Cell Metab. 2011 Apr 6;13(4):389-400.
Hepatic Deficiency in Transcriptional Cofactor TBL1 Promotes Liver Steatosis and Hypertriglyceridemia.
Kulozik P, Jones A, Mattijssen F, Rose AJ, Reimann A, Strzoda D, Kleinsorg S, Raupp C, Kleinschmidt J, Müller-Decker K, Wahli W, Sticht C, Gretz N, von Loeffelholz C, Stockmann M, Pfeiffer A, Stöhr S, Dallinga-Thie GM, Nawroth PP, Berriel Diaz M, Herzig S.
Joint Division of Molecular Metabolic Control, DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Center for Molecular Biology Heidelberg, University Hospital Heidelberg, German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
Abstract
The aberrant accumulation of lipids in the liver (“fatty liver”) is tightly associated with several components of the metabolic syndrome, including type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, and atherosclerosis. Here we show that the impaired hepatic expression of transcriptional cofactor transducin beta-like (TBL) 1 represents a common feature of mono- and multigenic fatty liver mouse models. Indeed, the liver-specific ablation of TBL1 gene expression in healthy mice promoted hypertriglyceridemia and hepatic steatosis under both normal and high-fat dietary conditions. TBL1 deficiency resulted in inhibition of fatty acid oxidation due to impaired functional cooperation with its heterodimerization partner TBL-related (TBLR) 1 and the nuclear receptor peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) α. As TBL1 expression levels were found to also inversely correlate with liver fat content in human patients, the lack of hepatic TBL1/TBLR1 cofactor activity may represent a molecular rationale for hepatic steatosis in subjects with obesity and the metabolic syndrome.
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PMID: 21459324 [PubMed – in process]