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Youn DY, Xiaoli AM, Zong H, Okada J, Liu L, Pessin J, Pessin JE, Yang F. The Mediator complex kinase module is necessary for fructose regulation of liver glycogen levels through induction of glucose-6-phosphatase catalytic subunit (G6pc). Mol Metab 2021; 48:101227. [PMID: 33812059 PMCID: PMC8099662 DOI: 10.1016/j.molmet.2021.101227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2021] [Revised: 03/23/2021] [Accepted: 03/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Liver glycogen levels are dynamic and highly regulated by nutrient availability as the levels decrease during fasting and are restored during the feeding cycle. However, feeding in the presence of fructose in water suppresses glycogen accumulation in the liver by upregulating the expression of the glucose-6-phosphatase catalytic subunit (G6pc) gene, although the exact mechanism is unknown. We generated liver-specific knockout MED13 mice that lacked the transcriptional Mediator complex kinase module to examine its effect on the transcriptional activation of inducible target gene expression, such as the ChREBP- and FOXO1-dependent control of the G6pc gene promoter. METHODS The relative changes in liver expression of lipogenic and gluconeogenic genes as well as glycogen levels were examined in response to feeding standard low-fat laboratory chow supplemented with water or water containing sucrose or fructose in control (Med13fl/fl) and liver-specific MED13 knockout (MED13-LKO) mice. RESULTS Although MED13 deficiency had no significant effect on constitutive gene expression, all the dietary inducible gene transcripts were significantly reduced despite the unchanged insulin sensitivity in the MED13-LKO mice compared to that in the control mice. G6pc gene transcription displayed the most significant difference between the Med13 fl/fl and MED13-LKO mice, particularly when fed fructose. Following fasting that depleted liver glycogen, feeding induced the restoration of glycogen levels except in the presence of fructose. MED13 deficiency rescued the glycogen accumulation defect in the presence of fructose. This resulted from the suppression of G6pc expression and thus G6PC enzymatic activity. Among two transcriptional factors that regulate G6pc gene expression, FOXO1 binding to the G6pc promoter was not affected, whereas ChREBP binding was dramatically reduced in MED13-LKO hepatocytes. In addition, there was a marked suppression of FOXO1 and ChREBP-β transcriptional activities in MED13-LKO hepatocytes. CONCLUSIONS Taken together, our data suggest that the kinase module of the Mediator complex is necessary for the transcriptional activation of metabolic genes such as G6pc and has an important role in regulating glycogen levels in the liver through altering transcription factor binding and activity at the G6pc promoter.
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- Dou Yeon Youn
- Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA; Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA; Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA; Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA; Fleischer Institute for Diabetes and Metabolism, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA.
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- Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA; Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA; Fleischer Institute for Diabetes and Metabolism, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA
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Beddow SA, Gattu AK, Vatner DF, Paolella L, Alqarzaee A, Tashkandi N, Popov VB, Church CD, Rodeheffer MS, Cline GW, Geisler JG, Bhanot S, Samuel VT. PEPCK1 Antisense Oligonucleotide Prevents Adiposity and Impairs Hepatic Glycogen Synthesis in High-Fat Male Fed Rats. Endocrinology 2019; 160:205-219. [PMID: 30445425 PMCID: PMC6307100 DOI: 10.1210/en.2018-00630] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2018] [Accepted: 11/06/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The increased hepatic gluconeogenesis in type 2 diabetes mellitus has often been ascribed to increased transcription of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase 1, cystolic form (PEPCK1), although recent evidence has questioned this attribution. To assess the metabolic role of PEPCK1, we treated regular chow fed and high-fat fed (HFF) male Sprague-Dawley rats with a 2'-O-methoxyethyl chimeric antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) against PEPCK1 and compared them with control ASO-treated rats. PEPCK1 ASO effectively decreased PEPCK1 expression in the liver and white adipose tissue. In chow fed rats, PEPCK1 ASO did not alter adiposity, plasma glucose, or insulin. In contrast, PEPCK1 ASO decreased the white adipose tissue mass in HFF rats but without altering basal rates of lipolysis, de novo lipogenesis, or glyceroneogenesis in vivo. Despite the protection from adiposity, hepatic insulin sensitivity was impaired in HFF PEPCK1 ASO-treated rats. PEPCK1 ASO worsened hepatic steatosis, although without additional impairments in hepatic insulin signaling or activation of inflammatory signals in the liver. Instead, the development of hepatic insulin resistance and the decrease in hepatic glycogen synthesis during a hyperglycemic clamp was attributed to a decrease in hepatic glucokinase (GCK) expression and decreased synthesis of glycogen via the direct pathway. The decrease in GCK expression was associated with increased expression of activating transcription factor 3, a negative regulator of GCK transcription. These studies have demonstrated that PEPCK1 is integral to coordinating cellular metabolism in the liver and adipose tissue, although it does not directly effect hepatic glucose production or adipose glyceroneogenesis.
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- Sara A Beddow
- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
- West Haven Veterans Affairs Medical Center, West Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
- West Haven Veterans Affairs Medical Center, West Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
- West Haven Veterans Affairs Medical Center, West Haven, Connecticut
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- West Haven Veterans Affairs Medical Center, West Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Comparative Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Comparative Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
- West Haven Veterans Affairs Medical Center, West Haven, Connecticut
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Li T, Ni L, Zhao Z, Liu X, Lai Z, Di X, Xie Z, Song X, Wang X, Zhang R, Liu C. Melatonin attenuates smoking-induced hyperglycemia via preserving insulin secretion and hepatic glycogen synthesis in rats. J Pineal Res 2018; 64:e12475. [PMID: 29437243 PMCID: PMC5947659 DOI: 10.1111/jpi.12475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2018] [Accepted: 02/02/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Epidemiology survey indicated that cigarette smoking is a risk factor of diabetes. However, the precise mechanisms remain to be clarified. In this study, we found that smoking caused metabolic malfunctions on pancreas and liver in experimental animal model. These were indicated by hyperglycemia, increased serum hemoglobin A1c level and decreased insulin secretion, inhibition of liver glycogen synthase (LGS), and hepatic glycogen synthesis. Mechanistic studies revealed that all these alterations were caused by the inflammatory reaction and reactive oxygen species (ROS) induced by the smoking. Melatonin treatment significantly preserved the functions of both pancreas and liver by reducing β cell apoptosis, CD68-cell infiltration, ROS production, and caspase-3 expression. The siRNA-knockdown model identified that the protective effects of melatonin were mediated by melatonin receptor-2 (MT2). This study uncovered potentially underlying mechanisms related to the association between smoking and diabetes. In addition, it is, for first time, to report that melatonin effectively protects against smoking-induced glucose metabolic alterations and the signal transduction pathway of melatonin is mainly mediated by its MT2 receptor. These observations provide solid evidence for the clinically use of melatonin to reduce smoking-related diabetes, and the therapeutic regimens are absent currently.
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- Tianjia Li
- Department of Vascular SurgeryPeking Union Medical College HospitalChinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical CollegeBeijingChina
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- Department of Vascular SurgeryPeking Union Medical College HospitalChinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical CollegeBeijingChina
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- Department of Vascular SurgeryPeking Union Medical College HospitalChinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical CollegeBeijingChina
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- Department of Vascular SurgeryPeking Union Medical College HospitalChinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical CollegeBeijingChina
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- Department of Vascular SurgeryPeking Union Medical College HospitalChinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical CollegeBeijingChina
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- Department of Vascular SurgeryPeking Union Medical College HospitalChinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical CollegeBeijingChina
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- Department of Vascular SurgeryPeking Union Medical College HospitalChinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical CollegeBeijingChina
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- Department of Vascular SurgeryPeking Union Medical College HospitalChinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical CollegeBeijingChina
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- Department of Vascular SurgeryPeking Union Medical College HospitalChinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical CollegeBeijingChina
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- Department of Vascular SurgeryPeking Union Medical College HospitalChinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical CollegeBeijingChina
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- Department of Vascular SurgeryPeking Union Medical College HospitalChinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical CollegeBeijingChina
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Fang W, Guo J, Cao Y, Wang S, Pang C, Li M, Dou L, Man Y, Huang X, Shen T, Li J. MicroRNA-20a-5p contributes to hepatic glycogen synthesis through targeting p63 to regulate p53 and PTEN expression. J Cell Mol Med 2016; 20:1467-1480. [PMID: 27019188 PMCID: PMC4956936 DOI: 10.1111/jcmm.12835; epub 2016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2015] [Accepted: 02/14/2016] [Indexed: 08/31/2023] Open
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Recently, it is implicated that aberrant expression of microRNAs (miRs) is associated with insulin resistance. However, the role of miR-17 family in hepatic insulin resistance and its underlying mechanisms remain unknown. In this study, we provided mechanistic insight into the effects of miR-20a-5p, a member of miR-17 family, on the regulation of AKT/GSK pathway and glycogenesis in hepatocytes. MiR-20a-5p was down-regulated in the liver of db/db mice, and NCTC1469 cells and Hep1-6 cells treated with high glucose, accompanied by reduced glycogen content and impaired insulin signalling. Notably, inhibition of miR-20a-5p significantly reduced glycogen synthesis and AKT/GSK activation, whereas overexpression of miR-20a-5p led to elevated glycogenesis and activated AKT/GSK signalling pathway. In addition, miR-20a-5p mimic could reverse high glucose-induced impaired glycogenesis and AKT/GSK activation in NCTC1469 and Hep1-6 cells. P63 was identified as a target of miR-20a-5p by bioinformatics analysis and luciferase reporter assay. Knockdown of p63 in the NCTC1469 cells and the Hep1-6 cells by transfecting with siRNA targeting p63 could increase glycogen content and reverse miR-20a-5p inhibition-induced reduced glycogenesis and activation of AKT and GSK, suggesting that p63 participated in miR-20a-5p-mediated glycogenesis in hepatocytes. Moreover, our results indicate that p63 might directly bind to p53, thereby regulating PTEN expression and in turn participating in glycogenesis. In conclusion, we found novel evidence suggesting that as a member of miR-17 family, miR-20a-5p contributes to hepatic glycogen synthesis through targeting p63 to regulate p53 and PTEN expression.
