Journal
DIABETOLOGIA
Volume 63, Issue 10, Pages 1990-1998Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00125-020-05205-5
Keywords
Beta cells; Disallowed genes; Insulin secretion; Interconnectivity; Mitochondria; Review; Type 2 diabetes
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- MRC [MR/N00275X/1, MR/R022259/1, MR/L020149/1, MR/P023223/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [MR/L020149/1, MR/N00275X/1, MR/R022259/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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All forms of diabetes mellitus involve the loss or dysfunction of pancreatic beta cells, with the former predominating in type 1 diabetes and the latter in type 2 diabetes. Deeper understanding of the coupling mechanisms that link glucose metabolism in these cells to the control of insulin secretion is therefore likely to be essential to develop new therapies. Beta cells display a remarkable metabolic specialisation, expressing high levels of metabolic sensing enzymes, including the glucose transporter GLUT2 (encoded bySLC2A2) and glucokinase (encoded byGCK). Genetic evidence flowing from both monogenic forms of diabetes and genome-wide association studies for the more common type 2 diabetes, supports the importance for normal glucose-stimulated insulin secretion of metabolic signalling via altered ATP generation, while also highlighting unsuspected roles for Zn(2+)storage, intracellular lipid transfer and other processes. Intriguingly, genes involved in non-oxidative metabolic fates of the sugar, such as those for lactate dehydrogenase (LDHA) and monocarboxylate transporter-1 ([MCT-1]SLC16A1), as well as the acyl-CoA thioesterase (ACOT7) and others, are selectively repressed ('disallowed') in beta cells. Furthermore, mutations in genes critical for mitochondrial oxidative metabolism, such asTRL-CAG1-7encoding tRNALeu, are linked to maternally inherited forms of diabetes. Correspondingly, impaired Ca(2+)uptake into mitochondria, or collapse of a normally interconnected mitochondrial network, are associated with defective insulin secretion. Here, we suggest that altered mitochondrial metabolism may also impair beta cell-beta cell communication. Thus, we argue that defective oxidative glucose metabolism is central to beta cell failure in diabetes, acting both at the level of single beta cells and potentially across the whole islet to impair insulin secretion. Graphical abstract
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