During diabetes, postprandial hyperglycemia is caused by impaired glucose uptake. Here, Watanabe and colleagues show that impaired hepatic glucose uptake during obesity is caused by a reduction in Sirt2 activity, which promotes glucokinase regulatory protein acetylation and its dissociation from glucokinase.
- Hitoshi Watanabe
- Yuka Inaba
- Hiroshi Inoue