Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Diabetes causes marked inhibition of mitochondrial metabolism in pancreatic β-cells

  • Elizabeth Haythorne,
  • Maria Rohm,
  • Martijn van de Bunt,
  • Melissa F. Brereton,
  • Andrei I. Tarasov,
  • Thomas S. Blacker,
  • Gregor Sachse,
  • Mariana Silva dos Santos,
  • Raul Terron Exposito,
  • Simon Davis,
  • Otto Baba,
  • Roman Fischer,
  • Michael R. Duchen,
  • Patrik Rorsman,
  • James I. MacRae,
  • Frances M. Ashcroft

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10189-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Pancreatic beta-cell glucose metabolism is coupled to insulin secretion. Here the authors set out to characterize changes in beta-cell metabolism in hyperglycemia which may contribute to insufficient insulin secretion in type 2 diabetes and, using a multi-omics approach, find that mitochondrial metabolism is perturbed.