Beta3-adrenergic Receptors Stimulate Glucose Uptake in Brown Adipocytes by Two Mechanisms Independently of Glucose Transporter 4 Translocation.
From: The Wenner-Gren Institute, The Arrhenius Laboratories F3, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
Endocrinology
- Publish Date: Dec 2006
- ISSN: 0013-7227
- Volume: 147
- Issue: 12
- Pages: 5730-9
- Medium: Print
- Language: English
- Citation (JAMA): Dallner O S, Chernogubova E, Brolinson K A, et al. Beta3-adrenergic Receptors Stimulate Glucose Uptake in Brown Adipocytes by Two Mechanisms Independently of Glucose Transporter 4 Translocation.. Endocrinology Dec 2006;147:5730-9
Abstract
To identify the mechanisms whereby norepinephrine induces glucose uptake in brown adipose tissue, we used mouse brown adipocytes in culture. Proliferating brown adipocytes had high levels of glucose transporter (GLUT) 1 mRNA and low levels of GLUT4 mRNA. The ratio of GLUT4/GLUT1 mRNA expression increased during differentiation, and mature brown adipocytes had high levels of GLUT4 mRNA. The endogenous adrenergic neurotransmitter norepinephrine induced a potent increase in GLUT1 mRNA and a decrease of GLUT4 mRNA in mature brown adipocytes. The norepinephrine effect was mimicked by isoprenaline and CL 316243 and was thus mediated by beta3-adrenergic receptors. The cAMP analog 8-bromoadenosine-cAMP partly mimicked the response on GLUT1 mRNA increase and fully mimicked the GLUT4 mRNA decrease. We found no involvement of alpha1 or alpha2-adrenergic receptors on GLUT1 or GLUT4 mRNA transcription. Norepinephrine treatment led to a large increase of GLUT1 protein amount in brown adipocytes as visualized with immunocytochemical staining and subcellular fractionation. A large part of the newly synthesized GLUT1 was found in the plasma membrane (PM). The potent transcriptional inhibitor actinomycin D fully abolished this increase of GLUT1 protein at all time points examined. Norepinephrine treatment shifted GLUT4 from the PM to an intracellular vesicular compartment. Norepinephrine increased 2-deoxy-D-glucose uptake 2-fold at an early time point (1 h) and 4-fold at later time point (5 h). Addition of actinomycin D did not block the early phase but blocked a large part of the later phase of 2-deoxy-D-glucose uptake. These results imply that adrenergic stimulation through beta3-adrenergic receptors induces glucose uptake in brown adipocytes via two mechanisms: 1) a mechanism not dependent on GLUT1 and GLUT4 translocation, 2) a mechanism that is dependent on de novo synthesis of GLUT1 protein and increase of GLUT1 protein at the PM.
Mesh Headings (Keywords): Adipocytes, Brown, Animals, Biological Transport, Cell Membrane, Cells, Cultured, Dactinomycin, Gene Expression Regulation, Glucose, Glucose Transporter Type 1, Glucose Transporter Type 4, Mice, Norepinephrine, Protein Transport, Rats, Rats, Sprague-Dawley, Receptors, Adrenergic, beta-3, Tissue Distribution
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