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- Weiwei Fang
- Graduate School of Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
- The Key Laboratory of Geriatrics, Beijing Institute of Geriatrics and Beijing Hospital, Ministry of Health, Beijing, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Geriatrics, Beijing Institute of Geriatrics and Beijing Hospital, Ministry of Health, Beijing, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Geriatrics, Beijing Institute of Geriatrics and Beijing Hospital, Ministry of Health, Beijing, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Geriatrics, Beijing Institute of Geriatrics and Beijing Hospital, Ministry of Health, Beijing, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Geriatrics, Beijing Institute of Geriatrics and Beijing Hospital, Ministry of Health, Beijing, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Geriatrics, Beijing Institute of Geriatrics and Beijing Hospital, Ministry of Health, Beijing, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Geriatrics, Beijing Institute of Geriatrics and Beijing Hospital, Ministry of Health, Beijing, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Geriatrics, Beijing Institute of Geriatrics and Beijing Hospital, Ministry of Health, Beijing, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Geriatrics, Beijing Institute of Geriatrics and Beijing Hospital, Ministry of Health, Beijing, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Geriatrics, Beijing Institute of Geriatrics and Beijing Hospital, Ministry of Health, Beijing, China
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- Graduate School of Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
- The Key Laboratory of Geriatrics, Beijing Institute of Geriatrics and Beijing Hospital, Ministry of Health, Beijing, China
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Irgens HU, Fjeld K, Johansson BB, Ringdal M, Immervoll H, Leh S, Søvik O, Johansson S, Molven A, Njølstad PR. Glycogenin-2 is dispensable for liver glycogen synthesis and glucagon-stimulated glucose release. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2015; 100:E767-75. [PMID: 25751106 DOI: 10.1210/jc.2014-4337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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CONTEXT The synthesis of glycogen is initiated by glycogenin. In humans, glycogenin-1 is expressed ubiquitously, whereas glycogenin-2 (GN2) is highly expressed in liver. It has therefore been suggested that GN2 is a liver isoform of glycogenin. In a search for possible copy number variations associated with monogenic diabetes, we identified a 102-kb deletion of the X chromosome involving the entire GYG2 gene (encoding GN2) in 2 families. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to test whether male GYG2 deletion carriers had abnormal glucose metabolism and/or glycogen synthesis. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENTS Two families with diabetes and a GYG2 deletion were investigated with medical history and examination, glucagon stimulation tests, and liver biopsies. RESULTS We identified a GYG2 deletion in 3 members of family 1, 8 members of family 2, and 1 blood donor. The deletion showed no clear cosegregation with diabetes. Deletion carriers reported no symptoms related to fasting. Results of cardiac examination and abdominal ultrasound imaging were normal. A glucagon stimulation test in 4 male deletion carriers showed a mean rise in plasma glucose of 3.6 mmol/L (95% confidence interval, 2.9-4.2) compared with 2.8 mmol/L (95% confidence interval, 2.2-3.4) in control subjects. Liver biopsy specimens did not show clear morphologic changes by light microscopy and showed the presence of both α- and β-glycogen by electron microscopy. We detected GYG1 but not GYG2 mRNA expression in the liver biopsy specimens. CONCLUSIONS This is the first evaluation of humans without GN2 expression. Our data indicate that GN2 is not required for liver glycogen synthesis and glucagon-stimulated glucose release.
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- Henrik U Irgens
- KG Jebsen Center for Diabetes Research, Department of Clinical Science (H.U.I., K.F., B.B.J., M.R., O.S., S.J., A.M., P.R.N.), Gade Laboratory for Pathology, Department of Clinical Medicine (H.I., S.L., A.M.), University of Bergen, 5020 Bergen, Norway; and Department of Pediatrics (H.U.I., P.R.N.), Department of Pathology (H.I., S.L, A.M.), and Center for Medical Genetics and Molecular Medicine (K.F., B.B.J., M.R., S.J.), Haukeland University Hospital, 5021 Bergen, Norway
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von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff A, Hunter RW, García-Rocha M, Kang L, López-Soldado I, Lantier L, Patel K, Peggie MW, Martínez-Pons C, Voss M, Calbó J, Cohen PT, Wasserman DH, Guinovart JJ, Sakamoto K. Glucose-6-phosphate-mediated activation of liver glycogen synthase plays a key role in hepatic glycogen synthesis. Diabetes 2013; 62:4070-82. [PMID: 23990365 PMCID: PMC3837029 DOI: 10.2337/db13-0880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The liver responds to an increase in blood glucose levels in the postprandial state by uptake of glucose and conversion to glycogen. Liver glycogen synthase (GYS2), a key enzyme in glycogen synthesis, is controlled by a complex interplay between the allosteric activator glucose-6-phosphate (G6P) and reversible phosphorylation through glycogen synthase kinase-3 and the glycogen-associated form of protein phosphatase 1. Here, we initially performed mutagenesis analysis and identified a key residue (Arg(582)) required for activation of GYS2 by G6P. We then used GYS2 Arg(582)Ala knockin (+/R582A) mice in which G6P-mediated GYS2 activation had been profoundly impaired (60-70%), while sparing regulation through reversible phosphorylation. R582A mutant-expressing hepatocytes showed significantly reduced glycogen synthesis with glucose and insulin or glucokinase activator, which resulted in channeling glucose/G6P toward glycolysis and lipid synthesis. GYS2(+/R582A) mice were modestly glucose intolerant and displayed significantly reduced glycogen accumulation with feeding or glucose load in vivo. These data show that G6P-mediated activation of GYS2 plays a key role in controlling glycogen synthesis and hepatic glucose-G6P flux control and thus whole-body glucose homeostasis.
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- Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation Unit, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, U.K
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- Institute for Research in Biomedicine and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Barcelona, and CIBERDEM, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics and Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Institute for Research in Biomedicine and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Barcelona, and CIBERDEM, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics and Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation Unit, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, U.K
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- Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation Unit, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, U.K
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- Institute for Research in Biomedicine and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Barcelona, and CIBERDEM, Barcelona, Spain
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- Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation Unit, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, U.K
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- Institute for Research in Biomedicine and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Barcelona, and CIBERDEM, Barcelona, Spain
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- Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation Unit, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, U.K
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics and Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Institute for Research in Biomedicine and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Barcelona, and CIBERDEM, Barcelona, Spain
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- Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation Unit, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, U.K
- Corresponding author: Kei Sakamoto,
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Coate KC, Kraft G, Irimia JM, Smith MS, Farmer B, Neal DW, Roach PJ, Shiota M, Cherrington AD. Portal vein glucose entry triggers a coordinated cellular response that potentiates hepatic glucose uptake and storage in normal but not high-fat/high-fructose-fed dogs. Diabetes 2013; 62:392-400. [PMID: 23028137 PMCID: PMC3554368 DOI: 10.2337/db12-0417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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The cellular events mediating the pleiotropic actions of portal vein glucose (PoG) delivery on hepatic glucose disposition have not been clearly defined. Likewise, the molecular defects associated with postprandial hyperglycemia and impaired hepatic glucose uptake (HGU) following consumption of a high-fat, high-fructose diet (HFFD) are unknown. Our goal was to identify hepatocellular changes elicited by hyperinsulinemia, hyperglycemia, and PoG signaling in normal chow-fed (CTR) and HFFD-fed dogs. In CTR dogs, we demonstrated that PoG infusion in the presence of hyperinsulinemia and hyperglycemia triggered an increase in the activity of hepatic glucokinase (GK) and glycogen synthase (GS), which occurred in association with further augmentation in HGU and glycogen synthesis (GSYN) in vivo. In contrast, 4 weeks of HFFD feeding markedly reduced GK protein content and impaired the activation of GS in association with diminished HGU and GSYN in vivo. Furthermore, the enzymatic changes associated with PoG sensing in chow-fed animals were abolished in HFFD-fed animals, consistent with loss of the stimulatory effects of PoG delivery. These data reveal new insight into the molecular physiology of the portal glucose signaling mechanism under normal conditions and to the pathophysiology of aberrant postprandial hepatic glucose disposition evident under a diet-induced glucose-intolerant condition.
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- Katie C. Coate
- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
- Corresponding author: Alan D. Cherrington,
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Winnick JJ, An Z, Kraft G, Ramnanan CJ, Irimia JM, Smith M, Lautz M, Roach PJ, Cherrington AD. Liver glycogen loading dampens glycogen synthesis seen in response to either hyperinsulinemia or intraportal glucose infusion. Diabetes 2013; 62:96-101. [PMID: 22923473 PMCID: PMC3526057 DOI: 10.2337/db11-1773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of liver glycogen loading on net hepatic glycogen synthesis during hyperinsulinemia or hepatic portal vein glucose infusion in vivo. Liver glycogen levels were supercompensated (SCGly) in two groups (using intraportal fructose infusion) but not in two others (Gly) during hyperglycemic-normoinsulinemia. Following a 2-h control period during which fructose infusion was stopped, there was a 2-h experimental period in which the response to hyperglycemia plus either 4× basal insulin (INS) or portal vein glucose infusion (PoG) was measured. Increased hepatic glycogen reduced the percent of glucose taken up by the liver that was deposited in glycogen (74 ± 3 vs. 53 ± 5% in Gly+INS and SCGly+INS, respectively, and 72 ± 3 vs. 50 ± 6% in Gly+PoG and SCGly+PoG, respectively). The reduction in liver glycogen synthesis in SCGly+INS was accompanied by a decrease in both insulin signaling and an increase in AMPK activation, whereas only the latter was observed in SCGly+PoG. These data indicate that liver glycogen loading impairs glycogen synthesis regardless of the signal used to stimulate it.
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- Jason J Winnick
- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
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Iwasaki H, Naka A, Iida KT, Nakagawa Y, Matsuzaka T, Ishii KA, Kobayashi K, Takahashi A, Yatoh S, Yahagi N, Sone H, Suzuki H, Yamada N, Shimano H. TFE3 regulates muscle metabolic gene expression, increases glycogen stores, and enhances insulin sensitivity in mice. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2012; 302:E896-902. [PMID: 22297304 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00204.2011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The role of transcription factor E3 (TFE3), a bHLH transcription factor, in immunology and cancer has been well characterized. Recently, we reported that TFE3 activates hepatic IRS-2 and hexokinase, participates in insulin signaling, and ameliorates diabetes. However, the effects of TFE3 in other organs are poorly understood. Herein, we examined the effects of TFE3 on skeletal muscle, an important organ involved in glucose metabolism. We generated transgenic mice that selectively express TFE3 in skeletal muscles. These mice exhibit a slight acceleration in growth prior to adulthood as well as a progressive increase in muscle mass. In TFE3 transgenic muscle, glycogen stores were more than twofold than in wild-type mice, and this was associated with an upregulation of genes involved in glucose metabolism, specifically glucose transporter 4, hexokinase II, and glycogen synthase. Consequently, exercise endurance capacity was enhanced in this transgenic model. Furthermore, insulin sensitivity was enhanced in transgenic mice and exhibited better improvement after 4 wk of exercise training, which was associated with increased IRS-2 expression. The effects of TFE3 on glucose metabolism in skeletal muscle were different from that in the liver, although they did, in part, overlap. The potential role of TFE3 in regulating metabolic genes and glucose metabolism within skeletal muscle suggests that it may be used for treating metabolic diseases as well as increasing endurance in sport.
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- Hitoshi Iwasaki
- Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan
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Zhu T, Zhao R, Zhang L, Bernier M, Liu J. Pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate enhances hepatic glycogen synthesis and reduces FoxO1-mediated gene transcription in type 2 diabetic rats. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2012; 302:E409-16. [PMID: 22127228 PMCID: PMC3774491 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00453.2011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The aim of the present study was to examine the effects of pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate (PDTC) on hepatic glycogen synthesis and FoxO1 transcriptional activity in type 2 diabetic rats and the mechanism underlying these effects. Fasting blood glucose and glycogen deposition, together with expressions of two key genes related to gluconeogenesis, were studied in the liver of rats fed a normal diet (NC), high-fat diet (HFD)-induced insulin-resistant rats made type 2 diabetic by a single intraperitoneal injection of streptozotocin (DM), and a DM with intervention of PDTC (DM + PDTC) for 1 wk. The phosphorylation of Akt, GSK-3β, and FoxO1 was assessed in liver extracts of fasted rats by Western blot, whereas indirect immunofluorescence staining was performed to determine the cellular distribution of FoxO1. The DM rats exhibited obvious increases in fasting blood glucose as well as decreased hepatic glycogen content compared with the NC group. Activation of the Akt/GSK-3β pathway and inactivating phosphorylation of FoxO1 were reduced greatly in DM rat livers (P < 0.01). By contrast, PDTC treatment protected DM rats against high fasting blood glucose and hepatic glycogen deposition loss. PDTC also elicited an increase in Akt/GSK-3β signaling and subsequent inactivation and nuclear export of FoxO1 in DM rat livers, which translated into a significant reduction in the expression of two FoxO1 target genes, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase and glucose-6-phosphatase. This study suggests that PDTC enhances hepatic glycogen synthesis, whereas it reduces FoxO1 transcriptional activity in DM rats.
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- Tienian Zhu
- Department of Medical Oncology, Bethune International Peace Hospital, Shijiazhuang, China
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Barosa C, Silva C, Fagulha A, Barros L, Caldeira MM, Carvalheiro M, Jones JG. Sources of hepatic glycogen synthesis following a milk-containing breakfast meal in healthy subjects. Metabolism 2012; 61:250-4. [PMID: 21862086 DOI: 10.1016/j.metabol.2011.06.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2011] [Revised: 06/08/2011] [Accepted: 06/26/2011] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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During feeding, dietary galactose is a potential source of hepatic glycogen synthesis; but its contribution has not been measured to date. In the presence of deuterated water ((2)H(2)O), uridine diphosphate (UDP)-glucose derived from galactose is not enriched, whereas the remainder derived from glucose-6-phosphate (G6P) is enriched in position 2 to the same level as body water, assuming complete G6P-fructose-6-phosphate (F6P) exchange. Hence, the difference between UDP-glucose position 2 and body water enrichments reflects the contribution of galactose to glycogen synthesis relative to all other sources. In study 1, G6P-F6P exchange in 6 healthy subjects was quantified by supplementing a milk-containing breakfast meal with 10 g of [U-(2)H(7)]glucose and quantifying the depletion of position 2 enrichment in urinary menthol glucuronide. In study 2, another 6 subjects ingested (2)H(2)O and acetaminophen followed by an identical breakfast meal with 10 g of [1-(13)C]glucose to resolve direct/indirect pathways and galactose contributions to glycogen synthesis. Metabolite enrichments were determined by (2)H and (13)C nuclear magnetic resonance. In study 1, G6P-F6P exchange approached completion; therefore, the difference between position 2 and body water enrichments in study 2 (0.20% ± 0.03% vs 0.27% ± 0.03%, P < .005) was attributed to galactose glycogenesis. Dietary galactose contributed 19% ± 3% to glycogen synthesis. Of the remainder, 58% ± 5% was derived from the direct pathway and 22% ± 4% via the indirect pathway. The contribution of galactose to hepatic glycogen synthesis was resolved from that of direct and indirect pathways using a combination of (2)H(2)O and [1-(13)C]glucose tracers.
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- Cristina Barosa
- Biophysics and Biomedical NMR, Center for Neurosciences and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, 3001-401 Coimbra, Portugal
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Tudhope SJ, Wang CC, Petrie JL, Potts L, Malcomson F, Kieswich J, Yaqoob MM, Arden C, Hampson LJ, Agius L. A novel mechanism for regulating hepatic glycogen synthesis involving serotonin and cyclin-dependent kinase-5. Diabetes 2012; 61:49-60. [PMID: 22106156 PMCID: PMC3237670 DOI: 10.2337/db11-0870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Hepatic autonomic nerves regulate postprandial hepatic glucose uptake, but the signaling pathways remain unknown. We tested the hypothesis that serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine [5-HT]) exerts stimulatory and inhibitory effects on hepatic glucose disposal. Ligands of diverse 5-HT receptors were used to identify signaling pathway(s) regulating glucose metabolism in hepatocytes. 5-HT had stimulatory and inhibitory effects on glycogen synthesis in hepatocytes mediated by 5-HT1/2A and 5-HT2B receptors, respectively. Agonists of 5-HT1/2A receptors lowered blood glucose and increased hepatic glycogen after oral glucose loading and also stimulated glycogen synthesis in freshly isolated hepatocytes with greater efficacy than 5-HT. This effect was blocked by olanzapine, an antagonist of 5-HT1/2A receptors. It was mediated by activation of phosphorylase phosphatase, inactivation of glycogen phosphorylase, and activation of glycogen synthase. Unlike insulin action, it was not associated with stimulation of glycolysis and was counteracted by cyclin-dependent kinase (cdk) inhibitors. A role for cdk5 was supported by adaptive changes in the coactivator protein p35 and by elevated glycogen synthesis during overexpression of p35/cdk5. These results support a novel mechanism for serotonin stimulation of hepatic glycogenesis involving cdk5. The opposing effects of serotonin, mediated by distinct 5-HT receptors, could explain why drugs targeting serotonin function can cause either diabetes or hypoglycemia in humans.
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- Susan J. Tudhope
- Institute of Cellular Medicine, The Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K
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- Institute of Cellular Medicine, The Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K
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- Institute of Cellular Medicine, The Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K
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- Institute of Cellular Medicine, The Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K
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- Institute of Cellular Medicine, The Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K
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- Centre for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, U.K
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- Centre for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, U.K
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- Institute of Cellular Medicine, The Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K
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- Institute of Cellular Medicine, The Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K
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- Institute of Cellular Medicine, The Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K
- Corresponding author: Loranne Agius,
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Luo X, Zhang Y, Ruan X, Jiang X, Zhu L, Wang X, Ding Q, Liu W, Pan Y, Wang Z, Chen Y. Fasting-induced protein phosphatase 1 regulatory subunit contributes to postprandial blood glucose homeostasis via regulation of hepatic glycogenesis. Diabetes 2011; 60:1435-45. [PMID: 21471512 PMCID: PMC3292316 DOI: 10.2337/db10-1663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Most animals experience fasting-feeding cycles throughout their lives. It is well known that the liver plays a central role in regulating glycogen metabolism. However, how hepatic glycogenesis is coordinated with the fasting-feeding cycle to control postprandial glucose homeostasis remains largely unknown. This study determines the molecular mechanism underlying the coupling of hepatic glycogenesis with the fasting-feeding cycle. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Through a series of molecular, cellular, and animal studies, we investigated how PPP1R3G, a glycogen-targeting regulatory subunit of protein phosphatase 1 (PP1), is implicated in regulating hepatic glycogenesis and glucose homeostasis in a manner tightly orchestrated with the fasting-feeding cycle. RESULTS PPP1R3G in the liver is upregulated during fasting and downregulated after feeding. PPP1R3G associates with glycogen pellet, interacts with the catalytic subunit of PP1, and regulates glycogen synthase (GS) activity. Fasting glucose level is reduced when PPP1R3G is overexpressed in the liver. Hepatic knockdown of PPP1R3G reduces postprandial elevation of GS activity, decreases postprandial accumulation of liver glycogen, and decelerates postprandial clearance of blood glucose. Other glycogen-targeting regulatory subunits of PP1, such as PPP1R3B, PPP1R3C, and PPP1R3D, are downregulated by fasting and increased by feeding in the liver. CONCLUSIONS We propose that the opposite expression pattern of PPP1R3G versus other PP1 regulatory subunits comprise an intricate regulatory machinery to control hepatic glycogenesis during the fasting-feeding cycle. Because of its unique expression pattern, PPP1R3G plays a major role to control postprandial glucose homeostasis during the fasting-feeding transition via its regulation on liver glycogenesis.
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Bergström J, Fürst P, Gallyas F, Hultman E, Nilsson LH, Roch-Norlund AE, Vinnars E. Aspects of fructose metabolism in normal man. Acta Med Scand Suppl 2009; 542:57-64. [PMID: 4516494 DOI: 10.1111/j.0954-6820.1972.tb05319.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Drobinskaya I, Linn T, Saric T, Bretzel RG, Bohlen H, Hescheler J, Kolossov E. Scalable selection of hepatocyte- and hepatocyte precursor-like cells from culture of differentiating transgenically modified murine embryonic stem cells. Stem Cells 2008; 26:2245-56. [PMID: 18556507 DOI: 10.1634/stemcells.2008-0387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Potential therapeutic applications of embryonic stem cell (ESC)-derived hepatocytes are limited by their relatively low output in differentiating ESC cultures, as well as by the danger of contamination with tumorigenic undifferentiated ESCs. To address these problems, we developed transgenic murine ESC clones possessing bicistronic expression vector that contains the alpha-fetoprotein gene promoter driving a cassette for the enhanced green "live" fluorescent reporter protein (eGFP) and a puromycin resistance gene. Under established culture conditions these clones allowed for both monitoring of differentiation and for puromycin selection of hepatocyte-committed cells in a suspension mass culture of transgenic ESC aggregates ("embryoid bodies" [EBs]). When plated on fibronectin, the selected eGFP-positive cells formed colonies, in which intensely proliferating hepatocyte precursor-like cells gave rise to morphologically differentiated cells expressing alpha-1-antitrypsin, alpha-fetoprotein, and albumin. A number of cells synthesized glycogen and in some of the cells cytokeratin 18 microfilaments were detected. Major hepatocyte marker genes were expressed in the culture, along with the gene and protein expression of stem/progenitor markers, suggesting the features of both hepatocyte precursors and more advanced differentiated cells. When cultured in suspension, the EB-derived puromycin-selected cells formed spheroids capable of outgrowing on an adhesive substrate, resembling the behavior of fetal mouse hepatic progenitor cells. The established system based on the highly efficient selection/purification procedure could be suitable for scalable generation of ESC-derived hepatocyte- and hepatocyte precursor-like cells and offers a potential in vitro source of cells for transplantation therapy of liver diseases, tissue engineering, and drug and toxicology screening.
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- Irina Drobinskaya
- Institute for Neurophysiology, Center of Physiology and Pathophysiology, University of Cologne, Robert-Koch Str. 39, D-50931 Cologne, Germany.
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Hou SZ, Nagao Y, Ye MR, Zhu CC, Li G, Lai XP. [Protective effect of Isodon lophanthoides on acute hepatic injury induced by D-galactosamine in rats]. Zhong Yao Cai 2008; 31:248-250. [PMID: 18619271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To study the protective effects of Isodon lophanthoides (ILVG) aqueous extract on acute hepatic injury induced by D-galactosamine (D-Gal) in rats. METHODS 60 rats were divided into control group, model group, and low, middle, high dosage group, Bifendate group randomly. In test groups, rats received either ILVG aqueous extract (15, 7.5, 3.75 g/kg) or Bifendate (45 mg/kg) by gastric perfusion daily for 7 consecutive days. On the sixth day, D-Gal (550 mg/kg) was given to rats by oral administration. The levels of ALT, AST, ALP, TBA, T-Bil, TP and ALB in serum were analyzed. The weight of body, liver, spleen and thymus of each rat were measured. The hepatic glycogen content was analyzed individually. Liver tissue pathology was observed. RESULTS ILVG coud decrease the ALT, AST, ALP, TBA and T-Bil in serum, increase TP, ALB and hepatic glycogen content and restrain the enlargement of liver and the shrinkage of thymus, reduce necrosis in pathological observation. CONCLUSION ILVG aqueous extract possesses the effect on protecting on acute hepatic injury induced by D-Gal in rats, its effect is related to multifarious mechanism.
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- Shao-Zhen Hou
- College of Chinese Drug, Guangzhou University of TCM, Guangzhou 510405, China
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Lavery GG, Hauton D, Hewitt KN, Brice SM, Sherlock M, Walker EA, Stewart PM. Hypoglycemia with enhanced hepatic glycogen synthesis in recombinant mice lacking hexose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase. Endocrinology 2007; 148:6100-6. [PMID: 17823265 DOI: 10.1210/en.2007-0963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Hexose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (H6PDH) knockout (KO) mice have reduced generation of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (reduced) within the endoplasmic reticulum. As a consequence, 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 enzyme activity switches from a reductase to a dehydrogenase leading to glucocorticoid inactivation. 11beta-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 has emerged as an important factor in regulating hepatic glucose output; therefore, we examined aspects of glucose homeostasis in KO mice. Compared with wild-type mice, KO mice reduced weight gain, displayed peripheral fasting hypoglycemia, improved glucose tolerance, and elevated plasma corticosterone concentrations. Plasma insulin levels in fed and fasted KO mice are normal; however, insulin and plasma glucose levels are reduced 4 h after fasted animals are refed, indicating improved insulin sensitivity. There is preserved induction and activity of the glucocorticoid-responsive gluconeogenic enzymes phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase and glucose-6-phosphatase in fasted KO mice. Glycogen storage is elevated in fed KO liver, with fed glycogenesis rates increased in KO mice. There is normal flux of lactate through gluconeogenesis recovered as plasma glucose, coupled with increased glycogen derived from lactate. These data suggest partial retention of glucocorticoid sensitivity at the level of the liver. We therefore postulate that increased glycogen synthesis may reflect increased flux of glucose-6-phosphate (H6PDH substrate) through to glycogen in the absence of H6PDH mediated metabolism.
