Author:
Vatner Daniel F.,Majumdar Sachin K.,Kumashiro Naoki,Petersen Max C.,Rahimi Yasmeen,Gattu Arijeet K.,Bears Mitchell,Camporez João-Paulo G.,Cline Gary W.,Jurczak Michael J.,Samuel Varman T.,Shulman Gerald I.
Abstract
A central paradox in type 2 diabetes is the apparent selective nature of hepatic insulin resistance—wherein insulin fails to suppress hepatic glucose production yet continues to stimulate lipogenesis, resulting in hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, and hepatic steatosis. Although efforts to explain this have focused on finding a branch point in insulin signaling where hepatic glucose and lipid metabolism diverge, we hypothesized that hepatic triglyceride synthesis could be driven by substrate, independent of changes in hepatic insulin signaling. We tested this hypothesis in rats by infusing [U-13C] palmitate to measure rates of fatty acid esterification into hepatic triglyceride while varying plasma fatty acid and insulin concentrations independently. These experiments were performed in normal rats, high fat-fed insulin-resistant rats, and insulin receptor 2′-O-methoxyethyl chimeric antisense oligonucleotide-treated rats. Rates of fatty acid esterification into hepatic triglyceride were found to be dependent on plasma fatty acid infusion rates, independent of changes in plasma insulin concentrations and independent of hepatocellular insulin signaling. Taken together, these results obviate a paradox of selective insulin resistance, because the major source of hepatic lipid synthesis, esterification of preformed fatty acids, is primarily dependent on substrate delivery and largely independent of hepatic insulin action.
Funder
HHS | NIH | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
The American Diabetes Association Research Foundation
Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research
Publisher
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Cited by
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