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1 Departments of Biochemistry and Comparative Biosciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706; and 2 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
Insulin stimulates muscle and adipose tissue to absorb glucose through a signaling cascade that is incompletely understood. Insulin resistance, the inability of insulin to appropriately stimulate glucose uptake, is a hallmark of type 2 diabetes mellitus. The development of experimental systems that model human insulin resistance is important in elucidating the defects responsible for the development of type 2 diabetes. When two strains of mice, BTBR and C57BL/6J (B6), are crossed, the resultant male offspring (BtB6) demonstrate insulin resistance in muscle tissue. Here, we report an insulin resistance phenotype in adipose tissue from lean, nondiabetic BtB6 mice similar to that observed in human muscle. Adipocytes isolated from insulin-resistant male mice display 65% less insulin-stimulated glucose uptake compared with insulin-sensitive female mice. Similarly, adipocytes from insulin-resistant mice have diminished insulin-stimulated IRS-1 phosphorylation and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) activation. However, normal activation of protein kinase B (Akt/PKB) by insulin is observed. Thus BtB6 mice demonstrate the dissociation of insulin-stimulated PI3K activity and Akt/PKB activation and represent a useful model to investigate the causes of insulin resistance in humans.
protein kinase B; phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase
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