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Volume 272, Number 16, Issue of April 18, 1997 pp. 10585-10593
©1997 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

Leptin Impairs Metabolic Actions of Insulin in Isolated Rat Adipocytes

(Received for publication, October 2, 1996, and in revised form, February 3, 1997)

Günter Müller , Johann Ertl , Martin Gerl and Gerald Preibisch

From the Hoechst AG, HMR, Research Area Frankfurt, D-65926 Frankfurt, Federal Republic of Germany

Leptin is an adipocyte hormone involved in the regulation of energy homeostasis. Generally accepted biological effects of leptin are inhibition of food intake and stimulation of metabolic rate in ob/ob mice that are defective in the leptin gene. In contrast to these centrally mediated effects of leptin, we are reporting here on leptin effects on isolated rat adipocytes. Leptin impairs several metabolic actions of insulin, i.e. stimulation of glucose transport, glycogen synthase, lipogenesis, inhibition of isoproterenol-induced lipolysis, and protein kinase A activation, as well as stimulation of protein synthesis. Insulin effects were reduced by leptin (2 nM) with a half-life of about 8 h. At low leptin concentrations (<1 nM), the insulin sensitivity was reduced leading to a shift to the right in the dose-response curve. At higher concentrations the responsiveness was diminished, resulting in nearly complete inhibition of insulin effects at >30 nM leptin. The IC50 value of leptin was 3.1 ± 1 nM after 15 h of preincubation of adipocytes in primary culture. The natural splice variant des-Gln49-leptin exhibited a significantly lower potency. Adipocytes regained full insulin sensitivity within a few hours after leptin removal. The stimulation of glucose transport by vanadate was not affected by leptin. These data show specific and potent impairment of insulin action by leptin in the physiological concentration range of both leptin and insulin, which may be related to the pathophysiology of insulin resistance in both non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and obesity.


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