Nature Communications (Feb 2022)

Beta-cell specific Insr deletion promotes insulin hypersecretion and improves glucose tolerance prior to global insulin resistance

  • Søs Skovsø,
  • Evgeniy Panzhinskiy,
  • Jelena Kolic,
  • Haoning Howard Cen,
  • Derek A. Dionne,
  • Xiao-Qing Dai,
  • Rohit B. Sharma,
  • Lynda Elghazi,
  • Cara E. Ellis,
  • Katharine Faulkner,
  • Stephanie A. M. Marcil,
  • Peter Overby,
  • Nilou Noursadeghi,
  • Daria Hutchinson,
  • Xiaoke Hu,
  • Hong Li,
  • Honey Modi,
  • Jennifer S. Wildi,
  • J. Diego Botezelli,
  • Hye Lim Noh,
  • Sujin Suk,
  • Brian Gablaski,
  • Austin Bautista,
  • Ryekjang Kim,
  • Corentin Cras-Méneur,
  • Stephane Flibotte,
  • Sunita Sinha,
  • Dan S. Luciani,
  • Corey Nislow,
  • Elizabeth J. Rideout,
  • Eric N. Cytrynbaum,
  • Jason K. Kim,
  • Ernesto Bernal-Mizrachi,
  • Laura C. Alonso,
  • Patrick E. MacDonald,
  • James D. Johnson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28039-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 22

Abstract

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Insulin receptor protein is present in pancreatic β-cells, but the consequences of β-cell insulin resistance are incompletely understood. Here the authors use a combination of mouse studies and mathematical modelling to show that loss of beta-cell insulin receptor affects male and female mice differently and can contribute to hyperinsulinemia in the context of glucose stimulation.