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Department of Medicine (K.E., N.N., P.M.S., J.M.O.), Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093; Veterans Administration Research Service (J.M.O.), San Diego, La Jolla, California 92161; The Whittier Diabetes Institute (J.M.O.), University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093; and the Third Department of Medicine (K.E., H.M., Y.N., A.K., R.K.), Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga 520-2192, Japan
Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Jerrold M. Olefsky, Department of Medicine (0673), University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0673.
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Several lines of evidence demonstrate that IRS-1 plays an important role in mediating insulin signaling. Tyrosine phosphorylation of IRS-1 has been shown to be necessary for normal insulin-mediated cell cycle progression in a variety of cell systems (4, 5). On the other hand, decreased tyrosine phosphorylation is thought to be responsible for insulin resistance. Reducing IRS-1 expression in rat adipose cells by using an antisense ribosome also leads to modest impairment of insulin-stimulated glucose transporter translocation, and the disruption of the IRS-1 gene in mice causes reduced intrauterine growth, elevated fasting insulin levels, and mild insulin resistance.
Recently, we demonstrated that overexpressed membrane-targeted phosphatidylinositol (PI) 3-kinase (p110CAAX) fully stimulated p70S6 kinase, Akt, 2-deoxyglucose uptake, and Ras without insulin stimulation, whereas, wild-type p110 subunit of PI 3-kinase (p110WT) had little or no effect on these downstream effects (6). Surprisingly, p110CAAX completely inhibited insulin-stimulated glycogen synthase activity in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. Furthermore, p110CAAX did not stimulate MAP kinase phosphorylation, despite the fact that it stimulated Ras activation, and insulin had no further effect, compared with a robust MAP kinase stimulation in control cells. Moreover, p110CAAX stimulated IRS-1 serine/threonine phosphorylation and inhibited IRS-1-associated PI 3-kinase activity, suggesting that PI 3-kinase might play an important role as a negative regulator for insulin signaling.
It has been shown that PI 3-kinase contained both a lipid kinase
activity and serine/threonine kinase activity, and that IRS-1 was a
potential substrate for PI 3-kinase (7). Moreover, it was reported that
serine-phosphorylated IRS-1 inhibited insulin receptor tyrosine kinase
activity in TNF-
-treated 3T3-F442A adipocytes and obese animals
(8).
In this paper, we studied the effect of p110CAAX on IRS-1, to investigate the mechanism of p110CAAX-induced cellular insulin resistance. We found that p110CAAX overexpression induced IRS-1 degradation by itself and enhanced insulin-induced IRS-1 degradation. We demonstrated a novel role of PI 3-kinase on cellular insulin resistance caused by accelerated IRS-1 degradation in 3T3-L1 adipocytes.
| Materials and Methods |
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-32P]ATP and
[
-32P]deoxycycidine triphosphate were
obtained from NEN Life Science Products (Boston,
MA). RO318220 was from Calbiochem (San Diego, CA). All other reagents
and chemicals were purchased from Sigma (St. Louis,
MO).
Cell culture
3T3-L1 cells were grown and maintained in DME high-glucose
medium containing 50 U/ml penicillin, 50 µg/ml streptomycin, and 10%
FCS in a 10% CO2 environment. The cells were
allowed to grow 2 days post confluency, then differentiated as
described earlier (9). Before experimentation, the adipocytes were
trypsinized and reseeded in the appropriate culture dishes. The
Ad-E1A-transformed human embryonic kidney cell line 293 was cultured in
DME high-glucose medium containing 50 U/ml penicillin, 50 µg/ml
streptomycin, and 10% FCS in a 5% CO2
environment.
Preparation of recombinant adenovirus
The recombinant adenovirus containing the complementary DNA
(cDNA) encoding the p110CAAX was isolated by homologous recombination
with two plasmids, pACCMVpLpA (10) and pJM17 (11), described previously
(6). The recombinant plasmid, pAC-p110CAAX, and pJM17 were purified and
cotransfected into 293 cells. Because 293 cells were originally derived
from adenovirus transformation, the missing E1 gene function of pJM17
was provided in trans. The resulting recombinant virus,
containing the p110CAAX, was denoted as Ad5-p110CAAX and was
replication defective (at least in cells lacking the E1 region of
adenovirus), but fully infectious.
