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

J Clin Invest. 2016 Sep 1;126(9):3433-46. doi: 10.1172/JCI86522. Epub 2016 Aug 15.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Autophagy
  • Cell Differentiation
  • Female
  • Forkhead Box Protein O1 / genetics
  • Forkhead Box Protein O1 / metabolism*
  • Gene Deletion
  • Gene Expression Regulation*
  • Insulin / metabolism*
  • Lysosomes / metabolism
  • Male
  • Mice
  • Mice, Knockout
  • Muscle Proteins / metabolism
  • Muscle, Skeletal / metabolism*
  • Muscular Atrophy / metabolism
  • Myoblasts / metabolism
  • Oxygen / chemistry
  • Phosphorylation
  • Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex / metabolism
  • Receptor, IGF Type 1 / metabolism*
  • Receptor, Insulin / genetics
  • Receptor, Insulin / metabolism*
  • Signal Transduction

Substances

  • Forkhead Box Protein O1
  • Foxo1 protein, mouse
  • Insulin
  • Muscle Proteins
  • Receptor, IGF Type 1
  • Receptor, Insulin
  • Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex
  • Oxygen