ArticleNature communications2019
Glucose homeostasis is regulated by pancreatic β-cell cilia via endosomal EphA-processing.
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- Compartmentalized Nutrient and Hormone Sensing in β-Cells: the Role of Primary Cilia.Physiology (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Review
- Primary Cilia as Integrative Hubs of Metabolic Signaling in Type 2 Diabetes: Inter-Organ Evidence From Central, Peripheral, and Pancreatic Islet Tissues.Journal of cellular physiology · 2026Review
- Compartmentalized glycolysis powers ATP production in primary cilia and engages mitochondria via the phosphoenolpyruvate cycle.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Axonemal Dynein Visualized in Primary Cilia via Expansion Microscopy.Cytoskeleton (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2026Article
- Primary cilia regulate GLP-1 signaling in pancreatic β cells.Molecular metabolism · 2026Article
- Glucagon secretion by pancreatic alpha-cells requires an intact tubulin-cytoskeleton-primary cilium axis.Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Peptidylglycine alpha-amidating monooxygenase is important in mice for beta-cell cilia formation and insulin secretion but promotes diabetes risk through beta-cell independent mechanisms.Molecular metabolism · 2025Article
- Metabolic reprogramming in polycystic kidney disease and other renal ciliopathies.EMBO molecular medicine · 2025Review
- Intravital imaging reveals glucose-dependent cilia movement in pancreatic islets in vivo.Metabolism: clinical and experimental · 2025Article
- ciBAR1 loss in mice causes laterality defects, pancreatic degeneration, and altered glucose tolerance.Life science alliance · 2025Article
- Structure, interaction and nervous connectivity of beta cell primary cilia.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Emerging mechanistic understanding of cilia function in cellular signalling.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2024Review
- The implication of ciliary signaling pathways for epithelial-mesenchymal transition.Molecular and cellular biochemistry · 2024Review
- Keeping pace: the primary cilium as the conducting baton of the islet.Diabetologia · 2024Review
- Role of EP4 factor in paediatric type 1 diabetes mellitus: a comprehensive review focusing on the honeymoon period.Pediatric endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism · 2024Review
- Eph receptors and ephrins in cancer progression.Nature reviews. Cancer · 2024Review
- A Supportive Role of Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Insulin-Producing Langerhans Islets with a Specific Emphasis on The Secretome.Biomedicines · 2023Review
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11 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Diabetes mellitus affects one in eleven adults worldwide. Most suffer from Type 2 Diabetes which features elevated blood glucose levels and an inability to adequately secrete or respond to insulin. Insulin producing β-cells have primary cilia which are implicated in the regulation of glucose metabolism, insulin signaling and secretion. To better understand how β-cell cilia affect glucose handling, we ablate cilia from mature β-cells by deleting key cilia component Ift88. Here we report that glucose homeostasis and insulin secretion deteriorate over 12 weeks post-induction. Cilia/basal body components are required to suppress spontaneous auto-activation of EphA3 and hyper-phosphorylation of EphA receptors inhibits insulin secretion. In β-cells, loss of cilia/basal body function leads to polarity defects and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition. Defective insulin secretion from IFT88-depleted human islets and elevated pEPHA3 in islets from diabetic donors both point to a role for cilia/basal body proteins in human glucose homeostasis.
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