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Molecular and Cellular Biology, June 2004, p. 5434-5446, Vol. 24, No. 12
0270-7306/04/$08.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/MCB.24.12.5434-5446.2004
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Suppressor of Cytokine Signaling 1 (SOCS-1) and SOCS-3 Cause Insulin Resistance through Inhibition of Tyrosine Phosphorylation of Insulin Receptor Substrate Proteins by Discrete Mechanisms
Kohjiro Ueki,
Tatsuya Kondo, and C. Ronald Kahn*
Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center, and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Received 2 October 2003/
Returned for modification 3 November 2003/
Accepted 20 March 2004

ABSTRACT
Insulin resistance is a pathophysiological component of type
2 diabetes and obesity and also occurs in states of stress,
infection, and inflammation associated with an upregulation
of cytokines. Here we show that in both obesity and lipopolysaccharide
(LPS)-induced endotoxemia there is an increase in suppressor
of cytokine signaling (SOCS) proteins, SOCS-1 and SOCS-3, in
liver, muscle, and, to a lesser extent, fat. In concordance
with these increases by LPS, tyrosine phosphorylation of the
insulin receptor (IR) is partially impaired and phosphorylation
of the insulin receptor substrate (IRS) proteins is almost completely
suppressed. Direct overexpression of SOCS-3 in liver by adenoviral-mediated
gene transfer markedly decreases tyrosine phosphorylation of
both IRS-1 and IRS-2, while SOCS-1 overexpression preferentially
inhibits IRS-2 phosphorylation. Neither affects IR phosphorylation,
although both SOCS-1 and SOCS-3 bind to the insulin receptor
in vivo in an insulin-dependent fashion. Experiments with cultured
cells expressing mutant insulin receptors reveal that SOCS-3
binds to Tyr960 of IR, a key residue for the recognition of
IRS-1 and IRS-2, whereas SOCS-1 binds to the domain in the catalytic
loop essential for IRS-2 recognition in vitro. Moreover, overexpression
of either SOCS-1 or SOCS-3 attenuates insulin-induced glycogen
synthesis in L6 myotubes and activation of glucose uptake in
3T3L1 adipocytes. By contrast, a reduction of SOCS-1 or SOCS-3
by antisense treatment partially restores tumor necrosis factor
alpha-induced downregulation of tyrosine phosphorylation of
IRS proteins in 3T3L1 adipocytes. These data indicate that SOCS-1
and SOCS-3 act as negative regulators in insulin signaling and
serve as one of the missing links between insulin resistance
and cytokine signaling.

INTRODUCTION
Insulin resistance is observed in a wide variety of pathophysiological
states. In obesity, infection, and inflammation, this is associated
with elevated levels of cytokines (
37,
52). Tumor necrosis factor
alpha (TNF-

) has been shown to play an important role for insulin
resistance in obese animal models (
20), and loss of TNF-

signaling
can reduce insulin resistance in
ob/ob mice (
51). Moreover,
recent studies have revealed that elevated concentrations of
cytokines, such as interleukin-6, are associated with development
of type 2 diabetes (
15,
38). Several mechanisms may play a role
in cytokine-induced insulin resistance. TNF-

stimulation increases
serine phosphorylation of insulin receptor substrate 1 (IRS-1),
decreasing its tyrosine phosphorylation by the insulin receptor
(IR) kinase (
2,
19). Although these phosphorylation events are
very rapid, full TNF-

-mediated inhibition develops over several
hours (
13), suggesting the involvement of other mechanisms,
such as transcription-mediated regulation.
The suppressor of cytokine signaling (SOCS; also known as JAB and SSI) family is composed of SOCS-1 to -7 and the cytokine-inducible src homology 2 domain-containing protein (CIS) (56). These are thought to participate in negative feedback loops in cytokine signaling by multiple mechanisms (12, 33, 45). SOCS-1 and SOCS-3 have been shown to bind JAK tyrosine kinase and attenuate its ability to phosphorylate signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) proteins (34, 55), while CIS and SOCS-3 bind phosphorylated cytokine receptors and competitively interfere with binding of other src homology 2 domain-containing proteins (41). Expression of the SOCS proteins is increased by cytokine signaling through activation of STAT- and NF-
B-mediated pathways (12, 33, 40, 45). Thus, the negative feedback loop via SOCS proteins is doubly regulated in both a phosphorylation-dependent manner and a transcription-dependent manner.
Recent studies using the yeast two-hybrid system and molecular reconstitution in cultured cells have shown that SOCS-1, SOCS-3, and SOCS-6 can bind IR (11, 31) and that SOCS-2 and SOCS-3 can bind the insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor (9, 58). If SOCS proteins could attenuate insulin signaling in vivo, they would be attractive candidate molecules linking elevated cytokine levels and decreased insulin sensitivity in insulin-resistant states. Indeed, recently it has been shown that SOCS-1 knockout mice have decreased glucose levels and that cells derived from these mice seem to exhibit enhanced insulin signaling (25), although it is difficult to determine insulin sensitivity in vivo by using these mice because they die within 3 weeks of birth (32, 44).
In this study, we show that SOCS-1 and SOCS-3 are increased in insulin-resistant states, such as endotoxemia and obesity. The increased SOCS-1 and SOCS-3 bind to the distinct domains of IR, thereby differently inhibiting phosphorylation of IRS-1 and IRS-2 without affecting tyrosine phosphorylation of IR in vivo and in vitro. This attenuation of insulin signaling by SOCS-1 or SOCS-3 results in reductions of activation of glycogen synthesis and glucose transport in cultured cells, and reducing levels of these proteins restores the decreased tyrosine phosphorylation of IRS proteins caused by TNF-
.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
Animals.
Eight-week-old female C57BLKS/J
db/db mice and C57BLKS/J mice
were purchased from Jackson Laboratories, and 8-week-old male
C57BL/6 mice were purchased from Taconic. All animals were housed
on a 12-h light-dark cycle and were fed a standard rodent chow.
All protocols for animal use and euthanasia were approved by
the Animal Care Use Committee of the Joslin Diabetes Center
and Harvard Medical School in accordance with National Institutes
of Health guidelines.
RNA isolation from mice and cultured cells.
Total RNA was isolated from mouse tissues and cultured cells by using an RNeasy kit (QIAGEN). To induce endotoxemia, mice were starved overnight and treated with 20 mg of lipopolysaccharide (LPS; Sigma)/kg of body weight by intraperitoneal injection for the indicated period before sacrifice (47). For in vitro experiments, the cultured cells were starved for 18 h followed by treatment with 25 ng of TNF-
/ml or 100 nM insulin for 4 h, after which RNA was isolated as described above.
Semiquantitative RT-PCR.
Five hundred nanograms of the total RNA was applied to reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) by using a One-Step RT-PCR system (Invitrogen). The primer pairs were the following: 5'-TCCGATTACCGGCGCATCACG-3' and 5'-CTCCAGCAGCTCGAAAAGGCA-3' for SOCS-1; 5'-CACAGCAAGTTTCCCGCCGCC-3' and 5'-GTGCACCAGCTTGAGTACACA-3' for SOCS-3; and 5'-ACCACCATGGAGAAGGCCGG-3' and 5'-CTCAGTGTAGCCCAAGATGC-3' for glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH). The PCR profile was as follows: 1 cycle at 94°C for 5 min followed by 38 cycles (for db/db mice and cells) or 35 cycles (for LPS- and adenovirus-treated mice) at 94°C for 1 min, 60°C for 30 s, and 72°C for 1 min, and finally 1 cycle at 72°C for 10 min.
Generation of recombinant adenoviruses.
The cDNAs of SOCS-1 and SOCS-3 were subcloned between BamHI and EcoRI sites of pCMV-Tag2 vector, respectively, and amplified the full-length SOCS-1 and SOCS-3 cDNAs with an N-terminal FLAG tag by using the primer pairs 5'-GCCGCCACCATGGATTACAAGGAT-3' and 5'-TCAGATCTGGAAGGGGAAGGAACTCAG-3' for SOCS-1 and 5'-GCCGCCACCATGGATTACAAGGAT-3' and 5'-CTAAAGTGGAGCATCATACTGATC-3' for SOCS-3. After confirming the sequences, we treated the amplified fragments with Klenow enzyme and subcloned them into the SwaI site of the pAdex1CAwt cosmid cassette. The recombinant adenoviruses, Adex1CASOCS-1-FLAG and Adex1CASOCS-3-FLAG, were constructed by homologous recombination between the expression cosmid cassette and parental virus genome, as described previously (49).
Adenovirus-mediated gene transfer.
