1. The role of cAMP in beta cell stimulus-secretion and intercellular couplingAndraž Stožer, Eva Paradiž, Viljem Pohorec, Jurij Dolenšek, Lidija Križančić Bombek, Marko Gosak, Maša Skelin, 2021, pregledni znanstveni članek Opis: Pancreatic beta cells secrete insulin in response to stimulation with glucose and other nutrients, and impaired insulin secretion plays a central role in development of diabetes mellitus. Pharmacological management of diabetes includes various antidiabetic drugs, including incretins. The incretin hormones, glucagon-like peptide-1 and gastric inhibitory polypeptide, potentiate glucose-stimulated insulin secretion by binding to G protein-coupled receptors, resulting in stimulation of adenylate cyclase and production of the secondary messenger cAMP, which exerts its intracellular effects through activation of protein kinase A or the guanine nucleotide exchange protein 2A. The molecular mechanisms behind these two downstream signaling arms are still not fully elucidated and involve many steps in the stimulus-secretion coupling cascade, ranging from the proximal regulation of ion channel activity to the central Ca2+ signal and the most distal exocytosis. In addition to modifying intracellular coupling, the effect of cAMP on insulin secretion could also be at least partly explained by the impact on intercellular coupling. In this review, we systematically describe the possible roles of cAMP at these intra- and inter-cellular signaling nodes, keeping in mind the relevance for the whole organism and translation to humans. Ključne besede: cAMP, beta cells, stimulus-secretion coupling, intercellular coupling, PKA, Epac2A Objavljeno v DKUM: 16.10.2024; Ogledov: 0; Prenosov: 2 Celotno besedilo (19,95 MB) Gradivo ima več datotek! Več... |
2. Glucose-dependent activation, activity, and deactivation of beta cell networks in acute mouse pancreas tissue slicesAndraž Stožer, Maša Skelin, Marko Gosak, Lidija Križančić Bombek, Viljem Pohorec, Marjan Rupnik, Jurij Dolenšek, 2021, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: Many details of glucose-stimulated intracellular calcium changes in [beta] cells during activation, activity, and deactivation, as well as their concentration-dependence, remain to be analyzed. Classical physiological experiments indicated that in islets, functional differences between individual cells are largely attenuated, but recent findings suggest considerable intercellular heterogeneity, with some cells possibly coordinating the collective responses. To address the above with an emphasis on heterogeneity and describing the relations between classical physiological and functional network properties, we performed functional multicellular calcium imaging in mouse pancreas tissue slices over a wide range of glucose concentrations. During activation, delays to activation of cells and any-cell-to-first-responder delays are shortened, and the sizes of simultaneously responding clusters increased with increasing glucose concentrations. Exactly the opposite characterized deactivation. The frequency of fast calcium oscillations during activity increased with increasing glucose up to 12 mM glucose concentration, beyond which oscillation duration became longer, resulting in a homogenous increase in active time. In terms of functional connectivity, islets progressed from a very segregated network to a single large functional unit with increasing glucose concentration. A comparison between classical physiological and network parameters revealed that the first-responders during activation had longer active times during plateau and the most active cells during the plateau tended to deactivate later. Cells with the most functional connections tended to activate sooner, have longer active times, and deactivate later. Our findings provide a common ground for recent differing views on [beta] cell heterogeneity and an important baseline for future studies of stimulus-secretion and intercellular coupling.
NEW & NOTEWORTHY: We assessed concentration-dependence in coupled [beta] cells, degree of functional heterogeneity, and uncovered possible specialized subpopulations during the different phases of the response to glucose at the level of many individual cells. To this aim, we combined acute mouse pancreas tissue slices with functional multicellular calcium imaging over a wide range from threshold (7 mM) and physiological (8 and 9 mM) to supraphysiological (12 and 16 mM) glucose concentrations, classical physiological, and advanced network analyses. Ključne besede: beta cells, calcium imaging, glucose-dependence, network analysis Objavljeno v DKUM: 15.10.2024; Ogledov: 0; Prenosov: 4 Celotno besedilo (4,37 MB) Gradivo ima več datotek! Več... |
3. Physiological levels of adrenaline fail to stop pancreatic beta cell activity at unphysiologically high glucose levelsNastja Sluga, Lidija Križančić Bombek, Jasmina Kerčmar, Srdjan Sarikas, Sandra Postić, Johannes Pfabe, Maša Skelin, Dean Korošak, Andraž Stožer, Marjan Rupnik, 2022, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: Adrenaline inhibits insulin secretion from pancreatic beta cells to allow an organism to cover immediate energy needs by unlocking internal nutrient reserves. The stimulation of α2-adrenergic receptors on the plasma membrane of beta cells reduces their excitability and insulin secretion mostly through diminished cAMP production and downstream desensitization of late step(s) of exocytotic machinery to cytosolic Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]c). In most studies unphysiologically high adrenaline concentrations have been used to evaluate the role of adrenergic stimulation in pancreatic endocrine cells. Here we report the effect of physiological adrenaline levels on [Ca2+]c dynamics in beta cell collectives in mice pancreatic tissue slice preparation. We used confocal microscopy with a high spatial and temporal resolution to evaluate glucose-stimulated [Ca2+]c events and their sensitivity to adrenaline. We investigated glucose concentrations from 8-20 mM to assess the concentration of adrenaline that completely abolishes [Ca2+]c events. We show that 8 mM glucose stimulation of beta cell collectives is readily inhibited by the concentration of adrenaline available under physiological conditions, and that sequent stimulation with 12 mM glucose or forskolin in high nM range overrides this inhibition. Accordingly, 12 mM glucose stimulation required at least an order of magnitude higher adrenaline concentration above the physiological level to inhibit the activity. To conclude, higher glucose concentrations stimulate beta cell activity in a non-linear manner and beyond levels that could be inhibited with physiologically available plasma adrenaline concentration. Ključne besede: adrenaline, islets, beta cells, cAMP, concentration dependency, [Ca2+]c oscillations, forskolin Objavljeno v DKUM: 04.07.2024; Ogledov: 155; Prenosov: 9 Celotno besedilo (6,21 MB) Gradivo ima več datotek! Več... |
4. The effect of forskolin and the role of Epac2A during activation, activity, and deactivation of beta cell networksMaša Skelin, Jurij Dolenšek, Lidija Križančić Bombek, Viljem Pohorec, Marko Gosak, Marjan Rupnik, Andraž Stožer, 2023, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: Beta cells couple stimulation by glucose with insulin secretion and impairments in this coupling play a central role in diabetes mellitus. Cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) amplifies stimulus-secretion coupling via protein kinase A and guanine nucleotide exchange protein 2 (Epac2A). With the present research, we aimed to clarify the influence of cAMP-elevating diterpene forskolin on cytoplasmic calcium dynamics and intercellular network activity, which are two of the crucial elements of normal beta cell stimulus-secretion coupling, and the role of Epac2A under normal and stimulated conditions. To this end, we performed functional multicellular calcium imaging of beta cells in mouse pancreas tissue slices after stimulation with glucose and forskolin in wild-type and Epac2A knock-out mice. Forskolin evoked calcium signals in otherwise substimulatory glucose and beta cells from Epac2A knock-out mice displayed a faster activation. During the plateau phase, beta cells from Epac2A knock-out mice displayed a slightly higher active time in response to glucose compared with wild-type littermates, and stimulation with forskolin increased the active time via an increase in oscillation frequency and a decrease in oscillation duration in both Epac2A knock-out and wild-type mice. Functional network properties during stimulation with glucose did not differ in Epac2A knock-out mice, but the presence of Epac2A was crucial for the protective effect of stimulation with forskolin in preventing a decline in beta cell functional connectivity with time. Finally, stimulation with forskolin prolonged beta cell activity during deactivation, especially in Epac2A knock-out mice. Ključne besede: pancreas, tissue slices, beta cells, calcium imaging, amplifying pathway, forskolin, Epac2A KO, intercellular network Objavljeno v DKUM: 27.05.2024; Ogledov: 193; Prenosov: 10 Celotno besedilo (12,03 MB) Gradivo ima več datotek! Več... |
5. Functional characteristics of hub and wave-initiator cells in ▫$\beta$▫ cell networksMarko Šterk, Jurij Dolenšek, Maša Skelin, Lidija Križančić Bombek, Eva Paradiž, Jasmina Kerčmar, Matjaž Perc, Marjan Rupnik, Andraž Stožer, Marko Gosak, 2023, izvirni znanstveni članek Ključne besede: islets of Langerhans, beta cells, insulin Objavljeno v DKUM: 12.12.2023; Ogledov: 578; Prenosov: 13 Celotno besedilo (4,00 MB) |
6. Critical and supercritical spatiotemporal calcium dynamics in beta cellsMarko Gosak, Andraž Stožer, Rene Markovič, Jurij Dolenšek, Matjaž Perc, Marjan Rupnik, Marko Marhl, 2017, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: A coordinated functioning of beta cells within pancreatic islets is mediated by oscillatory membrane depolarization and subsequent changes in cytoplasmic calcium concentration. While gap junctions allow for intraislet information exchange, beta cells within islets form complex syncytia that are intrinsically nonlinear and highly heterogeneous. To study spatiotemporal calcium dynamics within these syncytia, we make use of computational modeling and confocal high-speed functional multicellular imaging. We show that model predictions are in good agreement with experimental data, especially if a high degree of heterogeneity in the intercellular coupling term is assumed. In particular, during the first few minutes after stimulation, the probability distribution of calcium wave sizes is characterized by a power law, thus indicating critical behavior. After this period, the dynamics changes qualitatively such that the number of global intercellular calcium events increases to the point where the behavior becomes supercritical. To better mimic normal in vivo conditions, we compare the described behavior during supraphysiological non-oscillatory stimulation with the behavior during exposure to a slightly lower and oscillatory glucose challenge. In the case of this protocol, we observe only critical behavior in both experiment and model. Our results indicate that the loss of oscillatory changes, along with the rise in plasma glucose observed in diabetes, could be associated with a switch to supercritical calcium dynamics and loss of beta cell functionality. Ključne besede: beta cells, islets of Langerhans, self-organized criticality, intercellular dynamics, calcium waves, glucose oscillations, computational model, confocal calcium imaging Objavljeno v DKUM: 23.01.2018; Ogledov: 1752; Prenosov: 387 Celotno besedilo (3,43 MB) Gradivo ima več datotek! Več... |