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- Gareth G Lavery
- Division of Medical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
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Bassil MS, Mrayati MM, Hwalla NC, Obeid OA. Acute Effect of Leptin and Ghrelin Injection on Postprandial Glycogen and Lipid Synthesis in Rats. Ann Nutr Metab 2007; 51:14-21. [PMID: 17356261 DOI: 10.1159/000100816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2006] [Accepted: 08/08/2006] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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AIM The study was designed to investigate the immediate (1 h) effect of leptin and ghrelin injection on in vivo postprandial hepatic glycogen and lipid synthesis. ANIMALS AND METHODS Adult Sprague-Dawley male rats were fed a semisynthetic control diet ad libitum. Overnight-fasted rats were gavaged with 4 ml of water containing 1.25 g of the diet and immediately injected intraperitoneally with 4 mCi of (3)H(2)O. After 1 h, rats were either intraperitoneally injected with saline (control), leptin (20 microg/rat) or ghrelin (10 microg/rat) and sacrificed 1 h later. Blood, liver and epididymal fat pads (EFP) were taken for analysis. RESULTS Plasma triglyceride level was higher in the leptin group compared to control. Leptin injection reduced hepatic glycogen synthesis while glycogen accumulation was not affected and ghrelin injection did not affect hepatic glycogen synthesis. Both hepatic and EFP lipogenesis were not affected by leptin or ghrelin. CONCLUSION Leptin and ghrelin administration had no immediate effect on hepatic and adipose tissue lipogenesis. Leptin reduced in vivo postprandial hepatic glycogenesis and increased plasma triglyceride level which may be due to reduced uptake by peripheral tissues. Thus, leptin was found to exert an immediate effect on lipid and carbohydrate metabolism unlike that of ghrelin.
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- Maya S Bassil
- Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
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Zhou QJ, Xiang LX, Shao JZ, Hu RZ, Lu YL, Yao H, Dai LC. In vitro differentiation of hepatic progenitor cells from mouse embryonic stem cells induced by sodium butyrate. J Cell Biochem 2007; 100:29-42. [PMID: 16888815 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.20970] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Recently it was shown that embryonic stem (ES) cells could differentiate into hepatocytes both in vitro and in vivo, however, prospective hepatic progenitor cells have not yet been isolated and characterized from ES cells. Here we presented a novel 4-step procedure for the differentiation of mouse ES cells into hepatic progenitor cells and then hepatocytes. The differentiated hepatocytes were identified by morphological, biochemical, and functional analyses. The hepatic progenitor cells were isolated from the cultures after the withdrawal of sodium butyrate, which was characterized by scant cytoplasm, ovoid nuclei, the ability of rapid proliferation, expression of a series of hepatic progenitor cell markers, and the potential of differentiation into hepatocytes and bile duct-like cells under the proper conditions that favor hepatocyte and bile epithelial differentiation. The differentiation of hepatocytes from hepatic progenitor cells was characterized by a number of hepatic cell markers including albumin secretion, upregulated transcription of glucose-6-phosphatase and tyrosine aminotransferase, and functional phenotypes such as glycogen storage. The results from our experiments demonstrated that ES cells could differentiate into a novel bipotential hepatic progenitor cell and mature into hepatocytes with typical morphological, phenotypic and functional characteristics, which provides an useful model for the studies of key events during early liver development and a potential source of transplantable cells for cell-replacement therapies.
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- Qing-Jun Zhou
- College of Life Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310012, PR China
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Obeid OA, Boukarim LK, Al Awar RM, Hwalla N. Postprandial glycogen and lipid synthesis in prednisolone-treated rats maintained on high-protein diets with varied carbohydrate levels. Nutrition 2006; 22:288-94. [PMID: 16412611 DOI: 10.1016/j.nut.2005.07.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2005] [Accepted: 07/25/2005] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The present experiment was designed to study the effect of a high-protein, high-carbohydrate diet versus a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet on in vivo postprandial glycogen and lipid synthesis of rats treated with prednisolone. METHODS Thirty-two 6-wk-old male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly assigned to one of four equal groups: high-protein, high-carbohydrate; high-protein, high-carbohydrate with prednisolone; high-protein, low-carbohydrate; and high-protein, low-carbohydrate with prednisolone. Rats were sham operated or subcutaneously implanted with prednisolone pellets while being maintained on their respective diets (39% of energy from protein) for 6 wk. Food intake and body weight were monitored throughout the experiment. At the end of the feeding period, overnight-fasted rats were fed a test meal and injected with 3H2O to measure in vivo rates of glycogen and lipid synthesis. Final plasma glucose, insulin, and triacylglycerol concentrations and hepatic glycogen content were also measured. RESULTS Results showed that hepatic glycogen content (milligrams per gram of liver) was similar across all four experimental groups. Total hepatic glycogen synthesis and its percentage synthesis via pyruvate (indirect pathway) were higher in rats maintained on the high-protein, high-carbohydrate diet compared with those on the high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet and this was not substantially affected by prednisolone administration. Hepatic and epididymal fat pad lipid syntheses were not altered by diet or prednisolone treatments. CONCLUSION Under long-term high-protein conditions, prednisolone administration does not seem to affect hepatic glycogen synthesis, which was increased with the increased carbohydrate content of the diet.
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- Omar A Obeid
- Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
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Cohen SM, Duffy JL, Miller C, Kirk BA, Candelore MR, Ding VDH, Kaczorowski G, Tota LM, Werrmann JG, Wright M, Parmee ER, Tata JR, Zhang BB. Direct observation (NMR) of the efficacy of glucagon receptor antagonists in murine liver expressing the human glucagon receptor. Bioorg Med Chem 2006; 14:1506-17. [PMID: 16256355 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2005.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2005] [Revised: 10/03/2005] [Accepted: 10/03/2005] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The demonstration of pharmacodynamic efficacy of novel chemical entities represents a formidable challenge in the early exploration of synthetic lead classes. Here, we demonstrate a technique to validate the biological efficacy of novel antagonists of the human glucagon receptor (hGCGR) in the surgically removed perfused liver prior to the optimization of the pharmacokinetic properties of the compounds. The technique involves the direct observation by (13)C NMR of the biosynthesis of [(13)C]glycogen from [(13)C]pyruvate via the gluconeogenic pathway. The rapid breakdown of [(13)C]glycogen (glycogenolysis) following the addition of 50 pM exogenous glucagon is then monitored in real time in the perfused liver by (13)C NMR. The concentration-dependent inhibition of glucagon-mediated glycogenolysis is demonstrated for both the peptidyl glucagon receptor antagonist 1 and structurally diverse synthetic antagonists 2-7. Perfused livers were obtained from a transgenic mouse strain that exclusively expresses the functional human glucagon receptor, conferring human relevance to the activity observed with glucagon receptor antagonists. This technique does not provide adequate quantitative precision for the comparative ranking of active compounds, but does afford physiological evidence of efficacy in the early development of a chemical series of antagonists.
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- Sheila M Cohen
- Department of Research Imaging, Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ 07065, USA
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Wu Y, Ouyang JP, Wu K, Wang SS, Wen CY, Xia ZY. Rosiglitazone ameliorates abnormal expression and activity of protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B in the skeletal muscle of fat-fed, streptozotocin-treated diabetic rats. Br J Pharmacol 2005; 146:234-43. [PMID: 15997237 PMCID: PMC1576260 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0706306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2004] [Revised: 03/31/2005] [Accepted: 04/26/2005] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) acts as a physiological negative regulator of insulin signaling by dephosphorylating the activated insulin receptor (IR). Here we examine the role of PTP1B in the insulin-sensitizing action of rosiglitazone (RSG) in skeletal muscle and liver. Fat-fed, streptozotocin-treated rats (10-week-old), an animal model of type II diabetes, and age-matched, nondiabetic controls were treated with RSG (10 micromol kg(-1) day(-1)) for 2 weeks. After RSG treatment, the diabetic rats showed a significant decrease in blood glucose and improved insulin sensitivity. Diabetic rats showed significantly increased levels and activities of PTP1B in the skeletal muscle (1.6- and 2-fold, respectively) and liver (1.7- and 1.8-fold, respectively), thus diminishing insulin signaling in the target tissues. We found that the decreases in insulin-stimulated glucose uptake (55%), tyrosine phosphorylation of IRbeta-subunits (48%), and IR substrate-1 (IRS-1) (39%) in muscles of diabetic rats were normalized after RSG treatment. These effects were associated with 34 and 30% decreases in increased PTP1B levels and activities, respectively, in skeletal muscles of diabetic rats. In contrast, RSG did not affect the increased PTP1B levels and activities or the already reduced insulin-stimulated glycogen synthesis and tyrosine phosphorylation of IRbeta-subunits and IRS-2 in livers of diabetic rats. RSG treatment in normal rats did not significantly change PTP1B activities and levels or protein levels of IRbeta, IRS-1, and -2 in diabetic rats. These data suggest that RSG enhances insulin activity in skeletal muscle of diabetic rats possibly by ameliorating abnormal levels and activities of PTP1B.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Blotting, Western
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/enzymology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/chemically induced
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/metabolism
- Dietary Fats/pharmacology
- Glucose/metabolism
- Glucose Tolerance Test
- Glycogen/biosynthesis
- Hepatocytes/drug effects
- Hepatocytes/metabolism
- Hypoglycemic Agents/pharmacology
- Insulin/metabolism
- Insulin Resistance
- Liver/drug effects
- Liver/metabolism
- Liver/physiology
- Liver Glycogen/biosynthesis
- Male
- Muscle, Skeletal/drug effects
- Muscle, Skeletal/enzymology
- Muscle, Skeletal/metabolism
- Muscle, Skeletal/physiology
- Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 1
- Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases/biosynthesis
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
- Rosiglitazone
- Signal Transduction/drug effects
- Thiazolidinediones/pharmacology
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- Yong Wu
- Department of Pathophysiology, Medical College of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
- Department of Physiology, Hubei College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wuhan 430061, China
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- Department of Pathophysiology, Medical College of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Department of Pathophysiology, Medical College of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Department of Pathophysiology, Medical College of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Department of Endocrinopathic Sciences, People's Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, 2176 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z3
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Obeid OA, Bittar ST, Hwalla N, Emery PW. Effect of diet supplementation with glutamine, dihydroxyacetone, and leucine on food intake, weight gain, and postprandial glycogen metabolism of rats. Nutrition 2005; 21:224-9. [PMID: 15723752 DOI: 10.1016/j.nut.2004.03.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2003] [Revised: 11/17/2003] [Accepted: 03/18/2004] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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OBJECTIVE We tested the hypothesis that increasing the rate of postprandial hepatic glycogen synthesis would decrease food intake and growth rate in normal rats. METHODS Diets supplemented with glutamine, glutamine plus dihydroxyacetone, and glutamine plus dihydroxyacetone plus leucine were administered to male Sprague-Dawley rats for 1 wk. These are combinations that have been shown to stimulate hepatic glycogen synthesis in vitro. Food intake and body weight were monitored throughout the experiment. At the end of the feeding period, rats were fed a test meal and injected with 3H2O to measure in vivo rates of glycogen and lipid synthesis. Positional analysis of the 3H incorporated into glycogen was used to determine the proportion of glycogen synthesized via pyruvate. Final levels of plasma glucose and triacylglycerol and hepatic glycogen were also measured. RESULTS Dietary glutamine increased hepatic glycogen synthesis. Addition of dihydroxyacetone, with or without additional leucine, caused an additional increase in hepatic glycogen synthesis and increased the proportion of glycogen synthesized via pyruvate. Lipogenesis was not altered in the liver or adipose tissue. None of the dietary treatments had any effect on food intake, but the diets that contained dihydroxyacetone decreased the rate of weight gain. CONCLUSIONS Increasing glycogen synthesis had no effect on food intake. Increasing the proportion of glycogen synthesized by the indirect pathway through pyruvate was associated with a decrease in weight gain.
