title: Ca2+ signaling and the insulin secretory cascade in the pancreatic beta-cell.
abstract: Recent progress in electrophysiological and microscopic techniques have enabled us to estimate exocytotic and pre-exocytotic events in the secretory machinery in single pancreatic beta-cells. We have been studying mechanisms involved in the regulation of insulin granule movement, which supplies release-ready granules, by direct visualization of granule traffic in living beta-cells and found the movement to be regulated by a mechanism different from that controlling exocytosis. From the obtained findings together with those from electrophysiological approaches, a new understanding of the role of the crucial second messenger Ca2+, and other second messengers, as well as resultant protein phosphorylation has been generated. The aim of this review is to describe a synergistic network for the control of insulin release by second messengers and protein kinases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Niki
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D020013:Calcium Signaling / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007328:Insulin / Q000378:metabolism*; D000078790:Insulin Secretion; D007515:Islets of Langerhans / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D007328:Insulin