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ArticleScientific reports2017

A screening strategy for the discovery of drugs that reduce C/EBPβ-LIP translation with potential calorie restriction mimetic properties.

Mohamad A Zaini, Christine Müller, Tobias Ackermann, Jeanette Reinshagen, Gertrud Kortman, Ole Pless, Cornelis F Calkhoven

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Mohamad A ZainiEuropean Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing (ERIBA), University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9700 AD Groningen, The Netherlands.
Christine MüllerEuropean Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing (ERIBA), University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9700 AD Groningen, The Netherlands.
Tobias AckermannEuropean Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing (ERIBA), University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9700 AD Groningen, The Netherlands.
Jeanette ReinshagenFraunhofer IME ScreeningPort, D-22525 Hamburg, Germany.
Gertrud KortmanEuropean Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing (ERIBA), University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9700 AD Groningen, The Netherlands.
Ole PlessFraunhofer IME ScreeningPort, D-22525 Hamburg, Germany.
Cornelis F CalkhovenEuropean Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing (ERIBA), University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9700 AD Groningen, The Netherlands.
University of Groningen · NLFraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An important part of the beneficial effects of calorie restriction (CR) on healthspan and lifespan is mediated through regulation of protein synthesis that is under control of the mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1). As one of its activities, mTORC1 stimulates translation into the metabolic transcription factor CCAAT/Enhancer Binding Protein β (C/EBPβ) isoform Liver-specific Inhibitory Protein (LIP). Regulation of LIP expression strictly depends on a translation re-initiation event that requires a conserved cis-regulatory upstream open reading frame (uORF) in the C/EBPβ-mRNA. We showed before that suppression of LIP in mice, reflecting reduced mTORC1-signaling at the C/EBPβ level, results in CR-type of metabolic improvements. Hence, we aim to find possibilities to pharmacologically down-regulate LIP in order to induce CR-mimetic effects. We engineered a luciferase-based cellular reporter system that acts as a surrogate for C/EBPβ-mRNA translation, emulating uORF-dependent C/EBPβ-LIP expression under different translational conditions. By using the reporter system in a high-throughput screening (HTS) strategy we identified drugs that reduce LIP. The drug Adefovir Dipivoxil passed all counter assays and increases fatty acid β-oxidation in a hepatoma cell line in a LIP-dependent manner. Therefore, these drugs that suppress translation into LIP potentially exhibit CR-mimetic properties.

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Caloric RestrictionDrug DiscoveryCCAAT-Enhancer-Binding Protein-betaCell LineGene ExpressionGene Expression RegulationGene OrderGenes, ReporterGenetic VectorsHigh-Throughput Screening AssaysHumansProtein BiosynthesisReproducibility of ResultsRNA, MessengerCCAAT-Enhancer-Binding Protein-betaRNA, Messenger

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PMID28198412
PMCPMC5309760
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