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ReviewJournal of cell science2009

Mechanisms of biphasic insulin-granule exocytosis - roles of the cytoskeleton, small GTPases and SNARE proteins.

Zhanxiang Wang, Debbie C Thurmond

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Review in Journal of cell science, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 203 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
203citing papers in PubMed
11.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

203 citing papers in PubMed, 383 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Novel Roles for Geranylgeranyl Transferase-III (GGTase-III) in Insulin Secretion.Cellular physiology and biochemistry : international journal of experimental cellular physiology, biochemistry, and pharmacology · 2025
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  11. Mechanisms of spinophilin-dependent pancreas dysregulation in obesity.American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism · 2024
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  12. Changes in Cells Associated with Insulin Resistance.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  16. CaFrontiers in endocrinology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Zhanxiang WangDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.
Debbie C Thurmond
Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis · USIndiana University School of Medicine

Funding

Regulation of Glucose Homeostasis by Munc18 ProteinsR01DK067912 · NIDDK · INDIANA UNIV-PURDUE UNIV AT INDIANAPOLIS · PI THURMOND, DEBBIE C · 2004 to 2023
$6.5M
Cdc42-regulated insulin granule exocytosisR01DK076614 · NIDDK · INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS · PI THURMOND, DEBBIE C · 2008 to 2012
$1.6M
NIDDK NIH HHS DK-067912NIDDK NIH HHS DK-076614NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK076614
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The release of insulin from pancreatic islets requires negative regulation to ensure low levels of insulin release under resting conditions, as well as positive regulation to facilitate robust responsiveness to conditions of elevated fuel or glucose. The first phase of release involves the plasma-membrane fusion of a small pool of granules, termed the readily releasable pool; these granules are already at the membrane under basal conditions, and discharge their cargo in response to nutrient and also non-nutrient secretagogues. By contrast, second-phase secretion is evoked exclusively by nutrients, and involves the mobilization of intracellular granules to t-SNARE sites at the plasma membrane to enable the distal docking and fusion steps of insulin exocytosis. Nearly 40 years ago, the actin cytoskeleton was first recognized as a key mediator of biphasic insulin release, and was originally presumed to act as a barrier to block granule docking at the cell periphery. More recently, however, the discovery of cycling GTPases that are involved in F-actin reorganization in the islet beta-cell, combined with the availability of reagents that are more specific and tools with which to study the mechanisms that underlie granule movement, have contributed greatly to our understanding of the role of the cytoskeleton in regulating biphasic insulin secretion. Herein, we provide historical perspective and review recent progress that has been made towards integrating cytoskeletal reorganization and cycling of small Rho-, Rab- and Ras-family GTPases into our current models of stimulus-secretion coupling and second-phase insulin release.

Indexed as

ExocytosisAnimalsCytoplasmic GranulesCytoskeletonHumansInsulinInsulin SecretionMonomeric GTP-Binding ProteinsSNARE ProteinsInsulinMonomeric GTP-Binding ProteinsSNARE Proteins

Identifiers

PMID19295123
PMCPMC2720925
OpenAlexW1966068360

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