Evidence for a role of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase in the regulation of glucose transport in Xenopus oocytes.

Abstract It has been suggested that downstream signaling from the insulin receptor to the level of the protein kinases and protein phosphatases is accomplished by prostaglandylinositol cyclic phosphate (cyclic PIP), a proposed second messenger of insulin. However, evidence points also to both phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, which binds to the tyrosine phosphorylated insulin receptor substrate-1, and the Ras complex in insulin's downstream signaling. We have examined whether a correlation exists between these various observations. It was found that wortmannin, a specific inhibitor of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, prevented insulin-induced, as well as cyclic PIP-induced activation of glucose transport, indicating that PI 3-kinase action on glucose transport involves downstream signaling of both insulin and cyclic PIP. Wortmannin has no effect on cyclic PIP synthase activity nor on the substrate production for cyclic PIP synthesis either, indicating that the functional role of PI 3-kinase is exclusively downstream of cyclic PIP.

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Lysophosphatidic acid stimulates glucose transport in Xenopus oocytes via a phosphatidylinositol 3′-kinase with distinct properties

Biochemical Journal ◽

10.1042/bj3160161 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 316 (1) ◽

pp. 161-166 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Fiona J. THOMSON ◽

Colin MOYES ◽

Pamela H. SCOTT ◽

Robin PLEVIN ◽

Gwyn W. GOULD

Keyword(s):

Phosphatidic Acid ◽

Glucose Transport ◽

Lysophosphatidic Acid ◽

Xenopus Oocytes ◽

Kinase Activity ◽

Sugar Transport ◽

Phosphatidylinositol 3 Kinase ◽

Marked Contrast ◽

Igf I ◽

Phosphatidylinositol 3

Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) stimulated the transport of deoxyglucose into oocytes isolated from Xenopus laevis. This stimulation was accounted for entirely by an increase in the Vmax for transport. Various LPAs with different acyl groups in the sn-1 position and phosphatidic acid stimulated deoxyglucose (deGlc) transport in these cells with a rank order potency of 1-oleoyl-LPA > 1-palmitoyl-LPA > phosphatidic acid = 1-stearoyl-LPA > 1-myristoyl-LPA. The phosphatidylinositol 3´-kinase inhibitor LY294002 completely blocked LPA-stimulated deoxyglucose uptake (IC50 ~2 μM). In marked contrast, wortmannin, which can completely block both insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I)-stimulated deGlc uptake in oocytes and phosphatidylinositol 3´-kinase activation at concentrations as low as 20 nM [Gould, Jess, Andrews, Herbst, Plevin and Gibbs (1994) J. Biol. Chem. 269, 26622–26625], was a relatively poor inhibitor of LPA-stimulated deGlc transport, even at concentrations as high as 100 nM. We further show that LPA stimulates phosphatidylinositol 3´-kinase activity(s) that can phosphorylate both phosphatidylinositol and phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate, and that this stimulation is inhibited by LY294002 but is relatively insensitive to wortmannin, again in marked contrast to IGF-I-stimulated phosphatidylinositol 3´-kinase activity. Antibodies against the p85 regulatory subunit of phosphatidylinositol 3´-kinase or antiphosphotyrosine antibodies immunoprecipitated IGF-I-stimulated but not LPA-stimulated phosphatidylinositol 3´-kinase activity. We conclude that LPA stimulates glucose uptake in Xenopus oocytes by a mechanism that may involve activation of a form of phosphatidylinositol 3´-kinase that is distinguished from other isoforms by its resistance to wortmannin and by its substrate specificity. Since the LPA-activated form of phosphatidylinositol 3´-kinase is pharmacologically and immunologically distinct from that which is involved in IGF-I-stimulated glucose transport in these cells, we suggest that distinct isoforms of this enzyme are able to function with the same biological effect, at least in the regulation of sugar transport.

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