Glucocorticoid-induced suppression of β-cell proliferation is mediated by Mig6.

ABSTRACT: Glucocorticoids can cause steroid-induced diabetes or accelerate the progression to diabetes by creating systemic insulin resistance and decreasing functional β-cell mass, which is influenced by changes in β-cell function, growth, and death. The synthetic glucocorticoid agonist dexamethasone (Dex) is deleterious to functional β-cell mass by decreasing β-cell function, survival, and proliferation. However, the mechanism by which Dex decreases β-cell proliferation is unknown. Interestingly, Dex induces the transcription of an antiproliferative factor and negative regulator of epidermal growth factor receptor signaling, Mig6 (also known as gene 33, RALT, and Errfi1). We, therefore, hypothesized that Dex impairs β-cell proliferation by increasing the expression of Mig6 and thereby decreasing d

SUBMITTER: Colvin ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3578994 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature