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ArticleMolecular and cellular biology2009

Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor beta/delta (PPARbeta/delta) but not PPARalpha serves as a plasma free fatty acid sensor in liver.

Linda M Sanderson, Tatjana Degenhardt, Arjen Koppen, Eric Kalkhoven, Beatrice Desvergne, Michael Müller, Sander Kersten

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Article in Molecular and cellular biology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 75 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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75citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

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75 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 142 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

Linda M SandersonNutrigenomics Consortium, TI Food and Nutrition, Nieuwe Kanaal 9A, 6709 PA Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Tatjana Degenhardt
Arjen Koppen
Eric Kalkhoven
Beatrice Desvergne
Michael Müller
Sander Kersten
Wageningen University & Research · NLNetherlands Metabolomics Centre · NLTiFN · NLUniversity Medical Center Utrecht · NLUniversity of Eastern Finland · FIUniversity of Lausanne · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPARalpha) is an important transcription factor in liver that can be activated physiologically by fasting or pharmacologically by using high-affinity synthetic agonists. Here we initially set out to elucidate the similarities in gene induction between Wy14643 and fasting. Numerous genes were commonly regulated in liver between the two treatments, including many classical PPARalpha target genes, such as Aldh3a2 and Cpt2. Remarkably, several genes induced by Wy14643 were upregulated by fasting independently of PPARalpha, including Lpin2 and St3gal5, suggesting involvement of another transcription factor. Using chromatin immunoprecipitation, Lpin2 and St3gal5 were shown to be direct targets of PPARbeta/delta during fasting, whereas Aldh3a2 and Cpt2 were exclusive targets of PPARalpha. Binding of PPARbeta/delta to the Lpin2 and St3gal5 genes followed the plasma free fatty acid (FFA) concentration, consistent with activation of PPARbeta/delta by plasma FFAs. Subsequent experiments using transgenic and knockout mice for Angptl4, a potent stimulant of adipose tissue lipolysis, confirmed the stimulatory effect of plasma FFAs on Lpin2 and St3gal5 expression levels via PPARbeta/delta. In contrast, the data did not support activation of PPARalpha by plasma FFAs. The results identify Lpin2 and St3gal5 as novel PPARbeta/delta target genes and show that upregulation of gene expression by PPARbeta/delta is sensitive to plasma FFA levels. In contrast, this is not the case for PPARalpha, revealing a novel mechanism for functional differentiation between PPARs.

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Adipose TissueAnimalsCell Line, TumorFastingFatty AcidsGene Expression RegulationHumansLiverMiceMice, KnockoutPeroxisome ProliferatorsPPAR alphaPPAR-betaPyrimidinesRatsReceptors, Cytoplasmic and NuclearFatty AcidsPeroxisome Proliferatorspirinixic acidPPAR alphaPPAR-betaPpard protein, mousePyrimidinesReceptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear

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PMID19805517
PMCPMC2786701
OpenAlexW2127162288

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