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- Omar A Obeid
- Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
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Krssak M, Brehm A, Bernroider E, Anderwald C, Nowotny P, Dalla Man C, Cobelli C, Cline GW, Shulman GI, Waldhäusl W, Roden M. Alterations in postprandial hepatic glycogen metabolism in type 2 diabetes. Diabetes 2004; 53:3048-56. [PMID: 15561933 DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.53.12.3048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 222] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Decreased skeletal muscle glucose disposal and increased endogenous glucose production (EGP) contribute to postprandial hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes, but the contribution of hepatic glycogen metabolism remains uncertain. Hepatic glycogen metabolism and EGP were monitored in type 2 diabetic patients and nondiabetic volunteer control subjects (CON) after mixed meal ingestion and during hyperglycemic-hyperinsulinemic-somatostatin clamps applying 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMRS) and variable infusion dual-tracer technique. Hepatocellular lipid (HCL) content was quantified by 1H NMRS. Before dinner, hepatic glycogen was lower in type 2 diabetic patients (227 +/- 6 vs. CON: 275 +/- 10 mmol/l liver, P < 0.001). After meal ingestion, net synthetic rates were 0.76 +/- 0.16 (type 2 diabetic patients) and 1.36 +/- 0.15 mg x kg(-1) x min(-1) (CON, P < 0.02), resulting in peak concentrations of 283 +/- 15 and 360 +/- 11 mmol/l liver. Postprandial rates of EGP were approximately 0.3 mg x kg(-1) x min(-1) (30-170 min; P < 0.05 vs. CON) higher in type 2 diabetic patients. Under clamp conditions, type 2 diabetic patients featured approximately 54% lower (P < 0.03) net hepatic glycogen synthesis and approximately 0.5 mg x kg(-1) x min(-1) higher (P < 0.02) EGP. Hepatic glucose storage negatively correlated with HCL content (R = -0.602, P < 0.05). Type 2 diabetic patients exhibit 1) reduction of postprandial hepatic glycogen synthesis, 2) temporarily impaired suppression of EGP, and 3) no normalization of these defects by controlled hyperglycemic hyperinsulinemia. Thus, impaired insulin sensitivity and/or chronic glucolipotoxicity in addition to the effects of an altered insulin-to-glucagon ratio or increased free fatty acids accounts for defective hepatic glycogen metabolism in type 2 diabetic patients.
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- Martin Krssak
- Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Rosa J, Rosa J. Insulin-like and non-insulin-like action of vanadate in hepatocytes cultured in vitro. Coll Antropol 2004; 28:309-15. [PMID: 15636088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/01/2023]
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The aim of this study was to determine possible insulin-mimetic effects of vanadate on amino acid transport, glycogen synthesis and glucose production in hepatocytes cultured in vitro. Vanadate, like insulin, caused a significant (100%) increase of amino acid transport. However, vanadate produced a significant (31%) decrease of 14C-glucose incorporation into glycogen, in contrast to insulin which caused a 54% increase. Vanadate also caused a significant decrease (24%) of basal glucose production but had no effect on glucagon-stimulated glucose production. Vanadate and insulin given together reduced more strongly the basal glucose production (68%) and also effectively prevented the glucagon-stimulated effect on glucose production. In hepatocytes cultured in vitro vanadate had insulin-like and non-insulin-like action. Our results clearly demonstrated that non-insulin-like effects of vanadate could have a beneficial influence on the therapy of diabetes type 2 causing a decrease of glucose production from the liver.
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- Jagoda Rosa
- Department of Physiology, School of Dentistry, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
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Zhang R, Zhou J, Jia Z, Zhang Y, Gu G. Hypoglycemic effect of Rehmannia glutinosa oligosaccharide in hyperglycemic and alloxan-induced diabetic rats and its mechanism. J Ethnopharmacol 2004; 90:39-43. [PMID: 14698506 DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2003.09.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The hypoglycemic and anti-diabetic effect of Rehmannia glutinosa oligosaccharide (ROS) in glucose-induced hyperglycemic and alloxan-induced diabetic rats and its mechanism was investigated in this paper. It was found that pretreatment of ROS in normal rats with 100 mg/kg for 3 days, i.p., induced a partial prevention of hyperglycemia caused by glucose (2g/kg, i.p.), while when hyperglycemia was induced in adrenalectomized (ADX) rats, the preventive effect of ROS on hyperglycemia was lost. In alloxan-induced diabetic rats, ROS (100 mg/kg for 15 days, i.p.) showed a significant decrease in blood glucose level and hepatic glucose-6-phosphatase activity with an increase in hepatic glycogen content. Furthermore, ROS raised plasma insulin level and lowered plasma corticosterone level in alloxan-induced diabetic rats. The results indicated that oligosaccharide of Rehmannia glutinosa Libosch. exerted a significant hypoglycemic effect in normal and alloxan-induced diabetic rats. The regulatory mechanism of ROS on glucose metabolism was adrenal dependent and had a close relation with the neuroendocrine system.
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- Ruxue Zhang
- Department of Pharmacy, Lanzhou General Hospital of PLA, Lanzhou 730050, PR China.
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Grimsby J, Sarabu R, Corbett WL, Haynes NE, Bizzarro FT, Coffey JW, Guertin KR, Hilliard DW, Kester RF, Mahaney PE, Marcus L, Qi L, Spence CL, Tengi J, Magnuson MA, Chu CA, Dvorozniak MT, Matschinsky FM, Grippo JF. Allosteric activators of glucokinase: potential role in diabetes therapy. Science 2003; 301:370-3. [PMID: 12869762 DOI: 10.1126/science.1084073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 391] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Glucokinase (GK) plays a key role in whole-body glucose homeostasis by catalyzing the phosphorylation of glucose in cells that express this enzyme, such as pancreatic beta cells and hepatocytes. We describe a class of antidiabetic agents that act as nonessential, mixed-type GK activators (GKAs) that increase the glucose affinity and maximum velocity (Vmax) of GK. GKAs augment both hepatic glucose metabolism and glucose-induced insulin secretion from isolated rodent pancreatic islets, consistent with the expression and function of GK in both cell types. In several rodent models of type 2 diabetes mellitus, GKAs lowered blood glucose levels, improved the results of glucose tolerance tests, and increased hepatic glucose uptake. These findings may lead to the development of new drug therapies for diabetes.
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- Joseph Grimsby
- Department of Metabolic Diseases, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Nutley, NJ 07110, USA
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW The liver plays an important role in glucose tolerance. A number of studies have suggested fructose improves glucose tolerance especially in insulin resistant settings. This review summarizes the recent work suggesting that fructose enhances glucose tolerance by augmenting liver glucose uptake. This increase may be mediated by the translocation and activation of hepatic glucokinase. RECENT FINDINGS Catalytic quantities of fructose (<10% of total carbohydrate flux) enhance liver glucose uptake in a dose dependent manner. The primary fate of the glucose is glycogen synthesis. The ability of fructose to augment liver glucose uptake is not impaired by the presence of marked insulin resistance such as in type 2 diabetes or infection. In addition, it is able to further enhance liver glucose uptake in the normal adapted setting of total parenteral nutrition and reverse the infected-induced decrease in liver glucose uptake. Studies also demonstrate that the beneficial effects of fructose on liver glucose uptake during chronic nutritional support do not persist. SUMMARY Fructose is a potent acute regulator of liver glucose uptake and glycogen synthesis. Inclusion of catalytic quantities of fructose in a carbohydrate meal improves glucose tolerance. This improvement is primarily mediated by the activation of hepatic glucokinase and consequent facilitation of liver glucose uptake. The improvement in glucose tolerance is most evident in insulin resistant settings (e.g. Type 2 diabetes and infection). The beneficial effect of fructose on hepatic glucose disposal, however, does not persist if fructose is given continuously such as in total parenteral nutrition.
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- Owen P McGuinness
- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232-7236, USA.
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High glucose concentration suppresses hepatic glycogenolysis by allosteric inhibition and dephosphorylation (inactivation) of phosphorylase-a. The latter effect is attributed to a direct effect of glucose on the conformation of phosphorylase-a. Although glucose-6-phosphate (G6P), like glucose, stimulates dephosphorylation of phosphorylase-a by phosphorylase phosphatase, its physiological role in regulating glycogenolysis in intact hepatocytes has not been tested. We show in this study that metabolic conditions associated with an increase in G6P, including glucokinase overexpression and incubation with octanoate or dihydroxyacetone, cause inactivation of phosphorylase. The latter conditions also inhibit glycogenolysis. The activity of phosphorylase-a correlated inversely with the G6P concentration within the physiological range. The inhibition of glycogenolysis and inactivation of phosphorylase-a caused by 10 mmol/l glucose can be at least in part counteracted by inhibition of glucokinase with 5-thioglucose, which lowers G6P. In conclusion, metabolic conditions that alter the hepatic G6P content affect glycogen metabolism not only through regulation of glycogen synthase but also through regulation of the activation state of phosphorylase. Dysregulation of G6P in diabetes by changes in activity of glucokinase or glucose 6-phosphatase may be a contributing factor to impaired suppression of glycogenolysis by hyperglycemia.
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- Susan Aiston
- Department of Diabetes, School of Clinical Medical Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, The Medical School, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, U.K
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Murphy HC, Regan G, Bogdarina IG, Clark AJL, Iles RA, Cohen RD, Hitman GA, Berry CL, Coade Z, Petry CJ, Burns SP. Fetal programming of perivenous glucose uptake reveals a regulatory mechanism governing hepatic glucose output during refeeding. Diabetes 2003; 52:1326-32. [PMID: 12765940 DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.52.6.1326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Increased hepatic gluconeogenesis maintains glycemia during fasting and has been considered responsible for elevated hepatic glucose output in type 2 diabetes. Glucose derived periportally via gluconeogenesis is partially taken up perivenously in perfused liver but not in adult rats whose mothers were protein-restricted during gestation (MLP rats)-an environmental model of fetal programming of adult glucose intolerance exhibiting diminished perivenous glucokinase (GK) activity. We now show that perivenous glucose uptake rises with increasing glucose concentration (0-8 mmol/l) in control but not MLP liver, indicating that GK is flux-generating. The data demonstrate that acute control of hepatic glucose output is principally achieved by increasing perivenous glucose uptake, with rising glucose concentration during refeeding, rather than by downregulation of gluconeogenesis, which occurs in different hepatocytes. Consistent with these observations, glycogen synthesis in vivo commenced in the perivenous cells during refeeding, MLP livers accumulating less glycogen than controls. GK gene transcription was unchanged in MLP liver, the data supporting a recently proposed posttranscriptional model of GK regulation involving nuclear-cytoplasmic transport. The results are pertinent to impaired regulation of hepatic glucose output in type 2 diabetes, which could arise from diminished GK-mediated glucose uptake rather than increased gluconeogenesis.
