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. 1976 Mar;57(3):684–691. doi: 10.1172/JCI108325

Phosphoinositide metabolism and insulin secretion from isolated rat pancreatic islets.

R S Clements Jr, W B Rhoten
PMCID: PMC436702  PMID: 175090

Abstract

Since many cell types have been shown to respond to extracellular stimulation with a rapid increase in phosphatidylinositol turnover, the present studies were undertaken to determine whether carbohydrate-stimulated insulin secretion from the isolated rat pancreatic islet is accompanied by detectable alterations in the phosphatidylinositol metabolism of this tissue. We have demonstrated that rat pancreatic islets incubated with tritiated myo-inositol rapidly incorporate radioactivity into islet phosphatidylinositol. Incubation of prelabeled islets with elevated concentrations of carbohydrates which stimulate insulin secretion (D-glucose and D-mannose) results in a decrease in the recovery of lipid-bound radioactivity, whereas incubation with carbohydrates which do not stimulate insulin secretion (D-galactose and myo-inositol) has no effect upon the recovery of lipid-bound radioactivity. Within 2 min of exposure of prelabeled islets to elevated concentrations of D-glucose, a decrease in the recovery of [2-3H]myo-inositol-derived radioactivity in islet phosphatidylinositol can be demonstrated. When islets prelabeled with [2-3H]myo-inositol are perifused with elevated concentrations of D-glucose or D-mannose (but not D-galactose or myoinositol) a rapid and transient increase in the rate of extracellular release of water-soluble radioactivity is observed. Since a significant fraction of the radioactivity released under these conditions is in the form of myo-inositol phosphate, cyclic myo-inositol-1,2-phosphate, and glycerophosphorylmyo-inositol, it is presumably derived from the cleavage of labeled islet phosphatidylinositol. It is speculated that alterations in the metabolism of myo-inositol-containing phospholipids may have a functional role in the process of insulin secretion from the pancreatic beta cell.

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