Insulin binding to individual rat skeletal muscles

Journal Article · Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1990 · American Journal of Physiology; (USA)

OSTI ID:6277978

Koerker, D J; Sweet, I R; Baskin, D G ^[1]

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1. Univ. of Washington, Seattle (USA)

Studies of insulin binding to skeletal muscle, performed using sarcolemmal membrane preparations or whole muscle incubations of mixed muscle or typical red (soleus, psoas) or white (extensor digitorum longus (EDL), gastrocnemius) muscle, have suggested that red muscle binds more insulin than white muscle. We have evaluated this hypothesis using cryostat sections of unfixed tissue to measure insulin binding in a broad range of skeletal muscles; many were of similar fiber-type profiles. Insulin binding per square millimeter of skeletal muscle slice was measured by autoradiography and computer-assisted densitometry. We found a 4.5-fold range in specific insulin tracer binding, with heart and predominantly slow-twitch oxidative muscles (SO) at the high end and the predominantly fast-twitch glycolytic (FG) muscles at the low end of the range. This pattern reflects insulin sensitivity. Evaluation of displacement curves for insulin binding yielded linear Scatchard plots. The dissociation constants varied over a ninefold range (0.26-2.06 nM). Binding capacity varied from 12.2 to 82.7 fmol/mm2. Neither binding parameter was correlated with fiber type or insulin sensitivity; e.g., among three muscles of similar fiber-type profile, the EDL had high numbers of low-affinity binding sites, whereas the quadriceps had low numbers of high-affinity sites. In summary, considerable heterogeneity in insulin binding was found among hindlimb muscles of the rat, which can be attributed to heterogeneity in binding affinities and the numbers of binding sites. It can be concluded that a given fiber type is not uniquely associated with a set of insulin binding parameters that result in high or low binding.

• OSTI ID: 6277978
• Journal Information: American Journal of Physiology; (USA), Vol. 259:4 Pt 1; ISSN 0002-9513
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
INSULIN
BIOCHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS
MUSCLES
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AUTORADIOGRAPHY
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IODINE ISOTOPES
RATS
RECEPTORS
ANIMALS
CELL CONSTITUENTS
CHEMISTRY
HORMONES
ISOTOPES
KINETICS
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PEPTIDE HORMONES
PROTEINS
REACTION KINETICS
RODENTS
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