Decreased pancreatic islet response to L-leucine in the spontaneously diabetic GK rat: enzymatic, metabolic and secretory data
Decreased pancreatic islet response to L-leucine in the spontaneously diabetic GK rat: enzymatic, metabolic and secretory data
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DOI:
10.1007/s001250051255
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发表时间:
1999-07
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影响因子:
8.2
通讯作者:
M. Giroix;C. Saulnier;B. Portha
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作者:
M. Giroix;C. Saulnier;B. Portha
AbstractAims/hypothesis.Pancreatic islets from hereditarily non-insulin-dependent diabetic Goto-Kakizaki (GK) rats have a deficient insulin response not only tod-glucose but also tol-leucine. Our aim was to explain the cellular mechanism(s) underlying the beta-cell unresponsiveness to this amino acid.Methods.Freshly collagenase isolated islets from GK rats and healthy Wistar control rats matched with them for sex and age were compared. Leucine uptake, metabolic fluxes and insulin secretory capacity were investigated on batch incubated-islets. Enzymatic activities were measured on sonicated islets.Results.In GK rat islets, neither leucine transport nor leucine transaminase activity was disturbed. By contrast,14CO2production from eitherl-[U-14C]leucine orl-[1-14C]leucine was decreased. Thel-[U-14C]leucine oxidation :l-[1-14C]leucine decarboxylation ratio was unaffected, indicating that the acetyl-CoA generated from leucine undergoes normal oxidation in the Krebs cycle. The leucine non-metabolizable analogue 2-amino-bicyclo[2,2,1]heptane-2-carboxylic acid induced insulin release and enhanced the secretory response to leucine as in controls, whereas leucine failed to amplify the response to the leucine analogue. Moreover, the potentiating action ofl-glutamine on leucine-mediated insulin release was preserved. This coincided with normal glutamate dehydrogenase activity andl-[U-14C]glutamine oxidation. Finally, the secretory response to the leucine deamination product 2-ketoisocaproate was decreased, as was the 2-keto[1-14C]isocaproate oxidation.Conclusion/interpretation.In islet beta cells from GK rats, the defective secretory response to leucine cannot be ascribed to a deteriorated leucine-stimulated glutamate metabolism but rather to an impaired leucine catabolism. A reduced generation of acetyl-CoA from 2-ketoisocaproate, due to the defective oxidative decarboxylation of this keto-acid by the mitochondrial branched-chain 2-ketoacid dehydrogenase, is incriminated. [Diabetologia (1999) 42: 965–977]