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Novel Systems for Dynamically Assessing Insulin Action in Live Cells Reveals Heterogeneity in the Insulin Response
Author(s) -
Burchfield James G.,
Lu Jinling,
Fazakerley Daniel J.,
Tan ShiXiong,
Ng Yvonne,
Mele Katarina,
Buckley Michael J.,
Han Weiping,
Hughes William E.,
James David E.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
traffic
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.677
H-Index - 130
eISSN - 1600-0854
pISSN - 1398-9219
DOI - 10.1111/tra.12035
Subject(s) - biology , insulin , glut4 , population , cell , single cell analysis , microbiology and biotechnology , insulin resistance , computational biology , endocrinology , genetics , demography , sociology
Regulated GLUT4 trafficking is a key action of insulin. Quantitative stepwise analysis of this process provides a powerful tool for pinpointing regulatory nodes that contribute to insulin regulation and insulin resistance. We describe a novel GLUT4 construct and workflow for the streamlined dissection of GLUT4 trafficking; from simple high throughput screens to high resolution analyses of individual vesicles. We reveal single cell heterogeneity in insulin action highlighting the utility of this approach – each cell displayed a unique and highly reproducible insulin response, implying that each cell is hard‐wired to produce a specific output in response to a given stimulus. These data highlight that the response of a cell population to insulin is underpinned by extensive heterogeneity at the single cell level. This heterogeneity is pre‐programmed within each cell and is not the result of intracellular stochastic events.

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