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Maternal inheritance of an inactive type III deiodinase gene allele affects mouse pancreatic β-cells and disrupts glucose homeostasis.
Endocrinology - 1 Aug 2014
Medina Mayrin C, Fonesca Tatiana L, Molina Judith, Fachado Alberto, Castillo Melany, Dong Liping, Soares Renata, Hernández Arturo, Caicedo Alejandro, Bianco Antonio C
Abstract excerpt
Dio3 is the most distal gene of the imprinted Dlk1-Dio3 gene locus and is expressed according to parental origin. Dio3 encodes the type 3 deiodinase (D3), a thioredoxin-fold like containing selenoenzyme that inactivates thyroid hormone and dampens thyroid hormone signaling. Here we used heterozygous animals with disruption of the Dio3 gene to study the allelic expression pattern of Dio3 in pancreatic β-cells and...
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