Page 1 of 40 Diabetes Myc Is Required for Adaptive ß-Cell Replication in Young Mice but Is not Sufficient in One-Year-Old Mice Fed with a High-Fat Diet. Carolina Rosselot1,*, Anil Kumar1,*, Jayalakshmi Lakshmipathi1, Pili Zhang1, Geming Lu1, Liora S. Katz1, Edward V. Prochownik3, Andrew F. Stewart1, Luca Lambertini1, Donald K. Scott1,2,**, Adolfo Garcia-Ocaña1,2,**. 1Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Diseases, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY. 2The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY. 3Division of Hematology/Oncology, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC; The Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; The Hillman Cancer Center and The University of Pittsburgh Liver Research Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15224. *indicates equal contribution. **Donald K. Scott and Adolfo Garcia-Ocaña are shared senior authors. To whom correspondence should be addressed: Adolfo Garcia-Ocaña, email adolfo.garcia-
[email protected], phone 212-241 9793, or Donald K. Scott, email
[email protected], phone 212-241 2835. Running title: Myc and adaptive ß-cell replication Keywords: Myc, Diabetes, aging, metabolic stress, pancreatic ß-cell, DNA methylation, adaptation, regeneration, obesity, proliferation. The authors have declared that no conflict of interest exists. 1 Diabetes Publish Ahead of Print, published online July 10, 2019 Diabetes Page 2 of 40 Abstract Failure to expand pancreatic ß-cells in response to metabolic stress leads to excessive work load resulting in ß-cell dysfunction, de-differentiation, death and development of type 2 diabetes.