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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-6-11
pubmed:abstractText
The energy requirements of most cells supplied with glucose are fulfilled by glycolytic and oxidative metabolism, yielding ATP. In pancreatic beta-cells, a rise in cytosolic ATP is also a critical signaling event, coupling closure of ATP-sensitive K+ channels (KATP) to insulin secretion via depolarization-driven increases in intracellular Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i). We report that glycolytic but not Krebs cycle metabolism of glucose is critically involved in this signaling process. While inhibitors of glycolysis suppressed glucose-stimulated insulin secretion, blockers of pyruvate transport or Krebs cycle enzymes were without effect. While pyruvate was metabolized in islets to the same extent as glucose, it produced no stimulation of insulin secretion and did not block KATP. A membrane-permeant analog, methyl pyruvate, however, produced a block of KATP, a sustained rise in [Ca2+]i, and an increase in insulin secretion 6-fold the magnitude of that induced by glucose. These results indicate that ATP derived from mitochondrial pyruvate metabolism does not substantially contribute to the regulation of KATP responses to a glucose challenge, supporting the notion of subcompartmentation of ATP within the beta-cell. Supranormal stimulation of the Krebs cycle by methyl pyruvate can, however, overwhelm intracellular partitioning of ATP and thereby drive insulin secretion.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
271
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
4838-45
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:8617753-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:8617753-Antimycin A, pubmed-meshheading:8617753-Calcium, pubmed-meshheading:8617753-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:8617753-Dichloroacetate, pubmed-meshheading:8617753-Electron Transport, pubmed-meshheading:8617753-Glucose, pubmed-meshheading:8617753-Glycolysis, pubmed-meshheading:8617753-Insulin, pubmed-meshheading:8617753-Islets of Langerhans, pubmed-meshheading:8617753-Kinetics, pubmed-meshheading:8617753-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:8617753-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:8617753-Mitochondria, pubmed-meshheading:8617753-Oxidative Phosphorylation, pubmed-meshheading:8617753-Pyruvates, pubmed-meshheading:8617753-Rotenone, pubmed-meshheading:8617753-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:8617753-Time Factors, pubmed-meshheading:8617753-Uncoupling Agents
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Activation of stimulus-secretion coupling in pancreatic beta-cells by specific products of glucose metabolism. Evidence for privileged signaling by glycolysis.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Cell Physiology, Glaxo Research Institute, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article