scholarly journals Translocation of the brain-type glucose transporter largely accounts for insulin stimulation of glucose transport in BC3H-1 myocytes

1990 ◽  
Vol 269 (3) ◽  
pp. 597-601 ◽  
Author(s):  
D M Calderhead ◽  
K Kitagawa ◽  
G E Lienhard ◽  
G W Gould

Insulin-stimulated glucose transport was examined in BC3H-1 myocytes. Insulin treatment lead to a 2.7 +/- 0.3-fold increase in the rate of deoxyglucose transport and, under the same conditions, a 2.1 +/- 0.1-fold increase in the amount of the brain-type glucose transporter (GLUT 1) at the cell surface. It has been shown that some insulin-responsive tissues express a second, immunologically distinct, transporter, namely GLUT 4. We report here that BC3H-1 myocytes and C2 and G8 myotubes express only GLUT 1; in contrast, rat soleus muscle and heart express 3-4 times higher levels of GLUT 4 than GLUT 1. Thus translocation of GLUT 1 can account for most, if not all, of the insulin stimulation of glucose transport in BC3H-1 myocytes. On the other, hand, neither BC3H-1 myocytes nor the other muscle-cell lines are adequate as models for the study of insulin regulation of glucose transport in muscle tissue.

1995 ◽  
Vol 269 (3) ◽  
pp. R544-R551 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. Han ◽  
T. Ploug ◽  
H. Galbo

A diet rich in fat diminishes insulin-mediated glucose uptake in muscle. This study explored whether contraction-mediated glucose uptake is also affected. Rats were fed a diet rich in fat (FAT, 73% of energy) or carbohydrate (CHO, 66%) for 5 wk. Hindquarters were perfused, and either glucose uptake or glucose transport capacity (uptake of 3-O-[14C]-methyl-D-glucose (40 mM)) was measured. Amounts of glucose transporter isoform GLUT-1 and GLUT-4 glucose-transporting proteins were determined by Western blot. Glucose uptake was lower (P < 0.05) in hindlegs from FAT than from CHO rats at submaximum and maximum insulin [4 +/- 0.4 vs. 5 +/- 0.3 (SE) mumol.min-1.leg-1 at 150 microU/ml insulin] as well as during prolonged stimulation of the sciatic nerve (4.4 +/- 0.4 vs. 5.6 +/- 0.6 mumol.min-1.leg-1). Maximum glucose transport elicited by insulin (soleus: 1.7 +/- 0.2 vs. 2.6 +/- 0.2 mumol.g-1.5 min-1, P < 0.05) or contractions (soleus: 1.8 +/- 0.2 vs. 2.6 +/- 0.3, P < 0.05) in red muscle was decreased in parallel in FAT compared with CHO rats. GLUT-4 content was decreased by 13-29% (P < 0.05) in the various fiber types, whereas GLUT-1 content was identical in FAT compared with CHO rats. It is concluded that a FAT diet reduces both insulin and contraction stimulation of glucose uptake in muscle and that these effects are associated with diminished skeletal muscle glucose transport capacities and GLUT-4 contents.


1991 ◽  
Vol 275 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
E M Gibbs ◽  
D M Calderhead ◽  
G D Holman ◽  
G W Gould

We examined the effects of the phorbol ester phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) on the rate of hexose transport into 3T3-L1 adipocytes. Exposure of adipocytes to PMA (1 microM) for 60 min results in a 1.7-2.5-fold increase in the rate of hexose transport. This effect was mediated by translocation of two isoforms of glucose transporters to the plasma membrane, as determined by labelling in situ, photoaffinity labelling with a membrane-impermeant glucose analogue, and by immunoblotting of subcellular fractions. The PMA-induced stimulation of both transport and transporter translocation was substantially less than that induced by insulin in this cell line; the PMA-induced increase in plasma-membrane GLUT 1 and GLUT 4 transporter isoforms was only about 40% and 10% respectively of that induced by insulin. We suggest that the stimulation of transport by insulin and PMA occurs via different mechanisms, which is manifested by the ability of insulin to induce a much greater increase in the plasma-membrane content of GLUT 4 compared with the phorbol ester.


