Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Insulin and Diabetes Part 1
- Chronic Symptoms of Diabetes
- Retinopathy - most common cause
of blindness in people of working age
- Macrovascular Disease - 2/3 x
increased risk of heart disease or stroke
- Foot Problems - 15% develop foot
ulcers, 5-15% of them require amputation
- Erectile Dysfunction - can affect up to 50% of men
- Nephropathy - 16% of patients needing
renal replacement therapy have diabetes
- Pancreas
- Exocrine tissue
- Alkaline fluid with digestive enzymes
- Small intestine
- Endocrine tissue
- Produce insulin and glucagon
- Regulates blood glucose
- 1-2% of total pancreas mass is Islets of Langerhans
- Surrounded by rings of acinar
cells which coat fine branches
of the pancreatic duct
- Include multiple cell types
- Alpha (A) cells
- Secrete glucagon
- Found in islet mantle (periphery)
- Common in splenic lobe (tail end)
- Beta (B) cells
- Secrete insulin (and IAPP/amylin - involved in glycemic regulation)
- Make up 60-80% of islet endocrine cells
- Primarily in islet medulla (core)
- Delta (D) cells
- Secrete somatostatin
- Make up 5% of islet cells
- PP (F) cells
- Secret pancreatic polypeptide
- Found in islet mantle (periphery)
- Common in duodenal lobe (head end)
- Islet blood flow
- Islets have a rich blood supply
- Arterioles ender islet peripheries at breaks and
emerge at beta cell-rich regions in the islet core
- Coalesce into collecting venules outside of islet
- Blood flow is BAD (beta-alpha-delta)
- Islet cell interactions
- Intra-islet interactions
- Via circulation within the islet
- Paracrine actions
- Between neighbouring cells via interstitial space
- Gap junctions
- Ions and small molecules (>1000 Da)
pass directly between cells
- Islet innervation
- Richly innervated by autonomic system
- Parasympathetic
- Via vagus nerve
- Transmitters - acetylcholine and neuropeptides
(VIP - vasoactive intestinal peptide)
- Sympathetic
- Via coeliac ganglion
- Transmitters - Noradrenaline
and neuropeptides (NPY)
- Neurohormonal (adrenal)
- Islet Hormones
- Somatastatin
- Found in hypothalamus, gut, stomach and islets
- Major islet form SS-14
- Released in response to nutrients
- Has inhibitory actions on most tissues
- Islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP/amylin)
- Co-secreted with insulin (1:1 molecular ratio)
- May inhibit gastric emptying - decreases appetite
- Forms islet amyloid deposits in type 2 diabetes
- Pancreatic polypeptide
- Vagus nerve activation stimulates release
- May inhibit pancreatic exocrine secretions
- Insulin
- 6 kDa peptide
- Made of 2 chains - A chain and B chain
- Linked by disulphide bonds
- Formation
- Proteolysis converts preproinsulin to proinsulin
- Release of a signal peptide
- Proinsulin
- 9 kDa
- Synthesised in beta cells
- Proinsulin contains A and B chains and C peptide
- 2 routes - same but in opposite directions
- Proinsulin is split between arginine 32
and 33 to give Split 32, 33 proinsulin
- By PC3 (type-I) endopeptidase
- Arg 31 and 32 removed to
give Des 31,32 proinsulin
- By carboxypeptidse-H
- Split and Arg 64 and 65 removed
to give insulin and C peptide
- By PC2 endopeptidase
and carboxypeptidase-H
- Proinsulin is split between arginine 65
and 66 to give split 65, 66 proinsulin
- By PC2 (type-II) endopeptidase
- Arg 64 and 65 removed to
give Des 64, 65 proinsulin
- Carboxypeptidase-H
- Split and Arg 31 and 32 removed
to give insulin and C peptide
- By PC3 endopeptidase
and carboxypeptidase-H
- Regulation
- Major stimulus is glucose
- Other agents - neural, hormonal, nutrient
- Most neural and hormonal
stimulators and glucose dependent
- Neural Stimulation
- Parasympathetic
- Neurotransmitters - Ach, VIP
- Stimulate insulin secretion
- Sympathetic
- Neurotransmitters - Adrenaline, Noradrenaline
- Inhibits insulin secretion
- Alpha adrenergic
- Hormonal
- Incretins (GI hormones) released
from the gut following food ingestion
- GIP (gastric inhibitory polypeptide) - stimulatory
- GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1) - stimulatory
- Somatastatin-28 from gut - inhibitory
- Islet hormones (paracrine?)
- Glucagon - stimulatory
- Somatostatin - inhibitory
- Nutrient Control
- Glucose - stimulatory
- Transported into beta-cell by GLUT-2
- Undergoes glycolysis (glucokinase has
low affinity but high specificity for glucose)
- Change in ATP:ADP inhibits ATP K+ channels
- Decrease in K+ efflux depolarises cell
- Voltage-depended calcium channel opens
- Ca2+ release (100-500 nM) into cell
- Insulin release by exocytosis
- Leucine and arginine - stimulatory
- Free fatty acids - stimulatory
- Neurotransmitters and hormones act via specific
receptors which activate different intracellular pathways
- Activation is weak in the absence of glucose
- Activation is very strong in the presence
of glucose (and Ca2+) - synergistic
- Ach binds to receptor - Gq and PLC bind
- PIP2 becomes IP3 and DAG
- IP3 stimulates ER which causes Ca2+ release
- Ca2+ and DAG cause increase of
PKCs (and Ca2+ increases CaMKs)
- Increase of trafficking
- Exocytosis of insulin
- GIP and GLP-1 (7-36) bind to receptor - Gs and AC bind
- ATP converted to cAMP
- Increase of PKAs
- proteins
- Glucagon
- Single chain, 39 amino acid peptide - 3845 kDa
- Has a large precursor - proglucagon
- Involved in tissue-specific processing
- Glucagon is found in islet alpha cells (PC2)
- GLP-1 (7-36) and GLP-2 found in
intestinal endocrine cells (PC1/3)
- Main site of action is liver
- Increased hepatic output by
glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis
- Increased blood glucose
- Regulation
- Neural
- Parasympathetic and sympathetic
stimulate glucagon release
- Hormonal
- GI hormones
- Cholecystokinin (CCK) and GIP - stimulatory
- GLP-1 (7-36) and somatostatin - inhibitory
- Islet hormones
- Insulin - inhibitory (via islet circulation)
- Somatostatin - inhibitory (via paracrine action)
- Nutritional
- Low glucose - stimulation
- Arginine - stimulation
- Fatty acids - inhibition
- Biological Action of Insulin
- Anabolic - energy storage
- Has a critical role in growth and development
- Major target tissues - muscle, fat, liver
- Glucose uptake in muscle and adipose tissue
- Insulin binds to insulin receptor, causing receptor phosphorylation
- Stimulates GLUT-4 containing vesicle to move to the cell surface
- Glucose enters cell via GLUT-4 receptors
- In muscle - glucose is used as energy/stored as glycogen
- In adipocyte - glucose is stored as fat (glycolysis
provides glycerol for triglyceride synthesis)
- Alpha-glycerophosphate becomes glycerol
(and free fatty acids) which forms triglycerides
- Inhibition of hormone sensitive lipase (which
hydrolyses triglycerides into free fatty acids)
- Stimulation of fatty acid synthesis from glucose
- Liver glycogen reaches 5-6%
- Stimulation of lipoprotein lipase (on capillary wall in fat tissue)
- Glucose metabolism
- Insulin
- Stimulation
- Glucose-1-phosphate to glycogen
- Glucose to glucose-6-phosphate
- Fructose-6-phosphate to fructose-1,6-bisphosphate
- Phosphoenolpyruvate
- Inhibition
- Glycogen to glucose-1-phosphate
- Fructose-1,6-bisphosphate to fructose-6-phosphate
- Pyruvate to oxaloacetate
- Glycogen
- Stimulation
- Glycogen to glucose-6-phosphate
- Pyruvate to oxaloacetate
- Oxaloacetate to phosphoenolpyruvate
- Inhibition
- Phosphoenolpyruvate to pyruvate
- Carbohydrate metabolism in liver
- Stimulation of glycogen synthesis (glucose storage)
- Stimulation of glycolysis (phosphorylation of glucose kinase,
trapping glucose in cell and stimulating glucose uptake)
- Inhibition of glycogenolysis
- Inhibition of gluconeogenesis
- Inhibition - gluconeogenesis, glucogenolysis,
lipolysis, ketogenesis, proteolysis
- Stimulation - Glucose uptake (in muscle/adipose), glycolysis,
glycogen synthesis, protein synthesis, uptake of ions (K+ and PO4-3)
- Insulin Receptor
- Glycoprotein
- 2 alpha and 2 beta subunits
- Alpha subunits (MW 135K) are
extracellular - joined by disulfide bonds
- Beta subunits (MW 95K) span cell membrane
- Each beta subunit bound to alpha
subunit by a disulphide bond
- Tyrosine kinase
- Insulin binds - phosphorylation of tyrosine on beta subunit
- Growth signal - Shc phosphorylation
- Ras-MAPK pathway
- Cell proliferation
- Protein synthesis
- Metabolic signal
- Phosphorylation of IRS family proteins (IRS-1/-2/-3/-4
- Cascade of serine and tyrosine
phosphorylation/dephosphorylation (involving PI3K)
- Protein synthesis
- Glycogen synthesis
- Lipid metabolism
- Glucose uptake (via GLUT-4 translocation)