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This study examined the relationship between insulin secretion and expression of the 64 kDa/glutamic acid decarboxylase autoantigen in pancreatic islets. Islets isolated from Wistar rats were cultured for 3 days under different conditions: in 5.5 mmol/l glucose with or without a-ketoisocaproic acid or glipizide and in 28 mmol/l glucose with or without diazoxide. The 64 kDa/glutamic acid decarboxylase autoantigen was precipitated from lysates of [35S]-methionine-labelled islets with sera from patients with Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus and identified by sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and fluorography. In parallel, insulin contents of the islets and the media were determined as well as the rates of glucose-stimulated (pro)insulin biosynthesis. α-Ketoisocaproic acid and glipi zide were found to stimulate the expression of the 64 kDa/glutamic acid decarboxylase autoantigen and also the rate of insulin secretion. Diazoxide on the other hand reduced the rate of the 64 kDa/glutamic acid decarboxylase autoantigen synthesis in parallel with an inhibition of glucose-stimulated insulin release. Under most of the conditions employed, (pro)insulin biosynthesis was not affected. The correlation found between the rate of insulin release and expression of the 64 kDa/glutamic acid decarboxylase auto-antigen might provide an explanation for the earlier observed relationship between the functional demands on the Beta cells and their rate of destruction which may result in diabetes.
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Björk, E., Kämpe, O., Andersson, A. et al. Expression of the 64 kDa/glutamic acid decarboxylase rat islet cell autoantigen is influenced by the rate of insulin secretion. Diabetologia 35, 490–493 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02342450
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