Abstract: | Based on the earlier discovered by the authors adenylyl cyclase signaling mechanisms (ACSM) of action of insulin and relaxin, the study was performed of the presence a similar action mechanism of another representative of the insulin superfamily--the insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) in the muscle tissues of vertebrates (rat) and invertebrates (mollusc). For the first time there was detected participation of ACSM in the IGF-1 action, including the six component signaling cascade: receptor tyrosine kinase --> G(i)-protein (betagamma-dimer) --> phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI-3-K) --> protein kinase Czeta (PKCzeta) --> G(-)protein --> adenylyl cyclase. By this mechanism structural-functional organization at postreceptor stages, in coincides completely with the mechanism of insulin and relaxin, which we revealed in rat skeletal muscle. In smooth muscle of the mollusc Anodonta cygnea this ACSM of action of IGF-1 has only one difference--the protein kinase C included in this mechanism is represented not by PKCzeta isoform, but by another isoform close to PKCepsilon of the vertabrate brain. Earlier we revealed the same differences in muscle of this mollusc in the ACSM of action of insulin and relaxin. |