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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1989-3-28
pubmed:abstractText
Esters of carboxylic acids are permeable to cells and once inside the cell are hydrolyzed to carboxylic acids. Methyl and ethyl esters of succinate and other citric acid cycle intermediates were tested to find out whether they are insulin secretagogues. Monomethyl succinate stimulated insulin release from pancreatic islets in a concentration-dependent manner with maximal release attained at a concentration of 10 mM. Dimethyl succinate (10 mM) was as effective as monomethyl succinate, but pyruvate methyl ester, monoethyl succinate, and dimethyl fumarate were ineffective as primary secretagogues. However, dimethyl fumarate potentiated both leucine- and leucine-plus-glutamine-induced insulin release. Glucose, leucine, leucine plus glutamine, and monomethyl succinate increased inositol tris-, bis- and monophosphate formation in pancreatic islets and antimycin A inhibited this formation. Since mitochondrial metabolism is probably essential for glucose-induced insulin release and the metabolism of succinate and leucine (without or with glutamine) involves mitochondrial respiration exclusively, these results might indicate that mitochondrial metabolism generates conditions or factors that are transmitted to the cytosol to increase inositol trisphosphate formation and thus calcium mobilization and insulin release. Since succinate is believed to enter metabolism at site II of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, it is interesting that rotenone, an inhibitor of NADH dehydrogenase and site I of the respiratory chain, was a potent inhibitor of monomethyl succinate-induced insulin released. Rotenone also inhibited leucine (plus or minus glutamine)-induced insulin release. These results indicate that beta cell metabolism of monomethyl succinate and leucine, like glucose, influences dehydrogenases that produce NADH.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0003-9861
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
269
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
400-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
Effect of esters of succinic acid and other citric acid cycle intermediates on insulin release and inositol phosphate formation by pancreatic islets.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, 53706.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, In Vitro, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't