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Lecture 17 - Causes of Diabetes Flashcards

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What secretes insulin?

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the beta cells in the pancreas

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Where does the pancreas sit?

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in the abdominal cavity behind the stomach

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Where are the beta cells contained within the pancreas?

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In pancreatic islets which contain alpha, beta and delta cells

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What cells secrete glucagon?

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alpha cells

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When is insulin released?

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in response to high blood glucose levels

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What does an increase in blood glucose lead to?

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an increase of glucose uptake into the cell

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What does increased glucose in the cell cause?

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higher levels of ATP, which increases the ATP”ADP ratio

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What does increased ATP:ADP cause?

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closure of the ATP-sensitive K+ channels, which causes membrane depolarisation

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What does membrane depolarisation cause?

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activation of voltage gates Ca2+ channels, causing increased Ca2+ inside the cell

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What does increased cytosolic Ca2+ cause?

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fusion of insulin granules with the plasma membrane, causing release of insulin

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What does insulin increase?

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glucose uptake, glycolysis, glycogen synthesis, fatty acid/triglyceride synthesis, amino acid uptake and protein synthesis

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What does insulin decrease?

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glycogen breakdown, gluconeogenesis, lipolysis, proteolysis

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What are the effects of insulin mediated via?

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activation of insulin signalling pathways in target cells

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What does insulin binding to the insulin receptor do?

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activates many different signalling pathways to bring about its effects on metabolism and growth

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What does insulin signalling involve?

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protein phosphorylation

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What does binding of insulin to the insulin receptor (IR) lead to?

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auto phosphorylation of the receptor (receptor phosphorylates itself)

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What do phosphorylates residues on the IR act as?

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binding sites for insulin receptor substrate (IRS)

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What does IR phosphorylate?

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4 tyrosine residues in IRS proteins

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What binds to phosphorylated residues?

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The lipid kinase, phosphoinositide 3-kinase

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What does the lipid kinase phosphoinositide 3-kinase do?

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converts PIP2 to PIP3

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What does binding of PIP3 do?

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activates PKD1

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What does PKD1 do?

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phosphorylates and activates kinases such as PKB/Akt

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What does PKB/Akt do?

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diffuse through the cell and activate processes such as glucose transport and glycogen synthesis

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What does insulin stimulate?

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glucose transport into adipocytes and skeletal muscle

