AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vol 266, Issue 3 E479-E485, Copyright © 1994 by American Physiological Society

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Insulin increases a biochemically distinct pool of diacylglycerol in the rat soleus muscle

K. S. Chen, S. J. Heydrick, M. L. Brown, J. C. Friel and N. B. Ruderman
Evans Department of Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, Boston 02118.

Insulin stimulates the incorporation of glucose-carbon into diacylglycerol (DAG) in rat skeletal muscle, and its ability to do so is enhanced severalfold after the muscle is denervated (S. J. Heydrick, N. B. Ruderman, T. J. Kurowski, H. A. Adams, and K. S. Chen. Diabetes 40: 1707-1711, 1991). The present studies were carried out to assess the nature of this newly synthesized DAG and to identify factors other than insulin that determine its rate of appearance in the incubated rat soleus muscle. In control muscles, incubated at a medium glucose concentration of 6-7.5 mM, insulin (10 mU/ml) increased DAG content (mass) by 20-25% and increased the incorporation of a 14C label from extracellular [14C]glucose into DAG by 200-300%. The labeling of DAG reached a plateau within 20 min, at which time the labeled DAG comprised a very small percentage of total muscle DAG. Molecular species analysis revealed that DAG species having fatty acids of 18:2/20:4 and 18:2/18:2 each constituted approximately 2% of total DAG content but contained 20 and 15%, respectively, of the glucose-derived label in DAG. In contrast, 16:0/18:1 accounted for > 80% of total DAG content but only 18% of the total label incorporated into DAG. Insulin did not alter this pattern. Denervation also did not alter the molecular species profiles of the labeled DAGs or DAG analyzed by mass. An increased incorporation of glucose-carbon into DAG was observed in muscles incubated with 30 mM glucose in place of the usual 7.5-mM concentration.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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