Insulin-regulated trafficking of dual-labeled glucose transporter 4 in primary rat adipose cells.

In isolated rat adipose cells, physiologically relevant insulin target cells, glucose transporter 4 (GLUT4) subcellular trafficking can be assessed by transfection of exofacially HA-tagged GLUT4. To simultaneously visualize the transfected GLUT4, we fused GFP with HA-GLUT4. With the resulting chimeras, GFP-HA-GLUT4 and HA-GLUT4-GFP, we were able to visualize for the first time the cell-surface localization, total expression, and intracellular distribution of GLUT4 in a single cell. Confocal microscopy reveals that the intracellular proportions of both GFP-HA-GLUT4 and HA-GLUT4-GFP are properly targeted to the insulin-responsive aminopeptidase-positive vesicles. Dynamic studies demonstrate close similarities in the trafficking kinetics between the two constructs and with native GLUT4. However, while the basal subcellular distribution of HA-GLUT4-GFP and the response to insulin are indistinguishable from those of HA-GLUT4 and endogenous GLUT4, most of the GFP-HA-GLUT4 is targeted to the plasma membrane with little further insulin response. Thus, HA-GLUT4-GFP will be useful to study GLUT4 trafficking in vivo while GFP on the N-terminus interferes with intracellular retention.

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