Impaired tyrosine-kinase activity of muscle insulin receptors from hypomagnesaemic rats

Abstract

SummaryThe effect of magnesium deficiency on glucose disposal, glucose-stimulated insulin secretion and insulin action on skeletal muscle was investigated in rats which were fed a low magnesium-containing diet for 4 days. Control rats were fed a standard diet. Compared to the control rats, the rats fed with low magnesium diet presented: 1) lower serum magnesium levels (0.45 + 0.02 vs 0.78 + 0.01 mmol/1, p < 0.001), 2) higher basal serum glucose (6.8 +__ 0.2 vs 5.5 + 0.2 mmol/1, p < 0.05) and similar basal serum insulin, 3) 40 % reduction (p < 0.001) in the glucose disappearance rate after its i.v. administration, and 4) 45 % reduction (p < 0.05) in the glucose-stimulated insulin secretion. The insulin action upon the glucose uptake by skeletal muscle was determined by means of hindquarter perfusions. Compared with control rats, magnesium-deficient rats presented: 1) normal basal glucose uptake, 2) lower stimulatory effect on the glucose uptake by insulin at the concentrations of 5 x 10 -l~ mol/1 (3.0 + 0.9 vs 5.4 + 0.6, p < 0.05) and 5 x 10 -9 tool/1 (6.3 + 0.5 vs 8.0 + 0.5, p < 0.05), 3) normal glucose uptake at a maximal insulin concentration of i x 10 .7 mol/1, and 4) 50 % reduction in the insulin sensitivity (ED50:1.3 +_ 0.3 vs 0.55 + 0.1 mol/1, p < 0.05). In partially purified insulin receptors prepared from gastrocnemius muscle, 125I-insulin binding was similar in both groups of rats. However, the autophosphorylation of the fi-subunit of the insulin receptor was significantly reduced by 50 % in magnesium-deficient rats and the tyrosine kinase activity of insulin receptors toward the exogenous substrate Poly Glu4: Tyr 1 was also reduced (p < 0.05) by hypomagnesaemia. The abundance of the insulin-sensitive glucose transporter protein (muscle/fat GLUT4), measured by Western blot analysis using polyclonal antisera, was similar in muscles of control and hypomagnesaemic rats. These findings indicate that hypomagnesaemia has a deleterious effect on glucose metabolism due to an impairment of both insulin secretion and action. The insulin resistance observed in skeletal muscle of magnesium-deficient rats may be attributed, at least in part, to a defective tyrosine kinase activity of insulin receptors.

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