Bartolome Alberto, Guillén Carlos
Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular II, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM), Barcelona, Spain; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Clínico San Carlos de Madrid (IdISSC), Madrid, Spain.
Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular II, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM), Barcelona, Spain; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Clínico San Carlos de Madrid (IdISSC), Madrid, Spain.
Vitam Horm. 2014;95:425-69. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-800174-5.00017-X.
Exquisite regulation of insulin secretion by pancreatic β-cells is essential to maintain metabolic homeostasis. β-Cell mass must be accordingly adapted to metabolic needs and can be largely modified under different situations. The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) complexes has been consistently identified as key modulators of β-cell mass. mTOR can be found into two different complexes, mTORC1 and mTORC2. Under systemic insulin resistance, mTORC1/mTORC2 signaling in β-cells is needed to increase β-cell mass and insulin secretion. However, type 2 diabetes arises when these compensatory mechanisms fail, being the role of mTOR complexes still obscure in β-cell failure. In this chapter, we introduce the protein composition and regulation of mTOR complexes and their role in pancreatic β-cells. Furthermore, we describe their main signaling effectors through the review of numerous animal models, which indicate the essential role of mTORC1/mTORC2 in pancreatic β-cell mass regulation.
胰腺β细胞对胰岛素分泌的精确调节对于维持代谢稳态至关重要。β细胞质量必须相应地适应代谢需求,并且在不同情况下会发生很大变化。雷帕霉素哺乳动物靶蛋白(mTOR)复合物一直被认为是β细胞质量的关键调节因子。mTOR可存在于两种不同的复合物中,即mTORC1和mTORC2。在全身性胰岛素抵抗情况下,β细胞中的mTORC1/mTORC2信号传导对于增加β细胞质量和胰岛素分泌是必需的。然而,当这些代偿机制失败时就会发生2型糖尿病,mTOR复合物在β细胞功能衰竭中的作用仍然不清楚。在本章中,我们介绍了mTOR复合物的蛋白质组成和调节及其在胰腺β细胞中的作用。此外,我们通过回顾众多动物模型来描述它们的主要信号传导效应器,这些模型表明mTORC1/mTORC2在胰腺β细胞质量调节中起着至关重要的作用。