Overexpression of Rad in muscle worsens diet-induced insulin resistance and glucose intolerance and lowers plasma triglyceride level
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Ilany, Jacob
Bilan, Philip J.
Kapur, Sonia
Caldwell, James S.
Patti, Mary-Elizabeth
Marette, Andre
Kahn, C. Ronald
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Ilany, J., P. J. Bilan, S. Kapur, J. S. Caldwell, M.-E. Patti, A. Marette, and C. R. Kahn. 2006. “Overexpression of Rad in Muscle Worsens Diet-Induced Insulin Resistance and Glucose Intolerance and Lowers Plasma Triglyceride Level.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103 (12): 4481–86. doi:10.1073/pnas.0511246103.Abstract
Rad is a low molecular weight GTPase that is overexpressed in skeletal muscle of some patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and/or obesity. Overexpression of Rad in adipocytes and muscle cells in culture results in diminished insulin-stimulated glucose uptake. To further elucidate the potential role of Rad in vivo, we have generated transgenic (tg) mice that overexpress Rad in muscle using the muscle creatine kinase (MCK) promoter-enhancer. Rad tg mice have a 6- to 12-fold increase in Rad expression in muscle as compared to wild-type littermates. Rad tg mice grow normally and have normal glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity, but have reduced plasma triglyceride levels. On a high-fat diet, Rad tg mice develop more severe glucose intolerance than the wild-type mice; this is due to increased insulin resistance in muscle, as exemplified by a rightward shift in the dose-response curve for insulin stimulated 2-deoxyglucose uptake. There is also a unexpected further reduction of the plasma triglyceride levels that is associated with increased levels of lipoprotein lipase in the Rad tg mice. These results demonstrate a potential synergistic interaction between increased expression of Rad and high-fat diet in creation of insulin resistance and altered lipid metabolism present in type 2 diabetes.Terms of Use
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