Insulin signaling and its regulation of system A amino acid uptake in cultured rat vascular smooth muscle cells

Circulation Research
T ObataR Kikkawa

Abstract

Hyperinsulinemia has been recognized as an independent risk factor for atherosclerosis. However, its exact mechanisms are still unclear. In our previous work, we showed that 10 nmol/L insulin stimulated neither mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAP kinase) activity nor [3H]thymidine incorporation but did stimulated S6 kinase through the specific insulin receptors in cultured rat vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs). In this study, we observed that > or = 1 nmol/L insulin stimulated tyrosine phosphorylation of insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1) and activated IRS-1-dependent phosphatidylinositol 3'-kinase (PI 3'-kinase) and p70 S6 kinase (p70S6K) but not MAP kinase (extracellular signal-regulated kinase 2) and p90 S6 kinase (p90RSK). However, 10 nmol/L insulin-like growth factor I stimulated all these pathways. Finally, 10 nmol/L insulin stimulated alpha-amino-isobutyric acid (AIB) uptake, and wortmannin (100 nmol/L) completely inhibited insulin-stimulated AIB uptake, whereas rapamycin (20 nmol/L) had no such effect. Furthermore, cycloheximide (10 micrograms/mL) completely inhibited insulin-stimulated AIB uptake, but actinomycin D (5 micrograms/mL) failed to inhibit this. Thus, we reached the following conclusions: (1) Insulin ...Continue Reading

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