Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110
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ABSTRACT |
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Evidence has accumulated that activation
of AMP kinase (AMPK) mediates the acute increase in glucose transport
induced by exercise. As the exercise-induced, insulin-independent
increase in glucose transport wears off, it is followed by an increase in muscle insulin sensitivity. The major purpose of this study was to
determine whether hypoxia and
5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide-1--D-ribofuranoside (AICAR), which also activate AMPK and stimulate glucose transport, also
induce an increase in insulin sensitivity. We found that the increase
in glucose transport in response to 30 µU/ml insulin was about
twofold greater in rat epitrochlearis muscles that had been made
hypoxic or treated with AICAR 3.5 h previously than in untreated
control muscles. This increase in insulin sensitivity was similar to
that induced by a 2-h bout of swimming or 10 min of in vitro
electrically stimulated contractions. Neither phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase activity nor protein kinase B (PKB) phosphorylation in response to 30 µU/ml insulin was enhanced by prior exercise or AICAR
treatment that increased insulin sensitivity of glucose transport.
Inhibition of protein synthesis by inclusion of cycloheximide in the
incubation medium for 3.5 h after exercise did not prevent the
increase in insulin sensitivity. Contractions, hypoxia, and treatment
with AICAR all caused a two- to three-fold increase in AMPK activity
over the resting level. These results provide evidence that the
increase in insulin sensitivity of muscle glucose transport that
follows exercise is mediated by activation of AMPK and involves a step
beyond PKB in the pathway by which insulin stimulates glucose transport.
cycloheximide; exercise; hypoxia; insulin signaling; 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide-1--D-ribofuranoside
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INTRODUCTION |
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CONTRACTILE ACTIVITY STIMULATES glucose transport in skeletal muscle (15). This effect is mediated by a signaling pathway that is separate from and independent of the insulin signaling pathway (15). As the acute increase in glucose transport reverses after cessation of contractile activity, there is a marked increase in the sensitivity of muscle to insulin (4, 5, 8, 25, 34). Although the mechanism for increased insulin sensitivity after exercise, which was first described by Richter et al. (25) in 1982, is unknown, it has been suggested to be related to increased activation of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI 3-kinase) by insulin (35). The increase in insulin sensitivity can persist for a number of days as long as glycogen repletion is prevented by means of a carbohydrate-deficient diet (5).
Hypoxia appears to stimulate muscle glucose transport via the same
pathway as contractions (3). There is evidence that activation of the AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) by the decreases in phosphocreatine and ATP and the increase in AMP induced by exercise
or hypoxia mediates the stimulation of glucose transport (14, 19,
30). In this context, the major purpose of this study was to
determine whether activation of AMPK by hypoxia or the adenosine analog
5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide-1--D-ribofuranoside (AICAR; see Ref. 30) also causes an enhancement of
muscle insulin sensitivity. Additional aims of this research were to
determine whether protein synthesis is involved in the development of
the increase in insulin sensitivity and to further evaluate the
possibility that enhanced insulin signaling is involved.
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METHODS |
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Materials.
Purified porcine insulin was purchased from Eli Lilly
(Indianapolis, IN). AICAR was obtained from Toronto Research Chemicals (North York, Ontario, Canada).
3-O-methyl-D-[3H]glucose (3-MG)
was obtained from American Radiolabeled Chemicals (St. Louis, MO).
D-[1-14C]mannitol and
[-32P]ATP were obtained from Perkin-Elmer Life
Sciences (Boston, MA). SAMS peptide (HMRSAMSGLHLVKRR, the substrate for
AMPK assays) was purchased from Zinsser Analytic (Maidenhead,
Berkshire, UK). A polyclonal antibody specific for
phosphoserine-473 of protein kinase B (PKB) was purchased from New
England Biolabs (Beverly, MA). Horseradish peroxidase-conjugated donkey
anti-rabbit IgG was obtained from Jackson ImmunoResearch Laboratories
(West Grove, PA). Reagents for SDS-PAGE were obtained from Bio-Rad
(Hercules, CA). Other chemicals, including protein A-Sepharose and
agarose beads coated with monoclonal anti-phosphotyrosine antibody,
were purchased from Sigma Chemical (St. Louis, MO).
