title: The insulin receptor translocates to the nucleus to regulate cell proliferation in liver.
abstract: Insulin's metabolic effects in the liver are widely appreciated, but insulin's ability to act as a hepatic mitogen is less well understood. Because the insulin receptor (IR) can traffic to the nucleus, and Ca(2+) signals within the nucleus regulate cell proliferation, we investigated whether insulin's mitogenic effects result from activation of Ca(2+)-signaling pathways by IRs within the nucleus. Insulin-induced increases in Ca(2+) and cell proliferation depended upon clathrin- and caveolin-dependent translocation of the IR to the nucleus, as well as upon formation of inositol 1,4,5,-trisphosphate (InsP3) in the nucleus, whereas insulin's metabolic effects did not depend on either of these events. Moreover, liver regeneration after partial hepatectomy also depended upon the formation of InsP3 in the nucleus, but not the cytosol, whereas hepatic glucose metabolism was not affected by buffering InsP3 in the nucleus.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These findings provide evidence that insulin's mitogenic effects are mediated by a subpopulation of IRs that traffic to the nucleus to locally activate InsP3 -dependent Ca(2+)-signaling pathways. The steps along this signaling pathway reveal a number of potential targets for therapeutic modulation of liver growth in health and disease.
authors.affiliation: Section of Digestive Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
authors.forename: Maria J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Amaya
authors.forename: André G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.forename: Erika S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Guimarães
authors.forename: Marisa C F
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Casteluber
authors.forename: Sandhra M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Carvalho
authors.forename: Lidia M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Andrade
authors.forename: Mauro C X
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Pinto
authors.forename: Albert
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mennone
authors.forename: Cleida A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.forename: Rodrigo R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Resende
authors.forename: Gustavo B
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Menezes
authors.forename: Michael H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Nathanson
authors.forename: M Fatima
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Leite
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D020013:Calcium Signaling; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000378:metabolism; D049109:Cell Proliferation; D015544:Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D007328:Insulin / Q000378:metabolism*; D008115:Liver Regeneration; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D011972:Receptor, Insulin / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D007328:Insulin; D015544:Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate; D011972:Receptor, Insulin