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OBJECTIVES: To identify, map, clone, and functionally validate a novel mouse model for impaired glucose tolerance and insulin secretion. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: Haploinsufficiency of the insulin receptor and associated mild insulin resistance has been used to sensitize an N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU) screen to identify novel mutations resulting in impaired glucose tolerance and diabetes. The new impaired glucose tolerance 4 (IGT4) model was selected using an intraperitoneal glucose tolerance test and inheritance of the phenotype confirmed by generation of backcross progeny. Segregation of the phenotype was correlated with genotype information to map the location of the gene and candidates sequenced for mutations. The function of the SRY-related high mobility group (HMG)-box 4 (Sox4) gene in insulin secretion was tested using another ENU allele and by small interfering RNA silencing in insulinoma cells. RESULTS: We describe two allelic autosomal dominant mutations in the highly conserved HMG box of the transcription factor Sox4. Previously associated with pancreas development, Sox4 mutations in the adult mouse result in an insulin secretory defect, which exhibits impaired glucose tolerance in association with insulin receptor(+/-)-induced insulin resistance. Elimination of the Sox4 transcript in INS1 and Min6 cells resulted in the abolition of glucose-stimulated insulin release similar to that observed for silencing of the key metabolic enzyme glucokinase. Intracellular calcium measurements in treated cells indicate that this defect lies downstream of the ATP-sensitive K(+) channel (K(ATP) channel) and calcium influx. CONCLUSIONS: IGT4 represents a novel digenic model of insulin resistance coupled with an insulin secretory defect. The Sox4 gene has a role in insulin secretion in the adult beta-cell downstream of the K(ATP) channel.

Original publication

DOI

10.2337/db07-0337

Type

Journal article

Journal

Diabetes

Publication Date

08/2008

Volume

57

Pages

2234 - 2244

Keywords

Animals, Calcium, Cell Line, Tumor, Cells, Cultured, Female, Genetic Complementation Test, Genotype, Glucose, Glucose Intolerance, Glucose Tolerance Test, High Mobility Group Proteins, Immunohistochemistry, In Vitro Techniques, Insulin, Insulin Secretion, Islets of Langerhans, Male, Mice, Mice, Knockout, Microscopy, Electron, Transmission, Mutation, Phenotype, RNA, Small Interfering, Receptor, Insulin, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, SOXC Transcription Factors, Trans-Activators