Targeting ABL-IRE1α Signaling Spares ER-Stressed Pancreatic β Cells to Reverse Autoimmune Diabetes

Autor: Kevin Colon-Negron, Wendy Rosenthal, Dustin J. Maly, Morvarid Mehdizadeh, Shuhei Morita, Rosa Meza-Acevedo, Jeffrey A. Bluestone, Ingeborg T. Hoffmann-Petersen, S. Armando Villalta, Hannah C. Feldman, Ames C. Register, Rajarshi Ghosh, Likun Wang, Feroz R. Papa, Bradley J. Backes
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Cell Metabolism. 25:1207
ISSN: 1550-4131
Popis: In cells experiencing unrelieved endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, the ER transmembrane kinase/endoribonuclease (RNase)-IRE1α-endonucleolytically degrades ER-localized mRNAs to promote apoptosis. Here we find that the ABL family of tyrosine kinases rheostatically enhances IRE1α's enzymatic activities, thereby potentiating ER stress-induced apoptosis. During ER stress, cytosolic ABL kinases localize to the ER membrane, where they bind, scaffold, and hyperactivate IRE1α's RNase. Imatinib-an anti-cancer tyrosine kinase inhibitor-antagonizes the ABL-IRE1α interaction, blunts IRE1α RNase hyperactivity, reduces pancreatic β cell apoptosis, and reverses type 1 diabetes (T1D) in the non-obese diabetic (NOD) mouse model. A mono-selective kinase inhibitor that allosterically attenuates IRE1α's RNase-KIRA8-also efficaciously reverses established diabetes in NOD mice by sparing β cells and preserving their physiological function. Our data support a model wherein ER-stressed β cells contribute to their own demise during T1D pathogenesis and implicate the ABL-IRE1α axis as a drug target for the treatment of an autoimmune disease.
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