The expression and function of glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide in the embryonic mouse pancreas
Krishna Prasadan, Masayuki Koizumi, Sidhartha Tulachan, Chiyo Shiota, Nikesh Lath, Jose Paredes, Ping Guo, Yousef El-Gohary, Marcus Malek, Sohail Shah, George K Gittes, Krishna Prasadan, Masayuki Koizumi, Sidhartha Tulachan, Chiyo Shiota, Nikesh Lath, Jose Paredes, Ping Guo, Yousef El-Gohary, Marcus Malek, Sohail Shah, George K Gittes
Abstract
Objective: Glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) is a member of a structurally related group of hormones that also includes glucagon, glucagon-like peptides, and secretin. GIP is an incretin, known to modulate glucose-induced insulin secretion. Recent studies have shown that glucagon is necessary for early insulin-positive differentiation, and a similar role for incretins in regulating embryonic insulin-positive differentiation seems probable. Here we studied the role of GIP signaling in insulin-positive differentiation in the embryonic mouse pancreas.
Research design and methods: The ontogeny of the GIP ligand and GIP receptor in the embryonic pancreas was investigated by immunohistochemistry and RT-PCR. GIP signaling was inhibited in cultured embryonic pancreata using morpholine-ring antisense against GIP ligand and receptor, or small interfering RNA (siRNA) for GIP ligand and receptor. Markers of endocrine cells and their progenitors were studied by immunohistochemistry and RT-PCR.
Results: GIP and GIP receptor mRNA were both detected in the embryonic pancreas by embryonic day 9.5 and then persisted throughout gestation. GIP was generally coexpressed with glucagon by immunostaining. The GIP receptor was typically coexpressed with insulin. Morpholine-ring antisense or siRNA against either GIP ligand or GIP receptor both inhibited the differentiation of insulin-positive cells. Inhibition of GIP or its receptor also led to a decrease in the number of Pdx-1-positive and sox9-positive cells in the cultured embryonic pancreas. The number of Pax6- and Nkx2.2-positive cells, representative of developing pancreatic endocrine cells and β-cells, respectively, was also decreased.
Conclusions: GIP signaling may play a role in early embryonic pancreas differentiation to form insulin-positive cells or β-cells.
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