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- the present application relates to the use of amino acids for the manufacture of medicaments with an insulin mimetic and/or insulin-sensitizing effects on the peripheral target tissues of insulin, and more particularly the use of amino acids for the manufacture of medicaments intended for the treatment and the prevention of insulin resistance.
- FIG. 1 A diagram showing the main routes of transduction of the insulin signal is given in FIG. 1 .
- the insulin receptor is a transmembrane receptor endowed with an intrinsic tyrosine kinase activity (Combettes-Souverain M. and Issad T., Diab. Metab., 24, 477, 1998).
- the bonding of insulin to its receptor leads to the autophosphorylation of the receptor on its tyrosine residues, which stimulates its tyrosine kinase activity towards a certain number of intracellular substrates such as Insulin Receptor Substrate 1 (IRS-1), Insulin Receptor Substrate 2 (IRS-2) and Src homology collagen protein or Shc.
- IMS-1 Insulin Receptor Substrate 1
- IRS-2 Insulin Receptor Substrate 2
- Shc Src homology collagen protein
- the phosphorylation on the tyrosines of IRS and Shc by the insulin receptor allows the activation of two main routes of cellular signalling, the MAP kinase (MAPK) route and the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI 3-K) route.
- MAPK MAP kinase
- PI 3-K phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase
- Phosphotyrosine phosphatase (PTP) plays a role in the regulation of these routes.
- the inventors have previously reported the insulin secretor effect that can be exercised in pancreatic cells by hydroxylated amino acid extracts of fenugreek seeds ( Trigonella foenum graecum L.), and in particular by 4-hydroxyisoleucine (4-OH-Ile) and/or the corresponding lactone (Patents FR 2 695 317 and 2 745 713 and corresponding patents under priority).
- the inventors have now shown that such compounds are also able to act at the level of the insulin target cells, namely the peripheral tissues such as the liver and muscle, by exercising an activity at the level of the insulin receptor and/or the cascade of signalling that the activation of this receptor triggers.
- the effect observed in these peripheral tissues corresponds overall to an insulin mimetic or insulin-sensitizing effect.
- the work carried out, as illustrated by the examples, has in fact shown the effect of these compounds at the level of the phosphorylation cascade set in motion under the receptor, notably the increase of phosphorylation of the main proteins involved in the transmission of the insulin signal.
- the PI 3-kinase (Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase) enzyme activated by phosphorylated IRS-1 and playing an essential role in the translocation of the glucose transporter GLUT 4 is also increased under the effect of such compounds.
- PTP activity phosphatase activity associated with the signalling route of the insulin receptor
- These compounds are therefore capable of acting on the signalling routes which are normally triggered by insulin, whether it is by activation of kinases, and/or inhibition of phophatases.
- a subject of the present invention is to benefit from the results obtained, and thus relates to any use of such amino acids or their derivatives, as insulin mimetic or insulin-sensitizing agents. It in particular relates to any use of such compounds for the manufacture of medicaments with insulin mimetic and/or insulin-sensitizing effects. These effects can be observed in the peripheral target tissues of insulin. As these compounds act on the signalling routes which are normally triggered by insulin, they can in fact serve as substitutes, complements, potentializers and sensitizers to insulin.
- the present application thus relates to the use as an insulin mimetic or insulin-sensitizing agent, of any amino acid or amino acid derivative which exercises a reduction in the phosphatase PTP activity and/or an increase of PI 3-kinase activity, of an equivalent or even higher level to the reduction, or increase respectively, caused by insulin.
- Any means which makes it possible to note such an effect on the reduction in PTP activity or increase in PI 3-kinase activity is appropriate.
- the following examples give illustrations.
- Such compounds correspond in a remarkable manner to amino acids which do not recognise the insulin receptor on its binding site, but which act at the post receptor level, under the conditions mentioned in the examples for 4-OH-Ile, and also correspond to the derivatives of these amino acids which have retained, at least in kind, the properties of non-recognition of the insulin receptor on its binding site and activity at post-receptor level that the parent amino acid of said derivative presents.
- the use according to the invention is characterised in that it relates to a compound chosen from the group constituted by mono-hydroxylated amino acids, polyhydroxylated amino acids, and lactonic forms of these mono- or hydroxylated amino acids.
- the invention relates to the use of 4-hydroxyisoleucine (abbreviated to 4-OH-Ile) in the form of its 2S, 3R, 4S isomer, or the corresponding lactone.
- 4-hydroxyisoleucine abbreviated to 4-OH-Ile
- the medicaments manufactured in accordance with the invention are particularly suitable for treating insulin resistance, for combating or preventing syndromes linked to insulin resistance, and for preventing insulin resistance.
- the present application also relates to any use of said amino acids and derivatives for the manufacture of a medicament intended to combat insulin resistance and insulin resistance syndromes, in particular against hyperinsulinemia, insulin resistance linked to ageing and against illnesses linked with obesity.
- the present application also relates to any use of said amino acids and derivatives for the manufacture of a medicament intended to prevent insulin resistances, and in particular for the manufacture of a medicament intended to reduce the need for exogenic insulin.
- Such medicaments because of their insulin mimetic and insulin-sensitizing properties, can in fact have the effect of reducing the need for exogenic insulin that patients whose endogenic insulin is deficient, even absent in the case of type 1 diabetes present.
- Patients suffering from type 1 diabetes suffer in fact from a total absence of the secretion of insulin (destruction of producing cells) which restricts full exogenic supplies of insulin. This situation, besides the intrinsic cost of such administration, often leads to the development of insulin resistance.
- the present invention proposes to use at least one of said amino acids or derivatives. Used in combination with insulin, they have the advantage of reducing the need for exogenic insulin in the patient (reduction of the necessary supply of insulin), and therefore reduce the cost of treatment whilst preventing the development of insulin resistance and its side effects.
- the medicaments manufactured in accordance with the invention could also be used to contribute to the inhibition of the proliferation of certain cell lines associated with the risk of cancer appearing.
- the invention also relates to the use of said derivatives, in particular 4-hydroxyisoleucine and/or its lactonic form to manufacture medicaments which act by reducing the phosphatase activity associated with the signalling route of the insulin receptor, and/or by stimulating the PI 3-kinase activity on IRS-1 and/or IRS-2.
- the present invention also relates to any pharmaceutical composition, any pharmaceutical kit and any medicament comprising, in a combined fashion, insulin and at least one of the amino acid compounds or derivatives defined above.
- This combination can be physical (insulin and amino acid or derivative are thus in the same composition). Or alternatively it can correspond to a presentation of insulin on one hand, and amino acid or derivative on the other hand, in physically distinct compositions, but which are presented as combined for combined use (kit-of-parts). This combined use can be simultaneous or at different times.
- the medicaments according to the invention can be administered mainly by oral route, but also by intravenous or intramuscular route, and contain excipients which are chosen according to the adopted galenic form.
- the dosage will be adapted according to the pathology to be treated.
- FIGS. 2 to 11 FIG. 1 was referred to above and shows the diagram of the main routes of transduction of the insulin signal
- FIGS. 2 to 11 represent:
- FIG. 2 the effect of 4-OH-Ile on the phosphorylation of the insulin receptor and its substrate in rat liver
- FIG. 3 the effect of 4-OH-Ile on the PI 3-kinase activity of the liver
- FIG. 4 the bonding of insulin on its receptor in hepatic LMH cell lines
- FIGS. 5 to 11 the effect of 4-OH-Ile on
- the PI 3-kinase activity was measured on immunoprecipitates carried out with the anti-IRS-1 antibody. This made it possible to determine the enzymatic activity associated with the action of insulin and to compare it to the action induced by 4-OH-Ile.
- Normal male Wistar rats (IFFA CREDO strain, France) received, via intraperitoneal injection, either ordinary insulin on its own (100 U/kg) or 4-OH-Ile on its own (18 mg/kg), or insulin combined with 4-OH-Ile in the same doses.
- the control rats received sodium chloride at 9 ⁇ via intraperitoneal route. Fifteen minutes after the injection, the animals were sacrificed and the peripheral tissues (liver, muscle) were immediately removed and frozen in liquid nitrogen.
- the tissues are ground in a buffer containing protease and phosphatase inhibitors as well as a solubilising agent (Triton), as described by Taouis et al., J. Biol. Chem., 269, 14912, 1994.
- Triton a solubilising agent
- the supernatants are immunoprecipitated with anti-IRS-1 and the PI 3-kinase activity is measured in the immunoprecipitate.
- the reaction is initiated by the addition of an artificial substrate of the enzyme: phosphatidylinositol (PI) and ( 33 P) gamma ATP.
- the product of the reaction is subjected to thin layer chromatography (TLC plate) and the levels of phosphorylation of PI are measured by a STORM phospho-imager (Molecular Dynamics).
- TLC plate thin layer chromatography
- STORM phospho-imager Molecular Dynamics
- the activity is expressed in arbitrary units given by the apparatus (conversion of the radioactivity to luminescence by means of a laser beam).
- the phosphatase activity was measured on the immunoprecipitates carried out with the anti-IRS-1 antibody and insulin anti-receptor.
- solubilisation protocol is the same as that for PI 3-kinase following the methodology described by Taouis et al. (J. Biol. Chem., 269, 14912, 1994). After immunoprecipitation, the phosphatase activity was measured according to the method described by Chen. et al. (J. Biol. Chem., 272, 8026, 1997).
- FIG. 2 clearly show that the treatment of animals by a single injection of 4-OH-Ile (200 ⁇ g/kg I.P.) induces the activation of the insulin receptor (IR) and its substrate (IRS-1) in vivo.
- the effect of 4-OH-Ile (40H) is comparable to that of insulin (Ins).
- FIG. 4 the comparative results concerning the bonding of isoleucine and 4-OH-Ile are given.
- the LMH cells used in these trials are from chicken hepatocarcinoma (Kawaguchi T. et al., Cancer Res., 47, 4460, 1987).
- 4-hydroxyisoleucine stimulates, independently from insulin, the IRS-1/PI 3-kinase route which is the major route in the control of metabolic and mitogenic actions of insulin.
- 4-hydroxyisoleucine does not recognise the insulin receptor, or at least does not enter into competition with insulin in binding to the receptor.
- FIGS. 7 and 8 The results in histograms are shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 . It is noted that, if insulin activates hepatic PI 3-kinase ( FIG. 7 ) and muscular PI 3-kinase ( FIG. 8 ), it is the same for the 4-OH-Ile. 4-OH-Ile in this pathological situation induces the same effect as insulin with the same intensity. In addition, it is noticed that 4-OH-Ile significantly stimulates the IRS-1/PI 3-kinase route more clearly in the muscle (p ⁇ 0.01) than in the liver (p ⁇ 0.05).
- the 4-OH-Ile activates the PI 3-kinase associated with the insulin receptor but not that associated with the PDGF receptor (Platelet Derived Growth Factor).
- PI 3-kinase activities of the PDGF receptor and of the insulin receptor in the presence or the absence of 4-OH-Ile (18 mg/kg I.P.) were compared following the protocol already described.
- results in histograms are shown in FIG. 10 : they clearly show the specificity of the route of action of 4-OH-Ile at the level of the rat liver, that is to say that the PI 3-kinase activity associated with the insulin receptor is the only one increased (p ⁇ 0.05).
- FIG. 11 shows that 4-OH-Ile (200 ⁇ mol/1) significantly inhibits (p ⁇ 0.05) this activity in the liver of a normal rat.
- a medicament according to the invention is particularly suitable for the symptomatic treatment of insulin resistant states, in particular insulin resistant states combined with obesity. It can be prepared from a mono- or polyhydroxylated amino acid and/or its lactonic forms using any appropriate technique known to a person skilled in the art. It can, in particular, be made from 4-hydroxyisoleucine. This product being hydrosoluble, such a medicament can easily be made in the form of a solution (in physiological serum for example), or in solid galenic form such as tablets or capsules. The pathologies targeted being chronic, administration by oral route appeared to be the most suitable. Such medicaments can thus be easily administered in multiple daily doses, adapted to the individual case of the patient involved, for example in the order of 2 to 3 times per day. A medicament according to the invention can also comprise insulin.
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- This application is a divisional of, and claims priority from, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/069,574, filed Aug. 1, 2002, which claims priority under 35 U.S.C. § 371 of PCT/FR00/02361, filed Aug. 23, 2000, which claims priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119 from French patent application no. 99-10874, filed Aug. 27, 1999.
- The present application relates to the use of amino acids for the manufacture of medicaments with an insulin mimetic and/or insulin-sensitizing effects on the peripheral target tissues of insulin, and more particularly the use of amino acids for the manufacture of medicaments intended for the treatment and the prevention of insulin resistance.
- In the last few years, considerable progress has been made in the understanding of the molecular mechanisms of how insulin works. A diagram showing the main routes of transduction of the insulin signal is given in
FIG. 1 . The insulin receptor is a transmembrane receptor endowed with an intrinsic tyrosine kinase activity (Combettes-Souverain M. and Issad T., Diab. Metab., 24, 477, 1998). The bonding of insulin to its receptor leads to the autophosphorylation of the receptor on its tyrosine residues, which stimulates its tyrosine kinase activity towards a certain number of intracellular substrates such as Insulin Receptor Substrate 1 (IRS-1), Insulin Receptor Substrate 2 (IRS-2) and Src homology collagen protein or Shc. This tyrosine kinase activity plays a determining role in the transmission of the insulin signal, and it is altered in numerous situations of insulin resistance (Ricort J. M. et al., Diabetologia, 38, 1148, 1995). Overall the cellular mechanisms of insulin resistance can be found at the bonding of the hormone to its receptor or a more distal post-bonding stage to the receptor. As the diagram inFIG. 1 shows, the phosphorylation on the tyrosines of IRS and Shc by the insulin receptor allows the activation of two main routes of cellular signalling, the MAP kinase (MAPK) route and the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI 3-K) route. Phosphotyrosine phosphatase (PTP) plays a role in the regulation of these routes. - The inventors have previously reported the insulin secretor effect that can be exercised in pancreatic cells by hydroxylated amino acid extracts of fenugreek seeds (Trigonella foenum graecum L.), and in particular by 4-hydroxyisoleucine (4-OH-Ile) and/or the corresponding lactone (
Patents FR 2 695 317 and 2 745 713 and corresponding patents under priority). - Moreover the inventors have now shown that such compounds are also able to act at the level of the insulin target cells, namely the peripheral tissues such as the liver and muscle, by exercising an activity at the level of the insulin receptor and/or the cascade of signalling that the activation of this receptor triggers. The effect observed in these peripheral tissues corresponds overall to an insulin mimetic or insulin-sensitizing effect.
- The work carried out, as illustrated by the examples, has in fact shown the effect of these compounds at the level of the phosphorylation cascade set in motion under the receptor, notably the increase of phosphorylation of the main proteins involved in the transmission of the insulin signal. The PI 3-kinase (Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase) enzyme activated by phosphorylated IRS-1 and playing an essential role in the translocation of the glucose transporter GLUT 4, is also increased under the effect of such compounds. Under the same conditions of use of these compounds, the phosphatase activity associated with the signalling route of the insulin receptor (PTP activity) is lowered, which is consistent with the increase of phosphorylations mentioned above. These compounds are therefore capable of acting on the signalling routes which are normally triggered by insulin, whether it is by activation of kinases, and/or inhibition of phophatases.
- A subject of the present invention is to benefit from the results obtained, and thus relates to any use of such amino acids or their derivatives, as insulin mimetic or insulin-sensitizing agents. It in particular relates to any use of such compounds for the manufacture of medicaments with insulin mimetic and/or insulin-sensitizing effects. These effects can be observed in the peripheral target tissues of insulin. As these compounds act on the signalling routes which are normally triggered by insulin, they can in fact serve as substitutes, complements, potentializers and sensitizers to insulin.
- The present application thus relates to the use as an insulin mimetic or insulin-sensitizing agent, of any amino acid or amino acid derivative which exercises a reduction in the phosphatase PTP activity and/or an increase of PI 3-kinase activity, of an equivalent or even higher level to the reduction, or increase respectively, caused by insulin. Any means which makes it possible to note such an effect on the reduction in PTP activity or increase in PI 3-kinase activity is appropriate. The following examples give illustrations.
- Such compounds correspond in a remarkable manner to amino acids which do not recognise the insulin receptor on its binding site, but which act at the post receptor level, under the conditions mentioned in the examples for 4-OH-Ile, and also correspond to the derivatives of these amino acids which have retained, at least in kind, the properties of non-recognition of the insulin receptor on its binding site and activity at post-receptor level that the parent amino acid of said derivative presents.
- Advantageously, the use according to the invention is characterised in that it relates to a compound chosen from the group constituted by mono-hydroxylated amino acids, polyhydroxylated amino acids, and lactonic forms of these mono- or hydroxylated amino acids.
- In particular the invention relates to the use of 4-hydroxyisoleucine of formula
- and/or its lactonic form.
- In particular, the invention relates to the use of 4-hydroxyisoleucine (abbreviated to 4-OH-Ile) in the form of its 2S, 3R, 4S isomer, or the corresponding lactone.
- Taking into account the effects observed, the medicaments manufactured in accordance with the invention are particularly suitable for treating insulin resistance, for combating or preventing syndromes linked to insulin resistance, and for preventing insulin resistance.
- Moreover, it is known that excessive weight gain, lack of exercise, poor diet and the ever increasing number of elderly people are socioeconomic factors frequently encountered in western countries. All contribute to the development of insulin resistance and compensatory hyperinsulinemia often combined with obesity and are potentially diabetogenic. Thus, the free fatty acids are amongst the first candidates put forNard to attempt to explain the close relationship between insulin resistance, obesity and hyperinsulinism (Mac Garry J. D., J. Cell. Biochem., 555, 29, 1994).
- Today this relationship has become a major phenomenon as regards public health. A body of proof, both clinical and epidemiological, linking hyperinsulinemia to the risk of future cardiovascular diseases, athergenic or diabetogenic risk, has made it possible to draw up the consistent Reaven's X syndrome table (hyperinsulinemia, insulin resistance, increase of serum triglycerides, arterial hypertension) and the morbid risks which are associated with it (Reaven G. M., Diabetes, 37, 1595, 1988). In addition, according to recent investigations, hyperinsulinemia by encouraging the proliferation of certain epithelial cells (notably those in the colon) appear to be associated with the risk of cancer (Hu F. B. et al., J. Natl. Cancer Inst., 91, 542, 1999).
- The present application also relates to any use of said amino acids and derivatives for the manufacture of a medicament intended to combat insulin resistance and insulin resistance syndromes, in particular against hyperinsulinemia, insulin resistance linked to ageing and against illnesses linked with obesity.
- The present application also relates to any use of said amino acids and derivatives for the manufacture of a medicament intended to prevent insulin resistances, and in particular for the manufacture of a medicament intended to reduce the need for exogenic insulin. Such medicaments, because of their insulin mimetic and insulin-sensitizing properties, can in fact have the effect of reducing the need for exogenic insulin that patients whose endogenic insulin is deficient, even absent in the case of
type 1 diabetes present. Patients suffering fromtype 1 diabetes suffer in fact from a total absence of the secretion of insulin (destruction of producing cells) which restricts full exogenic supplies of insulin. This situation, besides the intrinsic cost of such administration, often leads to the development of insulin resistance. In order to prevent and remedy these problems, for the treatment of a deficit in endogenic insulin, and in particular an absence of endogenic insulin such astype 1 diabetes, and for the manufacture of a medicament intended for such treatments, the present invention proposes to use at least one of said amino acids or derivatives. Used in combination with insulin, they have the advantage of reducing the need for exogenic insulin in the patient (reduction of the necessary supply of insulin), and therefore reduce the cost of treatment whilst preventing the development of insulin resistance and its side effects. - The medicaments manufactured in accordance with the invention could also be used to contribute to the inhibition of the proliferation of certain cell lines associated with the risk of cancer appearing.
- The invention also relates to the use of said derivatives, in particular 4-hydroxyisoleucine and/or its lactonic form to manufacture medicaments which act by reducing the phosphatase activity associated with the signalling route of the insulin receptor, and/or by stimulating the PI 3-kinase activity on IRS-1 and/or IRS-2.
- The present invention also relates to any pharmaceutical composition, any pharmaceutical kit and any medicament comprising, in a combined fashion, insulin and at least one of the amino acid compounds or derivatives defined above. This combination can be physical (insulin and amino acid or derivative are thus in the same composition). Or alternatively it can correspond to a presentation of insulin on one hand, and amino acid or derivative on the other hand, in physically distinct compositions, but which are presented as combined for combined use (kit-of-parts). This combined use can be simultaneous or at different times.
- The medicaments according to the invention can be administered mainly by oral route, but also by intravenous or intramuscular route, and contain excipients which are chosen according to the adopted galenic form.
- The dosage will be adapted according to the pathology to be treated.
- Other characteristics and advantages of the invention are given, by way of illustration, in the examples which follow, in which reference is made to
FIGS. 2 to 11 (FIG. 1 was referred to above and shows the diagram of the main routes of transduction of the insulin signal), theseFIGS. 2 to 11 represent: -
FIG. 2 , the effect of 4-OH-Ile on the phosphorylation of the insulin receptor and its substrate in rat liver, -
FIG. 3 , the effect of 4-OH-Ile on the PI 3-kinase activity of the liver, -
FIG. 4 , the bonding of insulin on its receptor in hepatic LMH cell lines, - respectively,
-
FIGS. 5 to 11 , the effect of 4-OH-Ile on, -
- the PI 3-kinase activity of the muscle (
FIG. 5 ), - basal insulinemia and glycemia in rats (
FIG. 6 ), - the PI 3-kinase activity of the liver (
FIG. 7 ) and of the muscle (FIG. 8 ) intype 2 diabetic rats, - the PI 3-kinase activity of the obese Zucker rat (fa/fa) (
FIG. 9 ), - the PI 3-kinase activity associated with the PDGF receptor or to the insulin receptor in the liver of a normal rat (
FIG. 10 ), and - the phosphatase activity associated with IRS-1 in the liver of a normal rat (
FIG. 11 ).
- the PI 3-kinase activity of the muscle (
- The PI 3-kinase activity was measured on immunoprecipitates carried out with the anti-IRS-1 antibody. This made it possible to determine the enzymatic activity associated with the action of insulin and to compare it to the action induced by 4-OH-Ile.
- Normal male Wistar rats (IFFA CREDO strain, France) received, via intraperitoneal injection, either ordinary insulin on its own (100 U/kg) or 4-OH-Ile on its own (18 mg/kg), or insulin combined with 4-OH-Ile in the same doses. The control rats received sodium chloride at 9 ‰ via intraperitoneal route. Fifteen minutes after the injection, the animals were sacrificed and the peripheral tissues (liver, muscle) were immediately removed and frozen in liquid nitrogen.
- For the determination of the PI 3-kinase activity, the tissues are ground in a buffer containing protease and phosphatase inhibitors as well as a solubilising agent (Triton), as described by Taouis et al., J. Biol. Chem., 269, 14912, 1994. After solubilisation, the supernatants are immunoprecipitated with anti-IRS-1 and the PI 3-kinase activity is measured in the immunoprecipitate. In fact, the reaction is initiated by the addition of an artificial substrate of the enzyme: phosphatidylinositol (PI) and (33P) gamma ATP. The product of the reaction is subjected to thin layer chromatography (TLC plate) and the levels of phosphorylation of PI are measured by a STORM phospho-imager (Molecular Dynamics). The activity is expressed in arbitrary units given by the apparatus (conversion of the radioactivity to luminescence by means of a laser beam).
- Measurement of the Phosphatase Activity Associated with the Insulin Signaling Route
- The phosphatase activity was measured on the immunoprecipitates carried out with the anti-IRS-1 antibody and insulin anti-receptor.
- The solubilisation protocol is the same as that for PI 3-kinase following the methodology described by Taouis et al. (J. Biol. Chem., 269, 14912, 1994). After immunoprecipitation, the phosphatase activity was measured according to the method described by Chen. et al. (J. Biol. Chem., 272, 8026, 1997).
- The results in
FIG. 2 clearly show that the treatment of animals by a single injection of 4-OH-Ile (200 μg/kg I.P.) induces the activation of the insulin receptor (IR) and its substrate (IRS-1) in vivo. The effect of 4-OH-Ile (40H) is comparable to that of insulin (Ins). - These results show the insulin mimetic effects of 4-OH-Ile in the activation of the phosphorylation of the insulin receptor and IRS-1 the phosphorylation of which is indispensable for the activation of effector proteins such as PI 3-kinase.
- The results in histograms are given in
FIG. 3 . In this diagram, it can be seen that insulin but also 4-OH-Ile on their own, significantly stimulate (p<0.05) the hepatic PI 3-kinase activity. When the two substances are administered together, a much greater effect is apparent. - These observations demonstrate that 4-OH-Ile has insulin mimetic effects in the liver. In addition, the greater effect objectivized when the two substances are injected jointly encourages synergetic activation mechanisms.
- This is confirmed by the comparative study of the effects of insulin and 4-hydroxyisoleucine on the insulin membrane receptor of the hepatocyte: the 4-hydroxyisoleucine has no bond with this receptor.
- In
FIG. 4 the comparative results concerning the bonding of isoleucine and 4-OH-Ile are given. The LMH cells used in these trials are from chicken hepatocarcinoma (Kawaguchi T. et al., Cancer Res., 47, 4460, 1987). - The Results in Histograms are Shown in
FIG. 5 . In This Diagram, it can be noted that not only insulin clearly stimulates the PI 3-kinase activity, but also that 4-OH-Ile has a comparable effect. Thus, the insulin mimetic effects of 40H-Ile observed at hepatic level are confirmed at muscular level. - It is noted therefore in the examination of the results of Examples 1 and 2 that at liver and muscle level, 4-hydroxyisoleucine stimulates, independently from insulin, the IRS-1/PI 3-kinase route which is the major route in the control of metabolic and mitogenic actions of insulin. In addition, 4-hydroxyisoleucine does not recognise the insulin receptor, or at least does not enter into competition with insulin in binding to the receptor.
- The beneficial effect of 4-hydroxyisoleucine against relative hyperinsulinemia has been researched in vivo during chronic administration (for one month) of plant amino acid (25 mg/kg/day, by intraperitoneal route) on rats made non insulin dependant diabetic (
type 2 diabetes) by joint injections of nicotinamide and streptozotocin (Masiello et al., Diabetes, 47, 224, 1998). Regular blood samples are taken from the caudal vein of the rats made it possible to evaluate the level of plasmatic insulin using a radio-immunological method (Herbert et al., J. Clin. Endocr., 25. 1375, 1965), 15 hours after injection of the product which took place at 5.30 pm. In these same samples, the plasmatic glucose level was measured using an enzymatic method (Trinder P., J. Clin. Pathol. 22, 158, 1969). - The results obtained are shown in
FIG. 6 . - It is observed that the daily administration of 4-hydroxyisoleucine has the effect of significantly lowering (p>0.05) the insulinemia of the animals treated.
- In addition, after cessation of the treatment, it can be noted that the plasmatic insulin again rises to regain values close to those observed before the treatment. Under these conditions, a slight reduction in glycemia was observed at the end of the treatment.
- The lowering of insulinemia observed in the rat after a chronic treatment with 4-hydroxyisoleucine confirms in vivo the insulin mimetic and/or insulin-sensitizing effects observed during experiments in vitro.
- The results in histograms are shown in
FIGS. 7 and 8 . It is noted that, if insulin activates hepatic PI 3-kinase (FIG. 7 ) and muscular PI 3-kinase (FIG. 8 ), it is the same for the 4-OH-Ile. 4-OH-Ile in this pathological situation induces the same effect as insulin with the same intensity. In addition, it is noticed that 4-OH-Ile significantly stimulates the IRS-1/PI 3-kinase route more clearly in the muscle (p<0.01) than in the liver (p<0.05). - During chronic administration for 4 weeks of 4-OH-Ile (50 mg/kg by intraperitoneal route) in obese Zucker rats (fa/fa), the PI 3-kinase activity of the liver was measured at the end of the treatment. The results in histograms are shown in
FIG. 9 . They show that the basal activity of PI 3-kinase (animals sacrificed 17 hours after the last administration of 4-OH-Ile) is increased in the animals treated. - The 4-OH-Ile activates the PI 3-kinase associated with the insulin receptor but not that associated with the PDGF receptor (Platelet Derived Growth Factor).
- The PI 3-kinase activities of the PDGF receptor and of the insulin receptor in the presence or the absence of 4-OH-Ile (18 mg/kg I.P.) were compared following the protocol already described.
- The results in histograms are shown in
FIG. 10 : they clearly show the specificity of the route of action of 4-OH-Ile at the level of the rat liver, that is to say that the PI 3-kinase activity associated with the insulin receptor is the only one increased (p<0.05). - With the aim of better locating the action site of the 4-OH-Ile, its impact on phosphatase activity was studied. The phosphatase activity associated with IRS-1 was measured.
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FIG. 11 shows that 4-OH-Ile (200 μmol/1) significantly inhibits (p<0.05) this activity in the liver of a normal rat. - A medicament according to the invention is particularly suitable for the symptomatic treatment of insulin resistant states, in particular insulin resistant states combined with obesity. It can be prepared from a mono- or polyhydroxylated amino acid and/or its lactonic forms using any appropriate technique known to a person skilled in the art. It can, in particular, be made from 4-hydroxyisoleucine. This product being hydrosoluble, such a medicament can easily be made in the form of a solution (in physiological serum for example), or in solid galenic form such as tablets or capsules. The pathologies targeted being chronic, administration by oral route appeared to be the most suitable. Such medicaments can thus be easily administered in multiple daily doses, adapted to the individual case of the patient involved, for example in the order of 2 to 3 times per day. A medicament according to the invention can also comprise insulin.
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