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The Diabetes Research Laboratory, Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola 11501; and Department of Medicine, Health Science Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11574
Hyperinsulinemia (HI) and insulin resistance (IR) are frequently associated with hypertension and atherosclerosis. However, the exact roles of HI and IR in the development of hypertension are unclear. Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK) are well-characterized intracellular mediators of cell proliferation. In this study, we examined the contribution of MAPK pathway in insulin-stimulated mitogenesis using primary vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) isolated from aortas of normotensive Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY) and spontaneous hypertensive rats (SHR). VSMCs were grown to confluence in culture, serum starved, and examined for DNA synthesis {using [3H]thymidine (TDR), immunoprecipitated MAPK activity, and MAPK phosphatase (MKP-1) induction}. Basal rate of TDR incorporation into DNA was twofold higher in SHR compared with WKY (P < 0.005). Insulin caused a dose-dependent increase in TDR incorporation (150% over basal levels with 100 nM in 12 h). Stimulation was sustained for 24 h with a decline toward basal in 36 h. Pretreatment with insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) receptor antibody did not abolish mitogenesis mediated by 10-100 nM insulin, suggesting that insulin effect is mediated via its own receptors. Insulin had a small mitogenic effect in WKY (33% over basal). Insulin-stimulated mitogenesis was accompanied by a dose-dependent increase in MAPK activity in SHR, with a peak activation (>2-fold over basal) between 5 and 10 min with 100 nM insulin. Insulin had very small effects on MAPK activity in WKY. In contrast, serum-stimulated MAPK activation was comparable in WKY and SHR. Pretreatment with MEK inhibitor, PD-98059, completely blocked insulin's effect on MAPK activation and mitogenesis. Inhibition of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase with wortmannin also prevented insulin's effects on MAPK activation and mitogenesis. In WKY, insulin and IGF-I treatment resulted in a rapid induction of MKP-1, the dual-specificity MAPK phosphatase. In contrast, VSMCs from SHR were resistant to insulin with respect to MPK-1 expression. We conclude that insulin is mitogenic in SHR, and the effect appears to be mediated by sustained MAPK activation due to impaired insulin-mediated MKP-1 mRNA expression, which may act as an inhibitory feedback loop in attenuating MAPK signaling.
mitogen-activated protein kinase phosphatase
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