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. 1989 Dec 1;264(2):389–396. doi: 10.1042/bj2640389

Role of guanine nucleotide regulatory proteins in insulin stimulation of glucose transport in rat adipocytes. Influence of bacterial toxins.

T P Ciaraldi 1, A Maisel 1
PMCID: PMC1133593  PMID: 2557836

Abstract

The potential role of guanine nucleotide regulatory proteins (G-proteins) in acute insulin regulation of glucose transport was investigated by using bacterial toxins which are known to modify these proteins. Cholera-toxin treatment of isolated rat adipocytes had no effect on either 2-deoxyglucose transport or insulin binding. Pertussis-toxin treatment resulted in an inhibition of both insulin binding and glucose transport. Insulin binding was decreased in pertussis-toxin-treated cells by up to 40%, owing to a lowering of the affinity of the receptor for hormone, with no change in hormone internalization. The dose-response curve for insulin stimulation of glucose transport was strongly shifted to the right by pertussis-toxin treatment [EC50 (half-maximally effective insulin concn.) = 0.31 +/- 0.04 ng/ml in control cells; 2.29 +/- 1.0 in treated cells), whereas cholera toxin had only a small effect (EC50 = 0.47 +/- 0.02 ng/ml). Correcting for the change in hormone binding, pertussis toxin was found to decrease the coupling efficiency of occupied receptors (50% of maximal insulin effect with 928 molecules bound/cell in control and 3418 in treated cells). Pertussis-toxin inhibition of insulin sensitivity was slow in onset, requiring 2-3 h for completion. Under conditions where pertussis-toxin inhibition of insulin sensitivity was maximal, a 41,000 Da protein similar to the alpha subunit of Gi (the inhibitory G-protein) was found to be fully ribosylated. These results are consistent with the concept that pertussis-toxin-sensitive G-protein(s) can modify the insulin-receptor/glucose-transport coupling system.

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