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Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 284: G808-G814, 2003. First published November 20, 2002; doi:10.1152/ajpgi.00333.2002
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Vol. 284, Issue 5, G808-G814, May 2003

Characterization of vesicular glutamate transporter in pancreatic alpha - and beta -cells and its regulation by glucose

Liqun Bai1,2, Xiaohong Zhang2, and Fayez K. Ghishan1,2

Departments of 1 Pediatrics and 2 Physiology, Steele Memorial Children's Research Center, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, Arizona 85724

Glutamate has been suggested to play an important role in the release of insulin and glucagon from pancreatic cells via exocytosis. Vesicular glutamate transporter is a rate-limiting step for glutamate release and is involved in the glutamate-evoked exocytosis. Two vesicular glutamate transporters (VGLUT1 and -2) have recently been cloned from the brain. In this report, we first functionally characterized vesicular glutamate transporter in cultured pancreatic alpha - and beta -cells, and then detected mRNA expression of VGLUT1 and -2 in these cells. We also investigated the effect of high or low level of glucose on vesicular glutamate transport in cultured pancreas cells. Our results suggest that both alpha - and beta -cells contain functional vesicular glutamate transporter. The transport characteristics are similar to the cloned neuronal VGLUT1 and -2 in regard to ATP dependence, substrate specificity, kinetics, and chloride dependence. VGLUT2 mRNA is expressed in both alpha - and beta -cells, whereas VGLUT1 is only expressed in beta -cells. High (12.8 mM) and low (2.8 mM) concentrations of glucose increased vesicular glutamate transport in beta - and alpha -cells, respectively. VGLUT2 mRNA was significantly increased in beta - and alpha -cells by high and low glucose concentration, respectively. This increase in VGLUT2 mRNA was suppressed by actinomycin D. We conclude that both alpha - and beta -cells possess functional vesicular glutamate transporters regulated by alteration in glucose concentration, partly via the transcriptional mechanism.

diabetes; insulin; glucagon; transcriptional regulation


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