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PLOS ONE
Volume 6, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028050
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- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [RO1 67536, 1-K99 DK090210-01]
- National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia
- Royal Australian College of Physicians
- Ministero della Salute
- MIUR
- University of Milano, School of Medicine
- Sunstar Fellowship
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Insulin resistance, reduced beta-cell mass, and hyperglucagonemia are consistent features in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). We used pancreas and islets from humans with T2DM to examine the regulation of insulin signaling and cell-cycle control of islet cells. We observed reduced beta-cell mass and increased alpha-cell mass in the Type 2 diabetic pancreas. Confocal microscopy, real-time PCR and western blotting analyses revealed increased expression of PCNA and down-regulation of p27-Kip1 and altered expression of insulin receptors, insulin receptor substrate-2 and phosphorylated BAD. To investigate the mechanisms underlying these findings, we examined a mouse model of insulin resistance in beta-cells - which also exhibits reduced beta-cell mass, the beta-cell-specific insulin receptor knockout (beta IRKO). Freshly isolated islets and beta-cell lines derived from beta IRKO mice exhibited poor cell-cycle progression, nuclear restriction of FoxO1 and reduced expression of cell-cycle proteins favoring growth arrest. Re-expression of insulin receptors in beta IRKO beta-cells reversed the defects and promoted cell cycle progression and proliferation implying a role for insulin-signaling in beta-cell growth. These data provide evidence that human beta- and alpha-cells can enter the cell-cycle, but proliferation of beta-cells in T2DM fails due to G1-to-S phase arrest secondary to defective insulin signaling. Activation of insulin signaling, FoxO1 and proteins in beta-cell-cycle progression are attractive therapeutic targets to enhance beta-cell regeneration in the treatment of T2DM.
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