Hypusine biosynthesis in β cells links polyamine metabolism to facultative cellular proliferation to maintain glucose homeostasis

Esther M. Levasseur; Kentaro Yamada; Annie R. Piñeros; Wenting Wu; Farooq Syed; Kara S. Orr; Emily Anderson-Baucum; Teresa L. Mastracci; Bernhard Maier; Amber L. Mosley; Yunlong Liu; Ernesto Bernal-Mizrachi; Laura C. Alonso; Donald Scott; Adolfo Garcia-Ocaña; Sarah A. Tersey; Raghavendra G. Mirmira

doi:10.1126/scisignal.aax0715

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Hypusine biosynthesis in β cells links polyamine metabolism to facultative cellular proliferation to maintain glucose homeostasis

Esther M. Levasseur ¹,²,
Kentaro Yamada¹,³,*,
Annie R. Piñeros¹,³,*,
Wenting Wu¹,⁴,
Farooq Syed¹,³,
Kara S. Orr¹,³,
Emily Anderson-Baucum⁵,
Teresa L. Mastracci²,⁵,
Bernhard Maier⁶,
Amber L. Mosley²,
Yunlong Liu⁴,
Ernesto Bernal-Mizrachi⁷,
Laura C. Alonso⁸,†,
Donald Scott⁹,
Adolfo Garcia-Ocaña ⁹,
Sarah A. Tersey¹,³,‡, and
Raghavendra G. Mirmira ¹,²,³,⁶,‡,§

¹Center for Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.
²Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.
³Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.
⁴Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.
⁵Indiana Biosciences Research Institute, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.
⁶Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.
⁷Department of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33146, USA.
⁸Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA.
⁹Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism Institute and the Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.

↵§Corresponding author. Email: mirmira{at}uchicago.edu

↵* These authors contributed equally to this work.
↵† Present address: Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA.
↵‡ Present address: Kovler Diabetes Center and Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.

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Science Signaling 03 Dec 2019:
Vol. 12, Issue 610, eaax0715
DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.aax0715

Esther M. Levasseur

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Kentaro Yamada

Center for Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.

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Wenting Wu

Center for Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.

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Emily Anderson-Baucum

Indiana Biosciences Research Institute, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.

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Teresa L. Mastracci

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.Indiana Biosciences Research Institute, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.

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Bernhard Maier

Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.

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Amber L. Mosley

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.

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Yunlong Liu

Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.

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Ernesto Bernal-Mizrachi

Department of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33146, USA.

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Laura C. Alonso

Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA.

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Donald Scott

Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism Institute and the Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.

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Adolfo Garcia-Ocaña

Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism Institute and the Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.

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Sarah A. Tersey

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Raghavendra G. Mirmira

Center for Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.

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