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Liu Z, Xin B, Smith IN, Sency V, Szekely J, Alkelai A, Shuldiner A, Efthymiou S, Rajabi F, Coury S, Brownstein CA, Rudnik-Schöneborn S, Bruel AL, Thevenon J, Zeidler S, Jayakar P, Schmidt A, Cremer K, Engels H, Peters SO, Zaki MS, Duan R, Zhu C, Xu Y, Gao C, Sepulveda-Morales T, Maroofian R, Alkhawaja IA, Khawaja M, Alhalasah H, Houlden H, Madden JA, Turchetti V, Marafi D, Agrawal PB, Schatz U, Rotenberg A, Rotenberg J, Mancini GMS, Bakhtiari S, Kruer M, Thiffault I, Hirsch S, Hempel M, Stühn LG, Haack TB, Posey JE, Lupski JR, Lee H, Sarn NB, Eng C, Gonzaga-Jauregui C, Zhang B, Wang H. Hemizygous variants in protein phosphatase 1 regulatory subunit 3F (PPP1R3F) are associated with a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by developmental delay, intellectual disability and autistic features. Hum Mol Genet 2023; 32:2981-2995. [PMID: 37531237 PMCID: PMC10549786 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddad124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2023] [Revised: 07/20/2023] [Accepted: 07/26/2023] [Indexed: 08/04/2023] Open
Abstract
Protein phosphatase 1 regulatory subunit 3F (PPP1R3F) is a member of the glycogen targeting subunits (GTSs), which belong to the large group of regulatory subunits of protein phosphatase 1 (PP1), a major eukaryotic serine/threonine protein phosphatase that regulates diverse cellular processes. Here, we describe the identification of hemizygous variants in PPP1R3F associated with a novel X-linked recessive neurodevelopmental disorder in 13 unrelated individuals. This disorder is characterized by developmental delay, mild intellectual disability, neurobehavioral issues such as autism spectrum disorder, seizures and other neurological findings including tone, gait and cerebellar abnormalities. PPP1R3F variants segregated with disease in affected hemizygous males that inherited the variants from their heterozygous carrier mothers. We show that PPP1R3F is predominantly expressed in brain astrocytes and localizes to the endoplasmic reticulum in cells. Glycogen content in PPP1R3F knockout astrocytoma cells appears to be more sensitive to fluxes in extracellular glucose levels than in wild-type cells, suggesting that PPP1R3F functions in maintaining steady brain glycogen levels under changing glucose conditions. We performed functional studies on nine of the identified variants and observed defects in PP1 binding, protein stability, subcellular localization and regulation of glycogen metabolism in most of them. Collectively, the genetic and molecular data indicate that deleterious variants in PPP1R3F are associated with a new X-linked disorder of glycogen metabolism, highlighting the critical role of GTSs in neurological development. This research expands our understanding of neurodevelopmental disorders and the role of PP1 in brain development and proper function.
