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Lack of cholesterol mobilization in islets of hormone-sensitive lipase deficient mice impairs insulin secretion.

Larsson, Sara LU ; Wierup, Nils LU ; Sundler, Frank LU ; Eliasson, Lena LU orcid and Holm, Cecilia LU (2008) In Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 376. p.558-562
Abstract
The observations that hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL) is located in close association to insulin granules in beta-cells and that cholesterol ester hydrolase activity is completely blunted in islets of HSL null mice made us hypothesize that the role of HSL in beta-cells is to provide cholesterol for the exocytosis of insulin. To test this hypothesis, wild type (wt) and HSL null islets were depleted of plasma membrane cholesterol using methyl-beta-cyclodextrin (mbetacd). A significant reduction in insulin secretion from HSL null islets was observed whereas wt islets were unaffected. Using synaptosomal protein of 25kDa (SNAP-25) as indicator of cholesterol-rich microdomains, confocal microscopy was used to show that HSL null beta-cells treated... (More)
The observations that hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL) is located in close association to insulin granules in beta-cells and that cholesterol ester hydrolase activity is completely blunted in islets of HSL null mice made us hypothesize that the role of HSL in beta-cells is to provide cholesterol for the exocytosis of insulin. To test this hypothesis, wild type (wt) and HSL null islets were depleted of plasma membrane cholesterol using methyl-beta-cyclodextrin (mbetacd). A significant reduction in insulin secretion from HSL null islets was observed whereas wt islets were unaffected. Using synaptosomal protein of 25kDa (SNAP-25) as indicator of cholesterol-rich microdomains, confocal microscopy was used to show that HSL null beta-cells treated with mbetacd contained fewer clusters than wt beta-cells. These results indicate that HSL plays an important role in insulin secretion by providing free cholesterol for the formation and maintenance of cholesterol-rich patches for docking of SNARE-proteins to the plasma membrane. (Less)
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10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.09.045
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The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Molecular Endocrinology (013212018), Neuroendocrine Cell Biology (013212008), Islet cell exocytosis (013212135)
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  abstract     = {{The observations that hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL) is located in close association to insulin granules in beta-cells and that cholesterol ester hydrolase activity is completely blunted in islets of HSL null mice made us hypothesize that the role of HSL in beta-cells is to provide cholesterol for the exocytosis of insulin. To test this hypothesis, wild type (wt) and HSL null islets were depleted of plasma membrane cholesterol using methyl-beta-cyclodextrin (mbetacd). A significant reduction in insulin secretion from HSL null islets was observed whereas wt islets were unaffected. Using synaptosomal protein of 25kDa (SNAP-25) as indicator of cholesterol-rich microdomains, confocal microscopy was used to show that HSL null beta-cells treated with mbetacd contained fewer clusters than wt beta-cells. These results indicate that HSL plays an important role in insulin secretion by providing free cholesterol for the formation and maintenance of cholesterol-rich patches for docking of SNARE-proteins to the plasma membrane.}},
  author       = {{Larsson, Sara and Wierup, Nils and Sundler, Frank and Eliasson, Lena and Holm, Cecilia}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{558--562}},
  publisher    = {{Elsevier}},
  series       = {{Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications}},
  title        = {{Lack of cholesterol mobilization in islets of hormone-sensitive lipase deficient mice impairs insulin secretion.}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.09.045}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.09.045}},
  volume       = {{376}},
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