scholarly journals Trafficking of glucose transporters in 3T3-L1 cells. Inhibition of trafficking by phenylarsine oxide implicates a slow dissociation of transporters from trafficking proteins

1992 ◽  
Vol 281 (3) ◽  
pp. 809-817 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Yang ◽  
A E Clark ◽  
R Harrison ◽  
I J Kozka ◽  
G D Holman

We have compared the rates of insulin stimulation of cell-surface availability of glucose-transporter isoforms (GLUT1 and GLUT4) and the stimulation of 2-deoxy-D-glucose transport in 3T3-L1 cells. The levels of cell-surface transporters have been assessed by using the bismannose compound 2-N-[4-(1-azi-2,2,2-trifluoroethyl)benzoyl]-1,3-bis(D-mannos -4-yloxy) propyl-2-amine (ATB-BMPA). At 27 degrees C the half-times for the appearance of GLUT1 and GLUT4 at the cell surface were 5.7 and 5.4 min respectively and were slightly shorter than that for the observed stimulation of transport activity (t 1/2 8.6 min). This lag may be due to a slow dissociation of surface transporters from trafficking proteins responsible for translocation. When fully-insulin-stimulated cells were subjected to a low-pH washing procedure to remove insulin at 37 degrees C, the cell-surface levels of GLUT1 and GLUT4 decreased, with half-times of 9.2 and 6.8 min respectively. These times correlated well with decrease in 2-deoxy-D-glucose transport activity that occurred during this washing procedure (t1/2 6.5 min). When fully-insulin-stimulated cells were treated with phenylarsine oxide (PAO), a similar decrease in transport activity occurred (t1/2 9.8 min). However, surface labelling showed that this corresponded with a decrease in GLUT4 only (t1/2 7.8 min). The cell-surface level of GLUT1 remained high throughout the PAO treatment. Light-microsome membranes were isolated from cells which had been cell-surface-labelled with ATB-BMPA. Internalization of both transporter isoforms to this pool occurred when cells were maintained in the presence of insulin for 60 min. In contrast with the surface-labelling results, we have shown that the transfer to the light-microsome pool of both transporters occurred in cells treated with insulin and PAO. These results suggest that both transporters are recycled by fluid-phase endocytosis and exocytosis. PAO may inhibit this recycling at a stage which involves the re-emergence of internalized transporters at the plasma membrane. The GLUT1 transporters that are recycled to the surface in insulin- and PAO-treated cells appear to have low transport activity. This may be because of a failure to dissociate fully from trafficking proteins at the cell surface. GLUT4 transporters appear to have a greater tendency to remain internalized if the normal mechanisms that commit transporters to the cell surface, such as dissociation from trafficking proteins, are uncoupled.

1991 ◽  
Vol 278 (1) ◽  
pp. 235-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
A E Clark ◽  
G D Holman ◽  
I J Kozka

We have used an impermeant bis-mannose compound (2-N-[4-(1-azi-2,2,2-trifluoroethyl)benzoyl]-1,3-bis-(D-mannos+ ++- 4-yloxy)-2- propylamine; ATB-BMPA) to photolabel the glucose transporter isoforms GLUT4 and GLUT1 that are present in rat adipose cells. Plasma-membrane fractions and light-microsome membrane fractions were both labelled by ATB-BMPA. The labelling of GLUT4 in the plasma membrane fraction from insulin-treated cells was approximately 3-fold higher than that of basal cells and corresponded with a decrease in the labelling of the light-microsome fraction. In contrast with this, the cell-surface labelling of GLUT4 from insulin-treated intact adipose cells was increased approximately 15-fold above basal levels. In these adipose cell preparations, insulin stimulated glucose transport activity approximately 30-fold. Thus the cell-surface labelling, but not the labelling of membrane fractions, closely corresponded with the stimulation of transport. The remaining discrepancy may be due to an approx. 2-fold activation of GLUT4 intrinsic transport activity. We have studied the kinetics of trafficking of transporters and found the following. (1) Lowering the temperature to 18 degrees C increased basal glucose transport and levels of cell-surface glucose transporters by approximately 3-fold. This net increase in transporters probably occurs because the process of recruitment of transporters is less temperature-sensitive than the process involved in internalization of cell-surface transporters. (2) The time course for insulin stimulation of glucose transport activity occurred with a slight lag period of 47 s and a t 1/2 3.2 min. The time course of GLUT4 and GLUT1 appearance at the cell surface showed no lag and a t 1/2 of approximately 2.3 min for both isoforms. Thus at early times after insulin stimulation there was a discrepancy between transporter abundance and transport activity. The lag period in the stimulation of transport activity may represent the time required for the approximately 2-fold stimulation of transporter intrinsic activity. (3) The decrease in transport activity after insulin removal occurred with a very high activation energy of 159 kJ.mol-1. There was thus no significant decrease in transport or less of cell-surface transporters over 60 min at 18 degrees C. The decrease in transport activity occurred with a t1/2 of 9-11 min at 37 degrees C.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)


