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ENDOCRINOLOGY
Volume 144, Issue 5, Pages 1949-1957Publisher
ENDOCRINE SOC
DOI: 10.1210/en.2002-0072
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK-49814, DK-20212, DK-19525, K04-DK-02217, DK-43354] Funding Source: Medline
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Culturing rat islets in high glucose (HG) increased 1-C-14-alpha-ketoisocaproate (KIC) oxidation compared with culturing them in low glucose. Leucine caused insulin secretion (IS) in low glucose but not in HG rat islets, whereas KIC did so in both. Pretreatment with HG for 40 min abolished leucine stimulation of IS by mouse islets and prevented the cytosolic Ca2+ rise without inhibiting IS and Ca2+ increments caused by KIC. When islets were pretreated without glucose and glutamine, aminooxyacetic acid (AOA) markedly decreased KIC effects. When islets were pretreated without glucose and with glutamine, AOA potentiated leucine effects but attenuated KIC effects. AOA stimulated glutamine oxidation in the presence but not the absence of +/-2-amino-2-norbornane-carboxylic acid, a nonmetabolized leucine analog. Pretreatment with HG and glutamine partially reversed AOA inhibition of KIC effects. Glucose increased intracellular ATP and GTP, whereas it decreased ADP and GDP in betaHC9 cells. Glutamate dehydrogenase activity of betaHC9 cell extracts was increased by leucine and attenuated by GTP, but it was potentiated by ADP. In conclusion, leucine and KIC stimulated beta-cells via distinct mechanisms. Glutamate dehydrogenase is the sensor of leucine, whereas transamination plays an important role in KIC stimulation of pancreatic beta-cells.
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