Eight-week-old male C57BL/6 mice were injected with the adenoviruses at a concentration of 5 x 108 PFU/g of body weight in a suspension of 200 µl of phosphate-buffered saline through the tail vein as described previously (50). We performed intravenous insulin injection at day 8. For in vitro experiments, Fao cells were grown to confluence and then were treated with the adenovirus at a multiplicity of infection (MOI) of 50 for 48 h followed by 18 h of starvation and insulin stimulation. For L6 myotubes and 3T3L1 adipocytes, we induced the cells into full differentiation as described previously (49) and then treated them with the adenovirus at an MOI of 50 and 250, respectively, for 48 h.
In vivo insulin stimulation and analysis of insulin signaling.
Mice were starved overnight, anesthetized with pentobarbital, and injected with 5 U of regular human insulin (Lilly) into the inferior vena cava. Five minutes after injection the liver was removed and frozen in liquid nitrogen. Immunoprecipitation and immunoblot analysis of insulin-signaling molecules were performed by using tissue homogenates extracted with buffer A, which contained 25 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.4), 10 mM Na3VO4, 100 mM NaF, 50 mM Na4P2O7, 10 mM EGTA, 10 mM EDTA, 5 µg of leupeptin/ml, 5 µg of aprotinin/ml, 2 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride, and 1% Nonidet-P 40, as previously described (50).
Antibodies.
Polyclonal anti-SOCS-1 antibody (
SOCS-1),
SOCS-3, and polyclonal anti-Akt1 and -2 antibody (
Akt) were purchased from Santa Cruz Biotechnology. Rabbit polyclonal anti-IRS-1 antibody (
IRS-1), anti-IRS-2 antibody (
IRS-2), and anti-IR antibody (
IR) were generated as described previously (4). Monoclonal anti-phosphotyrosine antibody (
PY) and monoclonal anti-FLAG antibody (
FLAG) were purchased from Upstate Biotechnology, Inc., and Sigma, respectively.
In vitro kinase assays.
Tissue homogenates or cells were extracted with buffer A and were subjected to immunoprecipitation with
IRS-1,
IRS-2, or
PY antibodies followed by phosphatidylinositol (PI) 3-kinase assay as described previously (50). Akt kinase activity in the immunoprecipitates with
Akt was determined by using Crosstide as a substrate, as described previously (50).
GST pull-down assay.
The bacterial expression vector, pGEX-TY, encoding the major tyrosine phosphorylation sites in the catalytic loop of the human IR (1141-Met-Thr-Arg-Asp-Ile-Tyr-Glu-Thr-Asp-Tyr-Tyr-Arg-Lys-Gly-Gly-Lys-Gly-Leu-1158) fused to glutathione S-transferase (GST-TY), was generated by subcloning the annealed two oligonucleotides, 5'-GATCCATGACCAGAGACATCTATGAAACGGATTACTACCGGAAAGGGGGCAAGGGTCTGG-3' and 5'-AATTCCAGACCCTTGCCCCCTTTCCGGTAGTAATCCGTTTCATAGATGTCTCTGGTCATG-3', between BamHI and EcoRI sites of pGEX4T-1 vector. The activated IRs were purified and immobilized on wheat germ agglutinin beads from CHO-IR cells treated with 100 nM insulin for 5 min, as described previously (48). To phosphorylate the tyrosine residues of GST-TY (pGST-TY), GST-TY was incubated with the purified IR in buffer containing 50 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.4), 5 mM MnCl2, and 20 µM ATP, as described previously (48). Lysates (1 mg of protein) form Fao cells overexpressing SOCS-1 or SOCS-3 by adenovirus-mediated gene transfer following 18 h of serum starvation were incubated with 1 µg of pGST-TY or GST-TY fusion protein that was previously immobilized on glutathione Sepharose beads. The protein complexes on the beads were extensively washed with buffer A followed by immunoblotting with anti-FLAG antibody.
Metabolic studies.
Glycogen synthase activity was assayed by using L6 myotubes treated with the indicated adenovirus, as described previously (49). The results were expressed as the fractional activity determined by dividing the activity measured with 0.25 mM glucose-6-phosphate (G6P) by the activity measured with 10 mM G6P. 2-Deoxy glucose uptake assays were performed by using 3T3L1 adipocytes treated with the indicated adenovirus, as described previously (49).
Antisense treatment.
Two oligonucleotides, designated AS1 and AS3, were synthesized for antisense treatment against SOCS-1 and SOCS-3, respectively. AS1 was designed as a 26-bp single-strand oligonucleotide, covering the 5 to approximately +21 region of murine SOCS-1 mRNA (5'-CACCTGGTTGCGTGCTACCATCCTAC-3'), while AS3 was designed to cover the 5 to approximately +21 region of the murine SOCS-3 mRNA (5'-AAACTTGCTGTGGGTGACCATGGCGC-3') (3). Two oligonucleotides, designated C1 (5'-CAGCTCGTAGCGAGCAACCATCGTAC-3', a six-base mismatch to AS1) and C3 (5'-AATCTAGCTCTGCGTGAGCATCGCGC-3', a six-base mismatch to AS3), were also synthesized for controls. All oligonucleotides were synthesized as uniform phosphorothioate chimeric oligonucleotides, with 2'-O-methoxyethyl groups on bases 1 to 5 and 22 to 26. Fully differentiated 3T3L1 adipocytes were transfected with the oligonucleotides at the final concentration of 500 nM in serum-free Dulbecco's modified Eagle medium (DMEM) and FuGENE6 (Roche) as described previously (5). After being cultured in DMEM plus 10% fetal bovine serum for 48 h, cells were starved for 18 h followed by treatment with 25 ng of TNF-
/ml for 5 h and then were stimulated with 100 nM insulin for 2 min.

