Pioglitazone promotes insulin-induced activation of phosphoinositide 3-kinase in 3T3-L1 adipocytes by inhibiting a negative control mechanism

Autor: John E. Bleasdale, Craig L. Smith, Karen M. Sizer, Michael L. Swanson, Cynthia S. Jacob
Rok vydání: 1994
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Zdroj: Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology. 102:119-129
ISSN: 0303-7207
Popis: Activation of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI 3-kinase) is an early event in insulin signal transduction that is blocked completely in adipocytes from insulin-resistant KKAy mice. Treatment of KKAy mice with pioglitazone, an anti-diabetic thiazolidinedione, partially restores insulin-dependent changes in PI 3-kinase. The mechanism of this effect of pioglitazone was investigated, using murine 3T3-L1 cells as an experimental model. Insulin and insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) each elicited rapid (within 2 min) and large (2- to 5-fold) increases in PI 3-kinase activity that could be immunoprecipitated using anti-phosphotyrosine (pY) antibodies. Maximal insulin-induced activity of PI 3-kinase in pY-immunoprecipitates was similar in 3T3-L1 adipocytes and mouse adipocytes, but the kinetics of activation differed. Insulin- and IGF-I-induced changes in PI 3-kinase were each half-maximal at 3-5 nM of hormone and were not additive. Increases in both insulin-induced and IGF-I-induced pY-immunoprecipitable PI 3-kinase activity were observed when 3T3-L1 fibroblasts became confluent and when they adopted the adipocyte phenotype. Pioglitazone (10 microM), administered either acutely or chronically to either 3T3-L1 adipocytes or 3T3-L1 fibroblasts, did not alter greatly the kinetics, magnitude or sensitivity of changes in PI 3-kinase elicited by either insulin or IGF-I. In contrast, the attenuation by isoproterenol of insulin-induced changes in PI 3-kinase was prevented in cells pretreated with pioglitazone. This effect of pioglitazone did not involve inhibition of isoproterenol-elicited accumulation of cyclic AMP. Pioglitazone also prevented attenuation of insulin induced changes in PI 3-kinase by cell penetrating analogs of cyclic AMP. Pioglitazone, therefore, has no direct effect on insulin-stimulated PI 3-kinase activity, but interferes with a cyclic AMP-dependent mechanism that normally antagonizes this action of insulin. These data support the proposition that the facilitation of insulin action by pioglitazone involves, at least in part, an inhibition of a negative control mechanism.
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