletion induces glucose uptake in both muscle cells and adipocytes. In the present study, the mechanism of inhibition by rottlerin was studied in detail, in order to resolve this apparent discrepancy. It was found that rottlerin strongly reduces insulin-stimulated 2-deoxyglucose (2-DOG) uptake in 3T3-L1 adipocytes by a partial inhibition of the translocation of the insulin-responsive GLUT4 glucose transporter towards the plasma membrane (PM). Whereas the insulin-induced phosphatidyl-inositol-3' (PI-3') kinase signaling pathway is unaffected by rottlerin, Cbl tyrosine phosphorylation, which provides an essential, PI-3' kinase-independent signal towards GLUT4 translocation, is markedly attenuated. Furthermore, we also observed a direct inhibitory effect of rottlerin on insulin-induced glucose uptake in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. The direct inhibition of insulin-stimulated 2-DOG uptake by rottlerin displayed characteristics of uncompetitive inhibition: with the K(m(app)) of glucose uptake reduced from 1.6 to 0.9 mM and the V(max(app)) reduced from 5.2 to 1.0 nmol/minmg in the presence of rottlerin. In conclusion, rottlerin inhibits multiple steps involved in insulin-stimulated 2-DOG uptake in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. The observed reduction in GLUT4 translocation towards the PM and the uncompetitive inhibition of the glucose transport process provide alternative explanations for the inhibitory effects of rottlerin aside from the effects of rottlerin on intracellular levels of ATP.
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- Merlijn Bazuine
- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Wassenaarseweg 72, P.O. Box 9503, 2333 AL Leiden, The Netherlands
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Zachara NE, O'Donnell N, Cheung WD, Mercer JJ, Marth JD, Hart GW. Dynamic O-GlcNAc modification of nucleocytoplasmic proteins in response to stress. A survival response of mammalian cells. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:30133-42. [PMID: 15138254 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m403773200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 457] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Cellular response to environmental, physiological, or chemical stress is key to survival following injury or disease. Here we describe a unique signaling mechanism by which cells detect and respond to stress in order to survive. A wide variety of stress stimuli rapidly increase nucleocytoplasmic protein modification by O-linked beta-N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc), an essential post-translational modification of Ser and Thr residues of metazoans. Blocking this post-translational modification, or reducing it, renders cells more sensitive to stress and results in decreased cell survival; and increasing O-GlcNAc levels protects cells. O-GlcNAc regulates both the rates and extent of the stress-induced induction of heat shock proteins, providing a molecular basis for these findings.
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- Natasha E Zachara
- Department of Biological Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205-2185, USA
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Laderoute KR, Calaoagan JM, Knapp M, Johnson RS. Glucose utilization is essential for hypoxia-inducible factor 1 alpha-dependent phosphorylation of c-Jun. Mol Cell Biol 2004; 24:4128-37. [PMID: 15121835 PMCID: PMC400476 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.24.10.4128-4137.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2003] [Revised: 12/23/2003] [Accepted: 02/23/2004] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Hypoxia and anoxia are important microenvironmental stresses that contribute to pathological events such as solid-tumor development. We have been investigating the effects of hypoxia and anoxia on expression of the proto-oncogene c-jun and the regulation of c-Jun/AP-1 transcription factors. In earlier work using genetically manipulated mouse embryo fibroblasts (mEFs), we found a functional relationship among c-jun expression, c-Jun N-terminal phosphorylation, and the presence of hypoxia-inducible factor 1 alpha (HIF-1 alpha), the oxygen-regulated subunit of the HIF-1 transcription factor. Both the induction of c-jun mRNA expression and c-Jun N-terminal phosphorylation in cells exposed to hypoxia or anoxia were found to be dependent on the presence of HIF-1 alpha, but this was not the case in cells exposed to less-severe hypoxia. Here we describe new findings concerning HIF-1-dependent c-Jun N-terminal phosphorylation in cells exposed to hypoxia or anoxia. Specifically, we report that hypoxia-inducible c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) activity, which involves JNKs or stress-activated protein kinases (SAPKs), is dependent on enhanced glucose utilization mediated by HIF-1. These results suggest a model in which hypoxia-inducible JNK activity is connected to oxygen sensing through increased glucose absorption and/or glycolytic activity regulated by the HIF-1 system. We also found that basal threonine and tyrosine phosphorylation (within the TEY motif) of extracellular signal-regulated kinases 1 and 2 (ERK1/2) and the corresponding ERK1/2 activity were defective in hypoxic HIF-1 alpha-null mEFs but not in wild-type mEFs, independently of glucose uptake. Therefore, the activities of both JNKs/SAPKs and ERK1/2 are sensitive to HIF-1-dependent processes in cells exposed to hypoxia or anoxia.
