Antipsychotic olanzapine-induced misfolding of proinsulin in the endoplasmic reticulum accounts for atypical development of diabetes

Satoshi Ninagawa, Seiichiro Tada, Masaki Okumura, Kenta Inoguchi, Misaki Kinoshita, Shingo Kanemura, Koshi Imami, Hajime Umezawa, Tokiro Ishikawa, Robert B. Mackin, Seiji Torii, Yasushi Ishihama, Kenji Inaba, Takayuki Anazawa, Takahiko Nagamine, Kazutoshi Mori

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Abstract

Second-generation antipsychotics are widely used to medicate patients with schizophrenia, but may cause metabolic side effects such as diabetes, which has been considered to result from obesity-associated insulin resistance. Olanzapine is particularly well known for this effect. However, clinical studies have suggested that olanzapine-induced hyperglycemia in certain patients cannot be explained by such a generalized mechanism. Here, we focused on the effects of olanzapine on insulin biosynthesis and secretion by mouse insulinoma MIN6 cells. Olanzapine reduced maturation of proinsulin, and thereby inhibited secretion of insulin; and specifically shifted the primary localization of proinsulin from insulin granules to the endoplasmic reticulum. This was due to olanzapine’s impairment of proper disulfide bond formation in proinsulin, although direct targets of olanzapine remain undetermined. Olanzapine-induced proinsulin misfolding and subsequent decrease also occurred at the mouse level. This mechanism of olanzapine-induced β-cell dysfunction should be considered, together with weight gain, when patients are administered olanzapine.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article numbere60970
Pages (from-to)1-26
Number of pages26
JournaleLife
Volume9
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2020
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Neuroscience
  • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • General Immunology and Microbiology

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