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Dysfunctional β-cell longevity in diabetes relies on energy conservation and positive epistasis.
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- Metabolic adaptation to acute metabolic stress via PFKFB3 upregulation in rodent beta cells.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
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Long-lived PFKFB3-expressing β-cells are dysfunctional partly because of prevailing glycolysis that compromises metabolic coupling of insulin secretion. Their accumulation in type 2 diabetes (T2D) appears to be related to the loss of apoptotic competency of cell fitness competition that maintains islet function by favoring constant selection of healthy "winner" cells. To investigate how PFKFB3 can disguise the competitive traits of dysfunctional "loser" β-cells, we analyzed the overlap between human β-cells with bona fide "loser signature" across diabetes pathologies using the HPAP scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics of PFKFB3-positive β-cells from nPOD T2D pancreata. The overlapping transcriptional profile of "loser" β-cells was represented by down-regulated ribosomal biosynthesis and genes encoding for mitochondrial respiration. PFKFB3-positive "loser" β-cells had the reduced expression of HLA class I and II genes. Gene-gene interaction analysis revealed that PFKFB3
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