Insulin release transduction mechanism through acid glucan 1,4-alpha-glucosidase activation is Ca2+ regulated
(1998) In American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism 274(3). p.459-468- Abstract
- An important signal involved in glucose-stimulated insulin secretion is transduced through the action of a lysosomal acid, glucan 1,4-alpha-glucosidase. We investigated the Ca2+ dependency of this enzyme activity in relation to insulin release. In isolated islets, increased levels of extracellular Ca2+ induced a large increase in acid glucan 1,4-alpha-glucosidase activity accompanied by a similar increase in insulin release at both substimulatory and stimulatory concentrations of glucose. At low glucose the Ca2+ "inflow" blocker nifedipine unexpectedly stimulated enzyme activity without affecting insulin release. However, nifedipine suppressed 45Ca2+ outflow from perifused islets at low glucose and at Ca2+ deficiency when intracellular... (More)
- An important signal involved in glucose-stimulated insulin secretion is transduced through the action of a lysosomal acid, glucan 1,4-alpha-glucosidase. We investigated the Ca2+ dependency of this enzyme activity in relation to insulin release. In isolated islets, increased levels of extracellular Ca2+ induced a large increase in acid glucan 1,4-alpha-glucosidase activity accompanied by a similar increase in insulin release at both substimulatory and stimulatory concentrations of glucose. At low glucose the Ca2+ "inflow" blocker nifedipine unexpectedly stimulated enzyme activity without affecting insulin release. However, nifedipine suppressed 45Ca2+ outflow from perifused islets at low glucose and at Ca2+ deficiency when intracellular Ca2+ was mobilized by carbachol. This nifedipine-induced retention of Ca2+ was reflected in increased acid glucan 1,4-alpha-glucosidase activity. Adding different physiological Ca2+ concentrations or nifedipine to islet homogenates did not increase enzyme activity. Neither selective glucan 1,4-alpha-glucosidase inhibition nor the ensuing suppression of glucose-induced insulin release was overcome by a maximal Ca2+ concentration. Hence, Ca(2+)-induced changes in acid glucan 1,4-alpha-glucosidase activity were intimately coupled to similar changes in Ca(2+)-glucose-induced insulin release. Ca2+ did not affect the enzyme itself but presumably activated either glucan 1,4-alpha-glucosidase-containing organelles or closely interconnected messengers. (Less)
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- Salehi, S Albert LU ; Mosén, Henrik LU and Lundquist, Ingmar LU
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- 1998
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
- subject
- keywords
- carbachol, emiglitate, calcium ion, nifedipine, pancreatic islets, lysosomal enzymes
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- American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism
- volume
- 274
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 459 - 468
- publisher
- American Physiological Society
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- pmid:9530129
- ISSN
- 1522-1555
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 68dc3632-5eb1-4df4-ab24-57e8f6c55533 (old id 1113496)
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