PI-3-kinase inhibitor Wortmannin blocks the insulin-like effects of growth hormone in isolated rat adipocytes

Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1994 Aug 30;203(1):306-10. doi: 10.1006/bbrc.1994.2182.

Abstract

The effect of wortmannin, a selective phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase inhibitor, on the insulin-like effects of growth hormone in isolated adipocytes from rat was investigated. Wortmannin inhibited both the lipogenic and the antilipolytic effects (IC50 approximately 20 nM) with no effect on [125I]-growth hormone binding to the adipocytes. These data suggest that phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase might play an important role in the insulin-like actions of growth hormone.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adipocytes / drug effects
  • Adipocytes / metabolism*
  • Androstadienes / pharmacology*
  • Animals
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Glucose / metabolism
  • Growth Hormone / antagonists & inhibitors
  • Growth Hormone / metabolism
  • Growth Hormone / pharmacology*
  • Insulin / pharmacology*
  • Kinetics
  • Lipolysis / drug effects*
  • Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases
  • Phospholipase D / antagonists & inhibitors*
  • Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor) / antagonists & inhibitors*
  • Rats
  • Rats, Sprague-Dawley
  • Receptors, Somatotropin / metabolism*
  • Triglycerides / biosynthesis*
  • Wortmannin

Substances

  • Androstadienes
  • Insulin
  • Receptors, Somatotropin
  • Triglycerides
  • Growth Hormone
  • Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases
  • Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor)
  • Phospholipase D
  • Glucose
  • Wortmannin