Diabetes 51:2982-2988, 2002 © 2002 by the American Diabetes Association, Inc. Different Regulated Expression of the Tyrosine Phosphatase-Like Proteins IA-2 and Phogrin by Glucose and Insulin in Pancreatic IsletsRelationship to Development of Insulin Secretory Responses in Early Life
1 Department of Medicine, Guys, Kings and St. Thomass School of Medicine, Kings College London, London, U.K. IA-2 and phogrin are tyrosine phosphatase-like proteins that may mediate interactions between secretory granules and cytoskeleton in islets and neuroendocrine tissues. We investigated factors that regulate IA-2 and phogrin expression and their relationship to maturation of insulin secretory responses that occur after birth. Islet content of IA-2, but not phogrin, increased during the first 10 days of life in rats, when insulin secretion in response to glucose increased to adult levels. In cultured 5-day-old rat islets, IA-2 protein and mRNA was increased by glucose and agents that potentiate insulin secretion by the cAMP pathway. Addition of insulin increased IA-2 protein levels and insulin biosynthesis without affecting IA-2 mRNA. Blocking insulin secretion with diazoxide or insulin action with insulin receptor antibodies inhibited glucose-induced increases in IA-2 protein, but not those of mRNA. Phogrin expression was unchanged by all agents. Thus, IA-2 is regulated at the mRNA level by glucose and elevated cAMP, whereas locally secreted insulin modulates IA-2 protein levels by stimulating biosynthesis. In contrast, phogrin expression is insensitive to factors that modify ß-cell function. These results demonstrate differential regulation of two closely related secretory granule components and identify IA-2 as a granule membrane protein subject to autocrine regulation by insulin.
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