Cell treatment
3T3-L1 adipocytes were infected at a multiplicity of infection
(MOI) of 40 plaque formation units/cell for 16 h with stocks of
either a control recombinant adenovirus (Ad5-ctrl) containing the
cytomegalovirus promoter, pUC 18 polylinker, and a fragment of the SV40
genome, or the recombinant adenovirus Ad5-p110CAAX. Infected cells were
incubated for 56 h at 37 C in DME high-glucose medium with 2%
heat-inactivated serum, followed by incubation in the starvation medium
required for the assay. The efficiency of adenovirus-mediated gene
transfer was approximately 90%, as measured by immunocytochemistry.
The survival of the differentiated 3T3-L1 adipocytes was unaffected by
incubation of cells with the different adenovirus constructs, because
the total cell protein remained the same in infected or uninfected
cells.
Western blotting
3T3-L1 adipocytes, infected with Ad5-p110CAAX or Ad5-ctrl, were
starved for 16 h in DME regular glucose medium with 0.05% FCS.
The cells were stimulated with 100 ng/ml insulin for 560 min at 37 C
and lysed in a solubilizing buffer containing 20 µM Tris,
1 mM EDTA, 140 mM NaCl, 1% Nonidet P-40, 50
U/ml of aprotinin, 1 mM
Na3VO4, 1 mM
PMSF, 50 mM NaF (pH 7.5) for 30 min at 4 C. The cell
lysates were centrifuged to remove insoluble materials. For Western
blot analysis, whole-cell lysates (20 µg protein per lane) were
denatured by boiling in Laemmli sample buffer containing 100
mM dithiothreitol and resolved by SDS-PAGE. Gels were
transferred to nitrocerurose by electroblotting in Towbin buffer
containing 0.02% SDS and 20% methanol. For immunoblotting, membranes
were blocked and probed with specified antibodies. Blots were then
incubated with horseradish peroxidase-linked second antibody followed
by chemiluminescence detection, according to the manufacturers
instructions (Pierce Chemical Co., Rockford,
IL).
RNA extraction and Northern blot analysis
The Ad5-p110CAAX or Ad5-ctrl-infected cells were stimulated with
or without 100 ng/ml insulin for 60 min and lysed in TRIZOL reagent
(Life Technologies, Inc.). After chloroform extraction,
total RNA was isolated by isopropanol precipitation. Total RNA (30
µg) was denatured and electrophoresed on a 1% agarose-2%
formaldehyde gel and blotted onto a Nytran N membrane. A full-length
rat IRS-1 cDNA and glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (G3PDH)
cDNA were labeled with [
-32P]deoxycycidine
triphosphate by random priming. Then the membrane was incubated with
specific probes, washed, and visualized by autoradiography.
PI 3-kinase assay
3T3-L1 adipocytes were infected with Ad5-p110CAAX or Ad5-ctrl at
40 MOI for 16 h at 37 C and grown in medium containing
heat-inactivated serum (2%) for 56 h. Serum-starved (16 h) cells
were incubated in the absence (basal) or presence of insulin (100
ng/ml) for 10 min, washed once with ice-cold PBS, lysed, and subjected
to immunoprecipitation (300500 mg total protein) with antibody to
IRS-1 (4 µg) overnight at 4 C. Immune complexes were precipitated
from the supernatant with protein A and washed as described previously
(12). The washed immune complexes were incubated with
phosphatidylinositol (Sigma, St. Louis, MO) and
[
-32P]ATP (3000 Ci/mmol) for 10 min at room
temperature. Reactions were stopped with 20 ml of 8 N HCl and 160 ml of
CHCl3:methanol (1:1) and centrifuged; and the
lower organic phase was removed and applied to a silica gel TLC plate
(EM Science, E. Merck, Darmstad, Germany), which
had been coated with 1% potassium oxalate. TLC plates were developed
in
CHCl3:CH3OH:H2O:NH4OH
(60:47:11.3:2), dried, visualized, and quantitated on a PhosphorImager
(Molecular Dynamics, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA).
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| Discussion |
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It has also been shown that PI 3-kinase contained both a lipid kinase activity and serine/threonine kinase activity, and that IRS-1 was a potential substrate for PI 3-kinase (7). Others have shown that chronic insulin treatment of 3T3-L1 adipocytes led to a decrease in IRS-1 protein concentration by augmenting IRS-1 degradation rate, with little change in the steady-state levels of IRS-1 mRNA (16).
