title: Prolactin treatment increases GLUT2 but not the G protein subunit content in cell membranes from cultured neonatal rat islets.
abstract: Neonatal rat islets exhibit a reduced secretory response to glucose, compared to adult rat islets. The maturation of the secretory response is stimulated by prolactin (PRL). We show here by immunoblot analysis that PRL increases the beta-cell/liver glucose transporter GLUT2 in membrane fractions from cultured neonatal rat islets. This increase (+86%) may explain, at least in part, the development of a mature glucose response. G proteins modulate insulin secretion from pancreatic beta-cells. We show here by immunoblot analysis that, in contrast to the effect on GLUT2, PRL treatment does not modify the G protein subunits alpha i2, alpha i3, alpha o, alpha s, alpha q and beta 35 and beta 36, in cultured neonatal islets.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Central de Biologie, Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal Leon Touhladjian, Poissy, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: de Mazancourt
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Carneiro
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Atwater
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Boschero
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D051273:Glucose Transporter Type 2; D007515:Islets of Langerhans / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009004:Monosaccharide Transport Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D011388:Prolactin / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats
chemical_list: D051273:Glucose Transporter Type 2; D009004:Monosaccharide Transport Proteins; D011388:Prolactin; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins