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Peroxisomal Proliferator–Activated Receptor-␥ Upregulates Glucokinase Gene Expression in -Cells Ha-il Kim,1 Ji-Young Cha,1 So-Youn Kim,1 Jae-woo Kim,1 Kyung Jin Roh,2 Je-Kyung Seong,2 Nam Taek Lee,3 Kang-Yell Choi,1 Kyung-Sup Kim,1 and Yong-ho Ahn1 Thiazolidinediones, synthetic ligands of peroxisomal because of severe hyperglycemia (2,3). Adenovirus-medi- proliferator–activated receptor-␥ (PPAR-␥), improve ated expression of GLUT2 and GK in IL cells results in peripheral insulin sensitivity and glucose-stimulated gaining of glucose sensitivity (4). Thus, GLUT2 and GK are insulin secretion in pancreatic -cells. To explore the important in glucose sensing of -cells. However, GLUT2, role of PPAR-␥ in glucose sensing of -cells, we have being a low-affinity, high-capacity glucose transporter, is   dissected the -cell–specific glucokinase ( GK) pro- believed to play a more permissive role in glucose sensing, moter, which constitutes glucose-sensing apparatus in pancreatic -cells, and identified a peroxisomal prolif- allowing rapid equilibration of glucose across the plasma erator response element (PPRE) in the promoter. The membrane. GK traps glucose in -cells by phosphorylation GK-PPRE is located in the region between ؉47 and (5) and is the flux-controlling enzyme for glycolysis in ؉68 bp. PPAR-␥/retinoid X receptor-␣ heterodimer -cells (4). Thus, it serves as the gatekeeper for metabolic binds to the element and activates the GK promoter. signaling, suggesting that GK rather than GLUT2 is directly The GK promoter lacking or having mutations in PPRE ␥ ␥ responsible for the insulin secretion in response to in- cannot be activated by PPAR- . PPAR- activates the creasing blood glucose levels (5). GK promoter in -cells as well as non–-cells. Further- more, troglitazone increases endogenous GK expres- Thiazolidinediones (TZDs) are a new class of antidia- sion and its enzyme activity in -cell lines. These results betic agents that act by improving insulin sensitivity in indicate that PPAR-␥ can regulate GK expression in various animal models of obesity and diabetes (6–9). The -cells. Taking these results together with our previous biological effects of TZDs are exerted by binding to and work, we conclude that PPAR-␥ regulates gene expres- activating peroxisomal proliferator–activated receptor-␥ sion of glucose-sensing apparatus and thereby improves ␥  (PPAR- ). There is a strong correlation between TZD- glucose-sensing ability of -cells, contributing to the ␥ restoration of -cell function in type 2 diabetic subjects PPAR- interaction and the antidiabetic action of TZDs; by troglitazone. Diabetes 51:676–685, 2002 the relative potency of TZDs for binding to PPAR-␥ and activation of PPAR-␥ in vitro correlates perfectly with their antidiabetic potency in vivo (10). Patients with a dominant-negative mutation in the PPAR-␥ gene show nsulin is the most important molecule among the severe hyperglycemia, which provides a genetic link be- regulators in glucose homeostasis. Glucose is the tween PPAR-␥ and type 2 diabetes (11). TZDs stimulate primary physiological stimulus for the regulation of adipocyte differentiation, preferentially generating smaller Iinsulin secretion in -cells, the process that requires adipocytes that are more sensitive to insulin and produce glucose sensing. The glucose-sensing apparatus of -cells lower levels of free fatty acids, tumor necrosis factor-␣, consists of glucose transporter isotype 2 (GLUT2) and and leptin (10,12). TZDs are also known to restore the glucokinase (GK), which play a critical role in glucose- functions of -cells, reduce intracellular fat deposition, stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) (1). -Cell–specific and relieve -cells from a lipotoxic environment (13,14). knockout of GLUT2 or GK results in infantile death There are reports that TZDs improve glucose-sensing ability in isolated islets of diabetic ZDF rats and increase  From the 1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the Institute of GLUT2 gene expression in -cells (8,13,15). These data Genetic Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; the suggest that the expression of genes involved in glucose 2Department of Laboratory Animal Medicine, Medical Research Center, Yon-  sei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; and the 3Department of sensing of pancreatic -cells may be modulated by Chemistry, Korea Military Academy, Seoul, Korea. PPAR-␥. However, the molecular targets of TZDs involved Address correspondence and reprint requests to Yong-ho Ahn, Department in their action on the physiological regulation of insulin of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Yonsei University College of Medi- cine, 134 Shinchon-dong, Seodaemoon-gu, Seoul 120-752, Korea. E-mail: secretion are yet to be identified (16). [email protected]. We previously reported the presence of peroxisomal Received for publication 6 September 2001 and accepted in revised form 26 November 2001. proliferator response element (PPRE) in the rat GLUT2 H.-I.K. and J.