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Effect of a glucokinase inhibitor on energy production and insulin release in pancreatic islets

I. R. Sweet, G. Li, H. Najafi, D. Berner and F. M. Matschinsky
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104-6015, USA.

Glucokinase has exclusively high control strength on glucose usage in the pancreatic beta-cell. However, glucokinase also has extraordinarily high control strength on insulin secretion, which is linked to the phosphate potential, [ATP]/([ADP][Pi]) (F.M. Matschinsky, Y.Liang, P. Kesavan, L. Wang, P. Froguel, G. Velho, D. Cohen, M.A. Permutt, Y. Tanizawa, T.L. Jetton, K. Niswender, and M.A. Magnuson. J. Clin. Invest. 92: 2092-2098, 1993). We propose that the ATP produced via the tricarboxylic acid cycle is approximately constant, irrespective of the glucose level. Furthermore, the component of ATP production that is derived from glycolysis and glycolytically derived NADH, which is shuttled into the mitochondria, is a critical signal controlling the ionic events leading to insulin secretion, as suggested previously (M. J. MacDonald. Diabetes 39: 1461-1466, 1990 and I.D. Dukes, M.S. McIntyre, R.J. Mertz, L.H. Philipson, M.W. Roe, B. Spencer, and J.F. Worley III. J. Biol. Chem. 269: 10979-10982, 1994). To test this hypothesis, glucose usage, oxidation, and insulin secretion were measured in cultured rat islets over a wide range of concentrations of glucose and mannoheptulose, an inhibitor of glucokinase. These data were fit to a mathematical model that predicts that glucokinase will govern the rate of glucose usage and ATP production and will also have a strong, but not complete, control over the rate of glucose oxidation, the phosphate potential, and insulin release. Mannoheptulose caused an inhibition of all three fluxes. The estimates of the mechanistic parameters of the model [maximal velocity (Vmax) and Michaelis constant for glucokinase, Vmax for hexokinase and glucose transport, and the inhibition constant of mannoheptulose to glucokinase] were similar to those obtained in vitro. Thus the data are consistent with a model in which the primary importance of glycolysis in transducing the glucose signal into changes of the phosphate potential imparts to glucokinase a high control strength on glucose-induced insulin secretion.

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