Summary
Vanadium is a potent insulinomimetic agent. In vivo, its blood glucose lowering action in insulin-deficient diabetic rats is associated with corrected expression of genes involved in hepatic glucose metabolism. In this study, we investigated whether vanadate treatment also reverses the impaired expression of genes coding for key enzymes of lipogenesis in diabetic liver and white adipose tissue. Oral administration of vanadate to streptozotocin-rats caused a 55% fall in plasma glucose levels after feeding without modifying low insulinaemia. It also partially corrected the low thyroid hormone concentrations. In untreated diabetic animals, hepatic mRNA levels of acetyl-CoA carboxylase and fatty acid synthase were reduced by more than 80 and 90%, respectively, in close correlation with changes in enzyme activities. Three weeks of vanadate treatment totally restored acetyl-CoA carboxylase mRNA and partially restored fatty acid synthase mRNA (71% of control levels). The activities of both lipogenic enzymes were increased 3.5 to 4-fold, to reach 45 to 65% of control values. By contrast, in white adipose tissue, vanadate modified neither expression nor activity of both lipogenic enzymes, which remained blunted (<10% of control levels). In conclusion, vanadate treatment partially restores the activities of two key lipogenic enzymes in liver, but not in white adipose tissue, of diabetic rats. This correction results from a reversal of impaired pre-translational regulatory mechanisms possibly mediated by an improvement of thyroid function and a selective restoration of liver glycolytic flux.
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Abbreviations
- ACC:
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Acetyl-CoA carboxylase
- FAS:
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fatty acid synthase
- PEPCK:
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phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase
- C:
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non-diabetic control rats
- D:
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untreated diabetic rats
- V:
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vanadate-treated diabetic rats
- SSC:
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sodium saline citrate
- SDS:
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sodium dodecyl sulphate
- OD:
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optical density
- kb:
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kilobase
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Brichard, S.M., Ongemba, L.N., Girard, J. et al. Tissue-specific correction of lipogenic enzyme gene expression in diabetic rats given vanadate. Diabetologia 37, 1065–1072 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00418369
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