scholarly journals Lipid raft microdomain compartmentalization of TC10 is required for insulin signaling and GLUT4 translocation

2001 ◽  
Vol 154 (4) ◽  
pp. 829-840 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert T. Watson ◽  
Satoshi Shigematsu ◽  
Shian-Huey Chiang ◽  
Silvia Mora ◽  
Makoto Kanzaki ◽  
...  

Recent studies indicate that insulin stimulation of glucose transporter (GLUT)4 translocation requires at least two distinct insulin receptor–mediated signals: one leading to the activation of phosphatidylinositol 3 (PI-3) kinase and the other to the activation of the small GTP binding protein TC10. We now demonstrate that TC10 is processed through the secretory membrane trafficking system and localizes to caveolin-enriched lipid raft microdomains. Although insulin activated the wild-type TC10 protein and a TC10/H-Ras chimera that were targeted to lipid raft microdomains, it was unable to activate a TC10/K-Ras chimera that was directed to the nonlipid raft domains. Similarly, only the lipid raft–localized TC10/ H-Ras chimera inhibited GLUT4 translocation, whereas the TC10/K-Ras chimera showed no significant inhibitory activity. Furthermore, disruption of lipid raft microdomains by expression of a dominant-interfering caveolin 3 mutant (Cav3/DGV) inhibited the insulin stimulation of GLUT4 translocation and TC10 lipid raft localization and activation without affecting PI-3 kinase signaling. These data demonstrate that the insulin stimulation of GLUT4 translocation in adipocytes requires the spatial separation and distinct compartmentalization of the PI-3 kinase and TC10 signaling pathways.

1997 ◽  
Vol 324 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Lance MACAULAY ◽  
Dean R. HEWISH ◽  
Keith H. GOUGH ◽  
Violet STOICHEVSKA ◽  
Susan F. MACPHERSON ◽  
...  

Insulin stimulation of glucose transport in the major insulin-responsive tissues results predominantly from the translocation to the cell surface of a particular glucose transporter isoform, GLUT4, residing normally under basal conditions in intracellular vesicular structures. Recent studies have identified the presence of vesicle-associated membrane protein (VAMP) 2, a protein involved in vesicular trafficking in secretory cell types, in the vesicles of insulin-sensitive cells that contain GLUT4. The plasma membranes of insulin-responsive cells have also been shown to contain syntaxin 4 and the 25 kDa synaptosome-associated protein (SNAP-25), two proteins that form a complex with VAMP 2. The potential functional involvement of VAMP 2, SNAP-25 and syntaxin 4 in the trafficking of GLUT4 was assessed in the present study by determining the effect on GLUT4 translocation of microinjection of toxins that specifically cleave VAMPs or SNAP-25, or microinjection of specific peptides from VAMP 2 and syntaxin 4. Microinjection of tetanus toxin light chain or botulinum D toxin light chain resulted in an 80 and 61% inhibition respectively of insulin stimulation of GLUT4 translocation in 3T3L1 cells assessed using the plasma-membrane lawn assay. Botulinum A toxin light chain, which cleaves SNAP-25, was without effect. Microinjection of an N-terminal VAMP 2 peptide (residues 1–26) inhibited insulin stimulation of GLUT4 translocation by 54%. A syntaxin 4 peptide (residues 106–122) inhibited insulin stimulation of GLUT4 translocation by 40% whereas a syntaxin 1c peptide (residues 226–260) was without effect. These data taken together strongly suggest a role for VAMP 2 in GLUT4 trafficking and also for syntaxin 4. They further indicate that the isoforms of SNAP-25 isolated to date that are sensitive to cleavage by botulinum A toxin light chain do not appear to be involved in GLUT4 translocation.


2007 ◽  
Vol 403 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
William G. Roach ◽  
Jose A. Chavez ◽  
Cristinel P. Mîinea ◽  
Gustav E. Lienhard

Insulin stimulation of the trafficking of the glucose transporter GLUT4 to the plasma membrane is controlled in part by the phosphorylation of the Rab GAP (GTPase-activating protein) AS160 (also known as Tbc1d4). Considerable evidence indicates that the phosphorylation of this protein by Akt (protein kinase B) leads to suppression of its GAP activity and results in the elevation of the GTP form of a critical Rab. The present study examines a similar Rab GAP, Tbc1d1, about which very little is known. We found that the Rab specificity of the Tbc1d1 GAP domain is identical with that of AS160. Ectopic expression of Tbc1d1 in 3T3-L1 adipocytes blocked insulin-stimulated GLUT4 translocation to the plasma membrane, whereas a point mutant with an inactive GAP domain had no effect. Insulin treatment led to the phosphorylation of Tbc1d1 on an Akt site that is conserved between Tbc1d1 and AS160. These results show that Tbc1d1 regulates GLUT4 translocation through its GAP activity, and is a likely Akt substrate. An allele of Tbc1d1 in which Arg125 is replaced by tryptophan has very recently been implicated in susceptibility to obesity by genetic analysis. We found that this form of Tbc1d1 also inhibited GLUT4 translocation and that this effect also required a functional GAP domain.


