Alcohols inhibit adipocyte basal and insulin-stimulated glucose uptake and increase the membrane lipid fluidity |
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Authors: | Richard D Sauerheber Judy A Esgate Christopher E Kuhn |
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Institution: | 1. Rees-Stealy Research Foundation, San Diego, CA 92101 U.S.A.;2. Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, CA 92037 U.S.A.;3. California Metabolic Research Foundation, La Jolla, CA 92038 U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Benzyl alcohol and ethanol, at aqueous concentrations that cause local anesthesia of rat sciatic nerve, affect structural and functional properties of rat adipocytes. The data strongly suggest that structurally-intact membrane lipids are required for the proper cellular uptake of glucose and for the physiologic response of adipocytes to insulin. The structure of adipocyte membrane lipids was examined with the spin label method. Isolated adipocyte ‘ghost’ membranes were labeled with the 5-nitroxide stearate spin probe I(12,3). Order parameters that are sensitive to the fluidity of the lipid environment of the incorporated probe were calculated from ESR spectra of labeled membranes. Benzyl alcohol and ethanol dramatically increased the fluidity of the adipocyte ghost membrane, as indicated by decreases in the polarity-corrected order parameter S. This concentration-dependent fluidization commenced at approx. 10 mM benzyl alcohol and progressively increased at all higher concentrations tested (up to 107 mM). S decreased approx. 5.7% at 40 mM benzyl alcohol, a change in S comparable in magnitude to that induced by a 6°C increase in the incubation temperature. Benzyl alcohol and ethanol inhibited basal glucose uptake in adipocytes and uptake maximally stimulated by insulin. Temperature-induced increases in membrane fluidity, detected with 1(12,3), that closely paralleled the fluidity effects of alcohols were associated only with increases in basal and insulin-stimulated glucose uptake. The contention that the membrane lipid fluidity plays a role in insulin action needs further study. |
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Keywords: | Glucose uptake Sugar transport Alcohol Membrane lipid structure Membrane fluidity Insulin |
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