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SUBMITTER: Rivera JF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3132000 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rivera J F JF Gurlo T T Daval M M Huang C J CJ Matveyenko A V AV Butler P C PC Costes S S
Cell death and differentiation 20100903 3
In type II diabetes (T2DM), there is a deficit in β-cells, increased β-cell apoptosis and formation of intracellular membrane-permeant oligomers of islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP). Human-IAPP (h-IAPP) is an amyloidogenic protein co-expressed with insulin by β-cells. IAPP expression is increased with obesity, the major risk factor for T2DM. In this study we report that increased expression of human-IAPP led to impaired autophagy, due at least in part to the disruption of lysosome-dependent degra ...[more]