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Submitted on March 5, 2002
Revised on May 8, 2002
Accepted on May 9, 2002

Insulin-Dependent Activation of Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase Is Impaired by O-Linked Glycosylation Modification of Signaling Proteins in Human Coronary Endothelial Cells

Massimo Federici MD*, Rossella Menghini PhD, Alessandro Mauriello MD, Marta Letizia Hribal PhD, Francesca Ferrelli BS, Davide Lauro MD, Paolo Sbraccia MD, PhD, Luigi Giusto Spagnoli MD, Giorgio Sesti MD, and Renato Lauro MD

From Department of Internal Medicine (M.F., R.M., F.F., D.L., P.S., R.L.) and Department of Biopathology (A.M., L.G.S.), University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy; Department of Medicine (M.L.H.), College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY; and Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine (G.S.), University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: federicm{at}uniroma2.it.

Background—Hyperglycemia impairs functional properties of cytosolic and nuclear proteins via O-linked glycosylation modification (O-GlcNAcylation). We studied the effects of O-GlcNAcylation on insulin signaling in human coronary artery endothelial cells.

Methods and Results—O-GlcNAcylation impaired the metabolic branch of insulin signaling, ie, insulin receptor (IR) activation of the IR substrate (IRS)/phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3-K)/Akt, whereas it enhanced the mitogenic branch, ie, ERK-1/2 and p38 (mitogen-activated protein kinase). Both in vivo and in vitro phosphorylation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) by Akt were reduced by hyperglycemia and hexosamine activation. Insulin-induced eNOS activity in vivo was reduced by hyperglycemia and hexosamine activation, which was coupled to increased activation and expression of matrix metalloproteinase-2 and -9; these phenomena were reversed by inhibition of the hexosamine pathway. Finally, carotid plaques from type 2 diabetic patients showed increased endothelial O-GlcNAcylation with respect to nondiabetics.

Conclusions—Our data show that hyperglycemia, through the hexosamine pathway, impairs activation of the IR/IRS/PI3-K/Akt pathway, resulting in deregulation of eNOS activity.


Key words: atherosclerosis • diabetes mellitus • endothelium • insulin • metalloproteinases




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