INGAP-PP (Islets Neogenesis Associated Protein) aumenta a expressao das proteinas  do canal de potassio, sensivel ao ATP, em ilhotas cultivadas de ratos adultos

Kelly Elizeu da Silva

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Author(s):	Kelly Elizeu da Silva Total Authors: 1
Document type:	Master's Dissertation
Institution:	Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Biologia
Defense date:	2007-08-29
Examining board members:	Silvana Auxiliadora Bordin da Silva; Helena Coutinho Franco de Oliveira
Advisor:	Antonio Carlos Boschiero
Abstract
Cultured adult rat islets were used to study the effect of INGAP-PP upon: a) gene expression of Kir6.2 and SUR1 of K+ATP channels and of their transcription factor Foxa2 (RT-PCR), b) protein levels (Western blotting) of SUR1 and Foxa2, c) static and dynamic insulin secretion elicited by metabolic and non metabolic stimuli and d) 86Rb efflux from perifused islets. INGAP-PP increased significantly the expression of Kir6.2, SUR1 and Foxa2 and the protein levels of SUR1 and Foxa2. Islets cultured with INGAPPP and further incubated for 1 h with 2.8 mM glucose, significantly enhanced the release of insulin in response to 40 mM KCl, and 100 µM tolbutamide. The dose-response curve of insulin secretion to increasing glucose concentrations (2.8 to 22.2 mM) shifted to the left in INGAP-PP-cultured islets with an EC50 of 10.0 ± 0.4 vs. 13.7 ± 1.5 mM glucose of the controls (P < 0,05). In dynamic studies INGAP-PP increased significantly the first-phase of insulin secretion elicited by either 22.2 mM glucose or 100 µM tolbutamide and promotes a higher glucose-induced reduction of 86Rb efflux from perifused islets. These results confirm the enhancing effect of INGAP-PP upon insulin release induced by different secretagogues and provide new evidence that such effect is due, at least partly, to an enhanced expression of the SUR1 and Kir6.2 genes of K+ATP channels and of the Foxa2 gene that controls their expression. They would also suggest that INGAP-PP could potentially be used to maintain the capacity of cultured islets to release insulin in response to glucose and maybe for the treatment of diabetes (AU)

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