Glucose transporter isotypes switch in T-antigen-transformed pancreatic beta cells growing in culture and in mice.
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serval:BIB_C18AC32792D1
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Title
Glucose transporter isotypes switch in T-antigen-transformed pancreatic beta cells growing in culture and in mice.
Journal
Molecular and Cellular Biology
ISSN
0270-7306[print], 0270-7306[linking]
Publication state
Published
Issued date
01/1992
Volume
12
Number
1
Pages
422-432
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Publication Status: ppublish
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
High-level expression of the low-Km glucose transporter isoform GLUT-1 is characteristic of many cultured tumor and oncogene-transformed cells. In this study, we tested whether induction of GLUT-1 occurs in tumors in vivo. Normal mouse beta islet cells express the high-Km (approximately 20 mM) glucose transporter isoform GLUT-2 but not the low-Km (1 to 3 mM) GLUT-1. In contrast, a beta cell line derived from an insulinoma arising in a transgenic mouse harboring an insulin-promoted simian virus 40 T-antigen oncogene (beta TC3) expressed very low levels of GLUT-2 but high levels of GLUT-1. GLUT-1 protein was not detectable on the plasma membrane of islets or tumors of the transgenic mice but was induced in high amounts when the tumor-derived beta TC3 cells were grown in tissue culture. GLUT-1 expression in secondary tumors formed after injection of beta TC3 cells into mice was reduced. Thus, high-level expression of GLUT-1 in these tumor cells is characteristic of culture conditions and is not induced by the oncogenic transformation; indeed, overnight culture of normal pancreatic islets causes induction of GLUT-1. We also investigated the relationship between expression of the different glucose transporter isoforms by islet and tumor cells and induction of insulin secretion by glucose. Prehyperplastic transgenic islet cells that expressed normal levels of GLUT-2 and no detectable GLUT-1 exhibited an increased sensitivity to glucose, as evidenced by maximal insulin secretion at lower glucose concentrations, compared with that exhibited by normal islets. Further, hyperplastic islets and primary and secondary tumors expressed low levels of GLUT-2 and no detectable GLUT-1 on the plasma membrane; these cells exhibited high basal insulin secretion and responded poorly to an increase in extracellular glucose. Thus, abnormal glucose-induced secretion of insulin in prehyperplastic islets in mice was independent of changes in GLUT-2 expression and did not require induction of GLUT-1 expression.
Keywords
Animals, Antigens, Viral, Tumor/metabolism, Blotting, Northern, Blotting, Western, Cell Transformation, Neoplastic, Cell Transformation, Viral, Cells, Cultured, Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Glucose/metabolism, Insulin/physiology, Islets of Langerhans/cytology, Islets of Langerhans/metabolism, Mice, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Molecular Conformation, Monosaccharide Transport Proteins/chemistry, Monosaccharide Transport Proteins/metabolism
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