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ArticleEMBO reports2018

CLPP deficiency protects against metabolic syndrome but hinders adaptive thermogenesis.

Christina Becker, Alexandra Kukat, Karolina Szczepanowska, Steffen Hermans, Katharina Senft, Christoph Paul Brandscheid, Priyanka Maiti, Aleksandra Trifunovic

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Article in EMBO reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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36citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Christina BeckerCologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD) and Institute for Mitochondrial Diseases and Aging, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Alexandra KukatCologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD) and Institute for Mitochondrial Diseases and Aging, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Karolina SzczepanowskaCologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD) and Institute for Mitochondrial Diseases and Aging, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Steffen HermansCologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD) and Institute for Mitochondrial Diseases and Aging, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Katharina SenftCologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD) and Institute for Mitochondrial Diseases and Aging, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Christoph Paul BrandscheidCologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD) and Institute for Mitochondrial Diseases and Aging, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Priyanka MaitiCologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD) and Institute for Mitochondrial Diseases and Aging, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4207-0341
Aleksandra TrifunovicCologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD) and Institute for Mitochondrial Diseases and Aging, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany aleksandra.trifunovic@uk-koeln.de.ORCID 0000-0002-5472-3517
University of Cologne · DE

Funding

Northwestern University Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS) 2.0U54TR001018 · NCATS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI LLOYD-JONES, DONALD M · 2014 to 2014
$4.2M
NCATS NIH HHS U54 TR001018
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mitochondria are fundamental for cellular metabolism as they are both a source and a target of nutrient intermediates originating from converging metabolic pathways, and their role in the regulation of systemic metabolism is increasingly recognized. Thus, maintenance of mitochondrial homeostasis is indispensable for a functional energy metabolism of the whole organism. Here, we report that loss of the mitochondrial matrix protease CLPP results in a lean phenotype with improved glucose homeostasis. Whole-body CLPP-deficient mice are protected from diet-induced obesity and insulin resistance, which was not present in mouse models with either liver- or muscle-specific depletion of CLPP However, CLPP ablation also leads to a decline in brown adipocytes function leaving mice unable to cope with a cold-induced stress due to non-functional adaptive thermogenesis. These results demonstrate a critical role for CLPP in different metabolic stress conditions such as high-fat diet feeding and cold exposure providing tools to understand pathologies with deregulated

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HomeostasisThermogenesisAdipocytes, BrownAdipogenesisAnimalsCold TemperatureDiet, High-FatEndopeptidase ClpEnergy MetabolismGene DeletionGlucoseInsulin ResistanceMetabolic SyndromeMiceMice, KnockoutMitochondriaCLPP protein, mouseEndopeptidase ClpGlucoseCLPP deficiencyfatty acid oxidationmetabolismthermogenesisVLCAD

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PMID29588285
PMCPMC5934779
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