The E23K Variant of Kir6.2 Associates With Impaired Post-OGTT Serum Insulin Response and Increased Risk of Type 2 Diabetes
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2004年11月01日 09:54:32 Monday
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作者:Eva-Maria D. Nielse Lars Hansen Bendix Carstensen Søren M. EchwaldThomas Drivsholm Charlotte Glümer Birger Thorsteinsson Knut Borch-JohnsenTorben Hansen and Oluf Pedersen
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1 Steno Diabetes Center and Hagedorn Research Institute, Gentofte, Copenhagen, Denmark
2 Clinical Genetics, Novo Nordisk, Bagsvaerd, Denmark
3 Centre for Preventive Medicine, Glostrup University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
4 Department of Internal Medicine F, Hilleroed Hospital, Hilleroed, Denmark
5 Faculty of Health Science, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
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The E23K polymorphism of the pancreatic ß-cell ATP-sensitive K+ (KATP) channel subunit Kir6.2 (KCNJ11) is associated with type 2 diabetes in whites, and a recent in vitro study of the E23K variant suggests that the association to diabetes might be explained by a slight inhibition of serum insulin release. In a study comprising 519 unrelated glucose-tolerant subjects, we addressed the question as to whether the E23K variant was related to reduced serum insulin release during an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). Furthermore, the polymorphism was examined in a case-control study comprising 803 type 2 diabetic patients and 862 glucose-tolerant control subjects. The E23K variant was associated with significant reductions in the insulinogenic index (P = 0.022) and serum insulin levels under the response curve during an OGTT (0 120 min) (P = 0.014) as well as with an increase in BMI (P = 0.013). In the present study, the association of the E23K polymorphism with type 2 diabetes was not significant (P = 0.26). However, the K23K genotype significantly associated with type 2 diabetes in a meta-analysis of white case and control subjects (n = 2,824, odds ratio [OR] 1.49, P = 0.00022). In conclusion, the widespread E23K polymorphism may have a diabetogenic effect by impairing glucose-induced insulin release and increasing BMI.
The complex regulation of glucose-induced insulin secretion from the pancreatic ß-cells involves the level of pancreatic ß-cell glucose metabolism and the electrical activity controlled by the various plasma membrane ion channels (1). Among these, the activity of the ATP-sensitive K+ (KATP) channel is critical because the channel links glucose metabolism to electrical activity of the cells (2). Classical plasma membrane KATP channels are complexes of two structurally unrelated subunits, a regulatory sulfonylurea receptor (SUR) subunit belonging to the ATP-binding cassette transporter superfamily (3) and an ATP-sensitive and pore-forming inwardly rectifying K+ channel (Kir6.X) subunit that belongs to the Kir6.0 subfamily of the inward rectifier family (4).
Various combinations of Kir6.X and SUR are possible. The pancreatic ß-cell KATP channels comprise Kir6.2 and SUR1; cardiac and skeletal muscle KATP channels consist of Kir6.2 and SUR2A, whereas the KATP channels in the vascular smooth muscle are composed of either Kir6.1 or Kir6.2 and SUR2B (5). The genes encoding human Kir6.2 (KCNJ11) and SUR1 (ABCC8) are positioned adjacent to one another on chromosome 11p15.1 with only 4.5 kb separating the 3' end of ABCC8 and the 5' end of KCNJ11 (6).
Impaired ß-cell KATP channel function due to mutations of the ABCC8 or KCNJ11 gene is responsible for the autosomal recessive disorder familial persistent hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia of infancy (PHHI) (5,7,8). In contrast to the loss-of-function mutations associated with PHHI, transgenic mice expressing gain-of-function mutations in KCNJ11, and therefore over-active KATP channels, in the ß-cells develop neonatal hypoinsulinemic diabetes and ketoacidosis due to loss of ATP sensitivity (9).
As a candidate gene for type 2 diabetes in humans, a nonsynonymous E23K variant in the NH2-terminal tail of Kir6.2 was identified (10

