Title
Human islets expressing HNF1A variant have defective beta cell transcriptional regulatory networks
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Medicine, Diabetes Center of Excellence
Publication Date
2019-01-02
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Endocrine System Diseases | Endocrinology | Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism | Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists | Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases
Abstract
Using an integrated approach to characterize the pancreatic tissue and isolated islets from a 33-year-old with 17 years of type 1 diabetes (T1D), we found that donor islets contained beta cells without insulitis and lacked glucose-stimulated insulin secretion despite a normal insulin response to cAMP-evoked stimulation. With these unexpected findings for T1D, we sequenced the donor DNA and found a pathogenic heterozygous variant in the gene encoding hepatocyte nuclear factor-1alpha (HNF1A). In one of the first studies of human pancreatic islets with a disease-causing HNF1A variant associated with the most common form of monogenic diabetes, we found that HNF1A dysfunction leads to insulin-insufficient diabetes reminiscent of T1D by impacting the regulatory processes critical for glucose-stimulated insulin secretion and suggest a rationale for a therapeutic alternative to current treatment.
Keywords
Diabetes, Endocrinology, Insulin, Islet cells
Rights and Permissions
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DOI of Published Version
10.1172/JCI121994
Source
J Clin Invest. 2019 Jan 2;129(1):246-251. doi: 10.1172/JCI121994. Epub 2018 Dec 3. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
The Journal of clinical investigation
Related Resources
PubMed ID
30507613
Repository Citation
Haliyur, Rachana; Redick, Sambra D.; Harlan, David M.; and Powers, Alvin C., "Human islets expressing HNF1A variant have defective beta cell transcriptional regulatory networks" (2019). Open Access Articles. 3704.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/oapubs/3704
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Comments
Full author list omitted for brevity. For the full list of authors, see article.