title: Insulin receptor substrate 3 is not essential for growth or glucose homeostasis.
abstract: The insulin receptor substrates (IRS) 1 and 2 are required for normal growth and glucose homeostasis in mice. To determine whether IRS-3, a recently cloned member of the IRS family, is also involved in the regulation of these, we have generated mice with a targeted disruption of the IRS-3 gene and characterized them. Compared with wild-type mice, the IRS-3-null mice showed normal body weight throughout development, normal blood glucose levels in the fed and fasted state and following an oral glucose bolus, and normal fed and fasted plasma insulin levels. IRS-3 is most abundant in adipocytes and is tyrosine-phosphorylated in response to insulin in these cells. Therefore, isolated adipocytes were analyzed for changes in insulin effects. Insulin-stimulated glucose transport in the adipocytes from the IRS-3-null mice was the same as in wild-type cells. The extent of tyrosine phosphorylation of IRS-1/2 following insulin stimulation was similar in adipocytes from IRS-3-null and wild-type mice, and the insulin-induced association of tyrosine-phosphorylated IRS-1/2 with phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase and SHP-2 was not detectably increased by IRS-3 deficiency. Thus, IRS-3 was not essential for normal growth, glucose homeostasis, and glucose transport in adipocytes, and in its absence no significant compensatory augmentation of insulin signaling through IRS-1/2 was evident.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA.
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: G E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Lienhard
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Keller
mesh_terms: D017667:Adipocytes / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D001692:Biological Transport; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism*; D001835:Body Weight; D005260:Female; D018390:Gene Targeting; D005947:Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D006706:Homeostasis / Q000235:genetics; D007328:Insulin / Q000494:pharmacology; D055504:Insulin Receptor Substrate Proteins; D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D018345:Mice, Knockout; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases / Q000378:metabolism; D010750:Phosphoproteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D010766:Phosphorylation; D054592:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 11; D053824:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 6; D017027:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose; D007328:Insulin; D055504:Insulin Receptor Substrate Proteins; D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; C108872:Irs3 protein, mouse; D010750:Phosphoproteins; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases; D054592:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 11; D053824:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 6; D017027:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases; C516725:Ptpn11 protein, mouse; C509248:Ptpn6 protein, mouse; D005947:Glucose