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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Ali Aldibbiat, Dr Kathleen Scougall, Dr Susan Campbell, Professor James Shaw
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Generation of new β-cells feom the adult pancreas or the embryonic stem cells is being pursued by research groups worldwide. Success will be dependent on confirmation of true β-cell phenotype evidenced by capacity to process and store proinsulin. The aim of these studies was to robustly determine endocrine characteristics of the AR42J rat pancreatic acinar cell line before and after in vitro transdifferentiation. β-cell phenotypic marker expression was characterised by RT-PCR, immunostaining, western blotting, ELISA and in human preproinsulin transgene over-expression studies in wild-type AR42J cells and after culture on Matrigel basement membrane matrix with and without growth/differentiation factor supplementation. Pancreatic duodenal homeobox 1 (PDX1), forkhead box transcription factor a2 (Foxa2), glucokinase, pancreatic polypeptide and low-level insulin gene transcription in wild-type AR42J cells were confirmed by RT-PCR. Culture on Matrigel-coated plates and supplementation of medium with glucagon-like peptide 1 induced expression of the β-cell Glut 2 with maintained expression of insulin and PDX1. Increased biosynthesis and secretion of proinsulin were confirmed by immunocytochemical staining and sensitive ELISA. Absence of the regulated secretory pathway was demonstrated by undetectable prohormone convertase expression. In addition, inability to process and store endogenous proinsulin or human proinsulin translated from a constitutively over-expressed preproinsulin transgene was confirmed. The importance of robust phenotypic characterisation at the protein level in attempted β-cell transdifferentiation studies has been confirmed. Rodent and human sensitive/specific differential proinsulin/insulin ELISA in combination with human preproinsulin over-expression enables detailed elucidatation of core endocrine functions of proinsulin processing and storage in putative new β-cells. © 2008 Society for Endocrinology.
Author(s): Aldibbiat A, Marriott CE, Scougall KT, Campbell SC, Huang GC, Macfarlane WM, Shaw JAM
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Endocrinology
Year: 2008
Volume: 196
Issue: 1
Pages: 33-43
Print publication date: 01/01/2008
ISSN (print): 0022-0795
ISSN (electronic): 1479-6805
Publisher: Society for Endocrinology
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1677/JOE-07-0397
DOI: 10.1677/JOE-07-0397
PubMed id: 18180315
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