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Molecular and Cellular Biology, April 2001, p. 2521-2532, Vol. 21, No. 7
Department of Internal Medicine, Graduate
School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo
113-8655,1 Division of Laboratory Animal
Science, Animal Research Center, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo
160-8402,2 and Institute for
Diabetes Care and Research, Asahi Life Foundation, Tokyo
100-0005,3 Japan
Received 10 July 2000/Returned for modification 30 August
2000/Accepted 20 December 2000
To investigate the role of insulin receptor substrate 1 (IRS-1) and
IRS-2, the two ubiquitously expressed IRS proteins, in adipocyte
differentiation, we established embryonic fibroblast cells with four
different genotypes, i.e., wild-type, IRS-1 deficient (IRS-1
0270-7306/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/MCB.21.7.2521-2532.2001
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Essential Role of Insulin Receptor Substrate 1 (IRS-1) and IRS-2 in Adipocyte Differentiation
/
), IRS-2 deficient (IRS-2
/
), and
IRS-1 IRS-2 double deficient (IRS-1
/
IRS-2
/
), from mouse embryos of the corresponding
genotypes. The abilities of IRS-1
/
cells and
IRS-2
/
cells to differentiate into adipocytes are
approximately 60 and 15%, respectively, lower than that of wild-type
cells, at day 8 after induction and, surprisingly,
IRS-1
/
IRS-2
/
cells have no ability to
differentiate into adipocytes. The expression of CCAAT/enhancer binding
protein
(C/EBP
) and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor
(PPAR
) is severely decreased in IRS-1
/
IRS-2
/
cells at both the mRNA and the protein level,
and the mRNAs of lipoprotein lipase and adipocyte fatty acid binding
protein are severely decreased in IRS-1
/
IRS-2
/
cells. Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI
3-kinase) activity that increases during adipocyte differentiation is
almost completely abolished in IRS-1
/
IRS-2
/
cells. Treatment of wild-type cells with a PI
3-kinase inhibitor, LY294002, markedly decreases the expression of
C/EBP
and PPAR
, a result which is associated with a complete
block of adipocyte differentiation. Moreover, histologic analysis of
IRS-1
/
IRS-2
/
double-knockout mice
8 h after birth reveals severe reduction in white adipose tissue
mass. Our results suggest that IRS-1 and IRS-2 play a crucial role in
the upregulation of the C/EBP
and PPAR
expression and adipocyte differentiation.
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Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of
Internal Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan. Phone: 81-3-5800-8818. Fax: 81-3-5689-7209. E-mail:
kadowaki-3im{at}h.u-tokyo.ac.jp.
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