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- Helena C Murphy
- Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Medicine, St. Bart's and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End, London E1 4NS, U.K
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Liu IM, Tzeng TF, Tsai CC, Lai TY, Chang CT, Cheng JT. Increase in adenosine A1 receptor gene expression in the liver of streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. Diabetes Metab Res Rev 2003; 19:209-15. [PMID: 12789654 DOI: 10.1002/dmrr.369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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BACKGROUND Adenosine A1 receptor (A1-AR) activation can lower plasma glucose in diabetic rats lacking insulin. We investigated the change in A1-AR gene expression in diabetic rats. METHODS The incorporation of [U-(14)C]-glucose into glycogen was carried out to evaluate the effect of N(6)-cyclopentyladenosine (CPA) on glucose utilization in vitro. The plasma glucose concentration was assessed by the glucose oxidase method. The mRNA and protein levels of A1-AR in isolated liver were detected by Western blotting analysis and Northern blotting analysis, respectively. RESULTS The effect of CPA, an agonist of A1-AR, on glycogen incorporation in hepatocytes isolated from streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats (STZ-diabetic rats) was more marked than that from the normal rats. However, similar glycogen synthesis was not modified by 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA), an activator of protein kinase C, in the isolated hepatocytes from both the normal and the STZ-diabetic rats. A change in response at the receptor level can thus be considered. The mean level of liver mRNA transcripts encoding A1-AR was increased in STZ-diabetic rats to about 250% of that in normal rats. Exogenous insulin at a dose sufficient to normalize the plasma glucose of STZ-diabetic rats reversed the mRNA level of A1-AR in the liver after a four-day treatment. Similar results were also observed in STZ-diabetic rats that received treatment with phlorizin for four days. Moreover, the protein level of A1-AR was higher in the liver of STZ-diabetic rats than that in the normal rats. Similar treatment with exogenous insulin or phlorizin reversed the elevated protein level of A1-AR in the liver of STZ-diabetic rats to near the normal level. Therefore, correction of hyperglycemia in STZ-diabetic rats can reverse the higher gene expression of A1-AR in liver. CONCLUSIONS The obtained results suggest that an increase in plasma glucose is responsible for the higher gene expression of A1-AR in the liver of STZ-diabetic rats.
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- I M Liu
- Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan 70101, Republic of China
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AIM Glycogen synthesis, and glucose and lactate production were examined in cultured rat hepatocytes preincubated with metformin (0-500 micro m) for 24 h. METHODS Cells incubated with[1-13C]-glucose and [1-13C]-lactate allowed us to study the effect of metformin on glucose production from glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis in a detailed manner using NMR spectroscopy. 1H and 13C-filtered 1H-NMR spectra were recorded by using flow-injection technique. RESULTS Metformin decreased glycogen synthesis in a dose-dependent manner with an IC50 value of 196.5 micro m. This effect could not be reversed by the presence of the glycogen phosphorylase inhibitor DAB, suggesting that glycogenolysis was not affected. A clear correlation between glucose production and glycogen content (0.97 < R < 0.99; p < 0.001) and lactate production and glycogen content (0.97 < R < 0.99; p < 0.001) was observed. Moreover, a strong inhibition (62%, p < 0.001) of glucose produced from lactate/pyruvate (3 mm/0.3 mm) was observed in cells treated with 350 micro m metformin. CONCLUSION Hepatocytes preincubated for 24 h in the presence of metformin at clinically relevant concentrations showed impaired glycogenesis as well as gluconeogenesis.
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- M Otto
- Department of Hepatic Biochemistry, Novo Nordisk A/S, Novo Nordisk Park, Denmark
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Link JT. Pharmacological regulation of hepatic glucose production. Curr Opin Investig Drugs 2003; 4:421-9. [PMID: 12808881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/03/2023]
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The discovery of antidiabetic agents that inhibit hepatic glucose production is a popular and potentially fruitful research area for the pharmaceutical research community. Metformin, a marketed agent with this mechanism of action, is widely used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, however, more efficacious agents are sought. A number of promising proteins are being targeted for modulation by new compounds, including the glucagon receptor, glycogen phosphorylase, glucocorticoid receptor, 11 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase-1, fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase, carnitine palmitoyltransferase-1, glycogen synthase kinase-3, glucose-6-phosphate T1 translocase and the A2B receptor. Compounds designed to work against these targets are at the early clinical or preclinical phase of study. Glucagon receptor antagonists, glycogen phosphorylase inhibitors, 11 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase-1 inhibitors, carnitine palmitoyltransferase-1 inhibitors and fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase inhibitors are, or have been, clinically evaluated. Preclinical studies against the other targets have yielded compounds that demonstrate efficacy in diabetic animal models and clinical activity will continue.
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- James T Link
- Abbott Laboratories, 100 Abbott Park Road, IL 60064-6098, USA.
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Kudryavtseva MV, Bezborodkina NN, Okovity SV, Kudryavtsey BN. Effects of the 2-ethylthiobenzimidazole hydrobromide (bemithyl) on carbohydrate metabolism in cirrhotic rat liver. Exp Toxicol Pathol 2003; 54:339-47. [PMID: 12710718 DOI: 10.1078/0940-2993-00270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The effect of the actoprotector bemithyl (2-ethylthiobenzimidazole hydrobromide) on the content of glycogen and activities of glycogen synthase, glycogen phosphorylase, and glucose-6-phosphatase was studied in the cirrhotic rat liver. The content of glycogen and its fraction was determined by a cytofluorimetric method (Kudryavtseva et al. 1974). It has been shown that in cirrhosis the content of total glycogen in hepatocytes increases about 3 times and the content of its stable fraction increases 7.5 times. The activity of glucose-6-phosphatase fell to a level as low as 25% of normal. Activities of glycogen synthase and glycogen phosphorylase in the cirrhotic liver did not differ from normal. In the cirrhotic liver, bemithyl produced a decrease of the total glycogen content which was associated with a decrease of the glycogen synthase activity and an increase of the glucose-6-phosphatase and glycogen phosphorylase activities. Thus, the results of our studies indicate a favorable effect of bemithyl on the cirrhotic liver.
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- Margarita V Kudryavtseva
- Laboratory of Cellular Pathology, Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Bergans N, Dresselaers T, Vanhamme L, Van Hecke P, Van Huffel S, Vanstapel F. Quantification of the glycogen 13C-1 NMR signal during glycogen synthesis in perfused rat liver. NMR Biomed 2003; 16:36-46. [PMID: 12577296 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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We studied glycogen synthesis from glucose in perfused livers of fed (n = 4) and 24 h starved (n = 7) rats. Glycogenolysis was inhibited by BAY R3401 (150 microM) and proglycosyn (100 microM). After 60 min, we replaced 99% (13)C-1 glucose by natural abundance glucose. This pulse-chase design allowed us to recognize residual ongoing futile glycogen turnover from the release of initially deposited (13)C-label, into the (13)C-free chase medium. Net residual turnover was less than 2 +/- 0.7% and 0.6 +/- 0.2% of 1-(13)C glycogen deposition rates of 0.31 +/- 0.04 and 0.99 +/- 0.04 micromol glucose g(-1) min(-1), in starved and fed livers, respectively. The 1-(13)C glycogen signal was monitored throughout the experiment with proton-decoupled (13)C NMR spectroscopy and analyzed in the time domain using AMARES. We noticed progressive line-broadening in any single experiment in the chase phase. One or a sum of two to three overlapping Lorentzians, with different exponential damping factors, were fitted to the signal. When the S/N was better than 40, the fit always delivered a small and a broad component. In the chase phase, the fit with a single Lorentzian resulted in a decline of glycogen signal by about 15 +/- 4 and 12 +/- 2% in starved and fed rats, respectively. This apparent decline in 1-(13)C glycogen signal could not be accounted for by the appearance of equivalent amounts of (13)C-labeled metabolites in the perfusate. The fit with a sum of two Lorentzians resulted in a decline of glycogen signal intensity of 7 +/- 5 and 5 +/- 3% in starved and fed rats, respectively, which reduced the apparent turnover to 8 +/- 9% and 6 +/- 4%, respectively. Quantification of the growing (13)C-1 glycogen signal requires a model function that accommodates changes in line shape throughout the period under study.
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- N Bergans
- Biomedische NMR Eenheid, Afdeling Röntgendiagnose, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Trimmer JK, Schwarz JM, Casazza GA, Horning MA, Rodriguez N, Brooks GA. Measurement of gluconeogenesis in exercising men by mass isotopomer distribution analysis. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2002; 93:233-41. [PMID: 12070210 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01050.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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We evaluated the hypothesis that coordinated adjustments in absolute rates of gluconeogenesis (GNG(ab)) and hepatic glycogenolysis (Gly) would maintain euglycemia and match glucose production (GP) to peripheral utilization during rest and exercise. Specifically, we evaluated the extent to which gradations in exercise power output would affect the contribution of GNG(ab) to GP. For these purposes, we employed mass isotopomer distribution analysis (MIDA) and isotope-dilution techniques on eight postabsorptive (PA) endurance-trained men during 90 min of leg cycle ergometry at 45 and 65% peak O(2) consumption (VO(2 peak); moderate and hard intensities, respectively) and the preceding rest period. GP was constant in resting subjects, whereas the fraction from GNG (f(GNG)) increased over time during rest (22.3 +/- 0.9% at 11.25 h PA vs. 25.6 +/- 0.9% at 12.0 h PA, P < 0.05). In the transition from rest to exercise, GP increased in an intensity-dependent manner (rest, 2.0 +/- 0.1; 45%, 4.0 +/- 0.4; 65%, 5.84 +/- 0.64 mg. kg(-1). min(-1), P < 0.05), although glucose rate of disappearance exceeded rate of appearance during the last 30 min of exercise at 65% VO(2 peak). Compared with rest, increases in GP were sustained by 92 and 135% increments in GNG(ab) during moderate- and hard-intensity exercises, respectively. Correspondingly, Gly (calculated as the difference between GP and MIDA-measured GNG(ab)) increased 100 and 203% over rest during the two exercise intensities. During moderate-intensity exercise, f(GNG) was the same as at rest; however, during the harder exercise f(GNG) decreased significantly to account for only 21% of GP. The highest sustained GNG(ab) observed in these trials on PA men was 1.24 +/- 0.3 mg. kg(-1). min(-1). We conclude that, after an overnight fast, 1) absolute GNG rates increased with intensity of effort despite a reduced f(GNG) at 65% VO(2 peak), 2) during exercise Gly is more responsible than GNG(ab) for maintaining GP, and 3) in 12-h fasted men, neither increased Gly or GNG(ab) nor was their combination able to maintain euglycemia during prolonged hard (65% VO(2 peak)) exercise.
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- Jeff K Trimmer
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley 94720, USA
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Experimental data support a role for FAK, an important component of the integrin signaling pathway, in insulin action. To test the hypothesis that FAK plays a regulatory role in hepatic insulin action, we overexpressed wild type (WT), a kinase inactive (KR), or a COOH-terminal focal adhesion targeting (FAT) sequence-truncated mutant of FAK in HepG2 hepatoma cells. In control untransfected (NON) and vector (CMV2)- and WT-transfected cells, insulin stimulated an expected 54 +/- 13, 37 +/- 4, and 47 +/- 12 increase in [U-(14)C]glucose incorporation into glycogen, respectively. This was entirely abolished in the presence of either KR (-1 +/- 7%) or FAT mutants (0 +/- 8%, n = 5, p < 0.05 for KR or FAT versus other groups), and this was associated with a significant attenuation of incremental insulin-stimulated glycogen synthase (GS) activity. Insulin-stimulated serine phosphorylation of Akt/protein kinase B was significantly impaired in mutant-transfected cells. Moreover, the ability of insulin to inactivate GS kinase-3beta (GSK-3beta), the regulatory enzyme immediately upstream of GS, by serine phosphorylation (308 +/- 16, 321 +/- 41, and 458 +/- 34 optical densitometric units (odu) in NON, CMV2, and WT, respectively, p < 0.02 for WT versus CMV2) was attenuated in the presence of either FAT (205 +/- 14, p < 0.01) or KR (189 +/- 4, p < 0.005) mutants. FAK co-immunoprecipitated with GSK-3beta, but only in cells overexpressing the KR (374 +/- 254 odu) and FAT (555 +/- 308) mutants was this association stimulated by insulin compared with NON (-209 +/- 92), CMV2 (-47 +/- 70), and WT (-39 +/- 31 odu). This suggests that FAK and GSK-3beta form both a constitutive association and a transient complex upon insulin stimulation, the dissociation of which requires normal function and localization of FAK. We conclude that FAK regulates the activity of Akt/protein kinase B and GSK-3beta and the association of GSK-3beta with FAK to influence insulin-stimulated glycogen synthesis in hepatocytes. Insulin action may be subject to regulation by the integrin signaling pathway, ensuring that these growth and differentiation-promoting pathways act in a coordinated and/or complementary manner.
