期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：2009
卷号：106
期号：18
页码：7432-7436
DOI：10.1073/pnas.0901202106
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：Insulin secretion is biphasic in response to a step in glucose stimulation. Recent experiments suggest that 2 different mechanisms operate during the 2 phases, with transient first-phase secretion due to exocytosis of docked granules but the second sustained phase due largely to newcomer granules. Another line of research has shown that there exist 2 pools of releasable granules with different Ca2+ sensitivities. An immediately releasable pool (IRP) is located in the vicinity of Ca2+ channels, whereas a highly Ca2+-sensitive pool (HCSP) resides mainly away from Ca2+ channels. We extend a previous model of exocytosis and insulin release by adding an HCSP and show that the inclusion of this pool naturally leads to insulin secretion mainly from newcomer granules during the second phase of secretion. We show that the model is compatible with data from single cells on the HCSP and from stimulation of islets by glucose, including L- and R-type Ca2+ channel knockouts, as well as from Syntaxin-1A-deficient cells. We also use the model to investigate the relative contribution of calcium signaling and pool depletion in controlling biphasic secretion.
