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Inhibition of insulin-stimulated hydrogen peroxide production prevents stimulation of sodium transport in A6 cell monolayers

¹Laboratory of Cell and Molecular Physiology, ²Laboratory of Histology, and ³Interdisciplinary Research Institute (IRIBM), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campus Erasme, Bruxelles, Belgium

Submitted 30 June 2008 ; accepted in final form 11 March 2009

Insulin-stimulated sodium transport across A6 cell (derived from amphibian distal nephron) monolayers involves the activation of a phosphatidylinositol (PI) 3-kinase. We previously demonstrated that exogenous addition of H₂O₂ to the incubation medium of A6 cell monolayers provokes an increase in PI 3-kinase activity and a subsequent rise in sodium transport (Markadieu N, Crutzen R, Blero D, Erneux C, Beauwens R. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 288: F1201–F1212, 2005). We therefore questioned whether insulin would produce an intracellular burst of H₂O₂ leading to PI 3-kinase activation and subsequent increase in sodium transport. An acute production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in A6 cells incubated with the oxidation-sensitive fluorescent probe 5,6-chloromethyl-2',7'-dichlorodihydrofluorescein diacetate was already detected after 2 min of insulin stimulation. This fluorescent signal and the increase in sodium transport were completely inhibited in monolayers incubated with peggylated catalase, indicating that H₂O₂ is the main intracellular ROS produced upon insulin stimulation. Similarly, preincubation of monolayers with different chelators of either superoxide (O₂^–; nitro blue tetrazolium, 100 µM) or H₂O₂ (50 µM ebselen), or blockers of NADPH oxidase (Nox) enzymes (diphenyleneiodonium, 5 µM; phenylarsine oxide, 1 µM and plumbagin, 30 µM) prevented both insulin-stimulated H₂O₂ production and insulin-stimulated sodium transport. Furthermore, diphenyleneiodonium pretreatment inhibited the recruitment of the p85 PI 3-kinase regulatory subunit in an anti-phosphotyrosine immunoprecipitate in insulin-stimulated cells. In contrast, PI-103, an inhibitor of class IA PI 3-kinase, inhibited insulin-stimulated sodium transport but did not significantly reduce insulin-stimulated H₂O₂ production. Taken together, our data suggest that insulin induces an acute burst of H₂O₂ production which participates in an increase in phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate production and subsequently stimulation of sodium transport.

ENaC; H₂O₂; ROS; dichlorodihydrofluorescein; PI 3-kinase