Diabetes 53:1496-1508, 2004
© 2004 by the American Diabetes Association, Inc.
Glucose and Insulin Treatment of Insulinoma Cells Results in Transcriptional Regulation of a Common Set of Genes
Mitsuru Ohsugi1,
Corentin Cras-Méneur1,
Yiyong Zhou1,
Wesley Warren2,
Ernesto Bernal-Mizrachi1, and
M. Alan Permutt1
1 Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipid Research, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
2 Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
Glucose and insulin are important regulators of islet ß-cell growth and function by activating signaling pathways resulting in transcriptional changes that lead to adaptive responses. Several immediate early genes have been shown to be rapidly induced by glucose-activated depolarization in islet ß-cells. The current studies address aspects of glucose-regulated transcription: 1) the number and characteristics of these genes, 2) if depolarization is the major mechanism, and 3) if glucose-stimulated insulin secretion is responsible, because insulin per se can activate transcription. Here, the expression profiles of glucose-responsive insulinoma cells 45 min after the addition of glucose, KCl to induce depolarization, or insulin were assessed by endocrine pancreas cDNA microarrays. Glucose activated more than 90 genes, representing diverse gene ontology functions, and most were not previously known to be glucose responsive. KCl activated 80% of these same glucose-regulated genes and, along with the effects of pretreatment with diazoxide, suggested that glucose signaling is mediated primarily via depolarization. There were >150 genes activated by insulin, and remarkably 71% were also regulated by glucose. Preincubation with a phosphatidylinositol (PI) 3-kinase inhibitor resulted in almost total inhibition of depolarization and insulin-activated transcriptional responses. Thus, through gene expression profiling, these data demonstrate that glucose and insulin rapidly activate a PI 3-kinase pathway, resulting in transcription of a common set of genes. This is consistent with glucose activation of gene transcription either directly or indirectly through a paracrine/autocrine effect via insulin release. These results illustrate that expression gene profiling can contribute to the elucidation of important ß-cell biological functions.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to M. Alan Permutt, MD, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism,Lipid Research, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S. Euclid Ave., Campus Box 8127, St. Louis, MO 63110. E-mail: apermutt{at}im.wustl.edu

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