RESULTS
Upregulation of SOCS-1 and SOCS-3 in insulin-sensitive tissues in insulin-resistant states.
Endotoxemia in animals caused by bacterial LPS injection provides
an experimental model for sepsis and a tool to investigate the
relationship between the effects by elevated cytokine levels
and insulin resistance, because LPS is known to cause systemic
insulin resistance associated with elevated cytokine levels,
such as interleukin-6 and TNF-

(
6,
26,
29,
46,
53). Thus, to
assess potential roles of SOCS proteins in insulin resistance
states, we investigated changes in expression levels of SOCS-1
and SOCS-3 in insulin-sensitive tissues during endotoxemia.
We treated mice with LPS, which has been shown to rapidly induce
severe insulin resistance in liver and skeletal muscle (
47,
53). We found that expression of both SOCS-1 and SOCS-3 in liver,
as estimated by RT-PCR, was markedly increased, reaching a maximal
level at 1 h after injection of LPS, and this was sustained
at 4 h (Fig.
1a). At the protein level, SOCS-1 was maximally
induced at 4 h, while SOCS-3 increased more rapidly, reaching
its maximal level by 1 h (Fig.
1c). SOCS-1 and SOCS-3 were also
significantly increased in muscle tissue at 1 h after injection
of LPS, and further increase continued at 4 h (Fig.
1a). By
contrast, LPS treatment produced no changes in SOCS-1 or SOCS-3
expression in fat (Fig.
1a).
It has been previously shown that the insulin resistance of
obesity may have a component mediated by cytokines, such as
TNF-