2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 2303-2311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayumi Inoue ◽  
Shian-Huey Chiang ◽  
Louise Chang ◽  
Xiao-Wei Chen ◽  
Alan R. Saltiel

Lipid raft microdomains act as organizing centers for signal transduction. We report here that the exocyst complex, consisting of Exo70, Sec6, and Sec8, regulates the compartmentalization of Glut4-containing vesicles at lipid raft domains in adipocytes. Exo70 is recruited by the G protein TC10 after activation by insulin and brings with it Sec6 and Sec8. Knockdowns of these proteins block insulin-stimulated glucose uptake. Moreover, their targeting to lipid rafts is required for glucose uptake and Glut4 docking at the plasma membrane. The assembly of this complex also requires the PDZ domain protein SAP97, a member of the MAGUKs family, which binds to Sec8 upon its translocation to the lipid raft. Exocyst assembly at lipid rafts sets up targeting sites for Glut4 vesicles, which transiently associate with these microdomains upon stimulation of cells with insulin. These results suggest that the TC10/exocyst complex/SAP97 axis plays an important role in the tethering of Glut4 vesicles to the plasma membrane in adipocytes.


2006 ◽  
Vol 291 (4) ◽  
pp. E817-E828 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taku Nedachi ◽  
Makoto Kanzaki

It is well established that insulin stimulation of glucose uptake in skeletal muscle cells is mediated through translocation of GLUT4 from intracellular storage sites to the cell surface. However, the established skeletal muscle cell lines, with the exception of L6 myocytes, reportedly show minimal insulin-dependent glucose uptake and GLUT4 translocation. Using C2C12 myocytes expressing exofacial-Myc-GLUT4-enhanced cyan fluorescent protein, we herein show that differentiated C2C12 myotubes are equipped with basic GLUT4 translocation machinery that can be activated by insulin stimulation (∼3-fold increase as assessed by anti-Myc antibody uptake and immunostaining assay). However, this insulin stimulation of GLUT4 translocation was difficult to demonstrate with a conventional 2-deoxyglucose uptake assay because of markedly elevated basal glucose uptake via other glucose transporter(s). Intriguingly, the basal glucose transport activity in C2C12 myotubes appeared to be acutely suppressed within 5 min by preincubation with a pathophysiologically high level of extracellular glucose (25 mM). In contrast, this activity was augmented by acute glucose deprivation via an unidentified mechanism that is independent of GLUT4 translocation but is dependent on phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase activity. Taken together, these findings indicate that regulation of the facilitative glucose transport system in differentiated C2C12 myotubes can be achieved through surprisingly acute glucose-dependent modulation of the activity of glucose transporter(s), which apparently contributes to obscuring the insulin augmentation of glucose uptake elicited by GLUT4 translocation. We herein also describe several methods of monitoring insulin-dependent glucose uptake in C2C12 myotubes and propose this cell line to be a useful model for analyzing GLUT4 translocation in skeletal muscle.


2000 ◽  
Vol 275 (33) ◽  
pp. 25494-25501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathias Fasshauer ◽  
Johannes Klein ◽  
Kohjiro Ueki ◽  
Kristina M. Kriauciunas ◽  
Manuel Benito ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (16) ◽  
pp. 2544-2557 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Amanda Sadacca ◽  
Joanne Bruno ◽  
Jennifer Wen ◽  
Wenyong Xiong ◽  
Timothy E. McGraw

Adipocyte glucose uptake in response to insulin is essential for physiological glucose homeostasis: stimulation of adipocytes with insulin results in insertion of the glucose transporter GLUT4 into the plasma membrane and subsequent glucose uptake. Here we establish that RAB10 and RAB14 are key regulators of GLUT4 trafficking that function at independent, sequential steps of GLUT4 translocation. RAB14 functions upstream of RAB10 in the sorting of GLUT4 to the specialized transport vesicles that ferry GLUT4 to the plasma membrane. RAB10 and its GTPase-activating protein (GAP) AS160 comprise the principal signaling module downstream of insulin receptor activation that regulates the accumulation of GLUT4 transport vesicles at the plasma membrane. Although both RAB10 and RAB14 are regulated by the GAP activity of AS160 in vitro, only RAB10 is under the control of AS160 in vivo. Insulin regulation of the pool of RAB10 required for GLUT4 translocation occurs through regulation of AS160, since activation of RAB10 by DENND4C, its GTP exchange factor, does not require insulin stimulation.


1994 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 120-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
David E. James ◽  
Robert C. Piper ◽  
Jan W. Slot

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.


2004 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 4406-4415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anja Zeigerer ◽  
Mary Kate McBrayer ◽  
Timothy E. McGraw

Insulin maintains whole body blood glucose homeostasis, in part, by regulating the amount of the GLUT4 glucose transporter on the cell surface of fat and muscle cells. Insulin induces the redistribution of GLUT4 from intracellular compartments to the plasma membrane, by stimulating a large increase in exocytosis and a smaller inhibition of endocytosis. A considerable amount is known about the molecular events of insulin signaling and the complex itinerary of GLUT4 trafficking, but less is known about how insulin signaling is transmitted to GLUT4 trafficking. Here, we show that the AS160 RabGAP, a substrate of Akt, is required for insulin stimulation of GLUT4 exocytosis. A dominant-inhibitory mutant of AS160 blocks insulin stimulation of exocytosis at a step before the fusion of GLUT4-containing vesicles with the plasma membrane. This mutant, however, does not block insulin-induced inhibition of GLUT4 endocytosis. These data support a model in which insulin signaling to the exocytosis machinery (AS160 dependent) is distinct from its signaling to the internalization machinery (AS160 independent).


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