Autor: |
Takashi Yamamoto, Kazuhisa Watanabe, Noriyuki Inoue, Yoshimi Nakagawa, Naomi Ishigaki, Takashi Matsuzaka, Yoshinori Takeuchi, Kazuto Kobayashi, Shigeru Yatoh, Akimitsu Takahashi, Hiroaki Suzuki, Naoya Yahagi, Takanari Gotoda, Nobuhiro Yamada, Hitoshi Shimano |
Jazyk: |
angličtina |
Rok vydání: |
2010 |
Předmět: |
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Zdroj: |
Journal of Lipid Research, Vol 51, Iss 7, Pp 1859-1870 (2010) |
Druh dokumentu: |
article |
ISSN: |
0022-2275 |
DOI: |
10.1194/jlr.M004234 |
Popis: |
Sterol-regulatory element binding protein-1c (SREBP-1c) is a transcription factor that controls lipogenesis in the liver. Hepatic SREBP-1c is nutritionally regulated, and its sustained activation causes hepatic steatosis and insulin resistance. Although regulation of SREBP-1c is known to occur at the transcriptional level, the precise mechanism by which insulin signaling activates SREBP-1c promoter remains to be elucidated. Here we show that protein kinase C beta (PKCbeta) is a key mediator of insulin-mediated activation of hepatic SREBP-1c and its target lipogenic genes. Activation of SREBP-1c in the liver of refed mice was suppressed by either adenoviral RNAi-mediated knockdown or dietary administration of a specific inhibitor of protein kinase C beta. The effect of PKCbeta inhibition was cancelled in insulin depletion by streptozotocin (STZ) treatment of mice. Promoter analysis indicated that PKCbeta activates SREBP-1c promoter through replacement of Sp3 by Sp1 for binding to the GC box in the sterol regulatory element (SRE) complex, a key cis-element of SREBP-1c promoter. Knockdown of Sp proteins demonstrated that Sp3 and Sp1 play reciprocally negative and positive roles in nutritional regulation of SREBP-1c, respectively. This new understanding of PKCbeta involvement in nutritional regulation of SREBP-1c activation provides a new aspect of PKCbeta inhibition as a potential therapeutic target for diabetic complications. |
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