Animals. This research was approved by the Animal Studies Committee of Washington University School of Medicine. Male Wistar rats (120-140 g) were given free access to Purina rat chow and water until the night before an experiment, when food was removed at 5:00 P.M. The next morning, one group of rats was exercised by means of swimming for 2 h as described previously (5) and was anesthetized immediately after exercise. All rats were anesthetized by an intraperitoneal injection of pentobarbital sodium (5 mg/100 g body wt), and the epitrochlearis muscles were excised.
Muscle incubation after exercise. Muscles of exercised rats and sedentary controls were incubated with shaking for 3 h at 35°C in Erlenmeyer flasks containing 2 ml of oxygenated Krebs-Henseleit buffer (KHB) supplemented with 8 mM glucose, 32 mM mannitol, and 0.1% BSA. Muscles were then transferred to KHB containing 8 mM glucose, 32 mM mannitol, and 0.1% BSA, with or without 30 µU/ml insulin, for 30 min at 35°C. To determine whether postexercise insulin sensitivity requires protein synthesis, muscles from some exercised animals were incubated for 3 h in the recovery medium with or without 75 µM cycloheximide. This concentration of cycloheximide prevents 94% of protein synthesis in our muscle preparation (33). Cycloheximide was also included during the 30-min incubation with and without 30 µU/ml insulin but not in the 3-MG transport assay medium.
Effect of AICAR. Muscles from sedentary animals were incubated for 1 h with or without 2 mM AICAR in 100% rat serum or KHB. Muscles were then allowed to recover in KHB containing 8 mM glucose, 32 mM mannitol, and 0.1% BSA for 3 h, followed by 30 min of incubation in the same medium with or without 30 µU/ml insulin.
Effect of hypoxia. Muscles were made hypoxic by incubation in serum with a gas phase of 95% N2-5% CO2 for 80 min (3), followed by a 3-h recovery period in oxygenated KHB containing 8 mM glucose, 32 mM mannitol, and 0.1% BSA followed by 30 min of incubation in the same medium with or without 30 µU/ml insulin.
A serum factor has been found to be necessary to elicit the contractile activity-induced enhancement of sensitivity of glucose transport to stimulation by insulin (7). To determine whether serum is also required for the AICAR-induced increase in insulin sensitivity, some muscles from sedentary animals were incubated in KHB containing 2 mM AICAR, 8 mM glucose, 30 mM mannitol, and 0.1% BSA in the absence of serum. In parallel experiments, muscles were made hypoxic while incubated without serum. After muscles were removed from the sedentary rats used in this and other studies, blood was collected from the descending aorta to provide serum for subsequent experiments. Serum was stored atEffects of in vitro muscle contraction. Some muscles were electrically stimulated to contract in vitro, as described previously (7, 28). Ten tetanic contractions were elicited by stimulation at 100 Hz for 10 s at a rate of 1 contraction/min for 10 min. Some muscles were stimulated to contract while incubated in KHB (in the absence of serum), whereas other muscles were incubated in serum during contractions. Muscles were then allowed to recover in KHB containing 8 mM glucose, 32 mM mannitol, and 0.1% BSA for 3 h, followed by 30 min of incubation in the same medium with or without 30 µU/ml insulin before 3-MG transport assays.
Glucose transport. Muscle glucose transport activity was assessed using 3-MG, as previously described (33). Muscles were transferred to 1.5 ml of KHB containing 8 mM 3-[3H]MG (2 µCi/ml), 32 mM [14C]mannitol (0.2 µCi/ml), 0.1% BSA, and insulin, if it was present during the previous incubation, and incubated for 10 min at 30°C. Intracellular 3-MG accumulation was determined as described previously (33) and is expressed as micromoles per milliliter intracellular water in 10 min.
AMPK activity.
