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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY
Volume 267, Issue 1-2, Pages 38-45Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2006.11.009
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obesity; leptin; insulin receptor; SOCS-3
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Obesity is a well-defined risk factor for the development of insulin resistance in target tissues, such as skeletal muscle, and thus type 2 diabetes. This may occur due to endocrine effects mediated by adipokines including leptin, the product of the obese (ob) gene, whose circulating levels positively correlate with body mass index. Induction of suppressor of cytokine-3 (SOCS-3) protein expression has been implicated as a possible mechanism of leptin-induced insulin resistance. Here, we show that treatment of rat skeletal muscle cells with leptin activated the SOCS-3 gene promoter and caused a time-dependent increase in both SOCS-3 mRNA and protein content. Confocal microscopy demonstrated increased colocalization of SOCS-3 with insulin receptor in leptin-treated cells and we confirmed a direct interaction between these two proteins by showing increased coimmunoprecipitation of SOCS-3 and insulin receptor after exposure of cells to leptin. However, the expected functional consequences were not observed, as we saw no change in basal or insulin-stimulated glucose uptake and phosphorylation of GSK3 beta, Akt (T308 and S473) or ERK1/2. In summary, leptin induced SOCS-3 expression and its association with the insulin receptor in rat skeletal muscle cells but functional significance of this increase was not apparent upon measuring glucose uptake. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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