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Growing evidence suggests that exposure to environmental contaminants contributes to the current diabetes epidemic. Inorganic arsenic (iAs), a drinking water and food contaminant, is one of the most widespread environmental diabetogens according to epidemiological studies. Several schemes have been proposed to explain the diabetogenic effects of iAs exposure; however, the exact mechanism remains unknown. We have shown that in vitro exposure to low concentrations of arsenite (iAsIII) or its trivalent methylated metabolites, methylarsonite (MAsIII) and dimethylarsinite (DMAsIII), inhibits glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) from isolated pancreatic islets, with little effect on insulin transcription or total insulin content. The goal of this study was to determine if exposure to trivalent arsenicals impairs mitochondrial metabolism, which plays a key role in the regulation of GSIS in β cells. We used a Seahorse extracellular flux analyzer to measure oxygen consumption rate (OCR), a proxy for mitochondrial metabolism, in cultured INS-1 832/13 β cells exposed to iAsIII, MAsIII, or DMAsIII and stimulated with either glucose or pyruvate, a final product of glycolysis and a substrate for the Krebs cycle. We found that 24-h exposure to 2 μM iAsIII or 0.375–0.5 μM MAsIII inhibited OCR in both glucose- and pyruvate-stimulated β cells in a manner that closely paralleled GSIS inhibition. In contrast, 24-h exposure to DMAsIII (up to 2 µM) had no effects on either OCR or GSIS. These results suggest that iAsIII and MAsIII may impair GSIS in β cells by inhibiting mitochondrial metabolism, and that at least one target of these arsenicals is pyruvate decarboxylation or downstream reactions.
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This work was supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health [R01ES022697], a National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH [T32 ES007126], the UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases [DK056350], and by a Grant from the National Institutes of Health [R01DK107481 to ELK].
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Dover, E.N., Beck, R., Huang, M.C. et al. Arsenite and methylarsonite inhibit mitochondrial metabolism and glucose-stimulated insulin secretion in INS-1 832/13 β cells. Arch Toxicol 92, 693–704 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00204-017-2074-y
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