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Endocrinology, Vol 119, 1839-1844, Copyright © 1986 by Endocrine Society

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Spontaneous diabetic BB rat: studies of cyclic adenosine 3',5'- monophosphate phosphodiesterase and calmodulin

SS Solomon, MS Steiner, L Sanders and MR Palazzolo

Uncontrolled diabetes in man is associated with increased plasma and tissue levels of cAMP and decreased cAMP phosphodiesterase (PDE) activity. Spontaneously diabetic BB rats (SDR) were used in these experiments. Specific tissues (i.e. liver and epididymal fat) were studied without therapeutic insulin. Another group of normal animals were rendered diabetic by streptozotocin (STZ) and killed without benefit of insulin therapy. Calmodulin (CM), a small molecular weight protein essential for activation of specific cAMP PDE was assayed. STZ diabetes is associated with a decrease (58%) in CM biological activity and in immunoreactive CM in fat (69%) and liver (13%) tissues. Similarly, SDR rats and the nondiabetic genetic controls (NDR) demonstrate decreased CM bioactivity in fat (76% and 56%, respectively) and decreased CM immunoreactivity in liver (68% and 74%, respectively) compared to normal control rats. In addition, maximum velocity (Vmax) of the low Michaelis-Menten constant (Km) cAMP PDE is decreased in SDR animals, as compared to controls in both fat (42%) and liver (39%) tissues. Similar data are presented for NDR animals. STZ diabetes is also associated with a reduction in Vmax of the low Km cAMP PDE in both liver (70%) and fat (70%) tissues. These changes found in the NDR animals suggests that the diabetic defect may be under dual regulation: genetic and environmental.


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