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. 1998 Mar 1;330(Pt 2):1003–1008. doi: 10.1042/bj3301003

Increased intracellular sequestration of the insulin-regulated aminopeptidase upon differentiation of 3T3-L1 cells.

S A Ross 1, S R Keller 1, G E Lienhard 1
PMCID: PMC1219237  PMID: 9480922

Abstract

In fat and muscle cells, the glucose transporter GLUT4 is sequestered in an intracellular compartment under basal conditions and redistributes markedly to the plasma membrane in response to insulin. Recently, we characterized a membrane aminopeptidase, designated IRAP (insulin-regulated aminopeptidase), that colocalizes with intracellular GLUT4 and similarly redistributes markedly to the plasma membrane in response to insulin in adipocytes. In contrast to GLUT4, IRAP is also expressed in 3T3-L1 fibroblasts, and this finding provided an opportunity to compare its subcellular distribution in fibroblasts and adipocytes. The relative amount of IRAP at the cell surface was measured by a cell surface biotinylation method. The portion of total IRAP at the cell surface in unstimulated adipocytes was 30% of that in unstimulated fibroblasts. Upon insulin treatment the portion of IRAP at the cell surface was the same in fibroblasts and adipocytes, and was increased 1.8-fold in fibroblasts and 8-fold in adipocytes. A similar analysis of the distribution of the transferrin receptor (TfR), the paradigm for recycling plasma membrane receptors, revealed that the portions of the TfR at the cell surface in both the basal and insulin-treated states were almost unchanged upon differentiation, and that insulin caused an increase of about 1. 6-fold in the amount of TfR at the cell surface. These results show that enhanced intracellular sequestration of IRAP occurs during adipogenesis, and that this effect underlies the larger insulin-elicited fold increase of IRAP at the cell surface in adipocytes.

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