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Effect of maternal diabetes on the expression of genes regulating fetal brain glucose uptake

RE Schroeder, UP Devaskar, SE Trail, DE Demello, DP Cole and SU Devaskar
Department of Pediatrics, St. Louis University School of Medicine, Missouri.

Diabetes alters adult brain glucose uptake and glucose transporter 1 gene expression. To investigate the effect of diabetes on genes regulating fetal brain glucose uptake, we examined the effect of moderate (blood glucose 10-16.7 mM, normoinsulinemia) and severe (blood glucose > 16.8 mM, hypoinsulinemia) maternal diabetes on the expression of genes regulating fetal brain glucose uptake in the genetically nonobese diabetic mouse. In the moderately diabetic state, a 50% decline in fetal brain GLUT1 mRNA levels was associated with a 20% increase in the corresponding GLUT1 protein levels. Simultaneously, although fetal brain GLUT3 mRNA and protein levels were barely detectable, no change in hexokinase I enzyme mRNA, protein (115,000 and 100,000 M(r)) or activity, was noted. In the severe form of maternal diabetes GLUT1 protein was unchanged, GLUT3 protein levels remained low, and a 2- to 3-fold increase in the lower molecular form of the hexokinase I protein (100,000 M(r)) and enzyme activity occurred. These observations suggest that moderate and severe forms of maternal diabetes do not affect the fetal brain glucose transporter levels to a physiologically significant extent. The severe form of maternal diabetes, however, enhances 1.5- to 3-fold the expression and activity of hexokinase I. This enzyme mediates the rate-limiting step in brain glucose metabolism, namely the intracellular conversion of glucose to glucose-6-phosphate.
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