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  • Title: Insulin and IGF-I affect the protein composition of the lens fibre cell with possible consequences for cataract.
    Author: Civil A, van Genesen ST, Klok EJ, Lubsen NH.
    Journal: Exp Eye Res; 2000 Jun; 70(6):785-94. PubMed ID: 10843783.
    Abstract:
    Explanted newborn rat lens epithelial cells were cultured with various concentrations of FGF-2 and/or insulin or IGF-I for 8-20 days. The accumulation of alphaA-, alphaB-, betaA3/1-, betaB2- and gammaA-F-crystallin was measured. During culture with insulin only, i.e. in the absence of fibre cell differentiation, alphaA- and alphaB-crystallin accumulated to the same level as found in differentiating cells. Culture of epithelial cells with IGF-I led to an increase in alphaB-crystallin, but not in alphaA-crystallin. The addition of insulin under differentiation conditions (in the presence of 25 ng ml(-1)FGF-2) augmented the accumulation of alphaA-crystallin 1.5-fold, the accumulation of betaB2-crystallin two-fold and the accumulation of gammaA-F-crystallin five-fold over that found with FGF-2 only. The accumulation of alphaB- and betaA3/1-crystallin was not affected by insulin in the presence of FGF-2. Adding IGF-I to fibre cells differentiating in the presence of 25 ng ml(-1)FGF-2 resulted in a 1.5-fold increase (of questionable statistical significance) in both alphaA- and alphaB-crystallin and a two to three-fold increase in gammaA-F-crystallin compared to cells cultured with FGF-2 only, no significant effect of IGF-I on the accumulation of betaA3/1- or betaB2-crystallin was found. Comparison of the levels of mRNA and protein suggests that insulin acts to increase the level of transcription. Our results show that the response of fibre cells to insulin or IGF-I differs. Hence, even though half the maximum dosage required for the insulin effect was rather high (between 0.1 and >5 micro g), the effect of insulin cannot be merely transmitted by the IGF-I receptor. Our data further predict that insulin or IGF-I increases the overall ratio of beta- and gamma-crystallin to alpha-crystallin in the fibre cell, which could predispose the lens to cataract.
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