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Mechanism of Regulation of Adipocyte Numbers in Adult Organisms Through Differentiation and Apoptosis Homeostasis
Published on: June 3, 2016
Negative regulation of adiponectin receptor 1 promoter by insulin via a repressive nuclear inhibitory protein element
Xiaolan Sun1, Jing He, Chenqian Mao
1Key Laboratory of Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 294 Taiyuan Road, Shanghai 200031, China.
Abstract:
Adiponectin is an adipose-derived hormone that has anti-diabetic and anti-atherogenic effects through interaction with adiponectin receptors AdipoR1 and AdipoR2. We analyzed the transcriptional regulation of AdipoR1 by insulin. Insulin repressed the promoter activity of AdipoR1 in C2C12 myoblasts via PI3K and Foxo1. Deletion studies demonstrated the presence of a putative insulin-responsive region which is composed of a nuclear inhibitory protein (NIP) binding element. Mutation of the NIP element abrogated the negative regulation of AdipoR1 promoter by insulin. Insulin treatment could induce formation of a protein complex that bound the NIP element. Collectively, our data suggest that a repressive NIP element is involved in the negative regulation of AdipoR1 promoter by insulin.
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