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DIABETES
Volume 60, Issue 1, Pages 218-226Publisher
AMER DIABETES ASSOC
DOI: 10.2337/db10-0021
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- Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare of Japan
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan
- Kyoto University Global Center of Excellence Program Center for Frontier Medicine
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22689009, 23591308] Funding Source: KAKEN
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OBJECTIVE-Reactive oxygen species (ROS) is one of most important factors in impaired metabolism secretion coupling in pancreatic beta-cells. We recently reported that elevated ROS production and impaired ATP production at high glucose in diabetic Goto-Kakizaki (GK) rat islets are effectively ameliorated by Src inhibition, suggesting that Src activity is upregulated. In the present study, we investigated whether the glucagon-like peptide-1 signal regulates Src activity and meliorates endogenous ROS production and ATP production in GK islets using exendin-4. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS-Isolated islets from GK and control Wistar rats were used for immunoblotting analyses and measurements of ROS production and ATP content. Src activity was examined by immunoprecipitation of islet lysates followed by immunoblotting. ROS production was measured with a fluorescent probe using dispersed islet cells. RESULTS-Exendin-4 significantly decreased phosphorylation of Src Tyr416, which indicates Src activation, in GK islets under 16.7 mmol/l glucose exposure. Glucose-induced ROS production (16.7 mmol/l) in GK islet cells was significantly decreased by coexposure of exendin-4 as well as PP2, a Src inhibitor. The Src kinase-negative mutant expression in GK islets significantly decreased ROS production induced by high glucose. Exendin-4, as well as PP2, significantly increased impaired ATP elevation by high glucose in GK islets. The decrease in ROS production by exendin-4 was not affected by H-89, a PKA inhibitor, and an Epac-specific cAMP analog (8CPT-2Me-cAMP) significantly decreased Src Tyr416 phosphorylation and ROS production. CONCLUSIONS-Exendin-4 decreases endogenous ROS production and increases ATP production in diabetic GK rat islets through suppression of Src activation, dependently on Epac. Diabetes 60:218-226, 2011
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