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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY
Volume 521, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2020.111107
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Insulin secretion; SCRT1; Beta cell; INS-1 832/13; Type 2 diabetes
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation
- Pahlsson Foundation
- Swedish Research Council [2017-00862, 2018-02635, 2009-1039]
- Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research [IRC15-0067]
- Formas [2017-00862] Funding Source: Formas
- Swedish Research Council [2018-02635, 2017-00862] Funding Source: Swedish Research Council
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SCRT1 is a novel regulator of beta cell function, with its expression correlating with insulin secretion capacity and INS gene expression. Lower SCRT1 mRNA expression was observed in beta cells from T2D patients, and its silencing led to impaired glucose-stimulated insulin secretion and decreased expression of key beta cell transcription factors.
Here we show that scratch family transcriptional repressor 1 (SCRT1), a zinc finger transcriptional regulator, is a novel regulator of beta cell function. SCRT1 was found to be expressed in beta cells in rodent and human islets. In human islets, expression of SCRT1 correlated with insulin secretion capacity and the expression of the insulin (INS) gene. Furthermore, SCRT1 mRNA expression was lower in beta cells from T2D patients. siRNA-mediated Scrt1 silencing in INS-1832/13 cells, mouse- and human islets resulted in impaired glucose-stimulated insulin secretion and decreased expression of the insulin gene. This is most likely due to binding of SCRT1 to E-boxes of the Ins1 gene as shown with ChIP. Scrt1 silencing also reduced the expression of several key beta cell transcription factors. Moreover, Scrt1 mRNA expression was reduced by glucose and SCRT1 protein was found to translocate between the nucleus and the cytosol in a glucose-dependent fashion in INS-1832/13 cells as well as in a rodent model of T2D. SCRT1 was also regulated by a GSK3p-dependent SCRT1-serine phosphorylation. Taken together, SCRT1 is a novel beta cell transcription factor that regulates insulin secretion and is affected in T2D.
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