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- Danshan Huang
- UCLA Gonda (Goldschmied) Diabetes Center and the Research Service, West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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Bischof MG, Bernroider E, Krssak M, Krebs M, Stingl H, Nowotny P, Yu C, Shulman GI, Waldhäusl W, Roden M. Hepatic glycogen metabolism in type 1 diabetes after long-term near normoglycemia. Diabetes 2002; 51:49-54. [PMID: 11756322 DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.51.1.49] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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We tested the impact of long-term near normoglycemia (HbA(1c) <7% for >1 year) on glycogen metabolism in seven type 1 diabetic and seven matched nondiabetic subjects after a mixed meal. Glycemic profiles (6.2 +/- 0.10 vs. 5.9 +/- 0.07 mmol/l; P < 0.05) of diabetic patients were approximated to that of nondiabetic subjects by variable insulin infusion. Rates of hepatic glycogen synthesis and breakdown were calculated from the glycogen concentration time curves between 7:30 P.M. and 8:00 A.M. using in vivo (13)C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Glucose production was determined with D-[6,6-(2)H(2)]glucose, and the hepatic uridine-diphosphate glucose pool was sampled with acetaminophen. Glycogen synthesis and breakdown as well as glucose production were identical in diabetic and healthy subjects: 7.3 +/- 0.9 vs. 7.1 +/- 0.7, 4.2 +/- 0.5 vs. 3.8 +/- 0.3, and 8.7 +/- 0.5 vs. 8.4 +/- 0.7 micromol x kg(-1) x min(-1), respectively. Although portal vein insulin concentrations were doubled, the flux through the indirect pathway of glycogen synthesis remained higher in type 1 diabetic subjects: approximately 70 vs. approximately 50%; P < 0.05. In conclusion, combined long- and short-term intensified insulin substitution normalizes rates of hepatic glycogen synthesis but not the contribution of gluconeogenesis to glycogen synthesis in type 1 diabetes.
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- Martin G Bischof
- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine III, University of Vienna Medical School, Vienna, Austria
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Gustafson LA, Neeft M, Reijngoud DJ, Kuipers F, Sauerwein HP, Romijn JA, Herling AW, Burger HJ, Meijer AJ. Fatty acid and amino acid modulation of glucose cycling in isolated rat hepatocytes. Biochem J 2001; 358:665-71. [PMID: 11535127 PMCID: PMC1222100 DOI: 10.1042/0264-6021:3580665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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We studied the influence of glucose/glucose 6-phosphate cycling on glycogen deposition from glucose in fasted-rat hepatocytes using S4048 and CP320626, specific inhibitors of glucose-6-phosphate translocase and glycogen phosphorylase respectively. The effect of amino acids and oleate was also examined. The following observations were made: (1) with glucose alone, net glycogen production was low. Inhibition of glucose-6-phosphate translocase increased intracellular glucose 6-phosphate (3-fold), glycogen accumulation (5-fold) without change in active (dephosphorylated) glycogen synthase (GSa) activity, and lactate production (4-fold). With both glucose 6-phosphate translocase and glycogen phosphorylase inhibited, glycogen deposition increased 8-fold and approached reported in vivo rates of glycogen deposition during the fasted-->fed transition. Addition of a physiological mixture of amino acids in the presence of glucose increased glycogen accumulation (4-fold) through activation of GS and inhibition of glucose-6-phosphatase flux. Addition of oleate with glucose present decreased glycolytic flux and increased the flux through glucose 6-phosphatase with no change in glycogen deposition. With glucose 6-phosphate translocase inhibited by S4048, oleate increased intracellular glucose 6-phosphate (3-fold) and net glycogen production (1.5-fold), without a major change in GSa activity. It is concluded that glucose cycling in hepatocytes prevents the net accumulation of glycogen from glucose. Amino acids activate GS and inhibit flux through glucose-6-phosphatase, while oleate inhibits glycolysis and stimulates glucose-6-phosphatase flux. Variation in glucose 6-phosphate does not always result in activity changes of GSa. Activation of glucose 6-phosphatase flux by fatty acids may contribute to the increased hepatic glucose production as seen in Type 2 diabetes.
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- L A Gustafson
- Department of Biochemistry, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Chronic ethanol consumption results in a dramatic decrease in liver glycogen concentrations, which could be related to either a depressed rate of synthesis or an increased rate of breakdown. Earlier studies suggested that there is not an increase in the rate of glycogenolysis as glycogen phosphorylase activities are not elevated. In the present study it was observed that the incorporation of radiolabeled glucose into glycogen was significantly depressed in hepatocytes from ethanol-fed rats under both anaerobic and aerobic conditions. Chronic ethanol consumption decreased the total glycogen synthase (a + b) activity, which correlated closely with a loss in glycogen synthase protein. However, glycogen synthase messenger RNA levels were not depressed, which indicated posttranscriptional modifications affecting both activity and protein levels. The concentration of glucose transporter 1 was also decreased due to ethanol consumption, but glucose transporter 2 levels were not altered. This latter result suggests that glucose transport in the perivenous region of the liver lobule may be decreased in chronic ethanol consumers. The alterations in glucose transport protein and glycogen synthesis observed in this study may contribute to lowered glycogen synthesis, but do not appear to account for the magnitude of the decreases in glycogen levels and rate of synthesis. Indeed, ethanol effects on glycogen metabolism are likely to be exerted at several levels, including posttranslational modulation of enzyme activities.
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- C G Van Horn
- Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-1016, USA
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Takeuchi H, Suzuki N, Tada M, He P. Accelerative effect of olive oil on liver glycogen synthesis in rats subjected to water-immersion restraint stress. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 2001; 65:1489-94. [PMID: 11515530 DOI: 10.1271/bbb.65.1489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The effects of dietary oils on stress-induced changes in the liver glycogen metabolism of male Wistar rats at 6 weeks of age were investigated. The rats were subjected to repetitive water-immersion restraint and fed with a 20% saturated fatty acid mixture (PSC), olive oil (OLI), safflower oil (SAF), or linseed oil (LIS) diet. Stress loading decresed the body weight gain, although the food intake was hardly changed, and the weights of the liver and spleen generally declined regardless of the elapsed time after stress loading and the type of dietary oil. The adrenal weight was generally enhanced by stress in all deitary groups, and particularly tended to be greater in the OLI and PSC groups than in the other two. The plasma corticosterone concentration increased immediately after stressing (Stress-1), but approached the level of the rats with no stress (No stress) 2 h after releasing the stress load (Stress-2) in all groups. The enhancement of corticosterone level in the Stress-1 animals was large in the PSC and OLI groups, and the decline of this level in the Stress-2 animals was small in the OLI group when compared with the other groups. Although the concentrations of total cholesterol (T-CHOL) and triacylglycerol (TG) in the plasma were decreased by stress loading in all groups, these concentrations in the PSC and OLI groups were nearly always higher than in the other groups. The liver serine dehydratase (SDH) activity enhanced by stress was high in the OLI group and tended to be high in the PSC group when compared with the other groups. The contents of liver glycogen were reduced in the Stress-1 animals and extremely elevated in the Stress-2 animals of all groups, and particularly in the OLI group, the reduction in the Stress-1 animals was smaller and the enhancement in the Stress-2 animals was greater than in the other groups. These results suggest that feeding oleic acid to rats exposed to water-immersion restraint further accelerated liver glycogen synthesis through the rise in liver SDH activity due to increased corticosterone secretion when compared with the effect from linoleic and alpha-linolenic acids.
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- H Takeuchi
- Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Shizuoka University, Ohya, Japan
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Fushimi T, Tayama K, Fukaya M, Kitakoshi K, Nakai N, Tsukamoto Y, Sato Y. Acetic acid feeding enhances glycogen repletion in liver and skeletal muscle of rats. J Nutr 2001; 131:1973-7. [PMID: 11435516 DOI: 10.1093/jn/131.7.1973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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To investigate the efficacy of the ingestion of vinegar in aiding recovery from fatigue, we examined the effect of dietary acetic acid, the main component of vinegar, on glycogen repletion in rats. Rats were allowed access to a commercial diet twice daily for 6 d. After 15 h of food deprivation, they were either killed immediately or given 2 g of a diet containing 0 (control), 0.1, 0.2 or 0.4 g acetic acid/100 g diet for 2 h. The 0.2 g acetic acid group had significantly greater liver and gastrocnemius muscle glycogen concentration than the control group (P < 0.05). The concentrations of citrate in this group in both the liver and skeletal muscles were >1.3-fold greater than in the control group (P > 0.1). In liver, the concentration of xylulose-5-phosphate in the control group was significantly higher than in the 0.2 and 0.4 g acetic acid groups (P < 0.01). In gastrocnemius muscle, the concentration of glucose-6-phosphate in the control group was significantly lower and the ratio of fructose-1,6-bisphosphate/fructose-6-phosphate was significantly higher than in the 0.2 g acetic acid group (P < 0.05). This ratio in the soleus muscle of the acetic acid fed groups was <0.8-fold that of the control group (P > 0.1). In liver, acetic acid may activate gluconeogenesis and inactivate glycolysis through inactivation of fructose-2,6-bisphosphate synthesis due to suppression of xylulose-5-phosphate accumulation. In skeletal muscle, acetic acid may inhibit glycolysis by suppression of phosphofructokinase-1 activity. We conclude that a diet containing acetic acid may enhance glycogen repletion in liver and skeletal muscle.
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- T Fushimi
- Central Research Institute, Mitsukan Group Company Limited, Handa 475-8585, Japan.
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Aiston S, Hampson L, Gómez-Foix AM, Guinovart JJ, Agius L. Hepatic glycogen synthesis is highly sensitive to phosphorylase activity: evidence from metabolic control analysis. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:23858-66. [PMID: 11309391 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m101454200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We used metabolic control analysis to determine the flux control coefficient of phosphorylase on glycogen synthesis in hepatocytes by titration with a specific phosphorylase inhibitor (CP-91149) or by expression of muscle phosphorylase using recombinant adenovirus. The muscle isoform was used because it is catalytically active in the b-state. CP-91149 inactivated phosphorylase with sequential activation of glycogen synthase. It increased glycogen synthesis by 7-fold at 5 mm glucose and by 2-fold at 20 mm glucose with a decrease in the concentration of glucose causing half-maximal rate (S(0.5)) from 26 to 19 mm. Muscle phosphorylase was expressed in hepatocytes mainly in the b-state. Low levels of phosphorylase expression inhibited glycogen synthesis by 50%, with little further inhibition at higher enzyme expression, and caused inactivation of glycogen synthase that was reversed by CP-91149. At endogenous activity, phosphorylase has a very high (greater than unity) negative control coefficient on glycogen synthesis, regardless of whether it is determined by enzyme inactivation or overexpression. This high control is attenuated by glucokinase overexpression, indicating dependence on other enzymes with high control. The high control coefficient of phosphorylase on glycogen synthesis affirms that phosphorylase is a strong candidate target for controlling hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes in both the absorptive and postabsorptive states.
