J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 262, Issue 31, 15026-15032, 11, 1987

Diversity in the effects of extracellular ATP and adenosine on the cellular processing and physiologic actions of insulin in rat adipocytes

N Hashimoto, FW Robinson, Y Shibata, JE Flanagan and T Kono
Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37232.

ATP or adenosine (1 mM) added to extracellular buffer abolished both chloroquine- and monensin-dependent accumulation of [125I]iodoinsulin in isolated rat adipocytes. The effects of ATP were not secondary to its conversion to adenosine and were mimicked by beta, gamma- methyleneadenosine 5'-triphosphate. ATP, but not adenosine, partially inhibited the binding of insulin to the cellular receptor. Neither ATP nor adenosine had any significant effect on both internalization of cell-bound insulin and externalization of the internalized hormone. The degradation of cell-bound insulin was reduced to a considerable extent by both 0.1 mM chloroquine and 5 mM ATP, to a lesser degree by 1 mM ATP, and not significantly by 1 or 5 mM adenosine. Physiologically, (a) 1 mM ATP had a strong, while 1 mM adenosine had a mild inhibitory effect on the insulin-stimulated glucose transport without affecting its basal activity, (b) both ATP and adenosine moderately stimulated basal as well as insulin-stimulated glycogen synthase, and (c) ATP, but not adenosine, transiently stimulated basal cAMP phosphodiesterase without affecting the insulin-stimulated enzyme. Phosphodiesterase in cells that had been exposed to ATP for 30 min was refractory to ATP added afresh, but not to insulin. These data suggest that (a) extracellular ATP may block the degradative pathway of insulin processing, (b) adenosine might render the ordinarily irreversible intracellular traffic of insulin reversible or modulate a pathway which is yet to be identified, (c) the previously reported effect of ATP on glycogen synthase may not involve phosphorylation, (d) ATP stimulates cAMP phosphodiesterase by a mechanism which is distinct from that of insulin, and (e) the degradative pathway of insulin processing may not be involved in the physiologic actions of the hormone on glycogen synthase and phosphodiesterase.
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