ATGL activity regulates GLUT1-mediated glucose uptake and lactate production via TXNIP stability in adipocytes
Muheeb Beg, Wei Zhang, Andrew C. McCourt, Sven Enerbäck
Abstract
Traditionally, lipolysis has been regarded as an enzymatic activity that liberates fatty acids as metabolic fuel. However, recent work has shown that novel substrates, including a variety of lipid compounds such as fatty acids and their derivatives, release lipolysis products that act as signaling molecules and transcriptional modulators. While these studies have expanded the role of lipolysis, the mechanisms underpinning lipolysis signaling are not fully defined. Here, we uncover a new mechanism regulating glucose uptake, whereby activation of lipolysis, in response to elevated cAMP, leads to the stimulation of thioredoxin-interacting protein (TXNIP) degradation. This, in turn, selectively induces glucose transporter 1 surface localization and glucose uptake in 3T3-L1 adipocytes and increases lactate production. Interestingly, cAMP-induced glucose uptake via degradation of TXNIP is largely dependent upon adipose triglyceride lipase (ATGL) and not hormone-sensitive lipase or monoacylglycerol lipase. Pharmacological inhibition or knockdown of ATGL alone prevents cAMP-dependent TXNIP degradation and thus significantly decreases glucose uptake and lactate secretion. Conversely, overexpression of ATGL amplifies the cAMP response, yielding increased glucose uptake and lactate production. Similarly, knockdown of TXNIP elicits enhanced basal glucose uptake and lactate secretion, and increased cAMP further amplifies this phenotype. Overexpression of TXNIP reduces basal and cAMP-stimulated glucose uptake and lactate secretion. As a proof of concept, we replicated these findings in human primary adipocytes and observed TXNIP degradation and increased glucose uptake and lactate secretion upon elevated cAMP signaling. Taken together, our results suggest a crosstalk between ATGL-mediated lipolysis and glucose uptake. Traditionally, lipolysis has been regarded as an enzymatic activity that liberates fatty acids as metabolic fuel. However, recent work has shown that novel substrates, including a variety of lipid compounds such as fatty acids and their derivatives, release lipolysis products that act as signaling molecules and transcriptional modulators. While these studies have expanded the role of lipolysis, the mechanisms underpinning lipolysis signaling are not fully defined. Here, we uncover a new mechanism regulating glucose uptake, whereby activation of lipolysis, in response to elevated cAMP, leads to the stimulation of thioredoxin-interacting protein (TXNIP) degradation. This, in turn, selectively induces glucose transporter 1 surface localization and glucose uptake in 3T3-L1 adipocytes and increases lactate production. Interestingly, cAMP-induced glucose uptake via degradation of TXNIP is largely dependent upon adipose triglyceride lipase (ATGL) and not hormone-sensitive lipase or monoacylglycerol lipase. Pharmacological inhibition or knockdown of ATGL alone prevents cAMP-dependent TXNIP degradation and thus significantly decreases glucose uptake and lactate secretion. Conversely, overexpression of ATGL amplifies the cAMP response, yielding increased glucose uptake and lactate production. Similarly, knockdown of TXNIP elicits enhanced basal glucose uptake and lactate secretion, and increased cAMP further amplifies this phenotype. Overexpression of TXNIP reduces basal and cAMP-stimulated glucose uptake and lactate secretion. As a proof of concept, we replicated these findings in human primary adipocytes and observed TXNIP degradation and increased glucose uptake and lactate secretion upon elevated cAMP signaling. Taken together, our results suggest a crosstalk between ATGL-mediated lipolysis and glucose uptake. Adipose tissue metabolism plays a critical role in maintaining healthy homeostasis for glucose and lipid metabolism (1Rosen E.D. Spiegelman B.M. Adipocytes as regulators of energy balance and glucose homeostasis.Nature. 2006; 444: 847-853Crossref PubMed Scopus (1505) Google Scholar). Insulin mediated triacylglycerol (TAG) synthesis, and its dissipation through lipolysis is an important physiological process, which is tightly controlled and under metabolic regulation (2Czech M.P. Tencerova M. Pedersen D.J. Aouadi M. Insulin signalling mechanisms for triacylglycerol storage.Diabetologia. 2013; 56: 949-964Crossref PubMed Scopus (138) Google Scholar). When in positive energy balance, during the postprandial period, insulin rapidly stimulates glucose transporter 4 (GLUT4) surface translocation, which mediates glucose uptake. 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Unlike GLUT4, the machinery, signaling, and metabolic regulation in relation to GLUT1 are less studied. Some of the central molecules for the glucose uptake process, such as AS160 phosphorylation and thioredoxin-interacting protein (TXNIP) expression levels, which are directly linked to glucose uptake, are regulated by both anabolic and catabolic signals and affect both GLUT1 and GLUT4 transporter surface translocation (15Waldhart A.N. Dykstra H. Peck A.S. Boguslawski E.A. Madaj Z.B. Wen J. Veldkamp K. Hollowell M. Zheng B. Cantley L.C. McGraw T.E. Wu N. Phosphorylation of TXNIP by AKT mediates acute influx of glucose in response to insulin.Cell Rep. 2017; 19: 2005-2013Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (95) Google Scholar, 16Wu N. Zheng B. Shaywitz A. Dagon Y. Tower C. Bellinger G. Shen C.H. Wen J. J. McGraw T.E. Cantley L.C. degradation of TXNIP upon energy leads to enhanced glucose uptake via 2013; Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus Google Scholar). The adipocyte both GLUT1 and GLUT4, with lipases, and a for glucose and FFA metabolism that to a variety of both anabolic and catabolic Here, we that elevated levels of cAMP rapidly TXNIP in a and release GLUT1 for surface GLUT1 surface localization stimulates glucose uptake, which to a is further to uncover a mechanism by which ATGL activity cAMP-dependent TXNIP degradation that in but not mediated glucose uptake in and fatty lipolysis also lipid and molecules that regulate metabolism through multiple including and (4Zechner R. Zimmermann R. Eichmann T.O. Kohlwein S.D. Haemmerle G. Lass A. Madeo F. FAT SIGNALS--lipases and lipolysis in lipid metabolism and signaling.Cell Metab. 2012; 15: 279-291Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (617) Google Scholar, 5Amri E.Z. Ailhaud G. Grimaldi P.A. Fatty acids as signal transducing molecules: Involvement in the differentiation of preadipose to adipose cells.J. Lipid Res. 1994; 35: 930-937Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Google Scholar). are studies in which ceramide, and fatty linked to lipolysis, have been shown to regulate metabolism (4Zechner R. Zimmermann R. Eichmann T.O. Kohlwein S.D. Haemmerle G. Lass A. Madeo F. FAT SIGNALS--lipases and lipolysis in lipid metabolism and signaling.Cell Metab. 2012; 15: 279-291Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (617) Google Scholar, E. Blachnio-Zabielska A. The role of ceramides in insulin resistance.Front. Endocrinol. (Lausanne). 2019; 10: 577Crossref PubMed Scopus (70) Google Scholar, 10Eichmann T.O. Lass A. DAG tales: The multiple faces of diacylglycerol--stereochemistry, metabolism, and signaling.Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 2015; 72: 3931-3952Crossref PubMed Scopus (100) Google Scholar, R. A.R. the of insulin signalling in PubMed Scopus Google Scholar). that a protein for is rapidly also as in and with to the and observed that to cAMP for significantly reduced TXNIP at the protein also 3T3-L1 adipocytes to in a to and that degradation of TXNIP from other that the of cAMP also degradation of we multiple such as and in with and also significantly TXNIP levels Interestingly, cAMP-stimulated TXNIP protein expression are not in levels, that TXNIP degradation is a a of glucose uptake, and thus their surface TXNIP degradation has been linked to the uptake of glucose N. Zheng B. Shaywitz A. Dagon Y. Tower C. Bellinger G. Shen C.H. Wen J. J. McGraw T.E. Cantley L.C. degradation of TXNIP upon energy leads to enhanced glucose uptake via 2013; Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus Google Scholar). In a we uptake. that as increased glucose uptake both in a and which is with TXNIP degradation and to that observed with of other cAMP such as and also increased glucose uptake in 3T3-L1 adipocytes an of of cAMP and the lactate similar to that with glucose uptake, lactate is increased with increasing of cAMP, and this also for other cAMP and protein and protein have been shown to regulate glucose uptake via TXNIP degradation (15Waldhart A.N. Dykstra H. Peck A.S. Boguslawski E.A. Madaj Z.B. Wen J. Veldkamp K. Hollowell M. Zheng B. Cantley L.C. McGraw T.E. Wu N. Phosphorylation of TXNIP by AKT mediates acute influx of glucose in response to insulin.Cell Rep. 2017; 19: 2005-2013Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (95) Google Scholar, 16Wu N. Zheng B. Shaywitz A. Dagon Y. Tower C. Bellinger G. Shen C.H. Wen J. J. McGraw T.E. Cantley L.C. degradation of TXNIP upon energy leads to enhanced glucose uptake via 2013; Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus Google Scholar). AKT and inhibition control glucose uptake. with the or not the glucose uptake in 3T3-L1 adipocytes or TXNIP degradation suggest that cAMP via we also insulin signaling which to and further with our AKT inhibition observed that the significantly reduces glucose uptake in 3T3-L1 adipocytes and TXNIP degradation Interestingly, these in 3T3-L1 cell triglyceride and associated signaling However, knockdown of TXNIP in an a similar of glucose uptake as observed in adipocytes in response to TXNIP degradation the role of TXNIP as a of glucose uptake. not to cAMP with increased glucose uptake and lipid and associated which for TXNIP it is that not glucose uptake in response to cAMP, the of the GLUT1 transporter ATGL expression in not to cAMP as a signal for TXNIP degradation and glucose uptake and cAMP levels in adipocytes also leads to phosphorylation of to phosphorylation to the lactate observed by glucose for lactate secretion, we the that inhibition not in the cAMP response, which involvement of and to of of the or similar activated by we the similar observed that not at the that is for a of which is the lipase activated in response to elevated signal for lipolysis M. 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Biol. 2013; PubMed Scopus Google In conclusion, these results that ATGL activity is for cAMP-induced and TXNIP glucose uptake in 3T3-L1 further a between glucose and lipid metabolism regulated by ATGL lipolysis is by and which work in to TAG to fatty acids and suggest that lipolysis leads to degradation of and linked to increased glucose uptake and lactate secretion. the of these lipases to the observed of glucose uptake, lactate secretion, and TXNIP we or in 3T3-L1 adipocytes In with our we that glucose uptake is largely regulated through ATGL activity as knockdown of ATGL the This is similar to the which is a of ATGL and Unlike and knockdown a response to cAMP in of glucose uptake and lactate and In with these we that knockdown of only ATGL to inhibition of TXNIP degradation further our results with knockdown for ATGL a observed similar to and knockdown of ATGL the glucose uptake and TXNIP degradation and Overexpression of ATGL in 3T3-L1 adipocytes elicits a in glucose uptake and lactate secretion This further the that ATGL-mediated lipolysis is for cAMP-induced glucose uptake and lactate secretion. 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Interestingly, this which leads to glucose uptake that we on the enzymatic activity of but not or knockdown of but not that of or TXNIP degradation and glucose uptake and the of ATGL also decreases TXNIP degradation and glucose uptake and the that during cellular levels of cAMP, and insulin levels are a cAMP-induced and TXNIP mechanism the uptake of glucose that is for cellular that this mechanism is fatty acid is the energy the glucose uptake is dependent on ATGL activity Glucose uptake is tightly linked with the expression of which is regulated by both and (15Waldhart A.N. Dykstra H. Peck A.S. Boguslawski E.A. Madaj Z.B. Wen J. Veldkamp K. Hollowell M. Zheng B. Cantley L.C. McGraw T.E. Wu N. Phosphorylation of TXNIP by AKT mediates acute influx of glucose in response to insulin.Cell Rep. 2017; 19: 2005-2013Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (95) Google Scholar, 16Wu N. Zheng B. Shaywitz A. Dagon Y. Tower C. Bellinger G. Shen C.H. Wen J. J. McGraw T.E. 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TXNIP degradation leads to GLUT1 surface localization and glucose uptake, which is to This by of or ATGL Taken together, the are with a that GLUT1 glucose uptake for in cellular cAMP levels are elevated and GLUT4 is it as an glucose in the postprandial its role in lipolysis, cAMP signaling is also critical for glucose uptake. results suggest that adipocytes have an mechanism by which glucose uptake of the have been in 3T3-L1 we have replicated the in primary human adipocytes, we not in Another of our is that from 3T3-L1 adipocytes and human primary adipocytes, we only more cell and 3T3-L1 it is that other cell not also this to regulate their glucose uptake. 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