1. KATP channel-deficient pancreatic beta-cells are streptozotocin resistant because of lower GLUT2 activity.
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Xu J, Zhang L, Chou A, Allaby T, Bélanger G, Radziuk J, Jasmin BJ, Miki T, Seino S, and Renaud JM
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- Animals, Antibiotics, Antineoplastic blood, Antibiotics, Antineoplastic metabolism, Blood Glucose metabolism, Blotting, Western, Cytosol metabolism, Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental genetics, Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental pathology, Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental physiopathology, Drug Resistance, Glucose Transporter Type 2 genetics, In Vitro Techniques, Insulin blood, Islets of Langerhans drug effects, Islets of Langerhans metabolism, KATP Channels deficiency, KATP Channels genetics, Liver pathology, Mice, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Mice, Knockout, Microscopy, Fluorescence, Pancreas metabolism, Potassium Channels, Inwardly Rectifying genetics, Potassium Channels, Inwardly Rectifying physiology, Streptozocin blood, Streptozocin metabolism, Antibiotics, Antineoplastic pharmacology, Glucose Transporter Type 2 metabolism, Insulin-Secreting Cells metabolism, KATP Channels physiology, Streptozocin pharmacology
- Abstract
In wild-type mice, a single injection of streptozotocin (STZ, 200 mg/kg body wt) caused within 4 days severe hyperglycemia, hypoinsulinemia, significant glucose intolerance, loss of body weight, and the disappearance of pancreatic beta-cells. However, in ATP-sensitive K(+) channel (K(ATP) channel)-deficient mice (Kir6.2(-/-) mice), STZ had none of these effects. Exposing isolated pancreatic islets to STZ caused severe damage in wild-type but not in Kir6.2(-/-) islets. Following a single injection, plasma STZ levels were slightly less in Kir6.2(-/-) mice than in wild-type mice. Despite the difference in plasma STZ, wild-type and Kir6.2(-/-) liver accumulated the same amount of STZ, whereas Kir6.2(-/-) pancreas accumulated 4.1-fold less STZ than wild-type pancreas. Kir6.2(-/-) isolated pancreatic islets also transported less glucose than wild-type ones. Quantification of glucose transporter 2 (GLUT2) protein content by Western blot using an antibody with an epitope in the extracellular loop showed no significant difference in GLUT2 content between wild-type and Kir6.2(-/-) pancreatic islets. However, visualization by immunofluorescence with the same antibody gave rise to 32% less fluorescence in Kir6.2(-/-) pancreatic islets. The fluorescence intensity using another antibody, with an epitope in the COOH terminus, was 5.6 times less in Kir6.2(-/-) than in wild-type pancreatic islets. We conclude that 1) Kir6.2(-/-) mice are STZ resistant because of a decrease in STZ transport by GLUT2 in pancreatic beta-cells and 2) the decreased transport is due to a downregulation of GLUT2 activity involving an effect at the COOH terminus.
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- 2008
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