In the current studies, we assessed whether p110CAAX expression compromises IRS-1 function in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. Our studies showed that insulin treatment of cells led to a prominent gel mobility shift of IRS-1, most likely attributable to serine/threonine phosphorylation. This gel shift was followed by subsequent acceleration of IRS-1 degradation, and both effects of insulin were blocked by treatment of the cells with wortmannin. We also found that expression of p110CAAX led to a modest mobility shift of IRS-1 protein, with a more marked effect to down-regulate the cellular content of IRS-1. The effects of p110CAAX expression and insulin were additive, and insulin led to a much more marked decline in IRS-1 protein levels in the p110CAAX-expressing cells. IRS-1 mRNA level was not affected by p110CAAX expression, so decreased IRS-1 protein level was attributable to accelerated IRS-1 degradation. The function of IRS-1 was also compromised in the p110CAAX-expressing cells, because a decrease in IRS-1-associated PI 3-kinase activity was observed. The effects of p110CAAX on IRS-1 were blocked by wortmannin treatment and, interestingly, 5 h of wortmannin treatment led to a substantial recovery of IRS-1 protein content. Because IRS-1 protein content was already down-regulated by the p110CAAX expression before treatment with wortmannin, the data suggest that wortmannin inhibits IRS-1 degradation, and that over a 5-h time period, ongoing biosynthesis of IRS-1 is sufficient to largely replenish cellular IRS-1 content. A rather high concentration (1 µM) of wortmannin was needed to see this inhibition. Because p110CAAX is constitutively active, lower concentrations of wortmannin may be inadequate to block its activity. Indeed, in previous reports, 1 µM wortmannin was needed to inhibit the effects of p1101 and p110 wild-type plus the internal SH2 domain of p85 (17, 18).
We previously showed that MAP kinase was not activated in the p110CAAX-expressing cells (6). However, it was recently reported that serine/threonine phosphorylation of IRS-1 by PKC involved the MAP kinase and phosphorylation of serine 612 in IRS-1 (14, 15). So, we studied whether the PKC-MAP kinase pathway played a role in p110CAAX-induced IRS-1 degradation. It was reported that 10 µM RO318220, PKC inhibitor, suppressed the effects of PKC (19, 20, 21), so it seemed that this concentration of the inhibitor was strong enough to block the kinase activity. However, 10 µM RO318220 did not block p110CAAX-induced IRS-1 degradation. Moreover, pretreatment of 20 µM PD98059, MEK inhibitor, completely blocked insulin-induced phosphorylation of MAP kinase but did not block p110CAAX-induced IRS-1 degradation (data not shown). Thus, we conclude that PKC-MAP kinase pathway does not involve p110CAAX-induced IRS-1 degradation.
IRS-2 protein also decreased in the p110CAAX-expressing cells at basal,
and insulin accelerated the down-regulation of IRS-2 with its gel
mobility shift (Fig. 5
). So, it seems that PI 3-kinase also regulates
IRS-2, as well as IRS-1, and this effect for IRS proteins may be
important in insulin signaling. IRS-3 protein was not detected by
Western blotting in 3T3-L1 adipocytes (data not shown).
Several reports suggest that serine/threonine phosphorylation and/or
degradation of IRS-1 may play an important role in insulin signaling.
For example, serine-phosphorylated IRS-1 inhibited insulin receptor
tyrosine kinase activity in TNF-
-treated 3T3-F442A adipocytes and in
obese animals (8). In this study, overexpression of p110CAAX induced
IRS-1 serine/threonine phosphorylation but did not inhibit insulin
receptor tyrosine phosphorylation (Fig. 1B
). So, several pathways may
be there for negative regulation of insulin signaling through IRS-1.
Okadaic acid induced a similar dose-dependent inhibition of the insulin
effect on deoxyglucose uptake, PI 3-kinase activation, and IRS-1
tyrosine phosphorylation; and this was linked to IRS-1 serine/threonine
phosphorylation in 3T3-L1 adipocytes (7).
Taken together, these results indicate that insulin leads to serine/threonine phosphorylation of IRSs via a PI 3-kinase-dependent mechanism, which leads to subsequent IRSs degradation. p110CAAX expression mimics this effect of insulin, causing an IRS-1 and -2 gel mobility shift, with subsequent depletion of IRS-1 and -2 proteins. It is possible that the p110CAAX-induced state of cellular insulin resistance (6) is secondary to decreased IRS proteins expression.
| Acknowledgments |
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| Footnotes |
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Received October 12, 1999.
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