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SUBMITTER: Costa MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3058992 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Costa Maria Jose MJ So Alex Y-L AY Kaasik Krista K Krueger Katherine C KC Pillsbury Marlisa L ML Fu Ying-Hui YH Ptacek Louis J LJ Yamamoto Keith R KR Feldman Brian J BJ
The Journal of biological chemistry 20110112 11
Glucocorticoids rapidly and robustly induce cell fate decisions in various multipotent cells, although the precise mechanisms of these important cellular events are not understood. Here we showed that glucocorticoids repressed Per3 expression and that this repression was critical for advancing mesenchymal stem cells to the adipocyte fate. Exogenous expression of Per3 inhibited adipogenesis, whereas knocking out Per3 enhanced that fate. Moreover, we found that PER3 formed a complex with PPARγ and ...[more]