谷氨胺的生产通过谷氨促进热源性脂肪细胞通过Prdm9-介导的H3K4me3和转录性重编程的差异化
Xiaowen Pan1,2, Lingxia Ye3, Xiaozhen Guo4
1Department of Pathology and Pathophysiology and Department of Cardiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Diabetes
|August 14, 2023
概括
谷氨酸激活棕色脂肪细胞的分化和发热,通过调节质子的修饰. 这一发现通过准代谢途径,为肥胖和糖尿病提供了新的治疗策略.
科学领域:
- 代谢调节 代谢调节 代谢调节
- 脂肪细胞生物学 脂肪细胞生物学
- 表观遗传学 在表观遗传学中,表观遗传学是指表观遗传学.
背景情况:
- 热生成脂肪细胞是肥胖和糖尿病的关键目标,因为它们的能量分散作用.
- 介质代谢物在脂肪细胞分化和热生成中的作用基本上是未知的.
- 肥胖与热生成脂肪组织中的氨酸合成酶 (Glul) 减少有关.
研究的目的:
- 调查谷氨胺在棕色脂肪细胞分化和热生成中的作用.
- 阐明谷氨酸通过哪些分子机制影响脂肪细胞功能.
主要方法:
- 在人类和小鼠肥胖模型中分析GLUL表达.
- 研究谷氨胺操纵对棕色脂肪细胞分化和功能的影响.
- 使用遗传学和药理学方法研究C/EBPb-Prdm9通路.
- 染色体免疫沉测定用于评估基因素修饰.
主要成果:
- 肥胖症下调 Glul,但在棕色脂肪细胞分化和冷/药物刺激时上调.
- 谷氨胺自主增强棕色脂肪细胞的分化,功能和脂肪组织重塑,改善能量平衡.
- 谷氨胺通过基因组修饰介导的染色体重塑促进基因和热基因表达.
- 基因组甲基转移酶Prdm9是由谷氨酸诱导的,并调解其对脂肪细胞分化和热生成的影响.
结论:
- 谷氨酸作为一种新型激活剂,可以促进热源性脂肪细胞的分化和功能.
- 在C/EBPb-Prdm9-介导的表观遗传重编程对于谷氨酸在脂肪生成和热生成中的作用至关重要.
- 向谷氨胺-脂肪细胞轴为代谢障碍提供了潜在的治疗策略.
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