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Postnatal expansion of the pancreatic beta-cell mass is dependent on survivin.

ABSTRACT: Diabetes results from a deficiency of functional beta-cells due to both an increase in beta-cell death and an inhibition of beta-cell replication. The molecular mechanisms responsible for these effects in susceptible individuals are mostly unknown. The objective of this study was to determine whether a gene critical for cell division and cell survival in cancer cells, survivin, might also be important for beta-cells.We generated mice harboring a conditional deletion of survivin in pancreatic endocrine cells using mice with a Pax-6-Cre transgene promoter construct driving tissue-specific expression of Cre-recombinase in these cells. We performed metabolic studies and immunohistochemical analyses to determine the effects of a mono- and biallelic deletion of survivin.Selective deletion of survivin in pancreatic endocrine cells in the mouse had no discernible effects during embryogenesis but was associated with striking decreases in beta-cell number after birth, leading to hyperglycemia and early-onset diabetes by 4 weeks of age. Serum insulin levels were significantly decreased in animals lacking endocrine cell survivin, with relative stability of other hormones. Exogenous expression of survivin in mature beta-cells lacking endogenous survivin completely rescued the hyperglycemic phenotype and the decrease in beta-cell mass, confirming the specificity of the survivin effect in these cells.Our findings implicate survivin in the maintenance of beta-cell mass through both replication and antiapoptotic mechanisms. Given the widespread involvement of survivin in cancer, a novel role for survivin may well be exploited in beta-cell regulation in diseased states, such as diabetes.

SUBMITTER: Jiang Y

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2551682 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Postnatal expansion of the pancreatic beta-cell mass is dependent on survivin.

Jiang Yuying Y Nishimura Wataru W Devor-Henneman Deborah D Kusewitt Donna D Wang Haijuan H Holloway Michael P MP Dohi Takehiko T Sabo Edmond E Robinson Michael L ML Altieri Dario C DC Sharma Arun A Altura Rachel A RA

Diabetes 20080703 10

<h4>Objective</h4>Diabetes results from a deficiency of functional beta-cells due to both an increase in beta-cell death and an inhibition of beta-cell replication. The molecular mechanisms responsible for these effects in susceptible individuals are mostly unknown. The objective of this study was to determine whether a gene critical for cell division and cell survival in cancer cells, survivin, might also be important for beta-cells.<h4>Research design and methods</h4>We generated mice harborin ...[more]

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Postnatal expansion of the pancreatic beta-cell mass is dependent on survivin.

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