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- Keith R Laderoute
- Bioscience Division, SRI International, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.
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Perturbations of cell hydration as provoked by changes in ambient osmolarity or under isoosmotic conditions by hormones, second messengers, intracellular substrate accumulation, or reactive oxygen intermediates critically contribute to the physiological regulation of cell function. In general an increase in cell hydration stimulates anabolic metabolism and proliferation and provides cytoprotection, whereas cellular dehydration leads to a catabolic situation and sensitizes cells to apoptotic stimuli. Insulin produces cell swelling by inducing a net K+ and Na+ accumulation inside the cell, which results from a concerted activation of Na+/H+ exchange, Na+/K+/2Cl- symport, and the Na+/K(+)-ATPase. In the liver, insulin-induced cell swelling is critical for stimulation of glycogen and protein synthesis as well as inhibition of autophagic proteolysis. These insulin effects can largely be mimicked by hypoosmotic cell swelling, pointing to a role of cell swelling as a trigger of signal transduction. This article discusses insulin-induced signal transduction upstream of swelling and introduces the hypothesis that cell swelling as a signal amplifyer represents an essential component in insulin signaling, which contributes to the full response to insulin at the level of signal transduction and function. Cellular dehydration impairs insulin signaling and may be a major cause of insulin resistance, which develops in systemic hyperosmolarity, nutrient deprivation, uremia, oxidative challenges, and unbalanced production of insulin-counteracting hormones. Hydration changes affect cell functions at multiple levels (such as transcriptom, proteom, phosphoproteom, and the metabolom) and a system biological approach may allow us to develop a more holistic view on the hydration dependence of insulin signaling in the future.
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- Freimut Schliess
- Clinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectiology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Itani SI, Saha AK, Kurowski TG, Coffin HR, Tornheim K, Ruderman NB. Glucose autoregulates its uptake in skeletal muscle: involvement of AMP-activated protein kinase. Diabetes 2003; 52:1635-40. [PMID: 12829626 DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.52.7.1635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Preexposure to a low concentration of glucose upregulates glucose transport into skeletal muscle, whereas exposure to a high concentration of glucose has the opposite effect. This autoregulatory process occurs independently of insulin, and the mechanism by which it operates is incompletely understood. Activation of the energy-sensing enzyme AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) has been shown to increase insulin-independent glucose transport into skeletal muscle in response to such stimuli as exercise and hypoxia. In the present study, we examined whether AMPK could also mediate glucose autoregulation. The activity of the alpha2 isoform of AMPK and 2-deoxyglucose uptake were assessed in incubated rat extensor digitorum longus muscle after preincubation for 4 h in media containing 0, 3, 6, or 25 mmol/l glucose. The principal findings were as follows. First, AMPK activity was highest in muscles incubated with no added glucose, and it decreased as the concentration of glucose was increased. In keeping with these findings, the concentration of malonyl CoA was increased, and acetyl CoA carboxylase phosphorylation at serine 79 was decreased as the medium glucose concentration was raised. Second, decreases in AMPK activity at the higher glucose concentrations correlated closely with decreases in glucose transport (2-deoxyglucose uptake), measured during a subsequent 20-min incubation at 6 mmol/l glucose (r(2) = 0.93, P < 0.001). Third, the decrease in AMPK activity at the higher glucose concentrations was not associated with changes in whole-tissue concentrations of creatine phosphate or adenine nucleotides; however, it did correlate with increases in the rate of glycolysis, as estimated by lactate release. The results suggest that glucose autoregulates its own transport into skeletal muscle by a mechanism involving AMPK. They also suggest that this autoregulatory mechanism is not paralleled by changes in whole-tissue concentrations of creatine phosphate ATP, or AMP, but they leave open the possibility that alterations in a cytosolic pool of these compounds play a regulatory role.