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- S Aiston
- Department of Diabetes, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, The Medical School, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, United Kingdom
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Batista MR, Curi R, Lima FB, Lopes G, Bazotte RB. Effect of a meal feeding schedule on hepatic glycogen synthesis and gluconeogenesis in rats. J Biomed Sci 2001; 8:256-61. [PMID: 11385297 DOI: 10.1007/bf02256599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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We investigated the effect of a meal feeding schedule (MFS) on food intake, hepatic glycogen synthesis, hepatic capacity to produce glucose and glycemia in rats. The MFS comprised free access to food for a 2-hour period daily at a fixed mealtime (8.00-10.00 a.m.) for 13 days. The control group was composed of rats with free access to food from day 1 to 12, which were then starved for 22 h, refed with a single meal at 8.00-10.00 a.m. and starved again for another 22 h. All experiments were performed at the meal time (i.e. 8.00 a.m.). The MFS group exhibited increased food intake and higher glycogen synthase activity. Since gluconeogenesis from L-glutamine or L-alanine was not affected by MFS, we conclude that the increased food intake and higher glycogen synthase activity contributed to the better glucose maintenance showed by MFS rats at the fixed meal time.
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- M R Batista
- Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil
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Kudriavtseva MV, Bezborodkina NN, Sek EN, Shapiro II, Baranovskiĭ AI, Kudriavtsev BN. [Effect of "vilon" on cirrhotically changed rat liver. Liver regeneration, and status of glycogen-forming function of hepatocytes]. Tsitologiia 2001; 42:758-64. [PMID: 11033862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/18/2023]
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Effects of a dipeptide preparation "Vilon" on rehabilitation of functional activity of hepatocytes and regeneration of the cirrhotically altered rat liver were studied. The liver cirrhosis was produced by poisoning of rats for 4 months with carbon tetrachloride (CCl4). On the end of the poisoning with CCl4, one group of animals was not submitted to any further actions, whereas animals of the other group were injected "Vilon" (1.7 micrograms/kg) daily for 5 days. On smears of isolated hepatocytes, contents of total glycogen (TG), and its labile and stable fractions (LF and SF) were determined in addition to cell ploidy levels and the total protein content. In liver homogenates, activities of glucose-6-phosphatase (G6P), glycogen synthase (GS), and glycogen phosphorylase (GP) were measured. In 2 weeks after the drug application, G6P activity being reduced in cirrhosis 1.2 times, elevated under effect of "Vilon". In non-treated rats the contents of TG and its fractions and of G6P activity remained at the level characteristic of the cirrhotic liver prior to "Vilon" administration. In both groups of rats, GP and GS activities in the cirrhotically altered liver did not differ from their control values throughout the entire experiment. "Vilon" has been shown to exert a weak stimulating effect on regeneration of the cirrotically altered rat liver: in hepatocytes of the second group of rats the total protein content and ploidy levels were higher than those in the first group by 4.7 and 11.5%, respectively.
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Jetton TL, Shiota M, Knobel SM, Piston DW, Cherrington AD, Magnuson MA. Substrate-induced nuclear export and peripheral compartmentalization of hepatic glucokinase correlates with glycogen deposition. Int J Exp Diabetes Res 2001; 2:173-86. [PMID: 12369705 PMCID: PMC2478546 DOI: 10.1155/edr.2001.173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Hepatic glucokinase (GK) is acutely regulated by binding to its nuclear-anchored regulatory protein (GKRP). Although GK release by GKRP is tightly coupled to the rate of glycogen synthesis, the nature of this association is obscure. To gain insight into this coupling mechanism under physiological stimulating conditions in primary rat hepatocytes, we analyzed the subcellular distribution of GK and GKRP with immunofluorescence, and glycogen deposition with glycogen cytochemical fluorescence, using confocal microscopy and quantitative image analysis. Following stimulation, a fraction of the GK signal translocated from the nucleus to the cytoplasm. The reduction in the nuclear to cytoplasmic ratio of GK, an index of nuclear export, correlated with a >50% increase in glycogen cytochemical fluorescence over a 60 min stimulation period. Furthermore, glycogen accumulation was initially deposited in a peripheral pattern in hepatocytes similar to that of GK. These data suggest that a compartmentalization exists of both active GK and the initial sites of glycogen deposition at the hepatocyte surface.
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- T L Jetton
- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232-0615, USA.
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Gomis RR, Ferrer JC, Guinovart JJ. Shared control of hepatic glycogen synthesis by glycogen synthase and glucokinase. Biochem J 2000; 351 Pt 3:811-6. [PMID: 11042138 PMCID: PMC1221423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/18/2023]
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We have used recombinant adenoviruses (AdCMV-RLGS and AdCMV-GK) to overexpress the liver isoforms of glycogen synthase (GS) and glucokinase (GK) in primary cultured rat hepatocytes. Glucose activated overexpressed GS in a dose-dependent manner and caused the accumulation of larger amounts of glycogen in the AdCMV-RLGS-treated hepatocytes. The concentration of intermediate metabolites of the glycogenic pathway, such as glucose 6-phosphate (Glc-6-P) and UDP-glucose, were not significantly altered. GK overexpression also conferred on the hepatocyte an enhanced capacity to synthesize glycogen in response to glucose, as described previously [Seoane, Gómez-Foix, O'Doherty, Gómez-Ara, Newgard and Guinovart (1996) J. Biol. Chem. 271, 23756-23760], although, in this case, they accumulated Glc-6-P. When GS and GK were simultaneously overexpressed, the accumulation of glycogen was enhanced in comparison with cells overexpressing either GS or GK. Our results are consistent with the hypothesis that liver GS catalyses the rate-limiting step of hepatic glycogen synthesis. However, hepatic glycogen deposition from glucose is submitted to a system of shared control in which the 'controller', GS, is, in turn, controlled by GK. This control is indirectly exerted through Glc-6-P, which 'switches on' GS dephosphorylation and activation.
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- R R Gomis
- Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès, 1, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
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Paquot N, Schneiter P, Scheen AJ, Lefèbvre PJ, Tappy L. Assessment of postprandial hepatic glycogen synthesis from uridine diphosphoglucose kinetics in obese and lean non-diabetic subjects. Int J Obes (Lond) 2000; 24:1297-302. [PMID: 11093291 DOI: 10.1038/sj.ijo.0801386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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BACKGROUND Obese patients are frequently characterized by insulin resistance and decreased insulin-mediated glycogen synthesis in skeletal muscle. Whether they also have impaired postprandial hepatic glycogen synthesis remains unknown. AIM To determine whether postprandial hepatic glycogen synthesis is decreased in obese patients compared to lean subjects. METHODS Lean and obese subjects with impaired glucose tolerance were studied over 4h after ingestion of a glucose load. Hepatic uridine diphosphoglucose kinetics were assessed using 13C-galactose infusion, with monitoring of urinary acetaminophen-glucuronide isotopic enrichment to estimate hepatic glycogen kinetics. RESULTS Estimated net hepatic glycogen synthesis amounted to 18.6 and 22.6% of the ingested load in lean and obese subjects, respectively. CONCLUSION Postprandial hepatic glycogen metabolism is not impaired in non-diabetic obese subjects.
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- Department of Medicine, CHU Sart-Tilman, University of Liège, Belgium
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de la Iglesia N, Mukhtar M, Seoane J, Guinovart JJ, Agius L. The role of the regulatory protein of glucokinase in the glucose sensory mechanism of the hepatocyte. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:10597-603. [PMID: 10744755 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.275.14.10597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Glucokinase has a very high flux control coefficient (greater than unity) on glycogen synthesis from glucose in hepatocytes (Agius et al., J. Biol. Chem. 271, 30479-30486, 1996). Hepatic glucokinase is inhibited by a 68-kDa glucokinase regulatory protein (GKRP) that is expressed in molar excess. To establish the relative control exerted by glucokinase and GKRP, we applied metabolic control analysis to determine the flux control coefficient of GKRP on glucose metabolism in hepatocytes. Adenovirus-mediated overexpression of GKRP (by up to 2-fold above endogenous levels) increased glucokinase binding and inhibited glucose phosphorylation, glycolysis, and glycogen synthesis over a wide range of concentrations of glucose and sorbitol. It decreased the affinity of glucokinase translocation for glucose and increased the control coefficient of glucokinase on glycogen synthesis. GKRP had a negative control coefficient of glycogen synthesis that is slightly greater than unity (-1.2) and a control coefficient on glycolysis of -0.5. The control coefficient of GKRP on glycogen synthesis decreased with increasing glucokinase overexpression (4-fold) at elevated glucose concentration (35 mM), which favors dissociation of glucokinase from GKRP, but not at 7.5 mM glucose. Under the latter conditions, glucokinase and GKRP have large and inverse control coefficients on glycogen synthesis, suggesting that a large component of the positive control coefficient of glucokinase is counterbalanced by the negative coefficient of GKRP. It is concluded that glucokinase and GKRP exert reciprocal control; therefore, mutations in GKRP affecting the expression or function of the protein may impact the phenotype even in the heterozygote state, similar to glucokinase mutations in maturity onset diabetes of the young type 2. Our results show that the mechanism comprising glucokinase and GKRP confers a markedly extended responsiveness and sensitivity to changes in glucose concentration on the hepatocyte.
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- Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Química, Universitat de Barcelona, E08028 Barcelona, Spain
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OBJECTIVE To determine the relative rates of glycogenesis and lipogenesis following administration of a test meal in lean and obese Zucker rats. PROTOCOL Nine-week-old lean and obese Zucker rats were fasted overnight, then tube-fed a test meal of balanced composition amounting to 16kJ (lean rats and one group of obese rats) or 24kJ (one group of obese rats) and containing 200 mg 1-(13)C glucose. Immediately after the meal the rats were injected intraperitoneally with 5 mCi of 3H2O and killed 1 h later. METHODS Glycogenesis was calculated from the incorporation of 3H into liver glycogen divided by the specific activity of plasma water. Lipogenesis was calculated similarly from the incorporation of 3H into saponifiable lipids in liver and perirenal adipose tissue. The proportion of glycogen synthesized by the indirect pathway via pyruvate was determined from the ratio of 3H labelling at positions C6 and C2 in the glycogen glucose residues. Glycogen synthesis from glucose was determined from the ratio of 13C enrichment in liver glycogen to that in plasma glucose. RESULTS The rate of synthesis of glycogen was considerably lower in the livers of obese rats than those of lean controls, with the larger meal causing a small but significant increase in glycogenesis. The proportion of glycogen synthesized via pyruvate showed a non-significant increase in the obese rats, while the amount of glycogen synthesized from glucose was significantly decreased. Hepatic lipogenic rates were about five times higher in both groups of obese rats than the lean controls. In adipose tissue, lipogenesis per g tissue was slightly reduced in the obese rats, although there was clearly an increase in adipose tissue lipogenic activity per whole animal. The larger meal caused a greater rise in plasma glucose and insulin concentrations but did not affect lipogenic rates, although it did cause a greater suppression of lipolysis, as indicated by a lower plasma glycerol concentration. CONCLUSION Ingested carbohydrate is partitioned predominantly into hepatic fatty acid synthesis in obese Zucker rats. Hepatic glycogen synthesis is suppressed and comes mainly from precursors other than glucose. The suppression of hepatic glycogen synthesis may contribute to the increased energetic efficiency of obese Zucker rats.
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- O A Obeid
- Department of Human Nutrition, St Bartholomew's and London Hospital School of Medicine and Dentistry, UK
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