“…Pancreas-specific Sirt1-deficient mice (Pdx1-Cre; Sirt1 flox/flox ) present with glucose intolerance and impaired GSIS of β-cells (Luu et al, 2013;Wang R.H. et al, 2013;Pinho et al, 2015). SIRT1-mediated deacetylation and subsequent repression of Ucp2 normally activates GSIS (Tordjman et al, 2002;Bordone et al, 2006;Chan and Kashemsant, 2006;Brun et al, 2015), however, the absence or reduction of pancreatic SIRT1 results in increased acetylation and expression of Ucp2 (Bordone et al, 2006) and other downstream target genes, such as Pgc-1α, Pparγ (Luu et al, 2013), and Pparα (Maiztegui et al, 2018), leading to decreased GSIS. Similarly, upon high glucose exposure (Brun et al, 2015), or the addition of sucrose (10%) to a normal diet (Maiztegui et al, 2018), pancreatic SIRT1 expression is decreased, while Ucp2 and Pparα expression is increased in human and rodent islets, leading to reductions in insulin content and GSIS of β-cells (Brun et al, 2015;Maiztegui et al, 2018).…”