scholarly journals Regulation of GLUT1-mediated glucose uptake by PKCλ–PKCβII interactions in 3T3-L1 adipocytes

2004 ◽  
Vol 384 (2) ◽  
pp. 349-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Remko R. BOSCH ◽  
Merlijn BAZUINE ◽  
Paul N. SPAN ◽  
Peter H. G. M. WILLEMS ◽  
André J. OLTHAAR ◽  
...  

Members of the PKC (protein kinase C) superfamily play key regulatory roles in glucose transport. How the different PKC isotypes are involved in the regulation of glucose transport is still poorly defined. PMA is a potent activator of conventional and novel PKCs and PMA increases the rate of glucose uptake in many different cell systems. In the present study, we show that PMA treatment increases glucose uptake in 3T3-L1 adipocytes by two mechanisms: a mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase-dependent increase in GLUT1 (glucose transporter 1) expression levels and a PKCλ-dependent translocation of GLUT1 towards the plasma membrane. Intriguingly, PKCλ co-immunoprecipitated with PKCβII and did not with PKCβI. Previously, we have described that down-regulation of PKCβII protein levels or inhibiting PKCβII by means of the myristoylated PKCβC2–4 peptide inhibitor induced GLUT1 translocation towards the plasma membrane in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. Combined with the present findings, these results suggest that the liberation of PKCλ from PKCβII is an important factor in the regulation of GLUT1 distribution in 3T3-L1 adipocytes.

2005 ◽  
Vol 385 (2) ◽  
pp. 485-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
John WALKER ◽  
Humberto B. JIJON ◽  
Hugo DIAZ ◽  
Payam SALEHI ◽  
Thomas CHURCHILL ◽  
...  

AMPK (AMP-activated protein kinase) is a key sensor of energy status within the cell. Activated by an increase in the AMP/ATP ratio, AMPK acts to limit cellular energy depletion by down-regulating selective ATP-dependent processes. The purpose of the present study was to determine the role of AMPK in regulating intestinal glucose transport. [3H]3-O-methyl glucose fluxes were measured in murine jejunum in the presence and absence of the AMPK activators AICAR (5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide riboside) and metformin and the p38 inhibitor, SB203580. To differentiate between a sodium-coupled (SGLT1) and diffusive (GLUT2) route of entry, fluxes were measured in the presence of the SGLT1 and GLUT2 inhibitors phloridzin and phloretin. Glucose transporter mRNA levels were measured by reverse transcriptase–PCR, and localization by Western blotting. Surface-expressed GLUT2 was assessed by luminal biotinylation. Activation of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase was analysed by Western blotting. We found that treatment of jejunal tissue with AICAR resulted in enhanced net glucose uptake and was associated with phosphorylation of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase. Inhibition of p38 abrogated the stimulation of AICAR-stimulated glucose uptake. Phloretin abolished the AICAR-mediated increase in glucose flux, whereas phloridzin had no effect, suggesting the involvement of GLUT2. In addition, AICAR decreased total protein levels of SGLT1, concurrently increasing levels of GLUT2 in the brush-border membrane. The anti-diabetic drug metformin, a known activator of AMPK, also induced the localization of GLUT2 to the luminal surface. We conclude that the activation of AMPK results in an up-regulation of non-energy requiring glucose uptake by GLUT2 and a concurrent down-regulation of sodium-dependent glucose transport.


2004 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik A. Richter ◽  
Jakob N. Nielsen ◽  
Sebastian B. Jørgensen ◽  
Christian Frøsig ◽  
Jesper B. Birk ◽  
...  

Contraction-induced glucose uptake in skeletal muscle is mediated by an insulin-independent mechanism that leads to translocation of the GLUT4 glucose transporter to the muscle surface membrane from an intracellular storage site. Although the signalling events that increase glucose transport in response to muscle contraction are not fully elucidated, the aim of the present review is to briefly present the current understanding of the molecular signalling mechanisms involved. Glucose uptake may be regulated by Ca2+-sensitive contraction-related mechanisms, possibly involving Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II and some isoforms of protein kinase C. In addition, glucose transport may be regulated by mechanisms that reflect the metabolic status of the muscle, probably involving the 5′AMP-activated protein kinase. Furthermore, the p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase may be involved in activating the GLUT4 translocated to the surface membrane. Nevertheless, the picture is incomplete, and fibre type differences also seem to be involved.


