[HTML][HTML] Insulin and IGF-1 receptors regulate FoxO-mediated signaling in muscle proteostasis

BT O'Neill, KY Lee, K Klaus, S Softic… - The Journal of …, 2016 - Am Soc Clin Investig
BT O'Neill, KY Lee, K Klaus, S Softic, MT Krumpoch, J Fentz, KI Stanford, MM Robinson
The Journal of clinical investigation, 2016Am Soc Clin Investig
Diabetes strongly impacts protein metabolism, particularly in skeletal muscle. Insulin and
IGF-1 enhance muscle protein synthesis through their receptors, but the relative roles of
each in muscle proteostasis have not been fully elucidated. Using mice with muscle-specific
deletion of the insulin receptor (M-IR–/–mice), the IGF-1 receptor (M-IGF1R–/–mice), or both
(MIGIRKO mice), we assessed the relative contributions of IR and IGF1R signaling to muscle
proteostasis. In differentiated muscle, IR expression predominated over IGF1R expression …
Diabetes strongly impacts protein metabolism, particularly in skeletal muscle. Insulin and IGF-1 enhance muscle protein synthesis through their receptors, but the relative roles of each in muscle proteostasis have not been fully elucidated. Using mice with muscle-specific deletion of the insulin receptor (M-IR–/– mice), the IGF-1 receptor (M-IGF1R–/– mice), or both (MIGIRKO mice), we assessed the relative contributions of IR and IGF1R signaling to muscle proteostasis. In differentiated muscle, IR expression predominated over IGF1R expression, and correspondingly, M-IR–/– mice displayed a moderate reduction in muscle mass whereas M-IGF1R–/– mice did not. However, these receptors serve complementary roles, such that double-knockout MIGIRKO mice displayed a marked reduction in muscle mass that was linked to increases in proteasomal and autophagy-lysosomal degradation, accompanied by a high-protein-turnover state. Combined muscle-specific deletion of FoxO1, FoxO3, and FoxO4 in MIGIRKO mice reversed increased autophagy and completely rescued muscle mass without changing proteasomal activity. These data indicate that signaling via IR is more important than IGF1R in controlling proteostasis in differentiated muscle. Nonetheless, the overlap of IR and IGF1R signaling is critical to the regulation of muscle protein turnover, and this regulation depends on suppression of FoxO-regulated, autophagy-mediated protein degradation.
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