Sebastian Barg
Mechanisms of regulated exocytosis
Exocytosis is fundamental to every cell and crucial to intracellular transport, protein sorting, and cell-to-cell communication. In endocrine cells and neurons, exocytosis leads to the release of hormones and transmitter molecules, and defects in this process often underlie diseases, such as type-2 diabetes and some forms of neurodegeneration. My lab is interested in the cellular mechanisms by which insulin and glucagon are released in the endocrine pancreas, and how disease affects these. Our work combines advanced light microscopy (TIRF, super-resolution and single molecule imaging), patch clamp electrophysiology, and genetic manipulation, which allows us to observe single secretory granules and even individual protein molecules in living cells.
Publications
Restoration of PITPNA in Type 2 diabetic human islets reverses pancreatic beta-cell dysfunction
Part of Nature Communications, 2023
SEC14-like condensate phase transitions at plasma membranes regulate root growth in Arabidopsis
Part of PLoS biology, 2023
Local PI(4,5)P2 signaling inhibits fusion pore expansion during exocytosis
Part of Cell Reports, 2023
The β-cell primary cilium is an autonomous Ca2+ compartment for paracrine GABA signaling
Part of Journal of Cell Biology, 2023
Part of Nature Biotechnology, p. 1042-1055, 2022
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022
- DOI for Alternative splicing encodes functional intracellular CD59 isoforms that mediate insulin secretion and are down-regulated in diabetic islets
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Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 2484-2495, 2020
- DOI for In pancreatic islets from type 2 diabetes patients, the dampened circadian oscillators lead to reduced insulin and glucagon exocytosis
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Paracrine control of α-cell glucagon exocytosis is compromised in human type-2 diabetes.
Part of Nature Communications, 2020
Part of Diabetes, p. 747-760, 2019
Fusion pore regulation by cAMP/Epac2 controls cargo release during insulin exocytosis
Part of eLIFE, 2019
Glucose-Dependent Granule Docking Limits Insulin Secretion and Is Decreased in Human Type 2 Diabetes
Part of Cell Metabolism, p. 470-478, 2018
PtdIns(4,5)P2 is not required for secretory granule docking
Part of Traffic, p. 436-445, 2018
Functional Characterization of Native, High-Affinity GABAA Receptors in Human Pancreatic β Cells
Part of EBioMedicine, 2018
Syntaxin clusters at secretory granules in a munc18-bound conformation
Part of Molecular Biology of the Cell, p. 2700-2708, 2018
MiR-335 overexpression impairs insulin secretion through defective priming of insulin vesicles
Part of Physiological Reports, 2017
Ca2+ channel clustering with insulin-containing granules is disturbed in type 2 diabetes
Part of Journal of Clinical Investigation, p. 2353-2364, 2017
Plasma membrane PI(4,5)P-2 is critical for secretory granule exocytosis
Part of Molecular Biology of the Cell, p. 3727-3727, 2017
Recruitment of Epac2A to Insulin Granule Docking Sites Regulates Priming for Exocytosis
Part of Diabetes, p. 2610-2622, 2017
How Kiss-and-Run Can Make Us Sick: SOX4 Puts a Break on the Pore
Part of Diabetes, p. 1791-1793, 2016
Part of CELL CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, p. 816-826, 2016
Part of PLOS ONE, 2016
- DOI for Statistical Frailty Modeling for Quantitative Analysis of Exocytotic Events Recorded by Live Cell Imaging: Rapid Release of Insulin-Containing Granules Is Impaired in Human Diabetic beta-cells
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Quantitative Imaging of the Exocytosis Machinery Assembly
Part of Biophysical Journal, 2015
Part of Diabetologia, 2015
G-protein coupled receptor dynamics in insulin secreting cells
Part of Diabetologia, 2015
Survey of Red Fluorescence Proteins as Markers for Secretory Granule Exocytosis
Part of PLOS ONE, 2015
The Complement Inhibitor CD59 Regulates Insulin Secretion by Modulating Exocytotic Events
Part of Cell Metabolism, p. 883-890, 2014
CD59 is required for pancreatic beta cell insulin exocytosis
Part of Molecular Immunology, p. 279-279, 2014
Contact-induced clustering of syntaxin and munc18 docks secretory granules at the exocytosis site
Part of Nature Communications, 2014
Part of Cellular Signalling, p. 85-92, 2013
- DOI for Aberrant association between vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-2 and VE-cadherin in response to vascular endothelial growth factor-a in Shb-deficient lung endothelial cells
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2013
PPARβ/δ affects pancreatic β cell mass and insulin secretion in mice
Part of Journal of Clinical Investigation, p. 4105-4117, 2012
Multivesicular exocytosis in rat pancreatic beta cells
Part of Diabetologia, p. 1001-1012, 2012
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 20810-20815, 2010
Syntaxin clusters assemble reversibly at sites of secretory granules in live cells
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 20804-20809, 2010
Defective secretion of islet hormones in chromogranin-B deficient mice
Part of PLOS ONE, 2010
Quantitative analysis of t-SNARE and Ca2+-channel clusters near secretory granules
Part of Diabetologia, 2010
cAMP Mediators of Pulsatile Insulin Secretion from Glucose-stimulated Single β-Cells
Part of Journal of Biological Chemistry, p. 23005-23016, 2010
TCF7L2 regulates late events in insulin secretion from pancreatic islet beta-cells
Part of Diabetes, p. 894-905, 2009
Part of Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications - BBRC, p. 241-246, 2009
Impaired glucose homeostasis in Shb-/- mice
Part of Journal of Endocrinology, p. 271-279, 2009
Compensatory endocytosis in chromaffin cells
Part of Acta Physiologica, p. 195-201, 2008
Release of the styryl dyes from single synaptic vesicles in hippocampal neurons.
Part of The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, p. 1894-1903, 2008
Granule docking and cargo release in pancreatic β-cells
Part of Biochemical Society Transactions, p. 294-299, 2008
Selective nucleotide-release from dense-core granules in insulin-secreting cells
Part of Journal of Cell Science, p. 4271-82, 2005
Part of Diabetes, p. 2852-8, 2005
Large dense-core vesicle exocytosis in pancreatic beta-cells monitored by capacitance measurements.
Part of Methods, p. 302-11, 2004
Insulin secretion: a high-affinity Ca2+ sensor after all?
Part of The Journal of General Physiology, p. 623-5, 2004
SUR1 regulates PKA-independent cAMP-induced granule priming in mouse pancreatic B-cells.
Part of The Journal of General Physiology, p. 181-97, 2003
Mechanisms of exocytosis in insulin-secreting B-cells and glucagon-secreting A-cells.
Part of Pharmacology and Toxicology, p. 3-13, 2003
Part of Neuron, p. 287-299, 2002