A role for β-catenin in diet-induced skeletal muscle insulin resistance
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Mason, Stewart W. C., Dissanayake, Waruni C., Broome, Sophie C., Hedges, Christopher P., Peters, Wouter M., Gram, Martin, Rowlands, David S., Shepherd, Peter R. and Merry, Troy L.. (2023). A role for β-catenin in diet-induced skeletal muscle insulin resistance. Physiological Reports. 11(4), p. Article e15536. https://doi.org/10.14814/phy2.15536
Authors | Mason, Stewart W. C., Dissanayake, Waruni C., Broome, Sophie C., Hedges, Christopher P., Peters, Wouter M., Gram, Martin, Rowlands, David S., Shepherd, Peter R. and Merry, Troy L. |
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Abstract | A central characteristic of insulin resistance is the impaired ability for insulin to stimulate glucose uptake into skeletal muscle. While insulin resistance can occur distal to the canonical insulin receptor-PI3k-Akt signaling pathway, the signaling intermediates involved in the dysfunction are yet to be fully elucidated. β-catenin is an emerging distal regulator of skeletal muscle and adipocyte insulin-stimulated GLUT4 trafficking. Here, we investigate its role in skeletal muscle insulin resistance. Short-term (5-week) high-fat diet (HFD) decreased skeletal muscle β-catenin protein expression 27% (p = 0.03), and perturbed insulin-stimulated β-cateninS552 phosphorylation 21% (p = 0.009) without affecting insulin-stimulated Akt phosphorylation relative to chow-fed controls. Under chow conditions, mice with muscle-specific β-catenin deletion had impaired insulin responsiveness, whereas under HFD, both mice exhibited similar levels of insulin resistance (interaction effect of genotype × diet p < 0.05). Treatment of L6-GLUT4-myc myocytes with palmitate lower β-catenin protein expression by 75% (p = 0.02), and attenuated insulin-stimulated β-catenin phosphorylationS552 and actin remodeling (interaction effect of insulin × palmitate p < 0.05). Finally, β-cateninS552 phosphorylation was 45% lower in muscle biopsies from men with type 2 diabetes while total β-catenin expression was unchanged. These findings suggest that β-catenin dysfunction is associated with the development of insulin resistance. |
Keywords | glucose transport; insulin resistance; obesity; Wnt-signaling |
Year | 2023 |
Journal | Physiological Reports |
Journal citation | 11 (4), p. Article e15536 |
Publisher | Wiley Periodicals LLC |
ISSN | 2051-817X |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.14814/phy2.15536 |
PubMed ID | 36807886 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85148588218 |
PubMed Central ID | PMC9937784 |
Open access | Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access |
Page range | 1-13 |
Funder | Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), Aotearoa New Zealand |
Royal Society Te Apārangi | |
University of Auckland | |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 17 Feb 2023 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 20 Nov 2022 |
Deposited | 17 Nov 2023 |
Grant ID | UOOX1404 |
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