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- Zhigang Liu
- Genomic Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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- DDC Clinic for Special Needs Children, Middlefield, OH 44062, USA
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- Genomic Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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- DDC Clinic for Special Needs Children, Middlefield, OH 44062, USA
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- DDC Clinic for Special Needs Children, Middlefield, OH 44062, USA
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- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Department of Neuromuscular Disorders, University College London (UCL) Institute of Neurology, London WC1N 3BG, UK
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- Division of Genetics & Genomics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Division of Genetics & Genomics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Division of Genetics & Genomics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- The Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Inserm UMR1231 GAD, Génétique des Anomalies du Développement, Fédération Hospitalo-Universitaire Médecine Translationnelle et Anomalies du Développement (FHU TRANSLAD), CHU Dijon Bourgogne, Dijon 21000, France
- UF Innovation en diagnostic génomique des maladies rares, CHU Dijon Bourgogne, Dijon 21000, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Grenoble, France
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3015 GD, The Netherlands
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- Division of Genetics and Metabolism, Nicklaus Children's Hospital, Miami, FL 33155, USA
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, School of Medicine & University Hospital Bonn, 53105 Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, School of Medicine & University Hospital Bonn, 53105 Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, School of Medicine & University Hospital Bonn, 53105 Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, School of Medicine & University Hospital Bonn, 53105 Bonn, Germany
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- Clinical Genetics Department, Human Genetics and Genome Research Institute National Research Centre, Cairo 12622, Egypt
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Center for Brain Repair and Rehabilitation, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg 417 56, Sweden
- Henan Key Laboratory of Child Brain Injury and Henan Pediatric Clinical Research Center, Institute of Neuroscience and Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, China
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- Henan Key Laboratory of Child Brain Injury and Henan Pediatric Clinical Research Center, Institute of Neuroscience and Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, China
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- Department of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine, Children's Hospital Affiliated to Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450012, China
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- International Laboratory for Human Genome Research, Laboratorio Internacional de Investigación sobre el Genoma Humano, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Juriquilla, Querétaro 76226, México
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- Department of Neuromuscular Disorders, University College London (UCL) Institute of Neurology, London WC1N 3BG, UK
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- Al-Bashir Hospital, Pediatric Department, Pediatric Neurology Unit, Amman, Jordan
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- Prince Hamzah Hospital, Amman, Jordan
- Hospital Clínic and Fundació Hospital Sant Joan de Déu de Martorell/Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Neuromuscular Disorders, University College London (UCL) Institute of Neurology, London WC1N 3BG, UK
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- Division of Genetics & Genomics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- The Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Neuromuscular Disorders, University College London (UCL) Institute of Neurology, London WC1N 3BG, UK
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Kuwait City 13060, Kuwait
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- Division of Genetics & Genomics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- The Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Miami School of Medicine and Jackson Health System, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Institute for Human Genetics, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck 6020, Austria
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3015 GD, The Netherlands
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- Pediatric Movement Disorders Program, Division of Pediatric Neurology, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Phoenix, AZ 85016, USA
- Departments of Child Health, Neurology, and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, and Program in Genetics, University of Arizona College of Medicine–Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ 85004, USA
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- Pediatric Movement Disorders Program, Division of Pediatric Neurology, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Phoenix, AZ 85016, USA
- Departments of Child Health, Neurology, and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, and Program in Genetics, University of Arizona College of Medicine–Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ 85004, USA
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- Genomic Medicine Center, Children’s Mercy Kansas City, Children's Mercy Research Institute, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA
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- Institute if Human Genetics, Heidelberg University Hospital, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute if Human Genetics, Heidelberg University Hospital, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Genetics and Applied Genomics, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Genetics and Applied Genomics, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
- Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX 77030, USA
- Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Genomic Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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- Genomic Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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- Genomic Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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- International Laboratory for Human Genome Research, Laboratorio Internacional de Investigación sobre el Genoma Humano, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Juriquilla, Querétaro 76226, México
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- Genomic Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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- DDC Clinic for Special Needs Children, Middlefield, OH 44062, USA
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Pampouille E, Hennequet-Antier C, Praud C, Juanchich A, Brionne A, Godet E, Bordeau T, Fagnoul F, Le Bihan-Duval E, Berri C. Differential expression and co-expression gene network analyses reveal molecular mechanisms and candidate biomarkers involved in breast muscle myopathies in chicken. Sci Rep 2019; 9:14905. [PMID: 31624339 PMCID: PMC6797748 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-51521-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2019] [Accepted: 09/27/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The broiler industry is facing an increasing prevalence of breast myopathies, such as white striping (WS) and wooden breast (WB), and the precise aetiology of these occurrences remains poorly understood. To progress our understanding of the structural changes and molecular pathways involved in these myopathies, a transcriptomic analysis was performed using an 8 × 60 K Agilent chicken microarray and histological study. The study used pectoralis major muscles from three groups: slow-growing animals (n = 8), fast-growing animals visually free from defects (n = 8), or severely affected by both WS and WB (n = 8). In addition, a weighted correlation network analysis was performed to investigate the relationship between modules of co-expressed genes and histological traits. Functional analysis suggested that selection for fast growing and breast meat yield has progressively led to conditions favouring metabolic shifts towards alternative catabolic pathways to produce energy, leading to an adaptive response to oxidative stress and the first signs of inflammatory, regeneration and fibrosis processes. All these processes are intensified in muscles affected by severe myopathies, in which new mechanisms related to cellular defences and remodelling seem also activated. Furthermore, our study opens new perspectives for myopathy diagnosis by highlighting fine histological phenotypes and genes whose expression was strongly correlated with defects.