2004 ◽  
Vol 378 (2) ◽  
pp. 343-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kay BARNES ◽  
Jean C. INGRAM ◽  
Matthew D. M. BENNETT ◽  
Gordon W. STEWART ◽  
Stephen A. BALDWIN

An acute increase in the Vmax for glucose uptake occurs in many mammalian cell types after exposure to osmotic or metabolic stress. In the rat epithelial Clone 9 cell line, the glucose transporter isoform GLUT1 is responsible for this enhanced uptake. Although stimulation of transport in these cells is known to result from the unmasking of ‘cryptic’ exofacial permeant-binding sites in GLUT1 molecules resident in the plasma membrane, the mechanism of such unmasking remains unclear. One possibility involves changes in the lipid environment of the transporter: reconstitution experiments have shown that transport activity in vitro is acutely sensitive to the phospholipid and cholesterol composition of the membrane. In the current study we found that treatment of Clone 9 cells with methyl-β-cyclodextrin, which removed >80% of the cell cholesterol, led to a 3.5-fold increase in the Vmax for 3-O-methyl-d-glucose transport while having little effect on the Km. In contrast to the metabolic stress induced by inhibition of oxidative phosphorylation, cholesterol depletion led neither to depletion of cellular ATP nor stimulation of AMP-activated protein kinase. Similarly, it did not result in stimulation of members of the stress- and mitogen-activated protein kinase families. In unstressed, cholesterol-replete cells, a substantial proportion of GLUT1 in detergent lysates co-fractionated with the lipid-raft proteins caveolin and stomatin on density-gradient centrifugation. Immunocytochemistry also revealed the presence of GLUT1-enriched domains, some of which co-localized with stomatin, in the plasma membrane. Both techniques revealed that the abundance of such putative GLUT1-containing domains was decreased not only by cholesterol depletion but also in cells subjected to metabolic stress. Taken together, these data suggest that a change in the lipid environment of GLUT1, possibly associated with its re-distribution between different microdomains of the plasma membrane, could play a role in its activation in response to stress.


Blood ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 114 (22) ◽  
pp. 1990-1990
Author(s):  
Morvarid Mohseni ◽  
Anwar Khan ◽  
Athar H. Chishti

Abstract Abstract 1990 Poster Board I-1012 Erythrocyte dematin is a widely expressed actin-binding and bundling protein, and functions as a suppressor of RhoA signaling in fibroblasts (Mohseni and Chishti, Molecular Cell Biology 28: 4712-4718, 2008). Dematin is a substrate of multiple protein kinases, and its actin bundling activity is regulated by cAMP dependent protein kinase. Recently, we identified a novel interaction between dematin and glucose transporter-1 (GLUT1) that is critically important for erythrocyte shape and membrane mechanical properties (Khan et al., Journal of Biological Chemistry 283:14600-14609, 2008). Since homologues of dematin and GLUT1 exist in many non-erythroid cells, we proposed that a conserved mechanism might couple related sugar transporters, such as the insulin-responsive glucose transporter-4 (GLUT4), to the actin cytoskeleton via dematin. Immunocytochemistry established the presence of dematin in 3T3-L1 adipocytes, and a small pool of dematin and GLUT4-containing vesicles co-localized in 3T3-L1 cells under both basal and insulin-stimulated conditions. Plasma membrane sheet assays indicate that upon insulin stimulation, dematin translocates to the plasma membrane along with GLUT4, resulting in partial co-localization at the plasma membrane. Furthermore, dematin RNAi treated 3T3-L1 cells show reduced GLUT4 protein expression, suggesting that dematin may regulate a sub-population of GLUT4 via the lysosomal degradation pathway in adipocytes. Importantly, glucose transport was reduced by ∼28% in 3T3-L1 adipocytes depleted of dematin, and by ∼15% in the dematin headpiece knockout (HPKO) mouse primary adipocytes. Since a significant amount of dematin did not co-localize with GLUT4 in the cytosol and plasma membrane, biochemical interaction between dematin and GLUT4 could not be verified using immunoprecipitation and transfection assays. Although dematin does not bind directly to GLUT4 under these conditions, a possibility existed that this interaction may be transient and mediated through an adaptor protein. Interestingly, dematin contains seven 14-3-3 binding sites, and 14-3-3 adaptor has been shown to be functionally involved in GLUT4 trafficking. We demonstrate that phosphorylated dematin binds to 14-3-3 in 3T3-L1 adipocytes under both basal and insulin stimulated conditions. Mutagenesis studies identify serine-85 on dematin as the primary phospho-binding site for 14-3-3zeta. Furthermore, using pharmacological inhibitors, Akt is identified as the likely protein kinase that phosphorylates dematin to mediate the biochemical interactions between dematin and 14-3-3zeta. Together, our results identify erythrocyte dematin as a potential regulator of glucose transporter trafficking and degradation pathways in adipocytes with functional implications for glucose homeostasis, diabetes, and obesity. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


