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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-11-4
pubmed:abstractText
We examined the possibility that protein kinase C (PKC) is chronically activated and may contribute to impaired glycogen synthesis and insulin resistance in soleus muscles of hyperinsulinemic type II diabetic Goto-Kakizaki (GK) rats. Relative to nondiabetic controls, PKC enzyme activity and levels of immunoreactive PKC-alpha, beta, epsilon, and delta were increased in membrane fractions and decreased cytosolic fractions of GK soleus muscles. In addition, PKC-theta levels were decreased in both membrane and cytosol fractios, whereas PKC-zeta levels were not changed in either fraction in GK soleus muscles. These increases in membrane PKC (alpha, beta, epsilon, and delta) could not be accounted for by alterations in PKC mRNA or total PKC levels but were associated with increases in membrane diacylglycerol (DAG) and therefore appeared to reflect translocative activation of PKC. In evaluation of potential causes for persistent PKC activation, membrane PKC levels were decreased in soleus muscles of hyperglycemic streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic rats; thus, a role for simple hyperglycemia as a cause of PKC activation in GK rats was not evident in the STZ model. In support of the possibility that hyperinsulinemia contributed to PKC activation in GK soleus muscles, we found that DAG levels were increased, and PKC was translocated, in soleus muscles of both (1) normoglycemic hyperinsulinemic obese/aged rats and (2) mildly hyperglycemic hyperinsulinemic obese/Zucker rats. In keeping with the possibility that PKC activation may contribute to impaired glycogen synthase activation in GK muscles, phorbol esters inhibited, and a PKC inhibitor, RO 31-8220, increased insulin effects on glycogen synthesis in soleus muscles incubated in vitro. Our findings suggested that: (1) hyperinsulinemia, as observed in type II diabetic GK rats and certain genetic and nongenetic forms of obesity in rats, is associated with persistent translocation and activation of PKC in soleus muscles, and (2) this persistent PKC activation may contribute to impaired glycogen synthesis and insulin resistance.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0012-1797
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
45
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1396-404
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:8826977-Adipocytes, pubmed-meshheading:8826977-Aging, pubmed-meshheading:8826977-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:8826977-Cell Membrane, pubmed-meshheading:8826977-Cytosol, pubmed-meshheading:8826977-Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, pubmed-meshheading:8826977-Enzyme Activation, pubmed-meshheading:8826977-Glycogen, pubmed-meshheading:8826977-Insulin Resistance, pubmed-meshheading:8826977-Isoenzymes, pubmed-meshheading:8826977-Liver, pubmed-meshheading:8826977-Male, pubmed-meshheading:8826977-Muscle, Skeletal, pubmed-meshheading:8826977-Obesity, pubmed-meshheading:8826977-Protein Kinase C, pubmed-meshheading:8826977-Protein Kinase C-alpha, pubmed-meshheading:8826977-Protein Kinase C-delta, pubmed-meshheading:8826977-Protein Kinase C-epsilon, pubmed-meshheading:8826977-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:8826977-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:8826977-Rats, Mutant Strains, pubmed-meshheading:8826977-Rats, Wistar, pubmed-meshheading:8826977-Rats, Zucker, pubmed-meshheading:8826977-Reference Values, pubmed-meshheading:8826977-Transcription, Genetic
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Chronic activation of protein kinase C in soleus muscles and other tissues of insulin-resistant type II diabetic Goto-Kakizaki (GK), obese/aged, and obese/Zucker rats. A mechanism for inhibiting glycogen synthesis.
pubmed:affiliation
J. A. Haley Veterans' Hospital, Tampa, Florida 33612, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't