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- Eva Pampouille
- BOA, INRA, Université de Tours, 37380, Nouzilly, France.,Hubbard SAS, Mauguérand, 22800, Le Foeil - Quintin, France
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- BOA, INRA, Université de Tours, 37380, Nouzilly, France
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- BOA, INRA, Université de Tours, 37380, Nouzilly, France.
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Abasht B, Zhou N, Lee WR, Zhuo Z, Peripolli E. The metabolic characteristics of susceptibility to wooden breast disease in chickens with high feed efficiency. Poult Sci 2019; 98:3246-3256. [PMID: 30995306 DOI: 10.3382/ps/pez183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2018] [Accepted: 03/15/2019] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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This study was conducted to characterize metabolic differences between high feed efficiency (HFE) and low feed efficiency (LFE) chickens to investigate why feed efficient chickens are more susceptible to muscle abnormalities such as wooden breast disease. Gene expression profiles were generated by RNA sequencing of pectoralis major muscle samples from 10 HFE and 13 LFE broiler chickens selected from a modern broiler population. Metabolism-associated differentially expressed genes were identified and interpreted by Ingenuity Pathway Analysis and literature mining. Our RNA-seq data indicate decreased glycolytic capacity, increased fatty acid uptake, mitochondrial oxidation of fatty acids, and several other metabolic alterations in the pectoralis major muscle of HFE chickens. We also quantified glycogen content of the pectoralis major muscle and found that the HFE chickens had a significantly (P ≤ 0.05) lower glycogen content. Collectively, this study indicates extensive metabolic differences in the pectoralis major muscle between HFE and LFE chickens and helps identify metabolic features of susceptibility to muscle disorders in modern broiler chickens.
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- Behnam Abasht
- Department of Animal and Food Sciences, University of Delaware, 531 South College Ave, Newark, DE 19716
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- Department of Animal and Food Sciences, University of Delaware, 531 South College Ave, Newark, DE 19716
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- Department of Animal and Food Sciences, University of Delaware, 531 South College Ave, Newark, DE 19716
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- Department of Animal and Food Sciences, University of Delaware, 531 South College Ave, Newark, DE 19716
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Beauclercq S, Hennequet-Antier C, Praud C, Godet E, Collin A, Tesseraud S, Métayer-Coustard S, Bourin M, Moroldo M, Martins F, Lagarrigue S, Bihan-Duval EL, Berri C. Muscle transcriptome analysis reveals molecular pathways and biomarkers involved in extreme ultimate pH and meat defect occurrence in chicken. Sci Rep 2017; 7:6447. [PMID: 28743971 PMCID: PMC5526995 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-06511-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2017] [Accepted: 06/13/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The processing ability and sensory quality of chicken breast meat are highly related to its ultimate pH (pHu), which is mainly determined by the amount of glycogen in the muscle at death. To unravel the molecular mechanisms underlying glycogen and meat pHu variations and to identify predictive biomarkers of these traits, a transcriptome profiling analysis was performed using an Agilent custom chicken 8 × 60 K microarray. The breast muscle gene expression patterns were studied in two chicken lines experimentally selected for high (pHu+) and low (pHu-) pHu values of the breast meat. Across the 1,436 differentially expressed (DE) genes found between the two lines, many were involved in biological processes related to muscle development and remodelling and carbohydrate and energy metabolism. The functional analysis showed an intensive use of carbohydrate metabolism to produce energy in the pHu- line, while alternative catabolic pathways were solicited in the muscle of the pHu+ broilers, compromising their muscle development and integrity. After a validation step on a population of 278 broilers using microfluidic RT-qPCR, 20 genes were identified by partial least squares regression as good predictors of the pHu, opening new perspectives of screening broilers likely to present meat quality defects.
