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Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118
Skeletal muscle denervation decreases insulin-sensitive glucose uptake into this tissue as a result of marked GLUT-4 protein downregulation (~20% of controls). The process of insulin-stimulated glucose transport in muscle requires the movement or translocation of intracellular GLUT-4-rich vesicles to the cell surface, and it is accompanied by the translocation of several additional vesicular cargo proteins. Thus examining GLUT-4 translocation in muscles from denervated animals allows us to determine whether the loss of a major cargo protein, GLUT-4, affects the insulin-dependent behavior of the remaining cargo proteins. We find no difference, control vs. denervated, in the insulin-dependent translocation of the insulin-responsive aminopeptidase (IRAP) and the receptors for transferrin and insulin-like growth factor II/mannose 6-phosphate, proteins that completely (IRAP) or partially co-localize with GLUT-4. We conclude that 1) denervation of skeletal muscle does not block the specific branch of insulin signaling pathway that connects receptor proximal events to intracellular GLUT-4-vesicles, and 2) normal levels of GLUT-4 protein are not necessary for the structural organization and insulin-sensitive translocation of its cognate intracellular compartment. Muscle denervation also causes a twofold increase in GLUT-1. In normal muscle, all GLUT-1 is present at the cell surface, but in denervated muscle a significant fraction (25.1 ± 6.1%) of this transporter is found in intracellular vesicles that have the same sedimentation coefficient as GLUT-4-containing vesicles but can be separated from the latter by immunoadsorption. These GLUT-1-containing vesicles respond to insulin and translocate to the cell surface. Thus the formation of insulin-sensitive GLUT-1-containing vesicles in denervated muscle may be a compensatory mechanism for the decreased level of GLUT-4.
denervation; rats; skeletal muscle
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