title: Insulin-like, antilipolytic effect of 12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol 13-acetate in rat white adipocytes.
abstract: Previous experimental data documenting an insulin like-effect of 12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol 13-acetate (TPA), a specific activator of protein kinase C, on glucose transport in adipocytes prompted us to test the hypothesis that TPA might display another insulin-like effect, i.e., antagonize catecholamine-induce lipolysis. TPA (100 nM) led to a decrease of both free fatty acid (41%) and glycerol (58%) release due to 1 microM norepinephrine stimulation in isolated rat adipocytes. TPA also diminished the antilipolytic effect of insulin (5 ng.ml-1) in the presence of 1 microM norepinephrine. Thus, the residual lipolysis with insulin was 25% for free fatty acids and 24% for glycerol release. In the presence of TPA, these values increased to 50% and 45%, respectively. TPA (100 nM) addition to isolated adipocytes induced protein kinase C translocation from the cytosol to the membrane fraction. In control cells, 94.7 +/- 2.9% of the enzyme was found in the cytosol, with the rest found in the membrane. At 10 min after TPA (100 nM) addition, the corresponding value was 43.6 +/- 17.4%, with the rest in the membrane (n = 6, P less than 0.05). These findings indicate that protein kinase C might be involved not only in the insulin action on glucose transport, but also in the mechanism of insulin's antilipolytic action.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans 70112-1393.
authors.forename: I V
authors.initials: IV
authors.lastname: Deaciuc
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Spitzer
mesh_terms: D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004789:Enzyme Activation / Q000187:drug effects; D005230:Fatty Acids, Nonesterified / Q000378:metabolism; D005990:Glycerol / Q000378:metabolism; D008066:Lipolysis / Q000187:drug effects*; D008297:Male; D009638:Norepinephrine / Q000494:pharmacology; D011493:Protein Kinase C / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D005230:Fatty Acids, Nonesterified; D011493:Protein Kinase C; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate; D005990:Glycerol; D009638:Norepinephrine