AMPK activity was measured as described by Winder and Hardie
(29) in resting muscles or muscles frozen immediately
after 1 h of incubation in the presence of 2 mM AICAR, after 80 min of hypoxia, or after 10 min of in vitro contractile activity. Frozen muscle samples were pulverized under liquid nitrogen and homogenized in buffer containing 100 mM mannitol, 50 mM NaF, 10 mM
Tris, 1 mM EDTA, 10 mM -mercaptoethanol, pH 7.5, and protease inhibitors (5 µg/ml each of aprotinin, leupeptin, and
antitrypsin). The homogenates were centrifuged for 30 min at
48,000 g. AMPK was precipitated from the supernatant by
addition of 144 mg ammonium sulfate/ml. After the ammonium sulfate
suspension was stirred for 30 min on ice, the precipitate containing
AMPK was pelleted by centrifugation at 48,000 g for 30 min.
The pellet was dissolved in homogenizing buffer and centrifuged to
remove insoluble protein. AMPK assays were performed for 10 min at
37°C in buffer containing 40 mM HEPES, pH 7.0, 0.2 mM SAMS peptide,
0.2 mM AMP, 80 mM NaCl, 8% glycerol, 0.8 mM EDTA, 0.8 mM
dithiothreitol, 5 mM MgCl2, and 0.2 mM ATP (0.08 µCi/µl
[32P]ATP). Aliquots of assay mixtures were spotted on
Whatman P81 filter paper, washed six times in 1% phosphoric acid,
rinsed in acetone, and air-dried before measurement of radioactivity by scintillation counting.
PI 3-kinase activity. After the 30-min incubation in the presence or absence of insulin 3 h after exercise or exposure to AICAR, muscles were blotted and then clamp-frozen for assay of phosphotyrosine-associated PI 3-kinase activity (9, 17). Muscle samples were homogenized in 50 mM HEPES (pH 7.4), 150 mM NaCl, 10% glycerol, 1% Triton X-100, 1.5 mM MgCl2, 1.0 mM aprotinin (10 µg/ml), leupeptin (10 µg/ml), pepstatin (0.5 µg/ml), and 2 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride. Homogenates were incubated with end-over-end rotation at 4°C for 60 min and then centrifuged at 200,000 g for 50 min at 4°C. Supernatants were precleared by incubation for 1 h with protein A-Sepharose. For analysis of PI 3-kinase activity associated with phosphorylated tyrosine, aliquots of supernatant containing 750 µg of protein were immunoprecipitated overnight with end-over-end rotation at 4°C in the presence of 40 µl of monoclonal anti-phosphotyrosine antibody coupled to agarose. Immunocomplexes were collected by centrifugation, washed, suspended in assay medium, and analyzed for PI 3-kinase activity as described by Goodyear et al. (9).
Phosphorylated PKB. Phosphorylation of PKB during insulin stimulation was determined in muscles from sedentary or exercised rats that had recovered for 3 h before 30 min of incubation with 30 µU/ml insulin. Phosphorylation of serine-473 on PKB is a marker for activation of PKB (1). For Western blot analysis of serine-phosphorylated PKB, samples of the 200,000-g supernatants described above for the PI 3-kinase assay were mixed with Laemmli sample buffer. Protein in Laemmli sample buffer (50 µg) with dithiothreitol was subjected to SDS-PAGE on 10% gels, electrophoretically transferred to nitrocellulose, and incubated with primary antibodies against phosphoserine-473 PKB and secondary antibodies linked to horseradish peroxidase. Serine-phosphorylated PKB was quantitated by densitometry after enhanced chemiluminescence reaction (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech, Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, UK).
Glycogen. Glycogen concentration was measured fluorometrically in muscle samples homogenized in 0.3 M perchloric acid (22). Glycogen levels were measured for muscles incubated in the absence or presence of 2 mM AICAR in rat serum as described in Effect of AICAR. Muscle samples were frozen after the full 4-h 50-min incubation period (1 h incubation ± AICAR, 3 h recovery, 30 min insulin stimulation, 10 min rinse, 10 min glucose transport assay).
Statistical analysis. Data are presented as means ± SE. Analysis of differences between groups was performed with one-way ANOVA (P < 0.05 was considered to be significant) followed by Fisher's least significant difference post hoc tests when appropriate.
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RESULTS |
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Cycloheximide does not prevent the increase in insulin sensitivity
after exercise.