(
20). In muscle and liver of the obese insulin-resistant
db/db mouse, SOCS-1 and SOCS-3 mRNAs were upregulated by 60
to 120%. In this case, there was also a significant increase
in SOCS-1 and also a trend to increased levels of SOCS-3 in
fat compared to levels in the controls (Fig.
1b). At the protein
level, both SOCS-1 and SOCS-3 proteins were increased in livers
of
db/db mice compared to levels in their controls, but the
level of increase appeared to be less than that induced by LPS
as evidenced by immunostaining (Fig.
1d).
Impaired insulin signaling in liver with endotoxemia.
Although biological responses to insulin are known to be severely impaired during sepsis or endotoxemia (6, 26, 53), the specific alterations in insulin signaling have been poorly explored. To assess the mechanism of insulin resistance caused by endotoxemia and the possible role of the increase in SOCS proteins, we investigated insulin-signaling events in the livers of mice treated with LPS at 4 h, a time when insulin resistance has been demonstrated (6, 26, 53) and SOCS proteins are upregulated (Fig. 1c). At this time, phosphorylation of IR in liver was decreased by 50% in mice treated with LPS compared to controls (Fig. 2a). The phosphorylation of IRS-1 and IRS-2 was more profoundly decreased to almost undetectable levels by LPS treatment (Fig. 2a), suggesting that another inhibitory mechanism might be exerted in addition to the decrease in phosphorylation of IR. Reductions in phosphorylation of IR and IRS proteins were not associated with alterations in the levels of these proteins. Parallel with the decrease in phosphorylation of IRS proteins, PI 3-kinase activity associated with phosphotyrosine complexes was decreased by
65% in livers of mice treated with LPS (Fig. 2b). Consistent with the decrease in PI 3-kinase activity, basal- and insulin-induced Akt/ protein kinase B activity were markedly decreased in liver treated with LPS. Akt lies downstream of PI 3-kinase and has been shown to play an important role in inhibition of hepatic glucose production (7). This may contribute to the increased hepatic glucose production observed in animals during endotoxemia (6, 47).
Impaired insulin signaling in liver overexpressing SOCS-1 or SOCS-3.
To assess whether the increase in SOCS-1 or SOCS-3 could mimic
the attenuation of insulin signaling observed in endotoxemia,
we treated three groups of mice with the adenoviruses encoding
SOCS-1, SOCS-3, or LacZ, respectively. In each group the expression
of protein following intravenous injection of the virus was
primarily detected in liver, and the infection efficiency estimated
by ß-galactosidase assay with the liver treated with
LacZ adenovirus was more than 90% (data not shown). The levels
of overexpression of SOCS-1 and SOCS-3 under these conditions
of infection were similar to those induced by LPS (Fig.
3a).
Because both SOCS proteins were FLAG tagged, immunoblotting
with an anti-FLAG antibody revealed that the protein level of
introduced SOCS-3 was slightly higher than that of the introduced
SOCS-1 (Fig.
3b).
To assess the effects of overexpression of SOCS-1 and SOCS-3,
8 days after adenoviral treatment mice were given an intravenous
insulin injection and 5 min later livers were removed to study
insulin signaling. Overexpression of either SOCS-1 or SOCS-3
modestly inhibited phosphorylation of IRS-1, with SOCS-3 being
more potent than SOCS-1. On the other hand, both profoundly
decreased phosphorylation of IRS-2, while phosphorylation of
IR was not altered in either case (Fig.
3c). Overexpression
of SOCS-3 also produced a small reduction in the levels of IRS-1
and IRS-2 proteins, whereas SOCS-1 had almost no effect on IRS
protein levels (Fig.
3c), indicating that reductions in IRS
proteins could not account for the decrease in IRS phosphorylation
related to increased SOCS expression. Indeed, these reductions
in IRS proteins appeared to be secondary to the chronic hyperinsulinemia
that occurs in the insulin-resistant state and is known to downregulate
IRS-1 protein and IRS-2 mRNA (
18,
43), because these did not
occur in cultured cells overexpressing SOCS-1 or SOCS-3 (Fig.
4c). In parallel with the decrease in IRS protein phosphorylation,
PI 3-kinase activities associated with IRS-1 and IRS-2 were
significantly decreased in livers overexpressing SOCS-1 and
SOCS-3 (Fig.
3d). As a result, total PI 3-kinase activity associated
with phosphotyrosine complexes was decreased by

50% in livers
overexpressing SOCS-1 and SOCS-3 (Fig.
3d), and insulin-induced
Akt activity was reduced by

