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JOURNAL OF ENDOCRINOLOGY
Volume 198, Issue 2, Pages 375-384Publisher
BIOSCIENTIFICA LTD
DOI: 10.1677/JOE-08-0122
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- NIAMS NIH HHS [AR45-168] Funding Source: Medline
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Insulin is important in the regulation of muscle metabolism. However, its role in the regulation Of Muscle long-chain fatty acid (LCFA) metabolism, independent of glucose, is not clear. To determine whether insulin regulates LCFA metabolism independent Of glucose and if so, via which signaling pathway, L6 myotubes were incubated, in the presence or absence of insulin (100 nM) and with either an Inhibitor of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) (wortmannin (W), 50 nM), protein kinase B (PKB)/Akt (A, 10 mu M), or atypical protein kinase C-zeta (aPKC-zeta) (mP, 100 mu M). LCFA kinetic parameters were ineaSUred via incubation with [1-C-14]palmitate. Basal LCFA uptake was found to increase linearly with time (1-60 min) and concentration (50-750 mu M). LCFA uptake increased in the presence of insulin and was maximum at 10 nM (P < 0.05). Wortmannin prevented the insulin-induced increase. in LCFA uptake and decrease in LCFA oxidation. While mP abolished the insulin-induced increase in LCFA Uptake, it did not prevent the insulin-induced decrease in LCFA oxidation. None of the variables were affected by Akt inhibition. These results suggest a direct effect of insulin oil LCFA metabolism in muscle cells, and that downstream of PI3K, aPKC-zeta, but not PKB/Akt mediates the effects of insulin oil LCFA uptake but not oxidation.
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