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- Samar I Itani
- Diabetes and Metabolism Unit and Department of Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
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Wu X, Motoshima H, Mahadev K, Stalker TJ, Scalia R, Goldstein BJ. Involvement of AMP-activated protein kinase in glucose uptake stimulated by the globular domain of adiponectin in primary rat adipocytes. Diabetes 2003; 52:1355-63. [PMID: 12765944 DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.52.6.1355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 344] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Adiponectin is an abundant adipocyte-derived plasma protein with anti-atherosclerotic and insulin-sensitizing properties that suppresses hepatic glucose production and enhances glucose uptake into skeletal muscle. To characterize the potential effects of adiponectin on glucose uptake into adipose cells, we incubated isolated epididymal rat adipocytes with the globular domain of recombinant adiponectin purified from an E. coli expression system. Globular adiponectin increased glucose uptake in adipocytes without stimulating tyrosine phosphorylation of the insulin receptor or insulin receptor substrate-1, and without enhancing phosphorylation of Akt on Ser-473. Globular adiponectin further enhanced insulin-stimulated glucose uptake at submaximal insulin concentrations and reversed the inhibitory effect of tumor necrosis factor-alpha on insulin-stimulated glucose uptake. Cellular treatment with globular adiponectin increased the Thr-172 phosphorylation and catalytic activity of AMP-activated protein kinase and enhanced the Ser-79 phosphorylation of acetyl CoA carboxylase, an enzyme downstream of AMP kinase in adipose cells. Inhibition of AMP kinase activation using two pharmacological inhibitors (adenine 9-beta-D-arabinofuranoside and compound C) completely abrogated the increase in glucose uptake stimulated by globular adiponectin, indicating that AMP kinase is integrally involved in the adiponectin signal transduction pathway. Coupled with recent evidence that the effects of adiponectin are mediated via AMP kinase activation in liver and skeletal muscle, the findings reported here provide an important mechanistic link in the signaling effects of adiponectin in diverse metabolically responsive tissues.
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- Xiangdong Wu
- Dorrance H. Hamilton Research Laboratories, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, Department of Medicine, Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, 1020 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
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Niu W, Huang C, Nawaz Z, Levy M, Somwar R, Li D, Bilan PJ, Klip A. Maturation of the regulation of GLUT4 activity by p38 MAPK during L6 cell myogenesis. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:17953-62. [PMID: 12637564 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m211136200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Insulin stimulates glucose uptake in skeletal muscle cells and fat cells by promoting the rapid translocation of GLUT4 glucose transporters to the plasma membrane. Recent work from our laboratory supports the concept that insulin also stimulates the intrinsic activity of GLUT4 through a signaling pathway that includes p38 MAPK. Here we show that regulation of GLUT4 activity by insulin develops during maturation of skeletal muscle cells into myotubes in concert with the ability of insulin to stimulate p38 MAPK. In L6 myotubes expressing GLUT4 that carries an exofacial myc-epitope (L6-GLUT4myc), insulin-stimulated GLUT4myc translocation equals in magnitude the glucose uptake response. Inhibition of p38 MAPK with SB203580 reduces insulin-stimulated glucose uptake without affecting GLUT4myc translocation. In contrast, in myoblasts, the magnitude of insulin-stimulated glucose uptake is significantly lower than that of GLUT4myc translocation and is insensitive to SB203580. Activation of p38 MAPK by insulin is considerably higher in myotubes than in myoblasts, as is the activation of upstream kinases MKK3/MKK6. In contrast, the activation of all three Akt isoforms and GLUT4 translocation are similar in myoblasts and myotubes. Furthermore, GLUT4myc translocation and phosphorylation of regulatory sites on Akt in L6-GLUT4myc myotubes are equally sensitive to insulin, whereas glucose uptake and phosphorylation of regulatory sites on p38 MAPK show lower sensitivity to the hormone. These observations draw additional parallels between Akt and GLUT4 translocation and between p38 MAPK and GLUT4 activation. Regulation of GLUT4 activity by insulin develops upon muscle cell differentiation and correlates with p38 MAPK activation by insulin.
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- Wenyan Niu
- Programme in Cell Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
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Sambandam N, Lopaschuk GD. AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) control of fatty acid and glucose metabolism in the ischemic heart. Prog Lipid Res 2003; 42:238-56. [PMID: 12689619 DOI: 10.1016/s0163-7827(02)00065-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Myocardial ischemia is the leading cause of all cardiovascular deaths in North America. Myocardial ischemia is accompanied by profound changes in metabolism including alterations in glucose and fatty acid metabolism, increased uncoupling of glucose oxidation from glycolysis and accumulation of protons within the myocardium. These changes can contribute to a poor functional recovery of the heart. One key player in the ischemia-induced alteration in fatty acid and glucose metabolism is 5'AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK). Accumulating evidence suggest that activation of AMPK during myocardial ischemia both increases glucose uptake and glycolysis while also increasing fatty acid oxidation during reperfusion. Gain-of-function mutations of AMPK in cardiac muscle may also be causally related to the development of hypertrophic cardiomyopathies. Therefore, a better understanding of role of AMPK in cardiac metabolism is necessary to appropriately modulate its activity as a potential therapeutic target in treating ischemia reperfusion injuries. This review attempts to update some of the recent findings that delineate various pathways through which AMPK regulates glucose and fatty acid metabolism in the ischemic myocardium.
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- Nandakumar Sambandam
- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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