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- ITAVI-Institut Technique de l'Aviculture, F-37380, Nouzilly, France
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- GABI, AgroParisTech, INRA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-78350, Jouy-en-Josas, France
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- Plateforme Génome et Transcriptome, Génopole de Toulouse, France.,INSERM, UMR1048, F-31432, Toulouse, France
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Montori-Grau M, Tarrats N, Osorio-Conles O, Orozco A, Serrano-Marco L, Vázquez-Carrera M, Gómez-Foix AM. Glucose dependence of glycogen synthase activity regulation by GSK3 and MEK/ERK inhibitors and angiotensin-(1-7) action on these pathways in cultured human myotubes. Cell Signal 2013; 25:1318-27. [PMID: 23453973 DOI: 10.1016/j.cellsig.2013.02.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2012] [Revised: 01/31/2013] [Accepted: 02/13/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Glycogen synthase (GS) is activated by glucose/glycogen depletion in skeletal muscle cells, but the contributing signaling pathways, including the chief GS regulator GSK3, have not been fully defined. The MEK/ERK pathway is known to regulate GSK3 and respond to glucose. The aim of this study was to elucidate the GSK3 and MEK/ERK pathway contribution to GS activation by glucose deprivation in cultured human myotubes. Moreover, we tested the glucose-dependence of GSK3 and MEK/ERK effects on GS and angiotensin (1-7) actions on these pathways. We show that glucose deprivation activated GS, but did not change phospho-GS (Ser640/1), GSK3β activity or activity-activating phosphorylation of ERK1/2. We then treated glucose-replete and -depleted cells with SB415286, U0126, LY294 and rapamycin to inhibit GSK3, MEK1/2, PI3K and mTOR, respectively. SB415286 activated GS and decreased the relative phospho-GS (Ser640/1) level, more in glucose-depleted than -replete cells. U0126 activated GS and reduced the phospho-GS (Ser640/1) content significantly in glucose-depleted cells, while GSK3β activity tended to increase. LY294 inactivated GS in glucose-depleted cells only, without affecting relative phospho-GS (Ser640/1) level. Rapamycin had no effect on GS activation. Angiotensin-(1-7) raised phospho-ERK1/2 but not phospho-GSK3β (Ser9) content, while it inactivated GS and increased GS phosphorylation on Ser640/1, in glucose-replete cells. In glucose-depleted cells, angiotensin-(1-7) effects on ERK1/2 and GS were reverted, while relative phospho-GSK3β (Ser9) content decreased. In conclusion, activation of GS by glucose deprivation is not due to GS Ser640/1 dephosphorylation, GSK3β or ERK1/2 regulation in cultured myotubes. However, glucose depletion enhances GS activation/Ser640/1 dephosphorylation due to both GSK3 and MEK/ERK inhibition. Angiotensin-(1-7) inactivates GS in glucose-replete cells in association with ERK1/2 activation, not with GSK3 regulation, and glucose deprivation reverts both hormone effects. Thus, the ERK1/2 pathway negatively regulates GS activity in myotubes, without involving GSK3 regulation, and as a function of the presence of glucose.
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- Marta Montori-Grau
- CIBER de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM)-Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain.
