PDX1

PDX1
Identifiers
Aliases PDX1, GSF, IDX-1, IPF1, IUF1, MODY4, PAGEN1, PDX-1, STF-1, pancreatic and duodenal homeobox 1
External IDs MGI: 102851 HomoloGene: 175 GeneCards: PDX1
RNA expression pattern


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Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

3651

18609

Ensembl

ENSG00000139515

ENSMUSG00000029644

UniProt

P52945

P52946

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_000209

NM_008814

RefSeq (protein)

NP_000200.1

NP_032840.1

Location (UCSC) Chr 13: 27.92 – 27.93 Mb Chr 5: 147.27 – 147.28 Mb
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PDX1 (pancreatic and duodenal homeobox 1), also known as insulin promoter factor 1, is a transcription factor necessary for pancreatic development, including β-cell maturation, and duodenal differentiation. In humans this protein is encoded by the PDX1 gene, which was formerly known as IPF1.[3][4]

Function

Pancreatic development

In pancreatic development, Pdx1 is expressed by a population of cells in the posterior foregut region of the definitive endoderm, and Pdx1+ epithelial cells give rise to the developing pancreatic buds, and eventually, the whole of the pancreas—its exocrine, endocrine, and ductal cell populations.[5] Pancreatic Pdx1+ cells first arise at mouse embryonic day 8.5-9.0 (E8.5-9.0), and Pdx1 expression continues until E12.0-E12.5,[6] after which Pdx1 expression decreases and the pancreas is formed—other transcription factors are expressed, controlling the fates of the cells of the newly formed pancreas.[7] Homozygous Pdx1 knockout mice form pancreatic buds but fail to develop a pancreas,[7] and transgenic mice in which tetracycline application results in death of Pdx1+ cells are almost completely apancreatic if doxycycline (tetracycline derivative) is administered throughout the pregnancy of these transgenic mice, illustrating the necessity of Pdx1+ cells in pancreatic development.[6]

β-cell maturation and survival

Pdx1 is also necessary for β-cell maturation: developing β-cells co-express Pdx1, NKX6-1, and insulin, a process that results in the silencing of MafB and the expression of MafA, a necessary switch in maturation of β-cells.[5] Pdx1 appears to also play a role in the fating of endocrine cells, encoding for insulin and somatostatin, two pancreatic endocrine products, while repressing glucagon. Thus, Pdx1 expression apparently favors the production of insulin+ β-cells and somatostatin+Δ-cells rather than glucagon+ α-cells. In addition to roles in beta-cell differentiation, Pdx1 is required for β-cell survival. Cells with reduced Pdx1 have an increased rate of apoptotic programmed cell death.[8][9]

Transcriptional Network

Pdx1+ pancreatic progenitor cells also co-express Hlxb9, Hnf6, Ptf1a and NKX6-1, and these progenitor cells form the initial pancreatic buds, which further proliferate and branch in response to FGF-10 signaling. Afterwards, fating of the pancreatic cells begins; a population of cells has Notch signaling inhibited, and subsequently, expresses Ngn3. This Ngn3+ population is a transient population of pancreatic endocrine progenitors that gives rise to the α, β, Δ, PP, and ε cells of the Islets of Langerhans.[6] Other cells will give rise to the exocrine and ductal pancreatic cell populations.

Duodenum

Pdx1 is necessary for the development of the proximal duodenum and maintenance of the gastro-duodenal junction.[10] Duodenal enterocytes, Brunner's glands and entero-endocrine cells (including those in the gastric antrum) are dependent on Pdx1 expression. It is a ParaHox gene, which together with Sox2 and Cdx2, determines the correct cellular differentiation in the proximal gut.[10] In mature mice duodenum, several genes have been identified which are dependent on Pdx1 expression and include some affecting lipid and iron absorption.[11]

Pathology

Mutations in the Pdx1 gene may be involved in several pancreatic pathologies, including diabetes mellitus. Maturity onset diabetes of the young (Type 4) can be caused by heterozygous mutations in Pdx1 [12][13]

Expression is lost in gastric cancers, suggesting a role as a tumor suppressor.[14]

Interactions

Pdx1 has been shown to interact with MAFA.[15]

References

  1. ↑ "Human PubMed Reference:".
  2. ↑ "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  3. ↑ "PDX1". HGNC. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  4. ↑ Stoffel M, Stein R, Wright CV, Espinosa R, Le Beau MM, Bell GI (July 1995). "Localization of human homeodomain transcription factor insulin promoter factor 1 (IPF1) to chromosome band 13q12.1". Genomics. 28 (1): 125–6. doi:10.1006/geno.1995.1120. PMID 7590740.
  5. 1 2 D'Amour KA, Bang AG, Eliazer S, Kelly OG, Agulnick AD, Smart NG, Moorman MA, Kroon E, Carpenter MK, Baetge EE (November 2006). "Production of pancreatic hormone-expressing endocrine cells from human embryonic stem cells". Nat. Biotechnol. 24 (11): 1392–401. doi:10.1038/nbt1259. PMID 17053790.
  6. 1 2 3 Stanger BZ, Tanaka AJ, Melton DA (February 2007). "Organ size is limited by the number of embryonic progenitor cells in the pancreas but not the liver". Nature. 445 (7130): 886–91. doi:10.1038/nature05537. PMID 17259975.
  7. 1 2 Liew CG, Shah NN, Briston SJ, Shepherd RM, Khoo CP, Dunne MJ, Moore HD, Cosgrove KE, Andrews PW (2008). "PAX4 enhances beta-cell differentiation of human embryonic stem cells". PLoS ONE. 3 (3): e1783. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001783. PMC 2262135Freely accessible. PMID 18335054.
  8. ↑ Johnson JD, Ahmed NT, Luciani DS, Han Z, Tran H, Fujita J, Misler S, Edlund H, Polonsky KS (April 2003). "Increased islet apoptosis in Pdx1+/- mice". J. Clin. Invest. 111 (8): 1147–60. doi:10.1172/JCI16537. PMC 152933Freely accessible. PMID 12697734.
  9. ↑ Johnson JD, Bernal-Mizrachi E, Alejandro EU, Han Z, Kalynyak TB, Li H, Beith JL, Gross J, Warnock GL, Townsend RR, Permutt MA, Polonsky KS (December 2006). "Insulin protects islets from apoptosis via Pdx1 and specific changes in the human islet proteome". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 103 (51): 19575–80. doi:10.1073/pnas.0604208103. PMC 1748267Freely accessible. PMID 17158802.
  10. 1 2 Holland AM, Garcia S, Naselli G, Macdonald RJ, Harrison LC (2013). "The Parahox gene Pdx1 is required to maintain positional identity in the adult foregut". Int. J. Dev. Biol. 57 (5): 391–8. doi:10.1387/ijdb.120048ah. PMID 23873371.
  11. ↑ Chen C, Sibley E (2012). "Expression profiling identifies novel gene targets and functions for Pdx1 in the duodenum of mature mice". Am. J. Physiol. Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. 302 (4): G407–19. doi:10.1152/ajpgi.00314.2011. PMC 3287393Freely accessible. PMID 22135308.
  12. ↑ "Entrez Gene: PDX1 pancreatic and duodenal homeobox 1".
  13. ↑ Fajans SS, Bell GI, Polonsky KS (September 2001). "Molecular mechanisms and clinical pathophysiology of maturity-onset diabetes of the young". N. Engl. J. Med. 345 (13): 971–80. doi:10.1056/NEJMra002168. PMID 11575290.
  14. ↑ Ma J, Chen M, Wang J, Xia HH, Zhu S, Liang Y, Gu Q, Qiao L, Dai Y, Zou B, Li Z, Zhang Y, Lan H, Wong BC (2008). "Pancreatic duodenal homeobox-1 (PDX1) functions as a tumor suppressor in gastric cancer". Carcinogenesis. 29 (7): 1327–33. doi:10.1093/carcin/bgn112. PMID 18477649.
  15. ↑ Zhao L, Guo M, Matsuoka TA, Hagman DK, Parazzoli SD, Poitout V, Stein R (March 2005). "The islet beta cell-enriched MafA activator is a key regulator of insulin gene transcription". J. Biol. Chem. 280 (12): 11887–94. doi:10.1074/jbc.M409475200. PMID 15665000.

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