Physiology ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 105-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alireza Behrooz ◽  
Faramarz Ismail-Beigi

Glucose transport is acutely stimulated by hypoxia through enhanced GLUT-1 and GLUT-4 glucose transporter function. GLUT-1 expression is also stimulated by hypoxia or azide. Moreover, hypoxia per se, acting through hypoxia-inducible factor 1, enhances GLUT-1 transcription. GLUT-1 is the first gene whose transcription is dually stimulated in response to hypoxia and inhibition of oxidative phosphorylation.


1991 ◽  
Vol 70 (5) ◽  
pp. 2322-2327 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. J. Henriksen ◽  
K. J. Rodnick ◽  
C. E. Mondon ◽  
D. E. James ◽  
J. O. Holloszy

The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that the decreased capacity for glucose transport in the denervated rat soleus and the increased capacity for glucose transport in the unweighted rat soleus are related to changes in the expression of the regulatable glucose transporter protein in skeletal muscle (GLUT-4). One day after sciatic nerve sectioning, when decreases in the stimulation of soleus 2-deoxyglucose (2-DG) uptake by insulin (-51%, P less than 0.001), contractions (-29%, P less than 0.05), or insulin and contractions in combination (-40%, P less than 0.001) were observed, there was a slight (-18%, NS) decrease in GLUT-4 protein. By day 3 of denervation, stimulation of 2-DG uptake by insulin (-74%, P less than 0.001), contractions (-31%, P less than 0.001), or the two stimuli in combination (-59%, P less than 0.001), as well as GLUT-4 protein (-52%, P less than 0.001), was further reduced. Soleus muscle from hindlimb-suspended rats, which develops an enhanced capacity for insulin-stimulated glucose transport, showed muscle atrophy similar to denervated soleus but, in contrast, displayed substantial increases in GLUT-4 protein after 3 (+35%, P less than 0.05) and 7 days (+107%, P less than 0.001). These results indicate that altered GLUT-4 expression may be a major contributor to the changes in insulin-stimulated glucose transport that are observed with denervation and unweighting. We conclude that muscle activity is an important factor in the regulation of GLUT-4 expression in skeletal muscle.


1990 ◽  
Vol 259 (6) ◽  
pp. E778-E786 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Ploug ◽  
B. M. Stallknecht ◽  
O. Pedersen ◽  
B. B. Kahn ◽  
T. Ohkuwa ◽  
...  

The effect of 10 wk endurance swim training on 3-O-methylglucose (3-MG) uptake (at 40 mM 3-MG) in skeletal muscle was studied in the perfused rat hindquarter. Training resulted in an increase of approximately 33% for maximum insulin-stimulated 3-MG transport in fast-twitch red fibers and an increase of approximately 33% for contraction-stimulated transport in slow-twitch red fibers compared with nonexercised sedentary muscle. A fully additive effect of insulin and contractions was observed both in trained and untrained muscle. Compared with transport in control rats subjected to an almost exhaustive single exercise session the day before experiment both maximum insulin- and contraction-stimulated transport rates were increased in all muscle types in trained rats. Accordingly, the increased glucose transport capacity in trained muscle was not due to a residual effect of the last training session. Half-times for reversal of contraction-induced glucose transport were similar in trained and untrained muscles. The concentrations of mRNA for GLUT-1 (the erythrocyte-brain-Hep G2 glucose transporter) and GLUT-4 (the adipocyte-muscle glucose transporter) were increased approximately twofold by training in fast-twitch red muscle fibers. In parallel to this, Western blot demonstrated a approximately 47% increase in GLUT-1 protein and a approximately 31% increase in GLUT-4 protein. This indicates that the increases in maximum velocity for 3-MG transport in trained muscle is due to an increased number of glucose transporters.