30% (data not shown). Thus, overexpression
of SOCS-1 or SOCS-3 inhibits tyrosine phosphorylation of IRS
proteins and impairs subsequent downstream signaling without
directly inhibiting IR phosphorylation.
Inhibitory mechanisms of SOCS proteins in insulin signaling.
SOCS proteins are known to interact with JAK tyrosine kinase
and inhibit phosphorylation of JAK substrates, such as the STAT
proteins involved in cytokine signaling (
34,
55). To clarify
the inhibitory mechanisms of SOCS-1 and SOCS-3 on insulin signaling,
we investigated the interaction of SOCS-1 or SOCS-3 with tyrosine-phosphorylated
proteins induced by insulin in vivo. Following insulin stimulation,
coprecipitation experiments revealed that the major insulin-dependent
phosphorylated protein interacting with SOCS-1 or SOCS-3 in
liver and muscle was migrated at the 95-kDa range where the
ß subunit of the IR (IRß) was located (Fig.
4a, top). Indeed, this band was identified as IRß
by immunoblotting with the specific antibody for the IR (Fig.
4a, bottom). In these experiments, insulin-induced phosphorylation
of JAK kinases was not detected (data not shown). Because the
increased SOCS proteins attenuate phosphorylation of IRS proteins
without affecting the IR phosphorylation, it is likely that
SOCS proteins bind to the residue(s) of IR that is important
for substrate recognition. We and others have previously shown
that Tyr960 of IR is the key residue for recognition of IRS-1
by IR (
10,
54). To address the possibility that SOCS proteins
interact with IR via this residue (thereby inhibiting phosphorylation
of IRS proteins), we assessed the interaction between SOCS-1
or SOCS-3 and a mutant IR in which the Tyr at 960 was replaced
with Phe (IR960F). In cells expressing IR960F, the interaction
between the mutant IR and SOCS-3 was almost abolished (Fig.
4b), suggesting that Tyr960 is the major binding site of IR
for SOCS-3. This is consistent with the results of studies that
used the yeast two-hybrid system (
11). By contrast, the interaction
between SOCS-1 and the mutant IR was actually increased, suggesting
that SOCS-1 binds to another site that cooperates with Tyr960
in recognition of IRS proteins. Indeed, it is known that the
kinase domain of the IR including the three major tyrosine phosphorylation
sites (Tyr1146, -1150, and -1151) is required for the interaction
between IR and IRS-2 in addition to Tyr960 (
17,
42). To assess
the possibility that SOCS-1 binds to this region of IR, we conducted
pull-down assays with the GST fusion protein containing the
sequence of the IR kinase domain including the three tyrosine
residues (GST-TY) by using the lysates from the cells overexpressing
SOCS-1 or SOCS-3. These experiments revealed that phosphorylated
GST-TY (pGST-TY), but not unphosphorylated GST-TY, bound to
SOCS-1 but not SOCS-3 (Fig.
4c) in vitro, indicating that SOCS-1
can bind to the kinase domain and residues which are important
for IRS-2 recognition.
These distinct patterns of the interaction with IR may account for the difference in the inhibitory affinity for IRS-1 and IRS-2 of SOCS-1 and SOCS-3. Indeed, in Fao hepatoma cells, overexpression of SOCS-1 more potently inhibited phosphorylation of IRS-2 than that of IRS-1, while overexpression of SOCS-3 almost equally affected phosphorylation of both IRS-1 and IRS-2 (Fig. 5a). The inhibition of phosphorylation did not accompany any detectable reductions of IR or IRS proteins (Fig. 5a), supporting the molecular mechanism of inhibition proposed above. Furthermore, time courses of IRS-1 and IRS-2 phosphorylation in cells expressing SOCS-1 and SOCS-3 more clearly demonstrated the difference of the inhibitory effects of SOCS-1 and SOCS-3 on each IRS protein (Fig. 5b).
Inhibition of biological responses to insulin by SOCS-1 and SOCS-3 in cultured muscle cells and adipocytes.
The effects of the SOCS proteins were further explored in cultured
L6 myotubes and 3T3L1 adipocytes. In these cells, SOCS-1 and
SOCS-3 were induced by TNF-

and insulin (Fig.
6a and b), two
substances which are increased in insulin-resistant states.
Furthermore, adenoviral-mediated overexpression of SOCS-1 or
SOCS-3 in L6 myotubes and 3T3L1 adipocytes inhibited phosphorylation
of IRS proteins as observed in liver and cultured hepatoma cells
(data not shown). In parallel with the decreased IRS protein
phosphorylation, glycogen synthase activity was inhibited by
SOCS-1 and SOCS-3 in L6 myotubes (Fig.
6a) and glucose transport
activity was significantly decreased by SOCS-1 and SOCS-3 in
3T3L1 adipocytes (Fig.
6b). Thus, both SOCS-1 and SOCS-3 have
an inhibitory role on insulin action in muscle and fat in insulin-resistant
states in which insulin and TNF-

are increased.
Amelioration of TNF-
-induced impaired phosphorylation of IRS proteins by suppressing SOCS-1 and SOCS-3.
To address whether inhibition of SOCS-1 or SOCS-3 could ameliorate
impaired insulin signaling caused by cytokines, we treated 3T3L1
adipocytes with antisense oligonucleotides against SOCS-1 and
SOCS-3. Treatment with antisense oligonucleotide for SOCS-1
(AS1) or SOCS-3 (AS3) reduced the level of the targeted protein
and completely inhibited the elevation by TNF-

compared to that
of the control treatment with C1 or C3, respectively. Suppression
of SOCS-1 partially but significantly restored phosphorylation
of IRS-2 inhibited by TNF-

while it had only modest effect on
IRS-1 phosphorylation (Fig.
7, left). Suppression of SOCS-3,
on the other hand, also significantly rescued TNF-

-induced inhibition
of IRS protein phosphorylation with equal effects on both proteins,
consistent with the discrete inhibitory mechanisms of each SOCS
protein (Fig.
7, right).

