Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Altered glycolysis triggers impaired mitochondrial metabolism and mTORC1 activation in diabetic β-cells

  • Elizabeth Haythorne,
  • Matthew Lloyd,
  • John Walsby-Tickle,
  • Andrei I. Tarasov,
  • Jonas Sandbrink,
  • Idoia Portillo,
  • Raul Terron Exposito,
  • Gregor Sachse,
  • Malgorzata Cyranka,
  • Maria Rohm,
  • Patrik Rorsman,
  • James McCullagh,
  • Frances M. Ashcroft

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34095-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Chronic hyperglycemia impairs insulin secretion from pancreatic beta cells in diabetes. Here, the authors reveal that a glucose metabolite is responsible and show lowering glucose metabolism during hyperglycemia prevents loss of beta-cell function.