期刊
MOLECULAR METABOLISM
卷 17, 期 -, 页码 17-27出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.molmet.2018.08.001
关键词
Glucokinase; Hypoglycemia; Counter-regulation; Glucagon; Epinephrine; Insulin clamp; Maturity onset diabetes of young (MODY); beta-cells
资金
- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation [1-2006]
- Diabetes UK [RD05/003059, 13/0004680]
- Wellcome Trust [WT098012, 093875/Z/10/Z]
- UK Biotechnology and Biosciences Research Council [BB/N017838/1]
- Cambridge Medical Research Council Centre for Study of Obesity and Related Disorders (MRC-CORD)
- Diabetes UK
- UK Medical Research Council [MC_U142661184, G1000183]
- National Health Service in the East of England through the Clinical Academic Reserve
- BBSRC [BB/N017838/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- MRC [G1000183, MC_U142661184] Funding Source: UKRI
Objective: Appropriate glucose levels are essential for survival; thus, the detection and correction of low blood glucose is of paramount importance. Hypoglycemia prompts an integrated response involving reduction in insulin release and secretion of key counter-regulatory hormones glucagon and epinephrine that together promote endogenous glucose production to restore normoglycemia. However, specifically how this response is orchestrated remains to be fully clarified. The low affinity hexokinase glucokinase is found in glucose-sensing cells involved in glucose homeostasis including pancreatic beta-cells and in certain brain areas. Here, we aimed to examine the role of glucokinase in triggering counter-regulatory hormonal responses to hypoglycemia, hypothesizing that reduced glucokinase activity would lead to increased and/or earlier triggering of responses. Methods: Hyperinsulinemic glucose clamps were performed to examine counter-regulatory responses to controlled hypoglycemic challenges created in humans with monogenic diabetes resulting from heterozygous glucokinase mutations (GCK-MODY). To examine the relative importance of glucokinase in different sensing areas, we then examined responses to clamped hypoglycemia in mice with molecularly defined disruption of whole body and/or brain glucokinase. Results: GCK-MODY patients displayed increased and earlier glucagon responses during hypoglycemia compared with a group of glycemia-matched patients with type 2 diabetes. Consistent with this, glucagon responses to hypoglycemia were also increased in 1366F mice with mutated glucokinase and in streptozotocin-treated beta-cell ablated diabetic 1366F mice. Glucagon responses were normal in conditional brain glucokinase-knockout mice, suggesting that glucagon release during hypoglycemia is controlled by glucokinase-mediated glucose sensing outside the brain but not in beta-cells. For epinephrine, we found increased responses in GCK-MODY patients, in beta-cell ablated diabetic 1366F mice and in conditional (nestin lineage) brain glucokinase-knockout mice, supporting a role for brain glucokinase in triggering epinephrine release. Conclusions: Our data suggest that glucokinase in brain and other non beta-cell peripheral hypoglycemia sensors is important in glucose homeostasis, allowing the body to detect and respond to a falling blood glucose. (C) 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier GmbH.
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