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The insulin/Akt pathway controls a specific cell division program that leads to generation of binucleated tetraploid liver cells in rodents

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Celton-Morizur, Séverine, Merlen, Grégory, Couton, Dominique, Margall-Ducos, Germain, Desdouets, Chantal·2009·Journal of Clinical Investigation

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The formation of polyploid cells is part of the developmental program of several tissues. During postnatal development, binucleated tetraploid cells arise in the liver, caused by failure in cytokinesis. In this report, we have shown that the initiation of cytokinesis failure events and the subsequent appearance of binucleated tetraploid cells are strictly controlled by the suckling-to-weaning transition in rodents. We found that daily light/dark rhythms and carbohydrate intake did not affect liver tetraploidy. In contrast, impairment of insulin signaling drastically reduced the formation of binucleated tetraploid cells, whereas repeated insulin injections promoted the generation of these liver cells. Furthermore, inhibition of Akt activity decreased the number of cytokinesis failure events, possibly through the mammalian target of rapamycin signaling complex 2 (mTORC2), which indicates that the PI3K/Akt pathway lies downstream of the insulin signal to regulate the tetraploidization process. To our knowledge, these results are the first demonstration in a physiological context that insulin signaling through Akt controls a specific cell division program and leads to the physiologic generation of binucleated tetraploid liver cells.

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  • Mechanisms regulating hepatocyte ploidy include insulin signalling through the P13K-AKT pathway, which is influenced by weaning and induces formation of binucleate tetraploid hepatocytes during postnatal liver growth.

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  1. Celton-Morizur, S., and Desdouets, C. 2009. Poly- ploidization of liver cells. In Polyploidization and can- cer. R.Y.C. Poon, editor. Landes Bioscience. Austin, Texas, USA. In press.
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Authors
Celton-Morizur, S., Merlen, G., Couton, D., Margall-Ducos, G., & Desdouets, C.
Affiliations
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
  • Institut Cochin (FR)
Corresponding author
Desdouets, Chantal
Venue
Journal of Clinical Investigation
Published
2009-06-15
Volume
119
Issue
7
Pages
1880-7
ISSN
0021-9738 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2108877086
Cited by
145
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4.11
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journal article
Language
en
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  • Journal of Clinical Investigation (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
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Funders
  • Association pour la Recherche sur le Cancer
  • Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-05)
  • Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Hepatology › Liver physiology and pathology
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling in cancer
Keywords
insulin signaling, Akt, tetraploidy, cytokinesis failure, polyploidy, mTORC2, PI3K/Akt signaling, liver development, postnatal development, rodents
MeSH terms
Animals, Cell Division, Dietary Carbohydrates, Insulin, Mice, Obese, Polyploidy, Signal Transduction, Rats, Wistar, Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases, Hepatocytes, Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt, Mice, Rats

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