Pdx1
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Pdx1 (Pancreatic and duodenal homeobox 1), also known as insulin promoter factor 1, is a transcription factor necessary for pancreatic development and β-cell maturation. Pdx1, otherwise known as Ipf1, is the human gene encoding it.
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[edit] Functions
[edit] Pancreatic development
In embryonic development, Pdx1 is expressed by a population of cells in the posterior foregut region of the definitive endoderm, and Pdx1+ epithelial cells give rise to the developing pancreatic buds, and eventually, the whole of the pancreas—its exocrine, endocrine, and ductal cell populations.[1] Pancreatic Pdx1+ cells first arise at mouse embryonic day 8.5-9.0 (E8.5-9.0), and Pdx1 expression continues until E12.0-E12.5[2], after which Pdx1 expression decreases and the pancreas is formed—other transcription factors are expressed, controlling the fates of the cells of the newly-formed pancreas.[3]
Homozygous Pdx1 knockout mice form pancreatic buds but fail to develop a pancreas[3], and transgenic mice in which tetracycline application results in death of Pdx1+ cells are almost completely apancreatic if doxycycline (tetracycline derivative) is administered throughout the pregnancy of these transgenic mice, illustrating the necessity of Pdx1+ cells in pancreatic development.[2]
[edit] β-cell Maturation
Pdx1 is also necessary for β-cell maturation: developing β-cells co-express Pdx1, Nkx6-1, and insulin, a process that results in the silencing of MafB and the expression of MafA, a necessary switch in maturation of β-cells.[1] Pdx1 appears to also play a role in the fating of endocrine cells, encoding for insulin and somatostatin, two pancreatic endocrine products, while repressing glucagon. Thus, Pdx1 expression appearantly favors the production of insulin+ β-cells and somatostatin+Δ-cells rather than glucagon+ α-cells.
[edit] Transcriptional Network
Pdx1+ pancreatic progenitor cells also co-express Hlxb9, Hnf6, Ptf1a and Nkx6-1, and these progenitor cells form the initial pancreatic buds, which further proliferate and branch in response to FGF-10 signaling. Afterwards, fating of the pancreatic cells begins; a population of cells has Notch signaling inhibited, and subsequently, expresses Ngn3. This Ngn3+ population is a transient population of pancreatic endocrine progenitors that gives rise to the α, β, Δ, PP, and ε cells of the Islets of Langerhans.[2] Other cells will give rise to the exocrine and ductal pancreatic cell populations.
[edit] Pathology
Mutations in the Pdx1 gene may be involved in several pancreatic pathologies, possibly diabetes mellitus.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ a b D'Amour, K.A. et. al (2006). "Production of pancreatic hormone-expressing endocrine cells from human embryonic stem cells". Nature Biotechnology 24: 1392-1401.
- ^ a b c Stanger, B.Z. et. al (2007). "Organ size is limited by the number of embryonic progenitor cells in the pancreas but not the liver". Nature 445: 886-891.
- ^ a b Liew, C.G. et. al (2008). "PAX4 Enhances Beta-Cell Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells". PLoS One 3: e1783.
- ^ Entrez Gene: PDX1 pancreatic and duodenal homeobox 1.
[edit] Further reading
- Hui H, Perfetti R (2002). "Pancreas duodenum homeobox-1 regulates pancreas development during embryogenesis and islet cell function in adulthood.". Eur. J. Endocrinol. 146 (2): 129–41. PMID 11834421.
- Leonard J, Peers B, Johnson T, et al. (1994). "Characterization of somatostatin transactivating factor-1, a novel homeobox factor that stimulates somatostatin expression in pancreatic islet cells.". Mol. Endocrinol. 7 (10): 1275–83. PMID 7505393.
- Stoffel M, Stein R, Wright CV, et al. (1995). "Localization of human homeodomain transcription factor insulin promoter factor 1 (IPF1) to chromosome band 13q12.1.". Genomics 28 (1): 125–6. PMID 7590740.
- Inoue H, Riggs AC, Tanizawa Y, et al. (1996). "Isolation, characterization, and chromosomal mapping of the human insulin promoter factor 1 (IPF-1) gene.". Diabetes 45 (6): 789–94. PMID 8635654.