DISCUSSION
Insulin resistance is a central feature of many physiological
and pathological states and can be the result of a wide variety
of biochemical defects in the insulin action cascade (
52). In
the present study, we demonstrate that endotoxin-induced insulin
resistance elevates SOCS-1 and SOCS-3 expression in liver and
muscle. In liver, insulin signaling is impaired at very early
steps, including phosphorylation of IR and IRS proteins, leading
to decreased downstream insulin signaling. Overexpression of
SOCS-1 or SOCS-3 by adenovirus-mediated gene transfer mimics
most of these features by decreasing phosphorylation of IRS-1
and IRS-2. In contrast to the effect of LPS treatment, however,
for overexpression by gene transfer the phosphorylation of IR
is not altered, suggesting that LPS treatment attenuates insulin
signaling by additional mechanisms at additional steps.
There are several possible mechanisms that may play a role following LPS treatment, including downregulation of the IR by transient hyperinsulinemia and increasing serine phosphorylation of the IR by protein kinase C (21, 24). In addition, I
B kinase ß (IKKß) has recently been proposed to be involved in cytokine- and obesity-induced insulin resistance through decreasing phosphorylation of IR (57), and LPS is known to activate the IKK/NF-
B pathway (16). Because SOCS expression is controlled by the NF-
B pathway (40), it is possible that activation of the IKK pathway by cytokines upregulates SOCS proteins as well as other inhibitory effects on insulin signaling. Nevertheless, the decrease in phosphorylation of IRS proteins produced by SOCS proteins is associated with downregulation of PI 3-kinase and Akt activities, leading to upregulation of gluconeogenic enzymes and hepatic glucose output (7). In L6 myotubes and 3T3L1 adipocytes, increased SOCS-1 and SOCS-3 also impair glycogen synthesis and glucose transport, consistent with the decreased insulin sensitivity observed in muscle and fat in insulin-resistant states, such as endotoxemia (26, 53).
Although IR phosphorylation is not blocked, the mechanism of inhibition of insulin signaling by SOCS-1 and SOCS-3 appears to depend on the interaction between SOCS proteins and IR. This interaction has been shown by the yeast two-hybrid system and reconstitution system in cultured cells (11, 31, 35) and is also shown in vivo for the first time in the present study. In the case of SOCS-3, the binding site on IR appears to be Tyr960. Tyr960 is a key residue for recognition of the phosphotyrosine-binding (PTB) domains of IRS-1 and IRS-2, based on experiments with CHO cells expressing IR960F (54), studies of the crystal structures of the PTB domain of IRS-1 and the juxtamembrane domain of IR (10), and the yeast two-hybrid system (17, 42). This suggests that the interaction between SOCS-3 and IR equally inhibits recognition for IRS-1 and IRS-2 and is consistent with the inhibitory patterns of phosphorylation of IRS proteins by SOCS-3. SOCS-1, on the other hand, binds even better to IR960F than to wild-type IR. This is probably because the binding site for SOCS-1 is not Tyr960, and in cells expressing IR960F lesser amounts of IRS proteins (because of a lack of interaction through their PTB domains) compete with SOCS-1 for its binding site for IR, leading to the increase in binding of SOCS-1 to the mutant IR. Indeed, the binding site of SOCS-1 appears to be in the kinase domain of IR, because SOCS-1 binds to the phosphorylated fusion protein containing the three major tyrosine residues in the kinase domain in vitro. This region is known to be important for the recognition of IRS-2 by IR in addition to the juxtamembrane domain containing Tyr960 (17, 42), consistent with the finding that SOCS-1 inhibits phosphorylation of IRS-2 much more than IRS-1. It is difficult to definitively identify the binding site for SOCS-1 in vivo by using an IR with mutations of the tyrosine residues in this region, because these mutants have reduced kinase activity and reduced phosphorylation of other tyrosine residues on IR which might interact with SOCS-1. However, the sequence similarity between the kinase domain of IR, especially that surrounding Tyr1150 (ETDYYRK [the designated site of phosphorylation described is italicized]), and the binding site for SOCS-1 in the catalytic loop (Tyr1007) of JAK2 (DKEYYKV) (55) also supports the idea that the kinase domain important for IRS-2 recognition is the binding site of SOCS-1 in IR. Taken together, it is likely that SOCS-1 binds to the IRS-2 recognition site in the kinase domain of IR and mainly inhibits IRS-2-mediated insulin signaling, while SOCS-3 binds to Tyr960 of IR and inhibits both IRS-1- and IRS-2-mediated signaling (Fig. 8).
