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Omega-3 Fatty Acids Activate Ciliary FFAR4 to Control Adipogenesis.
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165 citing papers in PubMed, 256 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Primary cilium as a sensory organelle and metabolic hub in health and diseases.Journal of biomedical science · 2026Review
- Free fatty acid receptor 4 agonism stimulates insulin secretion via different mechanisms in mouse vs human islets.Endocrinology · 2026Article
- Primary cilia: master conductors of cellular communication in development and disease.Nature reviews. Nephrology · 2026Review
- Adipose Tissue Expandability as a Link Between Nutrition and Obesity-Related Metabolic Risk: Insights from Bariatric Surgery.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Folic acid polyglutamylation triggers MAP2K5 signaling to induce adipocyte lipid catabolism.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Foods as Modulators of GLP-1 Secretion.Nutrients · 2026Review
- The Primary Cilium: A New Player in Muscle Stem Cell Biology.Stem cell reviews and reports · 2026Review
- FFAR4 Mediates High-Altitude Hypoxia-Induced Asthenozoospermia through Oxidative Stress and Mitochondrial Dysfunction: An Integrative Bioinformatics and Experimental Study.Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2026Article
- Centriolar Protein POC5 Regulates Human Adipogenesis and Cellular Senescence: Insights From a Novel Metabolic Ciliopathy.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2026Article
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- Primary Cilia as Integrative Hubs of Metabolic Signaling in Type 2 Diabetes: Inter-Organ Evidence From Central, Peripheral, and Pancreatic Islet Tissues.Journal of cellular physiology · 2026Review
- Primary cilia dysfunction: A critical driver of metabolic diseases (Review).International journal of molecular medicine · 2026Review
- Compartmentalized Nutrient and Hormone Sensing in β-Cells: the Role of Primary Cilia.Physiology (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Review
- Smoothened and ciliary GPCRs regulate ciliary protein kinase A activity involved in Hedgehog signal transduction.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- Stiff matrix-induced KRTAP2-3 expression suppresses ciliogenesis via actin tension-driven chromatin remodeling.Cell death & disease · 2026Article
- miR-10b-5p regulates adipocyte lineage commitment and adipogenesis via targeting of Gata6 and Tubby.Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2026Article
- Multifaceted role of primary cilia and ciliary proteins: A potential nexus for hedgehog signaling and prostate cancer.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular basis of disease · 2026Review
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Abstract
Adult mesenchymal stem cells, including preadipocytes, possess a cellular sensory organelle called the primary cilium. Ciliated preadipocytes abundantly populate perivascular compartments in fat and are activated by a high-fat diet. Here, we sought to understand whether preadipocytes use their cilia to sense and respond to external cues to remodel white adipose tissue. Abolishing preadipocyte cilia in mice severely impairs white adipose tissue expansion. We discover that TULP3-dependent ciliary localization of the omega-3 fatty acid receptor FFAR4/GPR120 promotes adipogenesis. FFAR4 agonists and ω-3 fatty acids, but not saturated fatty acids, trigger mitosis and adipogenesis by rapidly activating cAMP production inside cilia. Ciliary cAMP activates EPAC signaling, CTCF-dependent chromatin remodeling, and transcriptional activation of PPARγ and CEBPα to initiate adipogenesis. We propose that dietary ω-3 fatty acids selectively drive expansion of adipocyte numbers to produce new fat cells and store saturated fatty acids, enabling homeostasis of healthy fat tissue.
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