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. 1987 Feb 15;242(1):131–136. doi: 10.1042/bj2420131

Protein kinase C is not required for insulin stimulation of hexose uptake in muscle cells in culture.

A Klip, T Ramlal
PMCID: PMC1147674  PMID: 3297042

Abstract

The L6 skeletal muscle cell line has been identified as a suitable model to study the action of insulin on glucose uptake in muscle [Klip, Li & Logan (1984) Am. J. Physiol. 247, E291-E296]. The signals that transfer information from occupied insulin receptors to glucose transporters remain unknown. Here we report that activation of protein kinase C by exogenous phorbol esters results in stimulation of glucose uptake. Protein C kinase activity was induced to migrate from the cytosolic fraction to the microsomal fraction after 40 min of exposure of intact cells to 4 beta-phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate. In contrast, incubation with insulin did not alter the subcellular distribution of the kinase. Prolonged preincubation of L6 cells with phorbol esters resulted in depletion of kinase C activity, whereas neither the basal rate of glucose uptake nor its stimulation by insulin were affected. This suggests that protein kinase C is expressed in L6 cells, and that insulin stimulation of hexose transport does not involve protein kinase C.

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