COUP-TFII controls mouse pancreatic β-cell mass through GLP-1-β-catenin signaling pathways.
| Autor: | Marie Boutant, Oscar Henrique Pereira Ramos, Cécile Tourrel-Cuzin, Jamileh Movassat, Anissa Ilias, David Vallois, Julien Planchais, Jean-Paul Pégorier, Frans Schuit, Patrice X Petit, Pascale Bossard, Kathrin Maedler, Anne Grapin-Botton, Mireille Vasseur-Cognet |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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| Zdroj: | PLoS ONE, Vol 7, Iss 1, p e30847 (2012) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 71680462 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0030847 |
| Popis: | BackgroundThe control of the functional pancreatic β-cell mass serves the key homeostatic function of releasing the right amount of insulin to keep blood sugar in the normal range. It is not fully understood though how β-cell mass is determined.Methodology/principal findingsConditional chicken ovalbumin upstream promoter transcription factor II (COUP-TFII)-deficient mice were generated and crossed with mice expressing Cre under the control of pancreatic duodenal homeobox 1 (pdx1) gene promoter. Ablation of COUP-TFII in pancreas resulted in glucose intolerance. Beta-cell number was reduced at 1 day and 3 weeks postnatal. Together with a reduced number of insulin-containing cells in the ductal epithelium and normal β-cell proliferation and apoptosis, this suggests decreased β-cell differentiation in the neonatal period. By testing islets isolated from these mice and cultured β-cells with loss and gain of COUP-TFII function, we found that COUP-TFII induces the expression of the β-catenin gene and its target genes such as cyclin D1 and axin 2. Moreover, induction of these genes by glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) via β-catenin was impaired in absence of COUP-TFII. The expression of two other target genes of GLP-1 signaling, GLP-1R and PDX-1 was significantly lower in mutant islets compared to control islets, possibly contributing to reduced β-cell mass. Finally, we demonstrated that COUP-TFII expression was activated by the Wnt signaling-associated transcription factor TCF7L2 (T-cell factor 7-like 2) in human islets and rat β-cells providing a feedback loop.Conclusions/significanceOur findings show that COUP-TFII is a novel component of the GLP-1 signaling cascade that increases β-cell number during the neonatal period. COUP-TFII is required for GLP-1 activation of the β-catenin-dependent pathway and its expression is under the control of TCF7L2. |
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