2001 ◽  
Vol 21 (22) ◽  
pp. 7852-7861 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liora Braiman ◽  
Addy Alt ◽  
Toshio Kuroki ◽  
Motoi Ohba ◽  
Asia Bak ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Insulin stimulates glucose uptake into skeletal muscle tissue mainly through the translocation of glucose transporter 4 (GLUT4) to the plasma membrane. The precise mechanism involved in this process is presently unknown. In the cascade of events leading to insulin-induced glucose transport, insulin activates specific protein kinase C (PKC) isoforms. In this study we investigated the roles of PKCζ in insulin-stimulated glucose uptake and GLUT4 translocation in primary cultures of rat skeletal muscle. We found that insulin initially caused PKCζ to associate specifically with the GLUT4 compartments and that PKCζ together with the GLUT4 compartments were then translocated to the plasma membrane as a complex. PKCζ and GLUT4 recycled independently of one another. To further establish the importance of PKCζ in glucose transport, we used adenovirus constructs containing wild-type or kinase-inactive, dominant-negative PKCζ (DNPKCζ) cDNA to overexpress this isoform in skeletal muscle myotube cultures. We found that overexpression of PKCζ was associated with a marked increase in the activity of this isoform. The overexpressed, active PKCζ coprecipitated with the GLUT4 compartments. Moreover, overexpression of PKCζ caused GLUT4 translocation to the plasma membrane and increased glucose uptake in the absence of insulin. Finally, either insulin or overexpression of PKCζ induced serine phosphorylation of the GLUT4-compartment-associated vesicle-associated membrane protein 2. Furthermore, DNPKCζ disrupted the GLUT4 compartment integrity and abrogated insulin-induced GLUT4 translocation and glucose uptake. These results demonstrate that PKCζ regulates insulin-stimulated GLUT4 translocation and glucose transport through the unique colocalization of this isoform with the GLUT4 compartments.


2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (7) ◽  
pp. 1230-1239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Remko R. Bosch ◽  
Merlijn Bazuine ◽  
Michelle M. Wake ◽  
Paul N. Span ◽  
André J. Olthaar ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Lin ◽  
Le Guan ◽  
Liping Meng ◽  
Hiroyasu Uzui ◽  
Hangyuan Guo

Background: Cardiac fibroblast (CF) activation is a hallmark feature of cardiac fibrosis in diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM). Inhibition of the sodium-dependent glucose transporter 1 (SGLT1) attenuates cardiomyocyte apoptosis and delays the development of DCM. However, the role of SGLT1 in CF activation remains unclear.Methods: A rat model of DCM was established and treated with si‐SGLT1 to examine cardiac fibrosis. In addition, in vitro experiments were conducted to verify the regulatory role of SGLT1 in proliferation and collagen secretion in high-glucose– (HG–) treated CFs.Results: SGLT1 was found to be upregulated in diabetic cardiac tissues and HG-induced CFs. HG stimulation resulted in increased proliferation and migration, increased the expression of transforming growth factor-β1 and collagen I and collagen III, and increased phosphorylation of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase and extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) 1/2. These trends in HG-treated CFs were significantly reversed by si-SGLT1. Moreover, the overexpression of SGLT1 promoted CF proliferation and collagen synthesis and increased phosphorylation of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase and ERK1/2. SGLT1 silencing significantly alleviated cardiac fibrosis, but had no effect on cardiac hypertrophy in diabetic hearts.Conclusion: These findings provide new information on the role of SGLT1 in CF activation, suggesting a novel therapeutic strategy for the treatment of DCM fibrosis.


1999 ◽  
Vol 277 (6) ◽  
pp. G1165-G1172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia R. L. Webster ◽  
M. Sawkat Anwer

cAMP stimulates Na+-taurocholate (TC) cotransport by translocating the Na+-TC-cotransporting peptide (Ntcp) to the plasma membrane. The present study was undertaken to determine whether the phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K)-signaling pathway is involved in cAMP-mediated translocation of Ntcp. The ability of cAMP to stimulate TC uptake declined significantly when hepatocytes were pretreated with PI3K inhibitors wortmannin or LY-294002. Wortmannin inhibited cAMP-mediated translocation of Ntcp to the plasma membrane. cAMP stimulated protein kinase B (PKB) activity by twofold within 5 min, an effect inhibited by wortmannin. Neither basal mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) activity nor cAMP-mediated inhibition of MAPK activity was affected by wortmannin. cAMP also stimulated p70S6K activity. However, rapamycin, an inhibitor of p70S6K, failed to inhibit cAMP-mediated stimulation of TC uptake, indicating that the effect of cAMP is not mediated via p70S6K. Cytochalasin D, an inhibitor of actin filament formation, inhibited the ability of cAMP to stimulate TC uptake and Ntcp translocation. Together, these results suggest that the stimulation of TC uptake and Ntcp translocation by cAMP may be mediated via the PI3K/PKB signaling pathway and requires intact actin filaments.


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