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Montori-Grau M, Guitart M, García-Martínez C, Orozco A, Gómez-Foix AM. Differential pattern of glycogen accumulation after protein phosphatase 1 glycogen-targeting subunit PPP1R6 overexpression, compared to PPP1R3C and PPP1R3A, in skeletal muscle cells. BMC BIOCHEMISTRY 2011; 12:57. [PMID: 22054094 PMCID: PMC3240831 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2091-12-57] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2011] [Accepted: 11/04/2011] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND PPP1R6 is a protein phosphatase 1 glycogen-targeting subunit (PP1-GTS) abundant in skeletal muscle with an undefined metabolic control role. Here PPP1R6 effects on myotube glycogen metabolism, particle size and subcellular distribution are examined and compared with PPP1R3C/PTG and PPP1R3A/G(M). RESULTS PPP1R6 overexpression activates glycogen synthase (GS), reduces its phosphorylation at Ser-641/0 and increases the extracted and cytochemically-stained glycogen content, less than PTG but more than G(M). PPP1R6 does not change glycogen phosphorylase activity. All tested PP1-GTS-cells have more glycogen particles than controls as found by electron microscopy of myotube sections. Glycogen particle size is distributed for all cell-types in a continuous range, but PPP1R6 forms smaller particles (mean diameter 14.4 nm) than PTG (36.9 nm) and G(M) (28.3 nm) or those in control cells (29.2 nm). Both PPP1R6- and G(M)-derived glycogen particles are in cytosol associated with cellular structures; PTG-derived glycogen is found in membrane- and organelle-devoid cytosolic glycogen-rich areas; and glycogen particles are dispersed in the cytosol in control cells. A tagged PPP1R6 protein at the C-terminus with EGFP shows a diffuse cytosol pattern in glucose-replete and -depleted cells and a punctuate pattern surrounding the nucleus in glucose-depleted cells, which colocates with RFP tagged with the Golgi targeting domain of β-1,4-galactosyltransferase, according to a computational prediction for PPP1R6 Golgi location. CONCLUSIONS PPP1R6 exerts a powerful glycogenic effect in cultured muscle cells, more than G(M) and less than PTG. PPP1R6 protein translocates from a Golgi to cytosolic location in response to glucose. The molecular size and subcellular location of myotube glycogen particles is determined by the PPP1R6, PTG and G(M) scaffolding.
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- Marta Montori-Grau
- CIBER de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas, Barcelona, Spain.
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Montori-Grau M, Minor R, Lerin C, Allard J, Garcia-Martinez C, de Cabo R, Gómez-Foix AM. Effects of aging and calorie restriction on rat skeletal muscle glycogen synthase and glycogen phosphorylase. Exp Gerontol 2009; 44:426-33. [PMID: 19341787 DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2009.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2009] [Revised: 03/18/2009] [Accepted: 03/23/2009] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Calorie restriction's (CR) effects on age-associated changes in glycogen-metabolizing enzymes were studied in rat soleus (SOL) and tibialis anterior (TA) muscles. Old (24 months) compared to young (6 months) rats maintained ad libitum on a standard diet had reduced glycogen synthase (GS) activity, lower muscle GS protein levels, increased phosphorylation of GS at site 3a with less activation in SOL. Age-associated impairments in GS protein and activation-phosphorylation were also shown in TA. There was an age-associated reduction in glycogen phosphorylase (GP) activity level in SOL, while brain/muscle isoforms (B/M) of GP protein levels were higher. GP activity and protein levels were preserved, but GP was inactivated in TA with age. Glycogen content was unchanged in both muscles. CR did not alter GS or GP activity/protein levels in young rats. CR hindered age-related decreases in GS activity/protein, unrelated to GS mRNA levels, and GS inactivation-phosphorylation; not on GP. In older rats, CR enhanced glycogen accumulation in SOL. Short-term fasting did not recapitulate CR effects in old rats. Thus, the predominant age-associated impairments on skeletal muscle GS and GP activities occur in the oxidative SOL muscle of rats, and CR can attenuate the loss of GS activity/activation and stimulate glycogen accumulation.
