Abstract
The present study examined the effects of diabetes and insulin treatment of diabetic rats on the activity of the protein synthesis initiation factor, the guanine nucleotide exchange factor. In extracts from gastrocnemius and psoas muscles from two-day diabetic rats, guanine nucleotide exchange factor activity was reduced to 80% and 67% of control values, respectively. Insulin treatment (2 h) restored guanine nucleotide exchange factor activity to control values in both muscles. In contrast, guanine nucleotide exchange factor activity was unchanged in extracts from either soleus muscle or heart from diabetic rats compared to controls. Also, insulin treatment did not increase guanine nucleotide exchange factor activity in extracts from soleus and heart. The results suggest that the diabetes-induced impairment in peptide-chain initiation in fast-twitch skeletal muscle (i.e. gastrocnemius and psoas) is related to an inhibition of guanine nucleotide exchange factor activity and that slow-twitch muscle is spared from the effect on initiation due to the preservation of guanine nucleotide exchange factor activity.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 706-711 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications |
| Volume | 156 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 31 1988 |
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All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Biophysics
- Biochemistry
- Molecular Biology
- Cell Biology
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