title: Inhibition of glucose-induced insulin release by 3-O-methyl-D-glucose: enzymatic, metabolic and cationic determinants.
abstract: The analog of D-glucose, 3-O-methyl-D-glucose, is thought to delay the equilibration of D-glucose concentration across the plasma membrane of pancreatic islet B-cells, but not to exert any marked inhibitory action upon the late phase of glucose-stimulated insulin release. In this study, however, 3-O-methyl-D-glucose, when tested in high concentrations (30-80 mM) was found to cause a rapid, sustained and not rapidly reversible inhibition of glucose-induced insulin release in rat pancreatic islets. In relative terms, the inhibitory action of 3-O-methyl-D-glucose was more marked at low than high concentrations of D-glucose. It could not be attributed to hyperosmolarity and appeared specific for the insulinotropic action of D-glucose, as distinct from non-glucidic nutrient secretagogues. Although 3-O-methyl-D-glucose and D-glucose failed to exert any reciprocal effect upon the steady-state value for the net uptake of these monosaccharides by the islets, the glucose analog inhibited D-[5-3H]glucose utilization and D-[U-14C]glucose oxidation. This coincided with increased 86Rb outflow and decreased 45Ca outflow from prelabelled islets, as well as decreased 45Ca net uptake. A preferential effect of 3-O-methyl-D-glucose upon the first phase of glucose-stimulated insulin release was judged compatible with an altered initial rate of D-glucose entry into islet B-cells. The long-term inhibitory action of the glucose analog upon the metabolic and secretory response to D-glucose, however, may be due, in part at least, to an impaired rate of D-glucose phosphorylation. The phosphorylation of the hexose by beef heart hexokinase and human B-cell glucokinase, as well as by parotid and islet homogenates, was indeed inhibited by 3-O-methyl-D-glucose. The relationship between insulin release and D-glucose utilization or oxidation in the presence of 3-O-methyl-D-glucose was not different from that otherwise observed at increasing concentrations of either D-glucose or D-mannoheptulose. It is concluded, therefore, that 3-O-methyl-D-glucose adversely affects the metabolism and insulinotropic action of D-glucose by a mechanism largely unrelated to changes in the intracellular concentration of the latter hexose.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Experimental Medicine, Brussels Free University, Belgium.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sener
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Scruel
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Louchami
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jijakli
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Malaisse
mesh_terms: D019325:3-O-Methylglucose / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism; D002412:Cations; D002417:Cattle; D005260:Female; D005947:Glucose / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D006801:Humans; D007328:Insulin / Q000378:metabolism*; D007515:Islets of Langerhans / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D010766:Phosphorylation; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D012413:Rubidium / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D002412:Cations; D007328:Insulin; D019325:3-O-Methylglucose; D005947:Glucose; D012413:Rubidium; D002118:Calcium