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- Marta Montori-Grau
- CIBER de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM), Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, IBUB, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Diagonal, 645, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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Savage DB, Zhai L, Ravikumar B, Choi CS, Snaar JE, McGuire AC, Wou SE, Medina-Gomez G, Kim S, Bock CB, Segvich DM, Vidal-Puig A, Wareham NJ, Shulman GI, Karpe F, Taylor R, Pederson BA, Roach PJ, O'Rahilly S, DePaoli-Roach AA. A prevalent variant in PPP1R3A impairs glycogen synthesis and reduces muscle glycogen content in humans and mice. PLoS Med 2008; 5:e27. [PMID: 18232732 PMCID: PMC2214798 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2007] [Accepted: 12/13/2007] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Stored glycogen is an important source of energy for skeletal muscle. Human genetic disorders primarily affecting skeletal muscle glycogen turnover are well-recognised, but rare. We previously reported that a frameshift/premature stop mutation in PPP1R3A, the gene encoding RGL, a key regulator of muscle glycogen metabolism, was present in 1.36% of participants from a population of white individuals in the UK. However, the functional implications of the mutation were not known. The objective of this study was to characterise the molecular and physiological consequences of this genetic variant. METHODS AND FINDINGS In this study we found a similar prevalence of the variant in an independent UK white population of 744 participants (1.46%) and, using in vivo (13)C magnetic resonance spectroscopy studies, demonstrate that human carriers (n = 6) of the variant have low basal (65% lower, p = 0.002) and postprandial muscle glycogen levels. Mice engineered to express the equivalent mutation had similarly decreased muscle glycogen levels (40% lower in heterozygous knock-in mice, p < 0.05). In muscle tissue from these mice, failure of the truncated mutant to bind glycogen and colocalize with glycogen synthase (GS) decreased GS and increased glycogen phosphorylase activity states, which account for the decreased glycogen content. CONCLUSIONS Thus, PPP1R3A C1984DeltaAG (stop codon 668) is, to our knowledge, the first prevalent mutation described that directly impairs glycogen synthesis and decreases glycogen levels in human skeletal muscle. The fact that it is present in approximately 1 in 70 UK whites increases the potential biomedical relevance of these observations.
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- David B Savage
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, United States of America
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- School of Clinical Medical Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Magnetic Resonance Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, United States of America
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Duke University Medical Centre, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, United States of America
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- School of Clinical Medical Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, United States of America
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, United States of America
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Lai YC, Stuenaes JT, Kuo CH, Jensen J. Glycogen content and contraction regulate glycogen synthase phosphorylation and affinity for UDP-glucose in rat skeletal muscles. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2007; 293:E1622-9. [PMID: 17878227 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00113.2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Glycogen content and contraction strongly regulate glycogen synthase (GS) activity, and the aim of the present study was to explore their effects and interaction on GS phosphorylation and kinetic properties. Glycogen content in rat epitrochlearis muscles was manipulated in vivo. After manipulation, incubated muscles with normal glycogen [NG; 210.9 +/- 7.1 mmol/kg dry weight (dw)], low glycogen (LG; 108.1 +/- 4.5 mmol/ kg dw), and high glycogen (HG; 482.7 +/- 42.1 mmol/kg dw) were contracted or rested before the studies of GS kinetic properties and GS phosphorylation (using phospho-specific antibodies). LG decreased and HG increased GS K(m) for UDP-glucose (LG: 0.27 +/- 0.02 < NG: 0.71 +/- 0.06 < HG: 1.11 +/- 0.12 mM; P < 0.001). In addition, GS fractional activity inversely correlated with glycogen content (R = -0.70; P < 0.001; n = 44). Contraction decreased K(m) for UDP-glucose (LG: 0.14 +/- 0.01 = NG: 0.16 +/- 0.01 < HG: 0.33 +/- 0.03 mM; P < 0.001) and increased GS fractional activity, and these effects were observed independently of glycogen content. In rested muscles, GS Ser(641) and Ser(7) phosphorylation was decreased in LG and increased in HG compared with NG. GSK-3beta Ser(9) and AMPKalpha Thr(172) phosphorylation was not modulated by glycogen content in rested muscles. Contraction decreased phosphorylation of GS Ser(641) at all glycogen contents. However, contraction increased GS Ser(7) phosphorylation even though GS was strongly activated. In conclusion, glycogen content regulates GS affinity for UDP-glucose and low affinity for UDP-glucose in muscles with high glycogen content may reduce glycogen accumulation. Contraction increases GS affinity for UDP-glucose independently of glycogen content and creates a unique phosphorylation pattern.