2001 ◽  
Vol 281 (5) ◽  
pp. R1545-R1552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne S. Anderson ◽  
Judy Flowers-Ziegler ◽  
Utpala G. Das ◽  
William W. Hay ◽  
Sherin U. Devaskar

The acute effect of selective hyperglycemia or hyperinsulinemia on late gestation fetal ovine glucose transporter protein (GLUT-1, GLUT-3, and GLUT-4) concentrations was examined in insulin-insensitive (brain and liver) and insulin-sensitive (myocardium and fat) tissues at 1, 2.5, and 24 h. Hyperglycemia with euinsulinemia caused a two- to threefold increase in brain GLUT-3, liver GLUT-1, and myocardial GLUT-1 concentrations only at 1 h. There was no change in GLUT-4 protein amounts at any time during the selective hyperglycemia. In contrast, selective hyperinsulinemia with euglycemia led to an immediate and persistent twofold increase in liver GLUT-1, which lasted from 1 until 24 h with a concomitant decline in myocardial tissue GLUT-4 amounts, reaching statistical significance at 24 h. No other significant change in response to hyperinsulinemia was noted in any of the other isoforms in any of the other tissues. Simultaneous assessment of total fetal glucose utilization rate (GURf) during selective hyperglycemia demonstrated a transient 40% increase at 1 and 2.5 h, corresponding temporally with a transient increase in brain GLUT-3 and liver and myocardial GLUT-1 protein amounts. In contrast, selective hyperinsulinemia led to a sustained increase in GURf, corresponding temporally with the persistent increase in hepatic GLUT-1 concentrations. We conclude that excess substrate acutely increases GURf associated with an increase in various tissues of the transporter isoforms GLUT-1 and GLUT-3 that mediate fetal basal glucose transport without an effect on the GLUT-4 isoform that mediates insulin action. This contrasts with the tissue-specific effects of selective hyperinsulinemia with a sustained increase in GURfassociated with a sustained increase in hepatic basal glucose transporter (GLUT-1) amounts and a myocardial-specific emergence of mild insulin resistance associated with a downregulation of GLUT-4.


1992 ◽  
Vol 117 (4) ◽  
pp. 729-743 ◽  
Author(s):  
RC Piper ◽  
C Tai ◽  
JW Slot ◽  
CS Hahn ◽  
CM Rice ◽  
...  

GLUT-4 is the major facilitative glucose transporter isoform in tissues that exhibit insulin-stimulated glucose transport. Insulin regulates glucose transport by the rapid translocation of GLUT-4 from an intracellular compartment to the plasma membrane. A critical feature of this process is the efficient exclusion of GLUT-4 from the plasma membrane in the absence of insulin. To identify the amino acid domains of GLUT-4 which confer intracellular sequestration, we analyzed the subcellular distribution of chimeric glucose transporters comprised of GLUT-4 and a homologous isoform, GLUT-1, which is found predominantly at the cell surface. These chimeric transporters were transiently expressed in CHO cells using a double subgenomic recombinant Sindbis virus vector. We have found that wild-type GLUT-4 is targeted to an intracellular compartment in CHO cells which is morphologically similar to that observed in adipocytes and muscle cells. Sindbis virus-produced GLUT-1 was predominantly expressed at the cell surface. Substitution of the GLUT-4 amino-terminal region with that of GLUT-1 abolished the efficient intracellular sequestration of GLUT-4. Conversely, substitution of the NH2 terminus of GLUT-1 with that of GLUT-4 resulted in marked intracellular sequestration of GLUT-1. These data indicate that the NH2-terminus of GLUT-4 is both necessary and sufficient for intracellular sequestration.


1995 ◽  
Vol 269 (3) ◽  
pp. E605-E610
Author(s):  
R. S. Haber ◽  
C. M. Wilson ◽  
S. P. Weinstein ◽  
A. Pritsker ◽  
S. W. Cushman

