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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION
Volume 129, Issue 9, Pages 3732-3737Publisher
AMER SOC CLINICAL INVESTIGATION INC
DOI: 10.1172/JCI126309
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- Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
- NIH [R35 GM122491]
- NIGMS [R35 GM122536]
- Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)
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beta-Arrestin land 2 (Barr1 and Barr2, respectively) are intracellular signaling molecules that regulate many important metabolic functions. We previously demonstrated that mice lacking Barr2 selectively in pancreatic p cells showed pronounced metabolic impairments. Here we investigated whether Barr1 plays a similar role in regulating beta cell function and whole-body glucose homeostasis. Initially, we inactivated the Barr1 gene in beta cells of adult mice (beta-barr1-KO mice). beta-barr1-KO mice did not display any obvious phenotypes in a series of in vivo and in vitro metabolic tests. However, glibenclamide and tolbutamide, 2 widely used antidiabetic drugs of the sulfonylurea (SU) family, showed greatly reduced efficacy in stimulating insulin secretion in the KO mice in vivo and in perifused KO islets in vitro. Additional in vivo and in vitro studies demonstrated that Barri enhanced SU-stimulated insulin secretion by promoting SU-mediated activation of Epac2. Pull-down and coimmunoprecipitation experiments showed that Barr1 can directly interact with Epac2 and that SUs such as glibenclamide promote Barr1/Epac2 complex formation, triggering enhanced Rap1 signaling and insulin secretion. These findings suggest that strategies aimed at promoting Barr1 signaling in beta cells may prove useful for the development of efficacious antidiabetic drugs.
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