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- Yu-Chiang Lai
- Dept. of Physiology, National Institute of Occupational Health, P. O. Box 8149, Dep. N-0033, Oslo, Norway
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Montori-Grau M, Guitart M, Lerin C, Andreu A, Newgard C, García-Martínez C, Gómez-Foix A. Expression and glycogenic effect of glycogen-targeting protein phosphatase 1 regulatory subunit GL in cultured human muscle. Biochem J 2007; 405:107-13. [PMID: 17555403 PMCID: PMC1925244 DOI: 10.1042/bj20061572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Glycogen-targeting PP1 (protein phosphatase 1) subunit G(L) (coded for by the PPP1R3B gene) is expressed in human, but not rodent, skeletal muscle. Its effects on muscle glycogen metabolism are unknown. We show that G(L) mRNA levels in primary cultured human myotubes are similar to those in freshly excised muscle, unlike subunits G(M) (gene PPP1R3A) or PTG (protein targeting to glycogen; gene PPP1R3C), which decrease strikingly. In cultured myotubes, expression of the genes coding for G(L), G(M) and PTG is not regulated by glucose or insulin. Overexpression of G(L) activates myotube GS (glycogen synthase), glycogenesis in glucose-replete and -depleted cells and glycogen accumulation. Compared with overexpressed G(M), G(L) has a more potent activating effect on glycogenesis, while marked enhancement of their combined action is only observed in glucose-replete cells. G(L) does not affect GP (glycogen phosphorylase) activity, while co-overexpression with muscle GP impairs G(L) activation of GS in glucose-replete cells. G(L) enhances long-term glycogenesis additively to glucose depletion and insulin, although G(L) does not change the phosphorylation of GSK3 (GS kinase 3) on Ser9 or its upstream regulator kinase Akt/protein kinase B on Ser473, nor its response to insulin. In conclusion, in cultured human myotubes, the G(L) gene is expressed as in muscle tissue and is unresponsive to glucose or insulin, as are G(M) and PTG genes. G(L) activates GS regardless of glucose, does not regulate GP and stimulates glycogenesis in combination with insulin and glucose depletion.
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- Marta Montori-Grau
- *Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biología, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028-Barcelona, Spain
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- *Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biología, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028-Barcelona, Spain
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- *Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biología, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028-Barcelona, Spain
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- †Centre d’Investigació en Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular (A.L.A.), University Hospital Vall d'Hebron, 08035-Barcelona, Spain
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- ‡Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center and Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27704, U.S.A
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- *Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biología, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028-Barcelona, Spain
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- *Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biología, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028-Barcelona, Spain
- To whom correspondence should be addressed (email )
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Xiong Y, Collins QF, An J, Lupo E, Liu HY, Liu D, Robidoux J, Liu Z, Cao W. p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase plays an inhibitory role in hepatic lipogenesis. J Biol Chem 2006; 282:4975-4982. [PMID: 17172644 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m606742200] [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: 12/21/2022] Open
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Hepatic lipogenesis is the principal route to convert excess carbohydrates into fatty acids and is mainly regulated by two opposing hormones, insulin and glucagon. Although insulin stimulates hepatic lipogenesis, glucagon inhibits it. However, the mechanism by which glucagon suppresses lipogenesis remains poorly understood. In this study, we have observed that p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase plays an inhibitory role in hepatic lipogenesis. Levels of plasma triglyceride and triglyceride accumulation in the liver were both elevated when p38 activation was blocked. Expression levels of central lipogenic genes, including sterol regulatory element-binding protein-1 (SREBP-1), fatty acid synthase, hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase, farnesyl pyrophosphate synthase, and cytochrome P-450-51, were decreased in liver by fasting and in primary hepatocytes by glucagon but increased by the inhibition of p38. In addition, we have shown that p38 can inhibit insulin-induced expression of key lipogenic genes in isolated hepatocytes. Our results in hepatoma cells demonstrate that p38 plays an inhibitory role in the activation of the SREBP-1c promoter. Finally, we have shown that transcription of the PGC-1beta gene, a key coactivator of SREBP-1c, was reduced in liver by fasting and in isolated hepatocytes by glucagon. This reduction was significantly reversed by the blockade of p38. Insulin-induced expression of the PGC-1beta gene was enhanced by the inhibition of p38 but suppressed by the activation of p38. Together, we have identified an inhibitory role for p38 in the transcription of central lipogenic genes, SREBPs, and PGC-1beta and hepatic lipogenesis.
