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GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY
Volume 157, Issue 2, Pages 116-124Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2008.04.009
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insulin growth factor II; rainbow trout; metabolic effects; proliferation; MAPK; PI3K/Akt
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Primary cultures of rainbow trout skeletal muscle cells were used to examine the role of insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II) in fish muscle metabolism and growth, and to compare its main signal transduction pathways with those of IGF-I. IGF-II stimulated 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) uptake in trout myocytes at concentrations of between 5 and 100 nM, with similar maximal effects and temporal pattern to IGF-I (100 nM): The results of incubation with inhibitors (Wortmannin and CKB) indicated that IGF-II stimulates glucose uptake through the same mechanisms as IGF-I. In addition, IGF-II stimulated myoblast DNA synthesis (measured by thymidine incorporation) at relatively low concentrations (0.1-10 nM), with the maximum increase at 1 nM (167 +/- 7% with respect to control values). The cells were immunoreactive against ERK 1/2 MAPK and Akt/PKB, components of the two main signal transduction pathways for the IGF-I receptor. IGF-II stimulated the phosphorylation of the protein MAPK, especially at the proliferation stage (increases of up to 125.7 +/- 16.9% and 125.3 +/- 3.3% with respect to control in IGF-II- and IGF-I-treated cells, respectively). In contrast, the effects of both IGFs on the activation of the PI3K/Akt pathway were stronger in fully differentiated myocytes and in early-formed fibres (up to 359 +/- 18.5% in IGF-II-treated cells with respect to control). These results indicate that IGF-II has both mitogenic and metabolic effects in trout muscle cells, which are equivalent to those found in response to IGF-1. Both IGFs exert these effects though the same signalling pathways (MAPK and PI3K/Akt). (c) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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