FGF6 and FGF9 regulate UCP1 expression independent of brown adipogenesis

Uncoupling protein-1 (UCP1) plays a central role in energy dissipation in brown adipose tissue. Here the authors show that FGF6 and FGF9 induce UCP1 expression in adipocytes and preadipocytes, via modulation of a transcriptional network that is dissociated from brown adipogenesis.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Farnaz Shamsi, Ruidan Xue, Tian Lian Huang, Morten Lundh, Yang Liu, Luiz O. Leiria, Matthew D. Lynes, Elena Kempf, Chih-Hao Wang, Satoru Sugimoto, Pasquale Nigro, Kathrin Landgraf, Tim Schulz, Yiming Li, Brice Emanuelli, Srinivas Kothakota, Lewis T. Williams, Niels Jessen, Steen Bønløkke Pedersen, Yvonne Böttcher, Matthias Blüher, Antje Körner, Laurie J. Goodyear, Moosa Mohammadi, C. Ronald Kahn, Yu-Hua Tseng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15055-9