title: Stimulation of the phosphorylation of uridine in skeletal muscle by insulin and vanadate.
abstract: The action of insulin and sodium vanadate on the phosphorylation of uridine by skeletal muscle was studied in vitro. Insulin significantly increased the incorporation of 3H-uridine into uracil nucleotides by pieces of rat diaphragm incubated for 15 min in a phosphate-buffered medium. This action of the hormone was exceptionally consistent when MgATP was added to the incubation medium. In experiments in which pieces of psoas muscle were incubated in TRIS buffer in the presence and absence of insulin, the hormone caused a significant activation of uridine kinase measured in cytosolic extracts of the incubated tissue. In experiments with rat diaphragm similar to those with insulin, the vanadate ion caused a significant increase in phosphorylation of uridine. The results of these experiments provide preliminary support for the proposal that uracil nucleotide metabolism is regulated by insulin and that insulin activates uridine kinase, the limiting enzyme in the synthesis of uracil nucleotides from uridine by the salvage pathway.
authors.affiliation: University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Philadelphia 19104-6084.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Haugaard
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Torbati
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Smithgall
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wildey
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003964:Diaphragm; D004789:Enzyme Activation / Q000187:drug effects; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007328:Insulin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008297:Male; D009132:Muscles / Q000378:metabolism*; D010766:Phosphorylation; D010770:Phosphotransferases / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013268:Stimulation, Chemical; D014529:Uridine / Q000378:metabolism*; D014541:Uridine Kinase / Q000378:metabolism*; D014638:Vanadates / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D007328:Insulin; D014638:Vanadates; D010770:Phosphotransferases; D014541:Uridine Kinase; D014529:Uridine