Transcriptional co-factor TBLR1 controls lipid mobilization in white adipose tissue

ABSTRACT: Lipid mobilization (lipolysis) in white adipose tissue (WAT) critically controls lipid turnover and adiposity in humans. While the acute regulation of lipolysis has been studied in detail, the transcriptional determinants of WAT lipolytic activity remain still largely unexplored. Here we show that the genetic inactivation of transcriptional co-factor transducin beta-like-related (TBLR) 1 blunts the lipolytic response of white adipocytes through the impairment of cAMP-dependent signal transduction. Indeed, mice lacking TBLR1 in adipocytes are defective in fasting-induced lipid mobilization and when placed on a high fat diet show aggravated adiposity, glucose intolerance and insulin resistance. TBLR1 levels are found to increase under lipolytic conditions in WAT of both human patients and m

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

SUBMITTER: Carsten Sticht 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-43658 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress