Apn has protective effects against hyperglycemia and can effectively enhance antioxidation, promote the secretion of insulin and reduce the accumulation of glycosylated products in T2DM mice; these effects were associated with inhibition of PKC and promotion of PKA signaling.
Hyperglycemia induced the expression of PKC-beta1 and PKC-beta2; however, only inhibition of PKC-beta1 but not PKC-beta2 led to a significant decrease of FGF-2 levels.
Taken together, our data suggest that hmunc13 serves as a diacylglycerol-activated, PKC-independent signaling pathway capable of inducing apoptosis and that this pathway may contribute to the renal cell complications of hyperglycemia.