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The mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway in rat islets of Langerhans: studies on the regulation of insulin secretion.

ABSTRACT: The expression of mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) and MAPK kinases (MEKs) in rat islets of Langerhans and the involvement of MAPKs in regulated insulin secretion were examined. Two major isoforms of both MEK (45 and 46 kDa) and MAPK (42 and 44 kDa) were detected in rat islets and shown to be localized to insulin-secreting beta cells by detection of their expression in the beta cell line MIN6. The tyrosine phosphatase inhibitor sodium pervanadate, and, to a lesser extent, the serine/threonine phosphatase inhibitor okadaic acid, stimulated MAPK phosphorylation, as assessed by a shift in its electrophoretic mobility and by increased phosphotyrosine immunoreactivity of immunoprecipitated MAPK. The increase in MAPK phosphorylation stimulated by sodium pervanadate was not coupled to an increase in MAPK activity, but okadaic acid, either alone or in the presence of sodium pervanadate, caused an increase in myelin basic protein phosphorylation by MAPK. Neither okadaic acid nor sodium pervanadate, either individually or combined, stimulated insulin secretion. 4 beta-phorbol myristate acetate stimulated an increase in phosphorylation of the 42 kDa isoform of MAPK (erk2) in human umbilical vein endothelial cells, but neither it nor glucose affected either the phosphorylation state of islet erk2 or the activities of immunoprecipitated islet MAPKs. These results provide evidence for the presence of a regulated MAPK pathway in adult rat islets, but our data suggest that MAPK activation alone is not a sufficient stimulus for insulin secretion.

SUBMITTER: Persaud SJ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1216871 | biostudies-other | 1996 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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