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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 99, Issue 5, Pages 2708-2713Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.052005699
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- NCRR NIH HHS [P41 RR002584, RR-02584] Funding Source: Medline
- NHLBI NIH HHS [R37 HL034557, HL-34557, R01 HL034557] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK42582] Funding Source: Medline
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Cellular metabolism of glucose is required for stimulation of insulin secretion from pancreatic beta cells, but the precise metabolic coupling factors involved in this process are not known. In an effort to better understand mechanisms of fuel-mediated insulin secretion, we have adapted C-13 NMR and isotopomer methods to measure influx of metabolic fuels into the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle in insulinoma cells. Mitochondrial metabolism of [U-C-13(3)]pyruvate, derived from [(UC6)-C-13]glucose, was compared in four clonal rat insulinoma cell 1-derived cell lines with varying degrees of glucose responsiveness. A C-13 isotopomer analysis of glutamate isolated from these cells showed that the fraction of acetyl-CoA derived from [U-C-13(6)]glucose was the same in all four cell lines (44 +/- 5%, 70 +/- 3%, and 84 +/- 4% with 3, 6, or 12 mM glucose, respectively). The C-13 NMR spectra also demonstrated the existence of two compartmental pools of pyruvate, one that exchanges with TCA cycle intermediates and a second pool derived from [U-C-13(6)]glucose that feeds acetyl-CoA into the TCA cycle. The C-13 NMR spectra were consistent with a metabolic model where the two pyruvate pools do not randomly mix. Flux between the mitochondrial intermediates and the first pool of pyruvate (pyruvate cycling) varied in proportion to glucose responsiveness in the four cell lines. Furthermore, stimulation of pyruvate cycling with dimethylmalate or its inhibition with phenylacetic acid led to proportional changes in insulin secretion. These findings indicate that exchange of pyruvate with TCA cycle intermediates, rather than oxidation of pyruvate via acetyl-CoA, correlates with glucose-stimulated insulin secretion.
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