As in previous studies (4, 5, 7, 11), the increase in 3-MG
transport induced by 30 µU/ml insulin was approximately twofold
greater in muscles that had recovered from exercise for 3.5 h than
in control muscles (Fig. 1). In our
epitrochlearis muscle preparation, 30 µU/ml insulin normally induces
~33% of the maximal effect of insulin on 3-MG transport
(12). Cycloheximide, at a concentration that blocks muscle
protein synthesis in our epitrochlearis muscle preparation
(33), did not prevent the increase in muscle insulin
sensitivity after exercise.
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Hypoxia induces an increase in muscle insulin sensitivity.
Muscles that had recovered from hypoxia for 3.5 h had an
approximately twofold increase in the stimulation of 3-MG transport by
30 µU/ml of insulin compared either with control muscles that were
not made hypoxic (Fig. 2) or with muscles
made hypoxic in the absence of serum. The 3-MG transport rate in
muscles stimulated with 30 µU/ml insulin averaged 0.51 ± 0.03 µmol · ml1 · 10 min
1 in
the controls and 0.42 ± 0.05 µmol · ml
1 · 10 min
1 in
muscles that had been made hypoxic in the absence of serum.
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AICAR induces an increase in muscle insulin sensitivity.
As shown in Fig. 2, the effect of 30 µU/ml insulin on 3-MG transport
was approximately twofold greater in muscles that had been incubated
with AICAR and serum 3.5 h earlier. This increase in insulin
sensitivity depended on the presence of serum during the 60-min
incubation with AICAR, as muscles incubated with AICAR in the absence
of serum showed no enhancement of insulin action (3-MG transport
averaged 0.51 ± 0.3 µmol · ml1 · 10 min
1 in
the controls and 0.47 ± 0.07 µmol · ml
1 · 10 min
1 in
the AICAR without serum group).
Contractile activity (10 min) induces the full effect of exercise
on insulin sensitivity.
As in our previous study (7), the induction of insulin
sensitivity of glucose transport by in vitro muscle contractions (Fig.
3) was similar to the effect of 2 h
of swimming. As with swimming, muscle contractions caused a twofold
potentiation of the insulin-stimulated increase in 3-MG transport above
basal transport. There was no increase in insulin sensitivity in
muscles stimulated to contract in KHB instead of serum.
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AICAR, hypoxia, and contractile activity stimulate AMPK activity.
As shown in Fig. 4, the stimuli
demonstrated to cause a twofold enhancement in the sensitivity of
glucose transport to stimulation by insulin also produce a two- to
threefold increase in AMPK activity above the resting activity level.
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Insulin signaling.
As shown in Fig. 5,
phosphotyrosine-associated PI 3-kinase activity increased approximately
twofold (difference not statistically significant) in muscle in
response to 30 µU/ml insulin. Neither exercise nor AICAR, under
conditions that induced an increase in insulin sensitivity of glucose
transport, had any effect on the magnitude of the increase in PI
3-kinase activity induced by 30 µU/ml insulin.
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Glycogen. Incubation of muscles with AICAR (in serum) did not reduce glycogen levels compared with muscles incubated in KHB (control 12.7 ± 1.0 µmol glucosyl units/g, AICAR 14.0 ± 1.4 µmol glucosyl units/g, n = 7-8 muscles/group).
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DISCUSSION |
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The novel information provided by this study is that, like contractile activity, hypoxia and AICAR induce increases in muscle insulin sensitivity. We previously found that the increase in insulin sensitivity depends on the presence of serum during the period in which muscles are stimulated to contract (7). Similarly, the hypoxia- and AICAR-induced increases in insulin sensitivity occurred only when the muscles were exposed to serum during the treatment periods. Contractile activity, hypoxia, and AICAR all stimulate muscle glucose transport acutely (14, 15, 19). There is considerable evidence that activation of AMPK plays a key role in the activation of glucose transport by these stimuli (13). AICAR is taken up by muscles and converted to the AMP analog AICAR 5'-monophosphate and thus activates AMPK (30). Activation of AMPK appears to be the only action of exercise and hypoxia that is mimicked by AICAR (13, 14). It therefore seems probable that, like the acute stimulation of glucose transport, the increase in muscle insulin sensitivity that develops as the acute effect on glucose transport wears off is also mediated by AMPK.
