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Platelet-Derived Growth Factor (PDGF) Stimulates Glucose Transport in 3T3-L1 Adipocytes Overexpressing PDGF Receptor by a Pathway Independent of Insulin Receptor Substrates

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cox Institute, Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Group (E.L.W., M.J.B.), and the Department of Medicine (J.J.C., M.J.B.), University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104

Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Morris J. Birnbaum, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 415 Curie Boulevard, 322 Clinical Research Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104. E-mail: birnbaum{at}mail.med.upenn.edu.

Insulin is unique among growth factors and hormones in its ability to control metabolic functions such as the stimulation of glucose uptake and glucose transporter (GLUT4) translocation in physiological target tissues, such as muscle and adipose cells. Nonetheless, the mechanisms underlying this specificity have remained incompletely understood, particularly in view of the ability of some growth factors to mimic insulin-dependent early signaling events. In this study, we have probed the basis of insulin specificity by overexpressing in hormone-responsive 3T3-L1 adipocytes wild-type platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) receptor (PDGFR)-ß and selected, informative mutant receptor proteins. We show that such adipocytes overexpressing wild-type PDGFR on exposure to cognate growth factor activate glucose transport, GLUT4 translocation, and the serine-threonine protein kinase Akt/protein kinase B to a degree comparable with that produced in response to insulin. In addition, PDGF elicits the robust generation of phosphatidylinositol-3,4,5-trisphosphate in vivo in PDGFR-overexpressing 3T3-L1 adipocytes. Expression of PDGFR-ß mutant proteins demonstrates that these responses require the presence of an intact phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)-binding site on the overexpressed PDGF receptor. Furthermore, PDGF stimulates these effects independent of insulin receptor substrate(IRS)-1 or IRS-2 tyrosine phosphorylation or docking to activated PI3K. These data demonstrate that 1) the basis of insulin-specific glucose transport in cultured adipocytes is the low level of receptors for other growth factors and 2) in the presence of adequate receptors, PDGF is fully capable of activating glucose transport in a manner requiring PI3K and subsequent phosphatidylinositol-3,4,5-trisphosphate accumulation but independent of insulin, insulin receptor, and IRS proteins.

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