SOCS-1, but not SOCS-3, has been reported to interact with and
promote ubiquitin-mediated degradation of some proteins through
its carboxyl-terminal region (SOCS-box) as part of a ubiquitin-ligase
complex (
8,
22,
23). Recently, White and coworkers have reported
that SOCS-1 and SOCS-3 bind to IRS proteins and lead them to
ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation in cultured cells and
liver (
39). However, in the present study we could not detect
interaction between SOCS and IRS proteins and any significant
decrease in IR or IRS proteins in cultured cells, although there
were modest reductions in IRS proteins in liver overexpressing
SOCS protein. This suggests that the changes in vivo are not
directly caused by SOCS proteins but rather are secondary to
other factors, such as hyperinsulinemia. Indeed, we and others
have found that chronic insulin treatment decreases mRNA of
IRS-2 in cultured hepatocytes in a PI 3-kinase/Akt-dependent
manner, whereas IRS-1 is decreased mainly due to protein degradation
(
18,
30,
43).
Proinflammatory cytokines, such as TNF-
, have been shown to inhibit insulin signaling by suppressing phosphorylation of IR and IRS proteins (14, 36). Although serine phosphorylation of IRS-1 by Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) (1) appears to be one of the inhibitory mechanisms, our data suggest that SOCS protein-mediated inhibition of IRS phosphorylation is also involved in TNF-
-mediated inhibition of insulin signaling. Indeed, suppression of SOCS-1 or SOCS-3 in 3T3L1 adipocytes partially attenuates TNF-
-induced inhibition of tyrosine phosphorylation of IRS proteins, and the residual inhibition, including JNK-mediated inhibition, can be due to other pathways. In a separate study it was found that reducing SOCS-1 and SOCS-3 in vivo by treatment with antisense oligonucleotides partially, but not completely, normalizes IRS phosphorylation and hepatic steatosis in livers of db/db mice whose insulin resistance seems to be largely mediated by TNF-
signaling (51), consistent with the hypothesis that SOCS-mediated inhibition of insulin signaling is one of several inhibitory mechanisms produced by cytokines. This is supported by the fact that SOCS-1 knockout mice and cells seem to exhibit enhanced insulin signaling (25), although it is difficult to determine the role of SOCS-1 and SOCS-3 in mice by disruption of these genes because of their lethality (27, 28, 32, 44).
In summary, expression of SOCS-1 and SOCS-3 is elevated in insulin-sensitive tissues in obesity and endotoxemia. Increased SOCS-1 and SOCS-3 levels differently inhibit the phosphorylation of IRS-1 and IRS-2 and subsequent downstream signaling, leading to insulin resistance. The present study demonstrates that these two SOCS proteins have unique mechanisms of attenuation of insulin signaling, suggesting that both SOCS-1 and SOCS-3 may serve as therapeutic targets for type 2 diabetes and other insulin-resistant states.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank M. Kaneki (Massachusetts General Hospital) for helpful
suggestions and T. Naka (Osaka University) for SSI (SOCS) expression
vectors.
This work was supported by NIH grants DK33201 and DK55545, by the Joslin DERC grant DK34834 to C.R.K., and by a Grant-in-Aid for the 21st Century COE program from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology to K.U.

FOOTNOTES
* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Joslin Diabetes Center, One Joslin Place, Boston, MA 02215. Phone: (617) 732-2635. Fax: (617) 732-2593. E-mail:
c.ronald.kahn{at}joslin.harvard.edu.

Present address: Department of Metabolic Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. 

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