Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

Glucose homeostasis is regulated by pancreatic β-cell cilia via endosomal EphA-processing

  • Francesco Volta,
  • M. Julia Scerbo,
  • Anett Seelig,
  • Robert Wagner,
  • Nils O’Brien,
  • Felicia Gerst,
  • Andreas Fritsche,
  • Hans-Ulrich Häring,
  • Anja Zeigerer,
  • Susanne Ullrich,
  • Jantje M. Gerdes

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12953-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Primary cilia have been proposed to regulate glucose metabolism and insulin secretion in beta cells, but it is not known how. Here the authors show that primary cilia play a role in adult β-cell function via a mechanism involving endosomal EphA-processing.