1990 ◽  
Vol 258 (4) ◽  
pp. C648-C653 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. J. Henriksen ◽  
J. O. Holloszy

The trivalent arsenical phenylarsine oxide (PAO) inhibits insulin-stimulated glucose transport in adipocytes and skeletal muscle through direct interactions with vicinal sulfhydryls. In muscle, glucose transport is also activated by contractile activity and hypoxia. It was therefore the purpose of the present study to investigate whether vicinal sulfhydryls are involved in the stimulation of glucose transport activity in the isolated rat epitrochlearis muscle by hypoxia or contractions. PAO (greater than 5 microM) caused a twofold increase in rate of transport of the nonmetabolizable glucose analogue 3-O-methylglucose (3-MG) that was completely prevented by cytochalasin B, the vicinal dithiol dimercaptopropanol, dantrolene, or 9-aminoacridine, both inhibitors of sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ release, or omission of extracellular Ca2+. Although PAO treatment (greater than or equal to 20 microM) prevented approximately 80% of the increase in 3-MG transport caused by insulin, it resulted in only a approximately 50% inhibition of the stimulation of 3-MG transport by either hypoxia or contractile activity. PAO treatment (40 microM) of muscles already maximally stimulated by insulin, contractile activity, or hypoxia did not reverse the enhanced rate of 3-MG transport. These data suggest that vicinal sulfhydryls play a greater role in the activation of glucose transport by insulin than by muscle contractions or hypoxia. The finding that PAO inhibits the stimulation of glucose transport, but does not affect glucose transport after it has been stimulated, provides evidence that vicinal sulfhydryls are involved in the pathways for glucose transport activation in muscle, but not in the glucose transport mechanism itself.


1998 ◽  
Vol 337 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Garret J. ETGEN ◽  
William J. ZAVADOSKI ◽  
Geoffrey D. HOLMAN ◽  
E. Michael GIBBS

Skeletal muscle glucose transport was examined in transgenic mice overexpressing the glucose transporter GLUT1 using both the isolated incubated-muscle preparation and the hind-limb perfusion technique. In the absence of insulin, 2-deoxy-d-glucose uptake was increased ∼ 3–8-fold in isolated fast-twitch muscles of GLUT1 transgenic mice compared with non-transgenic siblings. Similarly, basal glucose transport activity was increased ∼ 4–14-fold in perfused fast-twitch muscles of transgenic mice. In non-transgenic mice insulin accelerated glucose transport activity ∼ 2–3-fold in isolated muscles and to a much greater extent (∼ 7–20-fold) in perfused hind-limb preparations. The observed effect of insulin on glucose transport in transgenic muscle was similarly dependent upon the technique used for measurement, as insulin had no effect on isolated fast-twitch muscle from transgenic mice, but significantly enhanced glucose transport in perfused fast-twitch muscle from transgenic mice to ∼ 50–75% of the magnitude of the increase observed in non-transgenic mice. Cell-surface glucose transporter content was assessed via 2-N-4-(l-azi-2,2,2-trifluoroethyl)benzoyl-1,3-bis-(d -mannos-4-yloxy)-2-propylamine photolabelling methodology in both isolated and perfused extensor digitorum longus (EDL). Cell-surface GLUT1 was enhanced by as much as 70-fold in both isolated and perfused EDL of transgenic mice. Insulin did not alter cell-surface GLUT1 in either transgenic or non-transgenic mice. Basal levels of cell-surface GLUT4, measured in either isolated or perfused EDL, were similar in transgenic and non-transgenic mice. Interestingly, insulin enhanced cell-surface GLUT4 ∼ 2-fold in isolated EDL and ∼ 6-fold in perfused EDL of both transgenic and non-transgenic mice. In summary, these results reveal differences between isolated muscle and perfused hind-limb techniques, with the latter method showing a more robust responsiveness to insulin. Furthermore, the results demonstrate that muscle overexpressing GLUT1 has normal insulin-induced GLUT4 translocation and the ability to augment glucose-transport activity above the elevated basal rates.


