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JOURNAL OF ENDOCRINOLOGY
Volume 201, Issue 2, Pages 185-197Publisher
BIOSCIENTIFICA LTD
DOI: 10.1677/JOE-08-0276
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- Consejo Nacional de hrvestigaciones Cientificas y Tecnolbgicas of Argentina (CONICET)
- Agencia Nacional de Promotion Cientifica y Tecnologica of Argentina
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The I kappa B kinase-beta (IKK-beta)/nuclear factor-kappa B signaling pathway has been suggested to link inflammation with obesity and insulin resistance. In addition, angiotensin (Ang) II is able to induce insulin resistance and an inflammatory state through Ang II receptor type 1 (AT1R). Accordingly, we examined whether inhibition of AT1R with irbesartan (IRB) can protect against the development of insulin resistance in obese Zucker rats (OZRs). IRB-treatment improved the insulin-stimulated insulin receptor (IR) phosphorylation at tyrosine (Tyr) residues 1158, 1162, 1163 (involved in activation of the IR kinase) and at Tyr972 (involved in substrate recognition). AT1R blockade also originated a dramatic increase in the phosphorylation of Akt and glycogen synthase kinase-3 beta. This was accompanied by a decrease in phosphorylation of IR on serine (Ser) 994, a residue that seems to be implicated in the regulation of IR kinase in OZR. In this study, we demonstrated that Ser994 of IR is a direct substrate for TANK-binding kinase 1 (TBK1), a new member of the IKK-related kinase fan-Lily. TBK1 was found to co-immunoprecipitate with the IR, in the liver of OZR supporting an in vivo association between the IR and TBK1. Interestingly, a marked increase in the association between TBK1 and the IR was found in the liver of OZR as well as in other models of insulin resistance/diabetes. Taken together, these findings suggest that TBK1 could be involved in the insulin resistance mechanism related with IR Ser994 phosphorylation in a genetic model of diabetes. Journal of Endocrinology (2009) 201, 185-197
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