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Transcriptional co-activator p300 maintains basal hepatic gluconeogenesis
Ling He1, Karuna Naik, Shumei Meng
1Division of Metabolism, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA. heling@jhmi.ed
Abstract:
A major cause of fasting hyperglycemia in diabetes mellitus is unregulated hepatic glucose production (HGP). Insulin suppresses HGP by phosphorylating CBP and disassembling the CREB-CBP complex from gluconeogenic genes. p300 is closely related to CBP; but in contrast to CBP, p300 binds constitutively to CREB due to the absence of phosphorylation site found in CBP. In a phosphorylation-competent p300(G442S) knock-in mouse model, we demonstrate that HGP is now exquisitely sensitive to insulin suppression. p300(G422S) and hepatic-deleted p300 mice exhibited significant lower blood glucose levels in the fasted and post-prandial states, indicating a role for p300 in maintaining basal HGP.
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