Contraction-stimulated glucose transport in muscle is controlled by AMPK and mechanical stress but not sarcoplasmatic reticulum Ca2+ release

Thomas Elbenhardt Jensen, Lykke Sylow, Adam John Rose, Agnete Louise Bjerregaard Madsen, Yeliz Angin, Stine J Maarbjerg, Erik A. Richter

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Abstract

Understanding how muscle contraction orchestrates insulin-independent muscle glucose transport may enable development of hyperglycemia-treating drugs. The prevailing concept implicates Ca(2+) as a key feed forward regulator of glucose transport with secondary fine-tuning by metabolic feedback signals through proteins such as AMPK. Here, we demonstrate in incubated mouse muscle that Ca(2+) release is neither sufficient nor strictly necessary to increase glucose transport. Rather, the glucose transport response is associated with metabolic feedback signals through AMPK, and mechanical stress-activated signals. Furthermore, artificial stimulation of AMPK combined with passive stretch of muscle is additive and sufficient to elicit the full contraction glucose transport response. These results suggest that ATP-turnover and mechanical stress feedback are sufficient to fully increase glucose transport during muscle contraction, and call for a major reconsideration of the established Ca(2+) centric paradigm.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftMolecular Metabolism
Vol/bind3
Udgave nummer7
Sider (fra-til)742-753
Antal sider12
ISSN2212-8778
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2014

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CURIS 2014 NEXS 324

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