In addition to acutely stimulating glucose transport and enhancing insulin sensitivity, exercise induces an increase in GLUT-4 protein expression in muscle, resulting in an increase in insulin responsiveness (10, 23, 26, 27). This effect of exercise is also mimicked by AICAR, as injection of rats with AICAR (16) or exposure of muscles in vitro to AICAR (21) induces an increase in muscle GLUT-4 protein. Although the increase in insulin sensitivity is unrelated to and precedes the increase in GLUT-4 (12), it seemed possible that the increase in insulin sensitivity might be mediated by increased expression of another protein with a short half-life involved in the regulation of glucose transport. This possibility appears to be ruled out by the present finding that cycloheximide did not prevent the exercise-induced increase in insulin sensitivity. A change in protein expression during contractile activity is probably not a mechanism for increased insulin sensitivity because of the short time period, i.e., 10 min of in vitro contractile activity produces the same effect on insulin sensitivity as does 2 h of swimming. The signals that mediate enhanced insulin sensitivity after exercise are probably only present during contractile activity, and not during the hours of recovery afterwards, because AMPK activity falls back to baseline within 15 min after exercise (24), and the serum factor necessary to evoke the effect of contractile activity, hypoxia, and AICAR on insulin sensitivity only has to be present during the stimulation/treatment period.
The increased sensitivity of glucose transport to stimulation by insulin after exercise is mediated by translocation of more of the GLUT-4 from the intracellular pools to the cell surface (12), suggesting amplification of the insulin signal. One study has shown increased activation of PI 3-kinase by a maximally effective insulin concentration immediately after exercise (35), i.e., an increase in insulin responsiveness, not sensitivity. However, other previous studies have found no increases in insulin receptor phosphorylation, insulin receptor substrate-1 phosphorylation, PI 3-kinase activity, or PKB phosphorylation in response to a submaximal insulin stimulus after a single bout of exercise (9, 12, 20, 31, 32). These findings provide evidence that the persistent effect of exercise on insulin sensitivity is mediated at a point beyond PKB in the pathway by which insulin stimulates glucose transport. The findings in the present study that the effects of 30 µU/ml of insulin on PI 3-kinase activity and PKB phosphorylation were not enhanced after exercise or AICAR treatment are in keeping with this conclusion.
It has been hypothesized that some of the GLUT-4 vesicles in muscle are associated with glycogen and that the increase in insulin sensitivity after exercise is the result of a larger available pool of free GLUT-4 vesicles because of glycogen depletion (6). The finding that treatment with AICAR induces an increase in insulin sensitivity provides evidence that glycogen depletion is not involved, because AICAR did not cause a decrease in muscle glycogen in the present study, as has also been shown previously (2, 13, 16, 18).
In conclusion, hypoxia and AICAR treatment, like exercise, are followed by increases in muscle insulin sensitivity. Although it is possible that enhancement of insulin sensitivity by exercise, hypoxia, and AICAR occurs through some pathway other than AMPK signaling, the only acute effect of exercise and hypoxia that is known to be mimicked by AICAR is activation of AMPK. This leads to the conclusion that activation of AMPK initiates the process that leads to increased insulin sensitivity. In this context, it appears that increased serine phosphorylation of a protein by AMPK (AMPK phosphorylates its targets on serine residues; see Ref. 30) is involved in the events that lead to translocation of more GLUT-4 to the cell surface in response to a given submaximal insulin stimulus.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
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We thank Jeong-Sun Ju, Laura Law, and Matthew Marison for excellent technical help and Victoria Reckamp for expert assistance with preparation of the manuscript.
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FOOTNOTES |
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This research was supported by National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grants DK-18968 and DK-56341. J. S. Fisher was initially supported by NIH Grant AG-00078 and subsequently by Grant HL-10212.
Address for reprint requests and other correspondence: L. A. Nolte, Washington Univ. School of Medicine, Div. of Geriatrics and Gerontology, 4566 Scott Ave., Campus Box 8113, St. Louis, MO 63110 (E-mail: lnolte{at}im.wustl.edu).
The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. The article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.
Received 31 May 2001; accepted in final form 14 August 2001.
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