INGAP-PP (Islets Neogenesis Associated Protein) aumenta a expressao das proteinas do canal de potassio, sensivel ao ATP, em ilhotas cultivadas de ratos adultos / INGAP-PP up-regulates the expression of genes and proteins related to k+atp channel in cultured adult rat islets

AUTOR(ES)

Kelly Elizeu da Silva

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

Cultured adult rat islets were used to study the effect of INGAP-PP upon: a) gene expression of Kir6.2 and SUR1 of K+ATP channels and of their transcription factor Foxa2 (RT-PCR), b) protein levels (Western blotting) of SUR1 and Foxa2, c) static and dynamic insulin secretion elicited by metabolic and non metabolic stimuli and d) 86Rb efflux from perifused islets. INGAP-PP increased significantly the expression of Kir6.2, SUR1 and Foxa2 and the protein levels of SUR1 and Foxa2. Islets cultured with INGAPPP and further incubated for 1 h with 2.8 mM glucose, significantly enhanced the release of insulin in response to 40 mM KCl, and 100 µM tolbutamide. The dose-response curve of insulin secretion to increasing glucose concentrations (2.8 to 22.2 mM) shifted to the left in INGAP-PP-cultured islets with an EC50 of 10.0 ± 0.4 vs. 13.7 ± 1.5 mM glucose of the controls (P <0,05). In dynamic studies INGAP-PP increased significantly the first-phase of insulin secretion elicited by either 22.2 mM glucose or 100 µM tolbutamide and promotes a higher glucose-induced reduction of 86Rb efflux from perifused islets. These results confirm the enhancing effect of INGAP-PP upon insulin release induced by different secretagogues and provide new evidence that such effect is due, at least partly, to an enhanced expression of the SUR1 and Kir6.2 genes of K+ATP channels and of the Foxa2 gene that controls their expression. They would also suggest that INGAP-PP could potentially be used to maintain the capacity of cultured islets to release insulin in response to glucose and maybe for the treatment of diabetes

ASSUNTO(S)

expressão genica islands of langerhans rats gene expression rato - fisiologia insulin ilhotas de insulina - secreção langerhans

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