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Howlett KF, Sakamoto K, Hirshman MF, Aschenbach WG, Dow M, White MF, Goodyear LJ. Insulin signaling after exercise in insulin receptor substrate-2-deficient mice. Diabetes 2002; 51:479-83. [PMID: 11812758 DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.51.2.479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [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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The period immediately after exercise is characterized by enhanced insulin action in skeletal muscle, and on the molecular level, by a marked increase in insulin-stimulated, phosphotyrosine-associated phosphatidylinositol (PI) 3-kinase activity. Because the increase in PI 3-kinase activity cannot be explained by increased insulin receptor substrate (IRS)-1 signaling, the present study examined whether this effect is mediated by enhanced IRS-2 signaling. In wild-type (WT) mice, insulin increased IRS-2 tyrosine phosphorylation (approximately 2.5-fold) and IRS-2-associated PI 3-kinase activity (approximately 3-fold). Treadmill exercise, per se, had no effect on IRS-2 signaling, but in the period immediately after exercise, there was a further increase in insulin-stimulated IRS-2 tyrosine phosphorylation (approximately 3.5-fold) and IRS-2-associated PI 3-kinase activity (approximately 5-fold). In IRS-2-deficient (IRS-2(-/-)) mice, the increase in insulin-stimulated, phosphotyrosine-associated PI 3-kinase activity was attenuated as compared with WT mice. However, in IRS-2(-/-) mice, the insulin-stimulated, phosphotyrosine-associated PI 3-kinase response after exercise was slightly higher than the insulin-stimulated response alone. In conclusion, IRS-2 tyrosine phosphorylation and associated PI 3-kinase activity are markedly enhanced by insulin in the immediate period after exercise. IRS-2 signaling can partially account for the increase in insulin-stimulated phosphotyrosine-associated PI 3-kinase activity after exercise.
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- Kirsten F Howlett
- Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center and Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
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Sykiotis GP, Papavassiliou AG. Serine phosphorylation of insulin receptor substrate-1: a novel target for the reversal of insulin resistance. Mol Endocrinol 2001; 15:1864-9. [PMID: 11682617 DOI: 10.1210/mend.15.11.0725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Insulin resistance, the failure to respond to normal circulating concentrations of insulin, is a common state associated with obesity, aging, and a sedentary lifestyle. Compelling evidence implicates TNFalpha as the cause and link between obesity and insulin resistance. Serine phosphorylation of insulin receptor substrate-1 seems prominent among the mechanisms of TNFalpha-induced insulin resistance. Recent advances indicate that serine kinases may phosphorylate and thus inhibit the tyrosine phosphorylation of insulin receptor substrate-1, revealing an integration point of TNFalpha and insulin signaling pathways. Selective targeting of the molecular scenery whereby this key phosphorylation occurs/operates represents a rich area for the development of rationally designed new antidiabetic drugs. In relation to efficacy and side effects, this prospect should permit a more precise and perhaps individualized approach to therapeutic intervention, allowing clinicians to focus the attack where the problem lies.
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- G P Sykiotis
- Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, University of Patras, 26110 Patras, Greece
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Voshol PJ, Jong MC, Dahlmans VE, Kratky D, Levak-Frank S, Zechner R, Romijn JA, Havekes LM. In muscle-specific lipoprotein lipase-overexpressing mice, muscle triglyceride content is increased without inhibition of insulin-stimulated whole-body and muscle-specific glucose uptake. Diabetes 2001; 50:2585-90. [PMID: 11679438 DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.50.11.2585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [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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In patients with type 2 diabetes, a strong correlation between accumulation of intramuscular triclycerides (TGs) and insulin resistance has been found. The aim of the present study was to determine whether there is a causal relation between intramuscular TG accumulation and insulin sensitivity. Therefore, in mice with muscle-specific overexpression of human lipoprotein lipase (LPL) and control mice, muscle TG content was measured in combination with glucose uptake in vivo, under hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic conditions. Overexpression of LPL in muscle resulted in accumulation of TGs in skeletal muscle (85.5 +/- 33.3 vs. 25.7 +/- 23.1 micromol/g tissue in LPL and control mice, respectively; P < 0.05). During the hyperinsulinemic clamp study, there were no differences in plasma glucose, insulin, and FFA concentrations between the two groups. Moreover, whole-body, as well as skeletal muscle, insulin-mediated glucose uptake did not differ between LPL-overexpressing and wild-type mice. Surprisingly, whole-body glucose oxidation was decreased by approximately 60% (P < 0.05), whereas nonoxidative glucose disposal was increased by approximately 50% (P < 0.05) in LPL-overexpressing versus control mice. In conclusion, overexpression of human LPL in muscle increases intramuscular TG accumulation, but does not affect whole-body or muscle-specific insulin-mediated uptake, findings that argue against a simple causal relation between intramuscular TG content and insulin resistance.
