| 논문명 | [BT] Rfx6 directs islet formation and insulin production in mice and humans | ||
| 저자명 | Stuart B. Smith, Hui-Qi Qu, Nadine Taleb, Nina Y. Kishimoto, David W. Scheel, Yang Lu, Ann-Marie Patch, Rosemary Grabs, Juehu Wang, Francis C. Lynn, Takeshi Miyatsuka, John Mitchell, Rina Seerke, Julie Désir, Serge Vanden Eijnden, Marc Abramowicz, Nadine Kacet, Jacques Weill, Marie-Ève Renard, Mattia Gentile, Inger Hansen, Ken Dewar, Andrew T. Hattersley, Rennian Wang, Maria E. Wilson, Jeffrey D. Johnson, Constantin Polychronakos & Michael S. German | ||
| 잡지명 | NATURE | 발행연도 | 2010 |
| 권호사항 | 463 | 수록면 | 775-780 |
| ABSTRACT |
Insulin from the β-cells of the pancreatic islets of Langerhans controls energy homeostasis in vertebrates, and its deficiency causes diabetes mellitus. During embryonic development, the transcription factor neurogenin 3 (Neurog3) initiates the differentiation of the β-cells and other islet cell types from pancreatic endoderm, but the genetic program that subsequently completes this differentiation remains incompletely understood. Here we show that the transcription factor Rfx6 directs islet cell differentiation downstream of Neurog3. Mice lacking Rfx6 failed to generate any of the normal islet cell types except for pancreatic-polypeptide-producing cells. In human infants with a similar autosomal recessive syndrome of neonatal diabetes, genetic mapping and subsequent sequencing identified mutations in the human RFX6 gene. These studies demonstrate a unique position for Rfx6 in the hierarchy of factors that coordinate pancreatic islet development in both mice and humans. Rfx6 could prove useful in efforts to generate β-cells for patients with diabetes. |
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| 내용 |
a–l, Immunofluorescence co-staining was performed for chromogranin A (ChromoA, red, a–f, green k, l), synaptophysin (Syn, red, g, h), insulin (green, a, b), glucagon (green, c, d), somatostatin (Sst, green, e, f), ghrelin (green g, h), Nkx6-1 (red in i–l), and pancreatic polypeptide (Ppy, green, k, l) on pancreas sections from E17.5 embryos with the genotypes shown on the left. Quantification of cells expressing Ppy and Nkx6-1 is shown in Supplementary Table 3. Scale bars, 25 μm. 한국화학연구원 대사증후군치료제연구센터 이상달 박사 제공
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| 원문보기 | http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7282//full/nature08748.html | ||
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