-Y.C. contributed equally to this work. promoter and suggested its possible significance to ex- GK, -cell–specific GK; DMEM, Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium; plain the role of PPAR-␥ in restoring GSIS (15). However, EMSA, electrophoretic mobility shift assay; FBS, fetal bovine serum; GK, glucokinase; GSIS, glucose-stimulated insulin secretion; LGK, rat liver–spe- the general belief that GK may be more important than cific GK; MODY, maturity-onset diabetes of the young; PDX-1, pancreatic GLUT2 in the glucose sensing of -cells led us to explore duodenal homeobox gene-1; PPAR, peroxisomal proliferator–activated recep-   tor; PPRE, peroxisomal proliferator response element; RPA, RNase protection the presence of PPRE in the -cell–specific GK ( GK) assay; RXR-␣, retinoid X receptor-␣; TZD, thiazolidinedione. gene. In this report, we identify a PPRE in the GK gene 676 DIABETES, VOL. 51, MARCH 2002 H.-I. KIM AND ASSOCIATES and show that this element is responsible for the upregu- containing 10 mmol/l HEPES (pH 7.9), 60 mmol/l KCl, 10% glycerol (vol/vol), lation of GK expression by PPAR-␥ in -cells. and 1 mmol/l dithiothreitol. Poly(dI-dC) (1 g) was added to each reaction to suppress nonspecific binding. Anti–PPAR-␥ serum (2 l) was added to the reaction for supershift assay. The protein-DNA complexes were resolved from the free probe by electrophoresis at 4°C on a 5% polyacrylamide gel in 0.5ϫ RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS TBE buffer (1ϫ TBE contains 9 mmol/l Tris, 90 mmol/l boric acid, and 20 Materials. Troglitazone was a gift from Sankyo (Tokyo, Japan). WY14643 was mmol/l EDTA, pH 8.0). The dried gels were exposed to X-ray film at Ϫ70°C purchased from Cayman Chemical (Ann Arbor, MI), and 9-cis retinoic acid with an intensifying screen. was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO). Troglitazone concentra- The oligonucleotides used in EMSA were as follows: RGPϩ43/75, 5Ј- tion was adjusted to 10 mmol/l in 19% BSA (wt/vol), 5% DMSO (vol/vol). AGAGTTACCTGTTGCCTCATTACTCAAAAGCCA-3Ј; RGPϩ43/75m1, 5Ј-AGAGc WY14643 (20 mmol/l) and 9-cis retinoic acid (2 mmol/l) were prepared in 50% ccgggGTTGCCTCATTACTCAAAAGCCA-3Ј; RGPϩ43/75m2, 5Ј-AGAGTTACCT ethanol (vol/vol) and 50% DMSO (vol/vol), respectively. Expression plasmids GgatatcCATTACTCAAAAGCCA-3Ј; and RGPϩ43/75m3, 5Ј-AGAGTTACCTGTT pCMX-mPPAR-␣, pCMX-mPPAR-␥, pCMX-mRXR-␣, and pCMX-mRXR-␥ were GCCTCgaattcCAAAAGCCA-3Ј. The PPRE sequence is underlined, and mutated gifts from Drs. R.M. Evans and D.J. Mangelsdorf. Rat GK promoter region bases are shown in lowercase letters (21). spanning –1,003/ϩ196 bp of -cell–specific gene (17) and –1,448/ϩ127 of RNA preparation, RNase protection assay, and RT-PCR. Total RNA was liver-specific gene (18) were cloned into pGL3 basic vector and named isolated from -cell lines treated with 20 mol/l troglitazone and 1 mol/l pRGP-1003 and pRGL-1448, respectively. 5Ј serial deletion of GK promoter 9-cis retinoic acid for 24 h using TRIzol reagent by the manufacturer’s reporter constructs pRGP-404, pRGP-128, pRGPϩ10, and pRGPϩ100 were protocol (Life Technologies). Production of probes and RNase protection constructed by amplifying rat GK promoter regions of Ϫ404/ϩ196, Ϫ128/ assay (RPA) were performed using Strip-EZ RNA probe synthesis kit and RPA ϩ196, ϩ10/ϩ196, and ϩ100/ϩ196 bp, respectively, and subcloning into pGL3 III kit (Ambion, Austin, TX) according to the manufacturer’s protocol. Briefly, basic vector. For construction of PPRE-truncated promoter reporter con- antisense RNA probes, which covered the ϩ370/ϩ696-bp region of rat GK structs pRGPdϩ10/100, pRGPdϩ49/73, and pRGPdϩ73/100, KpnI sites were and the ϩ224/ϩ440-bp region of rat -actin, were produced from introduced into the appropriate region by site-directed mutagenesis, and pCRGKP3SP6 and pCRactin using [32P]UTP and T7 RNA polymerase, then KpnI-digested fragments were excised. Mutant constructs pRGP-1003m1, template DNA and free nucleotides were removed by DNase I digestion and pRGP-1003m2, pRGP-1003m3, pRGP-1003m4, pRGP-1003m5, pRGP-1003m6, two successive ethanol precipitations. Total RNA (50 g) and 300,000 cpm of and pRGP-1003mT were produced by introducing substitution mutations into probes were hybridized at 42°C for 24 h, then unhybridized RNA was digested pRGP-1003 using the QuickChange site-directed mutagenesis kit (Stratagene, by RNase A/RNase T1 mix. The remaining samples after RNase digestion were La Jolla, CA). pRGPϩ10m5 and pRGPϩ10mT were also produced by intro- precipitated and resuspended in 10 l gel loading buffer. Samples were ducing substitution mutations into pRGPϩ10. pGPRRE3-tk-LUC was pro- incubated for 3 min at 94°C and subjected to electrophoresis on 5% denaturing duced by inserting three copies of the ϩ44/ϩ70-bp region of GK gene into the polyacrylamide gel. The dried gels were exposed to X-ray film at –70°C with an SalI site of ptkLUC reporter. pCRGKP3SP6 and pCRactin were cloned by intensifying screen. inserting the PCR product amplifying the region ϩ370/ϩ696 bp of rat GK For RT-PCR, first-strand cDNA was synthesized from 2 g of total RNA in gene and ϩ224/ϩ440 bp of rat -actin gene, respectively.