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- P J Voshol
- TNO-Prevention and Health, Division VBO, Leiden, the Netherlands.
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Tobe K, Suzuki R, Aoyama M, Yamauchi T, Kamon J, Kubota N, Terauchi Y, Matsui J, Akanuma Y, Kimura S, Tanaka J, Abe M, Ohsumi J, Nagai R, Kadowaki T. Increased expression of the sterol regulatory element-binding protein-1 gene in insulin receptor substrate-2(-/-) mouse liver. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:38337-40. [PMID: 11546755 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.c100160200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Insulin receptor substrate (IRS)-2(-/-) mice develop diabetes because of insulin resistance in the liver and failure to undergo beta-cell hyperplasia. Here we show by DNA chip microarray analysis that expression of the sterol regulatory element-binding protein (SREBP)-1 gene, a downstream target of insulin, was paradoxically increased in 16-week-old IRS-2(-/-) mouse liver, where insulin-mediated intracellular signaling events were substantially attenuated. The expression of SREBP-1 downstream genes, such as the spot 14, ATP citrate-lyase, and fatty acid synthase genes, was also increased. Increased liver triglyceride content in IRS-2(-/-) mice assures the physiological importance of SREBP-1 gene induction. IRS-2(-/-) mice showed leptin resistance; low dose leptin administration, enough to reduce food intake and body weight in wild-type mice, failed to do so in IRS-2(-/-) mice. Interestingly, high dose leptin administration reduced SREBP-1 expression in IRS-2(-/-) mouse liver. Thus, IRS-2 gene disruption results in leptin resistance, causing an SREBP-1 gene induction, obesity, fatty liver, and diabetes.
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- K Tobe
- Department of Internal Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan
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Sesti G, Federici M, Hribal ML, Lauro D, Sbraccia P, Lauro R. Defects of the insulin receptor substrate (IRS) system in human metabolic disorders. FASEB J 2001; 15:2099-111. [PMID: 11641236 DOI: 10.1096/fj.01-0009rev] [Citation(s) in RCA: 257] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Insulin receptor substrate (IRS) molecules are key mediators in insulin signaling and play a central role in maintaining basic cellular functions such as growth, survival, and metabolism. They act as docking proteins between the insulin receptor and a complex network of intracellular signaling molecules containing Src homology 2 (SH2) domains. Four members (IRS-1, IRS-2, IRS-3, IRS-4) of this family have been identified that differ as to tissue distribution, subcellular localization, developmental expression, binding to the insulin receptor, and interaction with SH2 domain-containing proteins. Results from targeted disruption of the IRS genes in mice have provided important clues to the functional differences among these related molecules, suggesting they play different and specific roles in vivo. The available data are consistent with the notion that IRS-1 and IRS-2 are not functionally interchangeable in tissues that are responsible for glucose production (liver), glucose uptake (skeletal muscle and adipose tissue), and insulin production (pancreatic beta cells). In fact, IRS-1 appears to have its major role in skeletal muscle whereas IRS-2 appears to regulate hepatic insulin action as well as pancreatic beta cell development and survival. By contrast, IRS-3 and IRS-4 genes appear to play a redundant role in the IRS signaling system. Defects in muscle IRS-1 expression and function have been reported in insulin-resistant states such as obesity and type 2 diabetes. Several polymorphisms in the IRS genes have been identified, but only the Gly-->Arg972 substitution of IRS-1, interacting with environmental factors, seems to have a pathogenic role in the development of type 2 diabetes. In contrast, polymorphisms of the other IRS genes do not appear to contribute to type 2 diabetes.
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- G Sesti
- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Catanzaro-Magna Graecia, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy.
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Kim JJ, Park BC, Kido Y, Accili D. Mitogenic and metabolic effects of type I IGF receptor overexpression in insulin receptor-deficient hepatocytes. Endocrinology 2001; 142:3354-60. [PMID: 11459778 DOI: 10.1210/endo.142.8.8332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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We have previously shown that hepatocytes lacking insulin receptors (Ir-/-) fail to mediate metabolic responses, such as stimulation of glycogen synthesis, while retaining the ability to proliferate in response to IGFs. In this study we have asked whether overexpression of type I IGF receptors would rescue the metabolic response of Ir-/- hepatocytes. After IGF-I stimulation, insulin receptor substrate-1 and -2 phosphorylation and PI3K activity were restored to levels similar to or greater than those seen in wild-type cells. Rates of cell proliferation in response to IGF-I increased approximately 2-fold, whereas glycogen synthesis was restored to wild-type levels, but was comparatively smaller than that elicited by overexpression of insulin receptors. In summary, overexpression of IGF-I receptors in Ir-/- hepatocytes normalized insulin receptor substrate-2 phosphorylation and glycogen synthesis to wild-type levels, whereas it increased cell proliferation above wild-type levels. Moreover, stimulation of glycogen synthesis was submaximal compared with the effect of insulin receptor overexpression. We conclude that IGF-I receptors are more efficiently coupled to cell proliferation than insulin receptors, but are less potent than insulin receptors in stimulating glycogen synthesis. The data are consistent with the possibility that there exist intrinsic signaling differences between insulin and IGF-I receptors.
