Decreases in Gap Junction Coupling Recovers Ca2+ and Insulin Secretion in Neonatal Diabetes Mellitus, Dependent on Beta Cell Heterogeneity and Noise.
Diabetes is caused by dysfunction to β-cells in the islets of Langerhans, disrupting insulin secretion and glucose homeostasis. Gap junction-mediated electrical coupling between β-cells in the islet plays a major role in coordinating a pulsatile secretory response at elevated glucose and suppressing insulin secretion at basal glucose. Previously, we demonstrated that a critical number of inexcitable cells can rapidly suppress the overall islet response, as a result of gap junction coupling. This was demonstrated in a murine model of Neonatal Diabetes Mellitus (NDM) involving expression of ATP-insensitive KATP channels, and by a multi-cellular computational model of islet electrical activity. Here we examined the mechanisms by which gap junction coupling contributes to islet dysfunction in NDM. We first verified the computational model against [Ca2+] and insulin secretion measurements in islets expressing ATP-insensitive KATP channels under different levels of gap junction coupling. We then applied this model to predict how different KATP channel mutations found in NDM suppress [Ca2+], and the role of gap junction coupling in this suppression. We further extended the model to account for stochastic noise and insulin secretion dynamics. We found experimentally and in the islet model that reductions in gap junction coupling allow progressively greater glucose-stimulated [Ca2+] and insulin secretion following expression of ATP-insensitive KATP channels. The model demonstrated good correspondence between suppression of [Ca2+] and clinical presentation of different NDM mutations. Significant recoveries in [Ca2+] and insulin secretion were predicted for many mutations upon reductions in gap junction coupling, where stochastic noise played a significant role in the recoveries. These findings provide new understanding how the islet functions as a multicellular system and for the role of gap junction channels in exacerbating the effects of decreased cellular excitability. They further suggest novel therapeutic options for NDM and other monogenic forms of diabetes.
Department of Bioengineering, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America.
Aleena M
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6030-997X
AM
Notary
Department of Bioengineering, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America.
Matthew J
MJ
Westacott
Department of Bioengineering, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America.
Thomas H
TH
Hraha
Department of Bioengineering, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America.
Marina
M
Pozzoli
Department of Bioengineering, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America.|Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America.
Richard K P
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