1991 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 1593-1600 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. D. Cartee ◽  
A. G. Douen ◽  
T. Ramlal ◽  
A. Klip ◽  
J. O. Holloszy

Hypoxia caused a progressive cytochalasin B-inhibitable increase in the rate of 3-O-methylglucose transport in rat epitrochlearis muscles to a level approximately six-fold above basal. Muscle ATP concentration was well maintained during hypoxia, and increased glucose transport activity was still present after 15 min of reoxygenation despite repletion of phosphocreatine. However, the increase in glucose transport activity completely reversed during a 180-min-long recovery in oxygenated medium. In perfused rat hindlimb muscles, hypoxia caused an increase in glucose transporters in the plasma membrane, suggesting that glucose transporter translocation plays a role in the stimulation of glucose transport by hypoxia. The maximal effects of hypoxia and insulin on glucose transport activity were additive, whereas the effects of exercise and hypoxia were not, providing evidence suggesting that hypoxia and exercise stimulate glucose transport by the same mechanism. Caffeine, at a concentration too low to cause muscle contraction or an increase in glucose transport by itself, markedly potentiated the effect of a submaximal hypoxic stimulus on sugar transport. Dantrolene significantly inhibited the hypoxia-induced increase in 3-O-methylglucose transport. These effects of caffeine and dantrolene suggest that Ca2+ plays a role in the stimulation of glucose transport by hypoxia.


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.


1994 ◽  
Vol 299 (3) ◽  
pp. 755-759 ◽  
Author(s):  
C M Wilson ◽  
S W Cushman

We have used a photoaffinity label to quantify cell surface GLUT4 glucose transporters in isolated rat soleus muscles. In this system, insulin stimulated an 8.6-fold increase in 3-O-methylglucose glucose transport, while photolabelled GLUT4 increased 8-fold. These results demonstrate that the insulin-stimulated increase in glucose transport activity in skeletal muscle can be accounted for by an increase in surface-accessible GLUT4 content.


1997 ◽  
Vol 321 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph T. BROZINICK ◽  
Scott C. McCOID ◽  
Thomas H. REYNOLDS ◽  
Cindy M. WILSON ◽  
Ralph W. STEVENSON ◽  
...  

Marked overexpression of the glucose transporter GLUT4 in skeletal muscle membrane fractions of GLUT4 transgenic (TG) mice is accompanied by disproportionately small increases in basal and insulin-stimulated glucose transport activity. Thus we have assessed cell surface GLUT4 by photolabelling with the membrane-impermeant reagent 2-N-[4-(1-azi-2,2,2-trifluoroethyl)benzoyl]-1,3-bis(d-mannos-4-yloxy)-2-propylamine (ATB-BMPA) and measured the corresponding glucose transport activity using 2-deoxyglucose in isolated extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscles from non-transgenic (NTG) and GLUT4 TG mice in the absence and presence of 13.3 nM (2000 µ-units/ml) insulin, without or with hypoxia as a model of muscle contraction. TG mice displayed elevated rates of glucose transport activity under basal and insulin-stimulated conditions, and in the presence of insulin plus hypoxia, compared with NTG mice. Photoaffinity labelling of cell surface GLUT4 indicated corresponding elevations in plasma membrane GLUT4 in the basal and insulin-stimulated states, and with insulin plus hypoxia, but no difference in cell surface GLUT4 during hypoxia stimulation. Subcellular fractionation of hindlimb muscles confirmed the previously observed 3-fold overexpression of GLUT4 in the TG compared with the NTG mice. These results suggest that: (1) alterations in glucose transport activity which occur with GLUT4 overexpression in EDL muscles are directly related to cell surface GLUT4 content, regardless of the levels observed in the corresponding subcellular membrane fractions, (2) while overexpression of GLUT4 influences both basal and insulin-stimulated glucose transport activity, the response to hypoxia/contraction-stimulated glucose transport is unchanged, and (3) subcellular fractionation provides little insight into the subcellular trafficking of GLUT4, and whatever relationship is demonstrated in EDL muscles from NTG mice is disrupted on GLUT4 overexpression.


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