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- J J Kim
- Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center and Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032, USA
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Kim JK, Fillmore JJ, Chen Y, Yu C, Moore IK, Pypaert M, Lutz EP, Kako Y, Velez-Carrasco W, Goldberg IJ, Breslow JL, Shulman GI. Tissue-specific overexpression of lipoprotein lipase causes tissue-specific insulin resistance. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2001; 98:7522-7. [PMID: 11390966 PMCID: PMC34701 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.121164498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 525] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Insulin resistance in skeletal muscle and liver may play a primary role in the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus, and the mechanism by which insulin resistance occurs may be related to alterations in fat metabolism. Transgenic mice with muscle- and liver-specific overexpression of lipoprotein lipase were studied during a 2-h hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamp to determine the effect of tissue-specific increase in fat on insulin action and signaling. Muscle-lipoprotein lipase mice had a 3-fold increase in muscle triglyceride content and were insulin resistant because of decreases in insulin-stimulated glucose uptake in skeletal muscle and insulin activation of insulin receptor substrate-1-associated phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase activity. In contrast, liver-lipoprotein lipase mice had a 2-fold increase in liver triglyceride content and were insulin resistant because of impaired ability of insulin to suppress endogenous glucose production associated with defects in insulin activation of insulin receptor substrate-2-associated phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase activity. These defects in insulin action and signaling were associated with increases in intracellular fatty acid-derived metabolites (i.e., diacylglycerol, fatty acyl CoA, ceramides). Our findings suggest a direct and causative relationship between the accumulation of intracellular fatty acid-derived metabolites and insulin resistance mediated via alterations in the insulin signaling pathway, independent of circulating adipocyte-derived hormones.
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- J K Kim
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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Zhang J, Ou J, Bashmakov Y, Horton JD, Brown MS, Goldstein JL. Insulin inhibits transcription of IRS-2 gene in rat liver through an insulin response element (IRE) that resembles IREs of other insulin-repressed genes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2001; 98:3756-61. [PMID: 11259670 PMCID: PMC31125 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.071054598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Recent data indicate that sustained elevations in plasma insulin suppress the mRNA for IRS-2, a component of the insulin signaling pathway in liver, and that this deficiency contributes to hepatic insulin resistance and inappropriate gluconeogenesis. Here, we use nuclear run-on assays to show that insulin inhibits transcription of the IRS-2 gene in the livers of intact rats. Insulin also inhibited transcription of a reporter gene driven by the human IRS-2 promoter that was transfected into freshly isolated rat hepatocytes. The human promoter contains a heptanucleotide sequence, TGTTTTG, that is identical to the insulin response element (IRE) identified previously in the promoters of insulin-repressed genes. Single base pair substitutions in this IRE decreased transcription of the IRS-2-driven reporter in the absence of insulin and abolished insulin-mediated repression. We conclude that insulin represses transcription of the IRS-2 gene by blocking the action of a positive factor that binds to the IRE. Sustained repression of IRS-2, as occurs in chronic hyperinsulinemia, contributes to hepatic insulin resistance and accelerates the development of the diabetic state.
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- J Zhang
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390-9046, USA
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Type 2 diabetes is caused by genetic and environmental factors that affect the ability of the organism to respond to insulin. This impairment results from decreased insulin action in target tissues and insulin production in beta cells. Genetic factors play a key role in the development of type 2 diabetes. However, the inheritance of diabetes is non-Mendelian in nature because of genetic heterogeneity, polygenic pathogenesis, and incomplete penetrance. Novel insight into this complex process has been obtained from 'designer' mice bearing targeted mutations in genes of the insulin action and insulin secretion pathways. These mutant mice are beginning to challenge established paradigms in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes and to shed light on the genetic interactions underlying its complex inheritance. Here we review recent progress in the field and assess its relevance to the pathogenesis of diabetes in humans.
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- J Nakae
- Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center, Department of Medicine, College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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