bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.10.442447; this version posted May 10, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. Distinct states of proinsulin misfolding in MIDY Leena Haataja1, Anoop Arunagiri1, Anis Hassan1, Kaitlin Regan1, Billy Tsai2, Balamurugan Dhayalan3, Michael A. Weiss3, Ming Liu1,4, and Peter Arvan*1 From: 1The Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology & Diabetes and 2Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor MI 48105; 3Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN 46202; 4Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin 300052, China *To whom correspondence may be addressed: Peter Arvan MD PhD ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4007-8799 Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology & Diabetes, University of Michigan, Brehm Tower rm 5112 1000 Wall St. Ann Arbor, MI 48105 email:
[email protected] FAX: 734-232-8162 Running Title. Proinsulin Disulfide Mispairing Key Words. endoplasmic reticulum, disulfide bonds, protein trafficking, insulin, diabetes Abbreviations. ER, endoplasmic reticulum; MIDY, Mutant INS-gene induced Diabetes of Youth 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.10.442447; this version posted May 10, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. Abstract A precondition for efficient proinsulin export from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is that proinsulin meets ER quality control folding requirements, including formation of the Cys(B19)-Cys(A20) “interchain” disulfide bond, facilitating formation of the Cys(B7)-Cys(A7) bridge.