Kim Jeongho, Lee Hye-Yeon, Ahn Jheesoo, Hyun Moonjung, Lee Inhwan, Min Kyung-Jin, You Young-Jai
From the Department of Biological Sciences, Inha University, Incheon 22212, South Korea.
the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23298, and.
J Biol Chem. 2016 Aug 26;291(35):18591-9. doi: 10.1074/jbc.C116.744037. Epub 2016 Jul 19.
Diabetes is one of the most impactful diseases worldwide. The most commonly prescribed anti-diabetic drug is metformin. In this study, we identified an endosomal Na(+)/H(+) exchanger (NHE) as a new potential target of metformin from an unbiased screen in Caenorhabditis elegans The same NHE homolog also exists in flies, where it too mediates the effects of metformin. Our results suggest that endosomal NHEs could be a metformin target and provide an insight into a novel mechanism of action of metformin on regulating the endocytic cycle.
糖尿病是全球最具影响力的疾病之一。最常用的抗糖尿病药物是二甲双胍。在本研究中,我们通过在秀丽隐杆线虫中进行的无偏见筛选,确定一种内体钠/氢交换体(NHE)为二甲双胍的一个新的潜在靶点。在果蝇中也存在相同的NHE同源物,它同样介导二甲双胍的作用。我们的结果表明,内体NHE可能是二甲双胍的靶点,并为二甲双胍调节内吞循环的新作用机制提供了见解。