title: Phase Analysis of Metabolic Oscillations and Membrane Potential in Pancreatic Islet β-Cells.
abstract: Metabolism in islet β-cells displays oscillations that can trigger pulses of electrical activity and insulin secretion. There has been a decades-long debate among islet biologists about whether metabolic oscillations are intrinsic or occur in response to oscillations in intracellular Ca(2+) that result from bursting electrical activity. In this article, the dynamics of oscillatory metabolism were investigated using five different optical reporters. Reporter activity was measured simultaneously with membrane potential bursting to determine the phase relationships between the metabolic oscillations and electrical activity. Our experimental findings suggest that Ca(2+) entry into β-cells stimulates the rate of mitochondrial metabolism, accounting for the depletion of glycolytic intermediates during each oscillatory burst. We also performed Ca(2+) clamp tests in which we clamped membrane potential with the KATP channel-opener diazoxide and KCl to fix Ca(2+) at an elevated level. These tests confirm that metabolic oscillations do not require Ca(2+) oscillations, but show that Ca(2+) plays a larger role in shaping metabolic oscillations than previously suspected. A dynamical picture of the mechanisms of oscillations emerged that requires the restructuring of contemporary mathematical β-cell models, including our own dual oscillator model. In the companion article, we modified our model to account for these new data.
authors: Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine and Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin; William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin.
authors: Matthew J
authors: MJ
authors: Merrins
authors: Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine and Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin; William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin.
authors: Chetan
authors: C
authors: Poudel
authors: Department of Mathematics and Programs in Neuroscience and Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.
authors: Joseph P
authors: JP
authors: McKenna
authors: Laboratory of Biological Modeling, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
authors: Joon
authors: J
authors: Ha
authors: Laboratory of Biological Modeling, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
authors: Arthur
authors: A
authors: Sherman
authors: Department of Mathematics and Programs in Neuroscience and Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.
authors: Richard
authors: R
authors: Bertram
authors: Department of Pharmacology and Brehm Diabetes Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Electronic address: lsatin@umich.edu.
authors: Leslie S
authors: LS
authors: Satin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D020013:Calcium Signaling; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D050417:Insulin-Secreting Cells / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D054086:KATP Channels / Q000378:metabolism; D008564:Membrane Potentials; D051379:Mice
chemical_list: D054086:KATP Channels