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BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 364, Issue 4, Pages 1015-1021Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.10.113
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protein arginine methylation; protein N-arginine methyltransferase 1; insulin signaling; glucose uptake; L6 skeletal muscle cells
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Protein N-arginine methyltransferase (PRMT)1 catalyzes arginine methylation in a variety of substrates, although the potential role of PRMT1 in insulin action has not been defined. We therefore investigated the effect of PRMT1-mediated methylation on insulin signaling and glucose uptake in skeletal L6 myotubes. Exposure of L6 myotubes to insulin rapidly induced translocation of PRMT1 and increased its catalytic activity in membrane fraction. Several proteins in the membrane fraction were arginine-methylated after insulin treatment, which were inhibited by pretreatment with an inhibitor of methyltransferase, 5'-deoxy-5'-(methylthio)adenosine (MTA), or a small interfering RNA against PRMT1 (PRMT1-siRNA). Inhibition of arginine methylation with MTA or PRMT1-siRNA diminished later phase of insulin-stimulated tyrosine phosphorylation of insulin receptor (IR) beta and IRS-1, association of IRS-I with p85 alpha subunit of P13-K, and glucose uptake. Our results suggest that PRMT1-mediated methylation serves as a positive modulator of IR/IRS-1/P13-K pathway and subsequent glucose uptake in skeletal muscle cells. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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