UDP-Glucose: A Cereblon-Dependent Glucokinase Protein Degrader
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES(2022)
摘要
We previously reported that glucokinase is ubiquitinated and degraded by cereblon with an unknown endogenous glucokinase protein degrader. Here, we show that UDP-glucose is a glucokinase protein degrader. We identified that both glucose and UDP-glucose bind to glucokinase and that both uridine and UDP-glucose bind to cereblon in a similar way to thalidomide. From these results, UDP-glucose was identified as a molecular glue between cereblon and glucokinase. Glucokinase produces glucose-6-phosphate in the pancreas and liver. Especially in beta-cells, glucokinase is the main target of glucose for glucose-induced insulin secretion. UDP-glucose administration ubiquitinated and degraded glucokinase, lowered glucose-6-phosphate production, and then reduced insulin secretion in beta-cell lines and mice. Maturity-onset diabetes of the young type 2 (MODY2) glucokinase(E256K) mutant protein was resistant to UDP-glucose induced ubiquitination and degradation. Taken together, glucokinase ubiquitination and degradation signaling might be impaired in MODY2 patients.
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diabetes,insulin,MODY,UDP-glucose,glucokinase,glucose,protein degrader,PROTACs
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