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Chronic high glucose and pyruvate levels differentially affect mitochondrial bioenergetics and fuel-stimulated insulin secretion from clonal INS-1 832/13 cells.

Göhring, Isabel LU ; Sharoyko, Vladimir LU ; Malmgren, Siri LU ; Andersson, Lotta LU ; Spégel, Peter LU ; Nicholls, David LU and Mulder, Hindrik LU orcid (2014) In Journal of Biological Chemistry 289(6). p.3786-3798
Abstract
Glucotoxicity in pancreatic β-cells is a well-established pathogenetic process in Type 2 Diabetes. It has been suggested that metabolism-derived reactive oxygen species perturb the β-cell transcriptional machi-nery. Less is known about altered mitochondrial function in this condition. We used INS-1 832/13 cells cultured for 48 h in 2.8 mM glucose (low-G), 16.7 mM glucose (high-G) or 2.8 mM glucose plus 13.7 mM pyruvate (high-P) to identify metabolic perturbations. High-G cells showed decreased responsiveness, relative to low-G cells, with respect to mitochondrial membrane hyperpolarization, plasma membrane depolarization and insulin secretion, when stimulated acutely with 16.7 mM glucose or 10 mM pyruvate. In contrast, high-P cells were... (More)
Glucotoxicity in pancreatic β-cells is a well-established pathogenetic process in Type 2 Diabetes. It has been suggested that metabolism-derived reactive oxygen species perturb the β-cell transcriptional machi-nery. Less is known about altered mitochondrial function in this condition. We used INS-1 832/13 cells cultured for 48 h in 2.8 mM glucose (low-G), 16.7 mM glucose (high-G) or 2.8 mM glucose plus 13.7 mM pyruvate (high-P) to identify metabolic perturbations. High-G cells showed decreased responsiveness, relative to low-G cells, with respect to mitochondrial membrane hyperpolarization, plasma membrane depolarization and insulin secretion, when stimulated acutely with 16.7 mM glucose or 10 mM pyruvate. In contrast, high-P cells were functionally unimpaired, eliminating chronic provision of saturating mitochondrial substrate as a cause of glucotoxicity. Although cellular insulin content was depleted in high-G cells, relative to low-G and high-P cells, cellular functions were largely recovered following a further 24 h culture in low-G medium. After 2 h at 2.8 mM glucose, high-G cells did not retain increased levels of glycolytic or TCA-cycle intermediates, but nevertheless displayed increased glycolysis, increased respiration and an increased mitochondrial proton leak relative to low-G and high-P cells. This notwithstanding, titration of low-G cells with low protonophore concen-trations, monitoring respiration and insulin secretion in parallel, showed that the perturbed insulin secretion of high-G cells could not be accounted for by increased proton leak. The present study supports the idea that glucose-induced disturbances of stimulus-secretion coupling by extra-mitochondrial metabolism upstream of pyruvate, rather than exhaustion from metabolic overload, underlie glucotoxicity in insulin-producing cells. (Less)
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  author       = {{Göhring, Isabel and Sharoyko, Vladimir and Malmgren, Siri and Andersson, Lotta and Spégel, Peter and Nicholls, David and Mulder, Hindrik}},
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  pages        = {{3786--3798}},
  publisher    = {{American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology}},
  series       = {{Journal of Biological Chemistry}},
  title        = {{Chronic high glucose and pyruvate levels differentially affect mitochondrial bioenergetics and fuel-stimulated insulin secretion from clonal INS-1 832/13 cells.}},
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  doi          = {{10.1074/jbc.M113.507335}},
  volume       = {{289}},
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