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- Yan Xiong
- Endocrine Biology Program, The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709; Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, 410078 Hunan, China
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- Endocrine Biology Program, The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709
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- The Sarah W. Stedman Center for Nutrition and Metabolism, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, 410078 Hunan, China
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- Endocrine Biology Program, The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709
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- Endocrine Biology Program, The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709
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- Center for Integrated Genomics, The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709
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- Endocrine Biology Program, The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709
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- Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, and
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- Endocrine Biology Program, The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709; Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Duke University, Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710.
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Cao W, Collins QF, Becker TC, Robidoux J, Lupo EG, Xiong Y, Daniel KW, Floering L, Collins S. p38 Mitogen-activated protein kinase plays a stimulatory role in hepatic gluconeogenesis. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:42731-7. [PMID: 16272151 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m506223200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Hepatic gluconeogenesis is essential for maintaining blood glucose levels during fasting and is the major contributor to postprandial and fasting hyperglycemia in diabetes. Gluconeogenesis is a classic cAMP/protein kinase A-dependent process initiated by glucagon, which is elevated in the blood during fasting and in diabetes. In this study, we have shown that p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (p38) was activated in liver by fasting and in primary hepatocytes by glucagon or forskolin. Fasting plasma glucose levels were reduced upon blockade of p38 with either a chemical inhibitor or small interference RNA in mice. In examining the mechanism, inhibition of p38 suppressed gluconeogenesis in liver, along with expression of key gluconeogenic genes, including phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase and glucose-6-phosphatase. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator 1alpha and cAMP-response element-binding protein have been shown to be important mediators of hepatic gluconeogenesis. We have shown that inhibition of p38 prevented transcription of the PPARgamma coactivator 1alpha gene as well as phosphorylation of cAMP-response element-binding protein. Together, our results from in vitro and in vivo studies define a model in which cAMP-dependent activation of genes involved in gluconeogenesis is dependent upon the p38 pathway, thus adding a new player to our evolving understanding of this physiology.
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- Wenhong Cao
- Endocrine Biology Program, CIIT Centers for Health Research, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, 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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Jørgensen SB, Nielsen JN, Birk JB, Olsen GS, Viollet B, Andreelli F, Schjerling P, Vaulont S, Hardie DG, Hansen BF, Richter EA, Wojtaszewski JFP. The alpha2-5'AMP-activated protein kinase is a site 2 glycogen synthase kinase in skeletal muscle and is responsive to glucose loading. Diabetes 2004; 53:3074-81. [PMID: 15561936 DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.53.12.3074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 191] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [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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The 5'AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is a potential antidiabetic drug target. Here we show that the pharmacological activation of AMPK by 5-aminoimidazole-1-beta-4-carboxamide ribofuranoside (AICAR) leads to inactivation of glycogen synthase (GS) and phosphorylation of GS at Ser 7 (site 2). In muscle of mice with targeted deletion of the alpha2-AMPK gene, phosphorylation of GS site 2 was decreased under basal conditions and unchanged by AICAR treatment. In contrast, in alpha1-AMPK knockout mice, the response to AICAR was normal. Fuel surplus (glucose loading) decreased AMPK activation by AICAR, but the phosphorylation of the downstream targets acetyl-CoA carboxylase-beta and GS was normal. Fractionation studies suggest that this suppression of AMPK activation was not a direct consequence of AMPK association with membranes or glycogen, because AMPK was phosphorylated to a greater extent in response to AICAR in the membrane/glycogen fraction than in the cytosolic fraction. Thus, the downstream action of AMPK in response to AICAR was unaffected by glucose loading, whereas the action of the kinase upstream of AMPK, as judged by AMPK phosphorylation, was decreased. The fact that alpha2-AMPK is a GS kinase that inactivates GS while simultaneously activating glucose transport suggests that a balanced view on the suitability for AMPK as an antidiabetic drug target should be taken.
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- Sebastian B Jørgensen
- Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre, Department of Human Physiology, Institute of Exercise and Sport Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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