Journal
EXPERIMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE
Volume 44, Issue 4, Pages 260-267Publisher
KOREAN SOC MED BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
DOI: 10.3858/emm.2012.44.4.021
Keywords
diabetes mellitus, type 1; HMGB1 protein; islets of Langerhans; mice, inbred NOD; toll-like receptor 4
Funding
- National Nature Science Foundation [30371388]
- Fudan University
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Type 1 diabetes mellitus is caused by the autoimmune destruction of beta cells within the islets. In recent years, innate immunity has been proposed to play a key role in this process. High-mobility group box 1 (HMGB1), an inflammatory trigger in a number of autoimmune diseases, activates proinflammatory responses following its release from necrotic cells. Our aim was to determine the significance of HMGB1 in the natural history of diabetes in non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice. We observed that the rate of HMGB1 expression in the cytoplasm of islets was much greater in diabetic mice compared with non-diabetic mice. The majority of cells positively stained for toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) were beta cells; few alpha cells were stained for TLR4. Thus, we examined the effects of anti-TLR4 antibodies on HMGB1 cell surface binding, which confirmed that HMGB1 interacts with TLR4 in isolated islets. Expression changes in HMGB1 and TLR4 were detected throughout the course of diabetes. Our findings indicate that TLR4 is the main receptor on beta cells and that HMGB1 may signal via TLR4 to selectively damage beta cells rather than alpha cells during the development of type 1 diabetes mellitus.
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