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SUBMITTER: Tsuchiya Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5881499 | biostudies-other | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Tsuchiya Yuichi Y Saito Michiko M Kadokura Hiroshi H Miyazaki Jun-Ichi JI Tashiro Fumi F Imagawa Yusuke Y Iwawaki Takao T Kohno Kenji K
The Journal of cell biology 20180305 4
In mammalian pancreatic β cells, the IRE1α-XBP1 pathway is constitutively and highly activated under physiological conditions. To elucidate the precise role of this pathway, we constructed β cell-specific <i>Ire1α</i> conditional knockout (CKO) mice and established insulinoma cell lines in which <i>Ire1α</i> was deleted using the Cre-loxP system. <i>Ire1α</i> CKO mice showed the typical diabetic phenotype including impaired glycemic control and defects in insulin biosynthesis postnatally at 4-20 ...[more]