Diabetes, Vol 44, Issue 1 90-97, Copyright © 1995 by American Diabetes Association

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Cloning of a human insulin-stimulated protein kinase (ISPK-1) gene and analysis of coding regions and mRNA levels of the ISPK-1 and the protein phosphatase-1 genes in muscle from NIDDM patients

C Bjorbaek, TA Vik, SM Echwald, PY Yang, H Vestergaard, JP Wang, GC Webb, K Richmond, T Hansen, RL Erikson and al. et
Steno Diabetes Center, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Complementary DNA encoding three catalytic subunits of protein phosphatase 1 (PP1 alpha, PP1 beta, and PP1 gamma) and the insulin-stimulated protein kinase 1 (ISPK-1) was analyzed for variations in the coding regions related to insulin-resistant glycogen synthesis in skeletal muscle of 30 patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM). The human ISPK-1 cDNA was cloned from T-cell leukemia and placental cDNA libraries and mapped to the short arm of the human X chromosome. Single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) analysis identified a total of six variations in the coding regions of the PP1 genes: two in PP1 alpha at codons 90 and 255; one in PP1 beta at codon 67; and three in PP1 gamma at codons 11,269, and 273, respectively. All were, however, silent single nucleotide substitutions. SSCP analysis of the ISPK-1 gene identified one silent polymorphism at codon 266 and one amino acid variant at codon 38 (Ile-->Ser). This variant was primarily found in one male NIDDM patient. This subject, however, did not exhibit an impairment of muscle insulin-stimulated glycogen synthase activation. No significant differences were found in mRNA levels in muscle of the four genes between 15 NIDDM patients and 14 healthy subjects. Our findings suggest that 1) genetic abnormalities in the coding regions of PP1 alpha, PP1 beta, PP1 gamma, and ISPK-1 are unlikely to be frequently occurring causes of the reduced insulin-stimulated activation of the glycogen synthesis in muscle from the analyzed group of NIDDM patients; 2) the mRNA levels of PP1 alpha, PP1 beta, PP1 gamma, and ISPK-1 are normal in muscle from the NIDDM patients; and 3) putative inherited defects in insulin-stimulated activation of muscle glycogen synthesis in patients with insulin-resistant NIDDM may be located further upstream of ISPK-1 in the insulin action cascade.
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