The Loss of Sirt1 in Mouse Pancreatic Beta Cells Impairs Insulin Secretion by Disrupting Glucose Sensing

Overview

Journal Diabetologia

Specialty Endocrinology

Date 2013 Jun 21

PMID 23783352

Citations 38

Authors

L Luu

F F Dai

K J Prentice

X Huang

A B Hardy

J B Hansen

Y Liu

J W Joseph

M B Wheeler

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Abstract

Aims/hypothesis: Sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) has emerged as a key metabolic regulator of glucose homeostasis and insulin secretion. Enhanced SIRT1 activity has been shown to be protective against diabetes, although the mechanisms remain largely unknown. The aim of this study was to determine how SIRT1 regulates insulin secretion in the pancreatic beta cell.

Methods: Pancreatic beta cell-specific Sirt1 deletion was induced by tamoxifen injection in 9-week-old Pdx1CreER:floxSirt1 mice (Sirt1BKO). Controls were injected with vehicle. Mice were assessed metabolically via glucose challenge, insulin tolerance tests and physical variables. In parallel, Sirt1 short interfering RNA-treated MIN6 cells (SIRT1KD) and isolated Sirt1BKO islets were used to investigate the effect of SIRT1 inactivation on insulin secretion and gene expression.

Results: OGTTs showed impaired glucose disposal in Sirt1BKO mice due to insufficient insulin secretion. Isolated Sirt1BKO islets and SIRT1KD MIN6 cells also exhibited impaired glucose-stimulated insulin secretion. Subsequent analyses revealed impaired α-ketoisocaproic acid-induced insulin secretion and attenuated glucose-induced Ca(2+) influx, but normal insulin granule exocytosis in Sirt1BKO beta cells. Microarray studies revealed a large cluster of mitochondria-related genes, the expression of which was dysregulated in SIRT1KD MIN6 cells. Upon further analysis, we demonstrated an explicit defect in mitochondrial function: the inability to couple nutrient metabolism to mitochondrial membrane hyperpolarisation and reduced oxygen consumption rates.

Conclusions/interpretation: Taken together, these findings indicate that in beta cells the deacetylase SIRT1 regulates the expression of specific mitochondria-related genes that control metabolic coupling, and that a decrease in beta cell Sirt1 expression impairs glucose sensing and insulin secretion.

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