title: IGF-I stimulates protein synthesis in skeletal muscle through multiple signaling pathways during sepsis.
abstract: Chronic septic abscess formation causes an inhibition of protein synthesis in gastrocnemius not observed in rats with a sterile abscess. Inhibition is associated with an impaired mRNA translation initiation that can be ameliorated by elevating IGF-I but not insulin. The present study investigated the ability of IGF-I signaling to stimulate protein synthesis in gastrocnemius by accelerating mRNA translation initiation. Experiments were performed in perfused hindlimb preparations from rats 5 days after induction of a septic abscess. Protein synthesis in gastrocnemius from septic rats was accelerated twofold by the addition of IGF-I (10 nM) to perfusate. IGF-I increased the phosphorylation of translation repressor 4E-binding protein-1 (4E-BP1). Hyperphosphorylation of 4E-BP1 in response to IGF-I resulted in its dissociation from the inactive eukaryotic initiation factor (eIF) 4E.4E-BP1 complex. Assembly of the active eIF4F complex (as assessed by the association eIF4G with eIF4E) was increased twofold by IGF-I in the perfusate. In addition, phosphorylation of eIF4G and ribosomal protein S6 kinase-1 (S6K1) was also enhanced by IGF-I. Activation of mammalian target of rapamycin, an upstream kinase implicated in phosphorylating both 4E-BP1 and S6K1, was also observed. Thus the ability of IGF-I to accelerate protein synthesis during sepsis may be related to a stimulation of signaling to multiple steps in translation initiation with an ensuing increased phosphorylation of eIF4G, eIF4E availability, and S6K1 phosphorylation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA. tvary@psu.edu
authors.forename: Thomas C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Vary
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D039561:Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-4E / Q000378:metabolism; D039603:Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-4G / Q000378:metabolism; D007334:Insulin-Like Growth Factor I / Q000494:pharmacology*; D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D008297:Male; D009124:Muscle Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism*; D010750:Phosphoproteins / Q000378:metabolism; D010766:Phosphorylation; D011494:Protein Kinases / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D019893:Ribosomal Protein S6 Kinases / Q000378:metabolism; D018805:Sepsis / Q000378:metabolism*; D058570:TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; C499526:Eif4ebp1 protein, rat; D039561:Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-4E; D039603:Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-4G; D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D009124:Muscle Proteins; D010750:Phosphoproteins; D007334:Insulin-Like Growth Factor I; D011494:Protein Kinases; C546845:mTOR protein, rat; D019893:Ribosomal Protein S6 Kinases; D058570:TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases