“…These data were consistent with enhanced inhibition of insulin-stimulated glucose uptake from blood and increased expression of glucose-6-phosphatase (G6pc; mouse: G6pc) and phosphoenolpyruvate (mouse: Pck1), genes involved in gluconeogenesis, in wild-type mice treated with PST [32]. More recently, in silico and in vitro assays predicted a higher binding affinity of the Ser 297 variant with the glucose-regulated protein 78 (GRP78), an endoplasmic chaperon involved in multiple cellular processes, and the insulin receptor compared to wild-type PST [109,110]. Interestingly, experimentally deletion of three N-terminal amino acids (Pro-Glu-Gly) showed a decrease in plasma glucose and hepatic gluconeogenesis in diet-induced obesity mice [34].…”