- Waeber G, Thompson N, Nicod P, Bonny C (1997). "Transcriptional activation of the GLUT2 gene by the IPF-1/STF-1/IDX-1 homeobox factor.". Mol. Endocrinol. 10 (11): 1327–34. PMID 8923459.
- Watada H, Kajimoto Y, Kaneto H, et al. (1997). "Involvement of the homeodomain-containing transcription factor PDX-1 in islet amyloid polypeptide gene transcription.". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 229 (3): 746–51. PMID 8954967.
- Marshak S, Totary H, Cerasi E, Melloul D (1997). "Purification of the beta-cell glucose-sensitive factor that transactivates the insulin gene differentially in normal and transformed islet cells.". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93 (26): 15057–62. PMID 8986763.
- Stoffers DA, Zinkin NT, Stanojevic V, et al. (1997). "Pancreatic agenesis attributable to a single nucleotide deletion in the human IPF1 gene coding sequence.". Nat. Genet. 15 (1): 106–10. doi: . PMID 8988180.
- Sharma S, Jhala US, Johnson T, et al. (1997). "Hormonal regulation of an islet-specific enhancer in the pancreatic homeobox gene STF-1.". Mol. Cell. Biol. 17 (5): 2598–604. PMID 9111329.
- Carty MD, Lillquist JS, Peshavaria M, et al. (1997). "Identification of cis- and trans-active factors regulating human islet amyloid polypeptide gene expression in pancreatic beta-cells.". J. Biol. Chem. 272 (18): 11986–93. PMID 9115263.
- Macfarlane WM, Smith SB, James RF, et al. (1997). "The p38/reactivating kinase mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade mediates the activation of the transcription factor insulin upstream factor 1 and insulin gene transcription by high glucose in pancreatic beta-cells.". J. Biol. Chem. 272 (33): 20936–44. PMID 9252422.
- Macfarlane WM, Frayling TM, Ellard S, et al. (1999). "Missense mutations in the insulin promoter factor-1 gene predispose to type 2 diabetes.". J. Clin. Invest. 104 (9): R33–9. PMID 10545530.
- Hani EH, Stoffers DA, Chèvre JC, et al. (1999). "Defective mutations in the insulin promoter factor-1 (IPF-1) gene in late-onset type 2 diabetes mellitus.". J. Clin. Invest. 104 (9): R41–8. PMID 10545531.
- Glick E, Leshkowitz D, Walker MD (2000). "Transcription factor BETA2 acts cooperatively with E2A and PDX1 to activate the insulin gene promoter.". J. Biol. Chem. 275 (3): 2199–204. PMID 10636926.
- Schwartz PT, Perez-Villamil B, Rivera A, et al. (2000). "Pancreatic homeodomain transcription factor IDX1/IPF1 expressed in developing brain regulates somatostatin gene transcription in embryonic neural cells.". J. Biol. Chem. 275 (25): 19106–14. doi: . PMID 10751390.
- Hartley JL, Temple GF, Brasch MA (2001). "DNA cloning using in vitro site-specific recombination.". Genome Res. 10 (11): 1788–95. PMID 11076863.
- Liu Y, MacDonald RJ, Swift GH (2001). "DNA binding and transcriptional activation by a PDX1.PBX1b.MEIS2b trimer and cooperation with a pancreas-specific basic helix-loop-helix complex.". J. Biol. Chem. 276 (21): 17985–93. doi: . PMID 11279116.
- Samaras SE, Cissell MA, Gerrish K, et al. (2002). "Conserved sequences in a tissue-specific regulatory region of the pdx-1 gene mediate transcription in Pancreatic beta cells: role for hepatocyte nuclear factor 3 beta and Pax6.". Mol. Cell. Biol. 22 (13): 4702–13. PMID 12052878.
- Zhou J, Pineyro MA, Wang X, et al. (2002). "Exendin-4 differentiation of a human pancreatic duct cell line into endocrine cells: involvement of PDX-1 and HNF3beta transcription factors.". J. Cell. Physiol. 192 (3): 304–14. doi: . PMID 12124776.
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