The stimulation of glucose transport by 3,5,3'-triiodo-L-thyronine (T3) in the liver-derived ARL 15 cell line is only partly attributable to increased GLUT-1 glucose transporter gene expression. To test the hypothesis that T3 increases the partitioning of GLUT-1 to the cell surface, we quantitated surface GLUT-1 using the photolabel ATB-[3H]BMPA. In control cells only approximately 20% of total cellular GLUT-1 was present at the cell surface. T3 treatment (100 nM) for 6 h increased the rate of 2-deoxy-[3H]glucose (2-DG) uptake by 30, 92, and 95% in three experiments and increased surface GLUT-1 photolabeling by 17, 81, and 72%, respectively, with no increase in total cellular GLUT-1. T3 treatment for 48 h increased 2-DG uptake by 143, 172, and 216% in three experiments and increased cell surface GLUT-1 photolabeling by 88, 161, and 184%, respectively, with smaller increases in total cellular GLUT-1. T3 treatment for 48 h thus increased the fraction of cellular GLUT-1 at the plasma membrane from 21 +/- 2 to 35 +/- 3% (SE). We conclude that most of the early (6-h) stimulation of glucose transport by T3 in ARL 15 cells is mediated by an increase in the partitioning of GLUT-1 to the plasma membrane. With more chronic T3 treatment (48 h), the enhanced surface partitioning of GLUT-1 is persistent and is superimposed on an increase in total cellular GLUT-1, accounting for a further increase in glucose transport.


1993 ◽  
Vol 265 (1) ◽  
pp. E128-E134 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Stallknecht ◽  
P. H. Andersen ◽  
J. Vinten ◽  
L. L. Bendtsen ◽  
J. Sibbersen ◽  
...  

Physical training increases insulin-stimulated glucose transport and the number of glucose transporters in adipocytes measured by cytochalasin B binding. In the present study we used immunoblotting to measure the abundance of two glucose transporters (GLUT-4, GLUT-1) in white adipocytes from trained rats. Furthermore, the abundance of the mRNAs for these proteins and glucose transport was measured. Rats were swim-trained for 10 wk, and adipocytes were isolated from epididymal fat pads. The amount of GLUT-4/adipocyte volume unit was significantly higher in trained animals compared with both age- and cell size-matched animals. The amount of GLUT-4 mRNA was also increased by training and it decreased with increasing age. Furthermore, young age as well as training was accompanied by relatively low GLUT-4 protein/mRNA and relatively high overall GLUT-4 efficiency (recruitability and/or intrinsic activity). GLUT-1 protein and mRNA levels/adipocyte volume did not change with age or training.


2006 ◽  
Vol 189 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Gray ◽  
Barbara S Stonestreet ◽  
Shanthie Thamotharan ◽  
Grazyna B Sadowska ◽  
Molly Daood ◽  
...  

We investigated the effects of maternal antenatal dexamethasone (Dex) treatment given as a single course (4 doses) or multiple courses (20 doses) on fetal skeletal muscle glucose transporter (GLUT) protein concentrations at 70% of gestation (106 to 107 days with term being 145 to 150 days) in the ovine fetus. Antenatal corticosteroid administration was associated with a decrease in endogenous fetal plasma cortisol concentrations (P < 0.05), fetal hyperglycemia (P < 0.02) and hyperinsulinemia (P < 0.05). These metabolic/hormonal changes were associated with a decrease in fetal body weight (P < 0.05) in the multiple course Dex group compared with the multiple course placebo group. These perturbations were associated with an increase in fetal skeletal muscle GLUT 1 concentrations that mediate basal glucose transport in the extensor digitorum lateralis and extensor digitorum longus muscles (P < 0.05) 18 h after the last dose of Dex was given in the single course group. However, in the multiple course Dex group, a small increase in GLUT 1 was observed only in the biceps femoris. In contrast, both single and multiple courses of antenatal Dex were associated with an increase in the extensor digitorum lateralis and biceps femoris muscle GLUT 4 (insulin-responsive) concentrations (P < 0.05). We conclude that antenatal corticosteroids perturb fetal glucose/insulin homeostasis, which is associated with increases in fetal skeletal muscle glucose transporters to compensate for and attenuate the associated catabolic fetal state. These changes consist of an increase in proteins that mediate basal glucose transport (GLUT 1) to meet immediate energy requirements of the fetal skeletal muscle with an increase in basal insulin sensitivity (GLUT 4) to compensate for the Dex-induced catabolic state after exposure to multiple courses of Dex.


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