title: Transfection of AtT-20ins cells with GLUT-2 but not GLUT-1 confers glucose-stimulated insulin secretion. Relationship to glucose metabolism.
abstract: Glucose is thought to stimulate insulin release from islet beta-cells through generation of metabolic signals. In the current study we have introduced the genes encoding the facilitated glucose transporters known as GLUT-1 and GLUT-2 into AtT-20ins cells to assess their impact on glucose-stimulated insulin release and glucose metabolism. We find that transfection of AtT-20ins cells with GLUT-2, but not GLUT-1, confers glucose-stimulated insulin release in both static incubation and perifusion studies. Cells transfected with GLUT-1 have a Km for 3-O-methyl glucose uptake of 4 mM and a Vmax of 5-6 mmol/min/liter cell space. These values are increased compared to untransfected AtT-20ins cells (Km = 2 mM; Vmax = 0.5 mmol/min/liter cell space), but are less than observed in GLUT-2-transfected lines (Km = 16-17 mM; Vmax = 17-25 mmol/min/liter cell space). Despite these dramatic differences in glucose transport affinity and capacity, the rates of [5-3H]glucose usage are not different in the control and transfected lines over a range of glucose concentrations from 10 microM to 20 mM. We conclude that the specific effect of GLUT-2 on glucose-stimulated insulin release in AtT-20ins cells is not related to changes in the overall rate of glucose metabolism and may instead involve physical coupling of GLUT-2 with cellular proteins and/or structures involved in glucose signaling.
authors.affiliation: Gifford Laboratories for Diabetes Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235.
authors.forename: S D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Hughes
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Quaade
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ferber
authors.forename: C B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Newgard
mesh_terms: D019325:3-O-Methylglucose; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D005576:Colforsin / Q000494:pharmacology; D005947:Glucose / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051272:Glucose Transporter Type 1; D051273:Glucose Transporter Type 2; D006801:Humans; D007328:Insulin / Q000378:metabolism*; D000078790:Insulin Secretion; D007515:Islets of Langerhans / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism; D007700:Kinetics; D008757:Methylglucosides / Q000378:metabolism; D009004:Monosaccharide Transport Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism; D014162:Transfection
chemical_list: D051272:Glucose Transporter Type 1; D051273:Glucose Transporter Type 2; D007328:Insulin; D008757:Methylglucosides; D009004:Monosaccharide Transport Proteins; D012333:RNA, Messenger; C495677:SLC2A1 protein, human; D019325:3-O-Methylglucose; D005576:Colforsin; D005947:Glucose