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What does insulin binding to receptor on adipocytes and skeletal muscle cells do?
activates the insulin signalling pathway, leading to fusion of GLUT4 containing vesicles to the membrane
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What happens when GLUT4 vesicles fuse with the membrane?
GLUT4 inserts itself into the cell surface where it can take up those glucose molecules into the cells
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How does insulin repress gluconeogenesis?
by inhibiting transcription factor Fox01
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Where is Fox01 synthesised?
in the cytosol
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Where is Fox01 targetted?
to the nucleus
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What does Fox01 do?
regulates expression of genes that mediate gluconeogenesis (PEPCK, G6Pase)
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What does PKB do to Fox01?
phosphorylates it
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What does phosphorylation of Fox01 do?
prevents it from entering the nucleus, leading to a loss of expression of gluconeogenic genes and hence a loss of glucose production
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How does loss of insulin secretion or insulin resistance lead to hyperglycaemia?
as a result of loss of insulin stimulated uptake into target cells (skeletal muscle, adipocytes) loss of insulin-mediated repression of gluconeogenesis (and glycogen breakdown) in the liver
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What happens in type 1 diabetes?
is a chronic autoimmune disease in which destruction of beta cells results in insulin deficiency and hyperglycaemia
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Who does type 1 diabetes generally occur in?
susceptible individuals, likely as a result of an environmental trigger
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What has been identified as a cause of type 1 diabetes?
susceptibility genes and possible triggers (e.g. enteroviruses)
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How much higher is the risk of T1D for first degree relatives of someone with the disease?
~15 times higher
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What is the HLA region?
a critical susceptibility locus for T1D
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What does the HLA region contain?
genes that encode components of major histocompatibility complex and is a key component of the immune system
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How many people with the HLA gene variant develop T1D?
only 5%
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Where is the HLA gene region?
chromosome 6
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What do the HLA genes have strongest known association with?
T1D
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What is a significant risk factor for development of T1D?
presence of autoantibodies against beta cell antigens
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Examples of autoantibodies?
glutamic acid decarboxylate 65 (GAD-65) insulin ICA512 ZnT8 (zinc transporter 8)
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How many people test positive for these antibodies? And how many of those develop T1D?
3-5% of general population test positive and only 20% of those develop T1D
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What does the presence of 2 antibodies do?
increases risk of developing T1D within next 10 years to 75%
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Why is it difficult to identify precipitating events for T1D?
these might occur many years before onset of symptoms several precipitating events might be involved
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What have been implicated as a possible precipitating event?
Enteroviruses such as coxsackie virus
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Why is the coxsackie virus thought to be a precipitating factor?
striking similarity between the 2C protein of the coxsackie virus and GAD65 suggests molecular mimicry might be involved in aetiology of T1D leading to beta cell destruction
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When do clinical onset (symptoms) of T1D typically occur?
until you have lost ~90% of beta cell mass, there is no way back from this
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Why is it important to identify before clinical onset?
to identify people at risk and intervene before they have lost so much of their beta cell mass
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Treatment of type 1 diabetes?
insulin injections for the rest of their life careful monitoring of diet and regular blood tests to check glucose levels
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What are high blood glucose levels as a result of in type 2 diabetes?
insulin resistance of target tissues insufficient production/secretion of insulin (beta cell dysfunction)
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What is one of the first things to develop in T2D?
insulin resistance - the cells in the body no longer respond to insulin as they should
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Why is there not really a change in blood glucose levels as insulin resistance begins?
the beta cells secrete more insulin to overcome the resistance and keep blood glucose levels normal
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What happens after a while of producing excess insulin?
there is too much stress on the beta cells and they become dysfunctional and die
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What is the amount of insulin secreted by beta cells established by?
the prevailing insulin sensitivity
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What happens when the body is in an insulin sensitive state?
beta cells secrete a low amount of insulin
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What happens when the body goes into a insulin resistant state?
the beta cells sense this and respond by secreting more insulin this gives insulin resistance but normal blood glucose levels
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Strong link between insulin resistance and...?
obesity
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What does protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTPB1) do?
dephosphorylates the insulin receptor, leading to a loss of insulin receptor substrate binding
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What does PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homologue) do?
dephosphorylates PIP3 back to PIP2, switches off insulin signalling
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What does PKC do?
serine phosphorylates IRS proteins and when it serine phosphorylates IRS proteins, this prevents the insulin receptor from activating tyrosine phosphorylation on IRS proteins
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What is a consequence of obesity?
the amount of triglycerols exceeds the storage capacity of adipose cells and as a result fat starts to accumulate in other tissues such as liver and muscle
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What does excess fat lead to?
increased levels of the intracellular lipid signalling intermediates diaglycerol (DAG) and ceramide (a component of sphingolipids) in the cytoplasms of cells
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What are DAG and ceramide formed from?
fatty acids
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What does ceramide do?
inactivates PKB
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What does diaglycerol do?
key second messenger leading to the activation of PKC
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What is adiponectin?
is secreted from adipocytes and promotes insulin sensitivity
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What does adiponectin do?
binds to adiponectin receptor on target cells, and activates ceramidase, which converts ceramide into sphingosine
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What does sphingosine do?
reduces levels of ceramide inside of the cells (interferes with PKB)
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What happens to adiponectin secretion in obesity?
it is decreased, which contributes to insulin resistance
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What does decreased conversion of ceramide do?
ceramide accumulates inside the cells and interferes with insulin signalling to increase insulin resistance
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What is obesity?
a pro-inflammatory condition in which hypertrophied adipocytes and adipose resident immune cells both contribute to increased circulating levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines
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What does adipose tissue in lean individuals secrete?
anti-inflammatory and insulin sensitising adipokines such as adiponectin
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What is released in obesity?
pro-inflammatory cytokines such as TNF alpha (tumour necrosis factor alpha)
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What does TNF alpha have?
different effects that contribute to insulin resistance
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What does TNF alpha increase?
expression of PTP1B, which can dephosphorylate the insulin receptor, preventing IRS binding
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What does TNF alpha activate?
JNK (Jun-N-terminal kinase, which causes serine phosphorlyation and inactivation of IRS proteins
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What is thought to contribute to type 2 diabetes
loss of beta cell mass and loss of insulin secretory capacity
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What is dysregulation of insulin secretion linked to?
accumulation of fat in pancreas
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What % of beta cell mass decrease after 5 years diagnosis of T2D?
25% decrease
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What % of beta cell mass decrease after >15 years diagnosis of T2D?
50%
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What happens when beta cells synthesise more insulin?
the endoplasmic reticulum is put under stress and can no longer fold and process new insulin
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What happens when the endoplasmic reticulum is put under stress?
activates unfolded protein response (UPR)
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What does unfolded protein response result in?
apoptosis and beta cell death
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What is type 2 classed as?
a complex polygenic disorder (caused by a combination of genetic and lifestyle factors)
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What have GWAS studies identified that happen more freqently in type 2 diabetes?
many gene polymorphisms (SNPs) (>75 risk genetic loci have been indentified

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