Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Obesity-induced overexpression of miR-802 impairs insulin transcription and secretion

  • Fangfang Zhang,
  • Dongshen Ma,
  • Wanli Zhao,
  • Danwei Wang,
  • Tingsheng Liu,
  • Yuhong Liu,
  • Yue Yang,
  • Yue Liu,
  • Jinming Mu,
  • Bingbing Li,
  • Yanfeng Zhang,
  • Yi Pan,
  • Changying Guo,
  • Hong Du,
  • Ling Li,
  • Xianghui Fu,
  • Zhengyu Cao,
  • Liang Jin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15529-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Obesity predisposes to type 2 diabetes, but the mechanisms of obesity-associated β cell dysfunction are incompletely understood. Here the authors report that obesity increases the levels of miR-802, which impairs insulin transcription and secretion by targeting NeuroD1 and Fzd5.