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Heterogeneous Expression of Proinsulin Processing Enzymes in Beta Cells of Non-diabetic and Type 2 Diabetic Humans.
Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry : Official Journal of the Histochemistry Society 2019 Februrary 14
Although there is evidence indicating transcriptional and functional heterogeneity in human beta cells, it is unclear whether this heterogeneity extends to the expression level of the enzymes that process proinsulin to insulin in beta cells. To address this question, the expression levels of prohormone convertases (PC) 1/3, proprotein convertase 2 (PC2), and carboxypeptidase E (CPE) were determined in immune-stained sections of human pancreas. In non-diabetic donors, the level of proprotein convertase 1/3 (PC1/3) expression varied among beta cells of each islet but the average per islet was similar for all islets of each donor. Although the average PC1/3 expression of all islets examined per sample was unique for each pancreas, donors had similar levels of proinsulin/insulin expression. PC2 expression in beta cells showed less pronounced inter- and intraislet variation while CPE levels were fairly constant. The relationship between PC1/3 and PC2 expression levels was variable among different donors. Type 2 diabetes had an uneven effect on the expression levels of all three enzymes as they decrease only in some islets in a section. These findings suggest the presence of intraislet, but not interislet, variation in the expression of the proinsulin processing enzymes in non-diabetic subjects and a heterogeneous effect of type 2 diabetes on enzyme expression in islets.
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