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The cyclin D1 gene encodes the labile serum-inducible regulatory subunit of a holoenzyme that phosphorylates and inactivates the retinoblastoma protein. Overexpression of cyclin D1 promotes cellular proliferation and normal physiological levels of cyclin D1 function to inhibit adipocyte differentiation in vivo. We have previously shown that cyclin D1 inhibits peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR)gamma-dependent activity through a
cyclin-dependent kinase
- and retinoblastoma protein-binding-independent mechanism. In this study, we determined the molecular mechanism by which cyclin D1 regulated
PPARgamma
function. Herein, murine embryonic fibroblast (MEF) differentiation by
PPARgamma
ligand was associated with a reduction in histone deacetylase (HDAC1) activity. Cyclin D1-/- MEFs showed an increased propensity to undergo differentiation into adipocytes. Genetic deletion of cyclin D1 reduced HDAC1 activity. Reconstitution of cyclin D1 into the cyclin D1-/- MEFs increased HDAC1 activity and blocked
PPARgamma
-mediated adipogenesis.
PPARgamma
activity was enhanced in cyclin D1-/- cells. Reintroduction of cyclin D1 inhibited basal and ligand-induced
PPARgamma
activity and enhanced HDAC repression of
PPARgamma
activity. Cyclin D1 bound HDAC in vivo and preferentially physically associated with HDAC1, HDAC2, HDAC3, and HDAC5. Chromatin immunoprecipitation assay demonstrated that cyclin D1 enhanced recruitment of HDAC1 and HDAC3 and histone methyltransferase SUV39H1 to the PPAR response element of the lipoprotein lipase promoter and decreased acetylation of total histone H3 and histone H3 lysine 9. Collectively, these studies suggest an important role of cyclin D1 in regulation of
PPARgamma
-mediated adipocyte differentiation through recruitment of HDACs to regulate PPAR response element local chromatin structure and
PPARgamma
function.
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PMID:Cyclin D1 inhibits peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma-mediated adipogenesis through histone deacetylase recruitment. 1571 63
Mitochondrial cytopathy has been associated with modifications of lipid metabolism in various situations, such as the acquisition of an abnormal adipocyte phenotype observed in multiple symmetrical lipomatosis or triglyceride (TG) accumulation in muscles associated with the myoclonic epilepsy with ragged red fibers syndrome. However, the molecular signaling leading to fat metabolism dysregulation in cells with impaired mitochondrial activity is still poorly understood. Here, we found that preadipocytes incubated with inhibitors of mitochondrial respiration such as antimycin A (AA) accumulate TG vesicles but do not acquire specific markers of adipocytes. Although the uptake of TG precursors is not stimulated in 3T3-L1 cells with impaired mitochondrial activity, we found a strong stimulation of glucose uptake in AA-treated cells mediated by calcium and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/Akt1/
glycogen synthase kinase
3beta, a pathway known to trigger the translocation of glucose transporter 4 to the plasma membrane in response to insulin. TG accumulation in AA-treated cells is mediated by a reduced
peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma
activity that downregulates muscle carnitine palmitoyl transferase-1 expression and fatty acid beta-oxidation, and by a direct conversion of glucose into TGs accompanied by the activation of carbohydrate-responsive element binding protein, a lipogenic transcription factor. Taken together, these results could explain how mitochondrial impairment leads to the multivesicular phenotype found in some mitochondria-originating diseases associated with a dysfunction in fat metabolism.
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PMID:Mitochondrial dysfunction induces triglyceride accumulation in 3T3-L1 cells: role of fatty acid beta-oxidation and glucose. 1574 51
In most neurodegenerative disorders, including multiple sclerosis, Parkinson disease, and Alzheimer disease, a massive neuronal cell death occurs as a consequence of an uncontrolled inflammatory response, where activated astrocytes and microglia and their cytotoxic agents play a crucial pathological role. Current treatments for these diseases are not effective. In the present study we investigate the effect of thiadiazolidinone derivatives, which have been recently suggested to play a role in neurodegenerative disorders. We have found that thiadiazolidinones are potent neuroprotector compounds. Thiadiazolidinones inhibited inflammatory activation of cultured brain astrocytes and microglia by diminishing lipopolysaccharide-induced interleukin 6, tumor necrosis factor alpha, inducible nitric-oxide synthase, and inducible cyclooxygenase type 2 expression. In addition, thiadiazolidinones inhibited tumor necrosis factor-alpha and nitric oxide production and, concomitantly, protected cortical neurons from cell death induced by the cell-free supernatant from activated microglia. The neuroprotective effects of thiadiazolidinones are completely inhibited by the
peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma
antagonist GW9662. In contrast the
glycogen synthase kinase
3beta inhibitor LiCl did not show any effect. These findings suggest that thiadiazolidinones potently attenuate lipopolysaccharide-induced neuroinflammation and reduces neuronal death by a mechanism dependent of
peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma
activation.
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PMID:Regulation of inflammatory response in neural cells in vitro by thiadiazolidinones derivatives through peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma activation. 1581 69
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) represents a ligand-dependent nuclear receptor family that regulates multiple metabolic processes associated with fatty acid beta-oxidation, glucose utilization, and cholesterol transport. These and other receptor-mediated actions pertain to their role in hypolipidemic and antidiabetic therapies and as potential targets for cancer chemopreventive agents. The present study evaluated the chemopreventive activity of two highly potent and selective
PPARgamma
and PPARdelta agonists in a progestin- and carcinogen-induced mouse mammary tumorigenesis model. Animals treated with the
PPARgamma
agonist GW7845 exhibited a moderate delay in tumor formation. In contrast, animals treated with the PPARdelta agonist GW501516 showed accelerated tumor formation. Significantly, tumors from GW7845-treated mice were predominantly ductal adenocarcinomas, whereas tumors from GW501516-treated animals were adenosquamous and squamous cell carcinomas. Gene expression analysis of tumors arising from GW7845- and GW501516-treated mice identified expression profiles that were distinct from each other and from untreated control tumors of the same histopathology. Only tumors from mice treated with the
PPARgamma
agonist expressed estrogen receptor-alpha in luminal transit cells, suggesting increased ductal progenitor cell expansion. Tumors from mice treated with the PPARdelta agonist exhibited increased PPARdelta levels and activated 3-phosphoinositide-dependent
protein kinase
-1 (PDK1), which co-associated, suggesting a link between the known oncogenic activity of PDK1 in mammary epithelium and PPARdelta activation. These results indicate that PPARdelta and
PPARgamma
agonists produce diverse, yet profound effects on mammary tumorigenesis that give rise to distinctive histopathologic patterns of tumor differentiation and tumor development.
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PMID:Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor delta and gamma agonists differentially alter tumor differentiation and progression during mammary carcinogenesis. 1586 96
We tested the hypothesis that in vitro nicotine exposure disrupts specific epithelial-mesenchymal paracrine signaling pathways and results in pulmonary interstitial lipofibroblast (LIF)-to-myofibroblast (MYF) transdifferentiation, resulting in altered pulmonary development and function. Studies were done to determine whether nicotine induces LIF-to-MYF transdifferentiation and to elucidate underlying molecular mechanism(s) involved and to determine whether nicotine-induced LIF-to-MYF transdifferentiation could be prevented by stimulating specific alveolar interstitial fibroblast lipogenic pathway. WI38 cells, a human embryonic pulmonary fibroblast cell line, were treated with nicotine with or without specific agonists of alveolar fibroblast lipogenic pathway, PTHrP, DBcAMP, or the potent
PPARgamma
stimulant rosiglitazone (RGZ) for 7 days. Expression of key lipogenic and myogenic markers was examined by RT-PCR, Western hybridization, and immunohistochemistry. The effect of nicotine on triglyceride uptake by WI38 cells and PTHrP binding to its receptor was also determined. Finally, the effect of transfecting WI38 cells with a
PPARgamma
expression vector on nicotine-induced LIF-to-MYF transdifferentiation was determined. Nicotine treatment resulted in significantly decreased expression of lipogenic and increased expression of myogenic markers in a dose-dependent manner, indicating nicotine-induced LIF-to-MYF transdifferentiation. This was accompanied by decreased PTHrP receptor binding to its receptor. The nicotine-induced LIF-to-MYF transdifferentiation was completely prevented by concomitant treatment with PTHrP, DBcAMP, RGZ, and by transiently overexpressing
PPARgamma
. Our data suggest nicotine induces alveolar LIF-to-MYF transdifferentiation through a mechanism involving downregulation of lipogenic PTHrP-mediated, cAMP-dependent
PKA
signaling pathway, which can be prevented using specific molecular targets. Potential therapeutic implications of these observations against in utero nicotine-induced lung injury remain to be tested.
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PMID:Mechanism of nicotine-induced pulmonary fibroblast transdifferentiation. 1595 29
Cyclin D1 encodes a regulatory subunit, which with its
cyclin-dependent kinase
(Cdk)-binding partner forms a holoenzyme that phosphorylates and inactivates the retinoblastoma protein. In addition to its Cdk binding-dependent functions, cyclin D1 regulates cellular differentiation in part by modifying several transcription factors and nuclear receptors. The molecular mechanism through which cyclin D1 regulates the function of transcription factors involved in cellular differentiation remains to be clarified. The histone acetyltransferase protein p300 is a co-integrator required for regulation of multiple transcription factors. Here we show that cyclin D1 physically interacts with p300 and represses p300 transactivation. We demonstrated further that the interaction of the two proteins occurs at the
peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma
-responsive element of the lipoprotein lipase promoter in the context of the local chromatin structure. We have mapped the domains in p300 and cyclin D1 involved in this interaction. The bromo domain and cysteine- and histidine-rich domains of p300 were required for repression by cyclin D1. Cyclin D1 repression of p300 was independent of the Cdk- and retinoblastoma protein-binding domains of cyclin D1. Cyclin D1 inhibits histone acetyltransferase activity of p300 in vitro. Microarray analysis identified a signature of genes repressed by cyclin D1 and induced by p300 that promotes cellular differentiation and induces cell cycle arrest. Together, our results suggest that cyclin D1 plays an important role in cellular proliferation and differentiation through regulation of p300.
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PMID:Cyclin D1 represses p300 transactivation through a cyclin-dependent kinase-independent mechanism. 1595 63
The pyruvate dehydrogenase complex occupies a central and strategic position in muscle intermediary metabolism and is primarily regulated by phosphorylation/dephosphorylation. The identification of multiple isoforms of pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase (PDK1-4) and pyruvate dehydrogenase phosphatase (PDP1-2) has raised intriguing new possibilities for chronic pyruvate dehydrogenase complex control. Experiments to date suggest that PDK4 is the major isoenzyme responsible for changes in pyruvate dehydrogenase complex activity in response to various different metabolic conditions. Using a cultured human skeletal muscle cell model system, we found that expression of both PDK2 and PDK4 mRNA is upregulated in response to glucose deprivation and fatty acid supplementation, the effects of which are reversed by insulin treatment. In addition, insulin directly downregulates PDK2 and PDK4 mRNA transcript abundance via a phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase-dependent pathway, which may involve
glycogen synthase kinase
-3 but does not utilize the mammalian target of rapamycin or mitogen-activated protein kinase signalling pathways. In order to further elucidate the regulation of PDK, the role of the peroxisome proliferators-activated receptors (PPAR) was investigated using highly potent subtype selective agonists. PPARalpha and PPARdelta agonists were found to specifically upregulate PDK4 mRNA expression, whereas
PPARgamma
activation selectively decreased PDK2 mRNA transcript abundance. PDP1 mRNA expression was unaffected by all conditions analysed. These results suggest that in human muscle, hormonal and nutritional conditions may control PDK2 and PDK4 mRNA expression via a common signalling mechanism. In addition, PPARs appear to independently regulate specific PDK isoform transcipt levels, which are likely to impart important metabolic mediation of fuel utilization by the muscle.
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PMID:Diverging regulation of pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase isoform gene expression in cultured human muscle cells. 1595 60
CCAAT enhancer-binding protein (C/EBP)beta, C/EBPalpha, and peroxisome proliferator activated receptor (PPAR)gamma act in a cascade where C/EBPbeta activates expression of C/EBPalpha and
PPARgamma
, which then function as pleiotropic activators of genes that produce the adipocyte phenotype. When growth-arrested 3T3-L1 preadipocytes are induced to differentiate, C/EBPbeta is rapidly expressed but still lacks DNA-binding activity. After a long (14-hour) lag,
glycogen synthase kinase
3beta enters the nucleus, which correlates with hyperphosphorylation of C/EBPbeta and acquisition of DNA-binding activity. Concurrently, 3T3-L1 preadipocytes synchronously enter S phase and undergo mitotic clonal expansion, a prerequisite for terminal differentiation. Ex vivo and in vitro experiments with C/EBPbeta show that phosphorylation of Thr-188 by mitogen-activating
protein kinase
"primes" C/EBPbeta for subsequent phosphorylation on Ser-184 and Thr-179 by
glycogen synthase kinase
3beta, acquisition of DNA-binding function, and transactivation of the C/EBPalpha and
PPARgamma
genes. The delayed transactivation of the C/EBPalpha and
PPARgamma
genes by C/EBPbeta appears necessary to allow mitotic clonal expansion, which would otherwise be prevented, because C/EBPalpha and
PPARgamma
are antimitotic.
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PMID:Sequential phosphorylation of CCAAT enhancer-binding protein beta by MAPK and glycogen synthase kinase 3beta is required for adipogenesis. 1598 51
Adipocyte differentiation is regulated largely through the actions of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) gamma nuclear receptor and the insulin signaling pathway. 3-phosphoinositide-dependent
protein kinase
-1 (PDK1) serves as a critical regulatory point in insulin signaling through its ability to phosphorylate the activation loop of several
protein kinase
families. The present study was undertaken to determine the interrelationships between the PDK1 and
PPARgamma
signaling pathways, and their association with adipocyte differentiation. Coexpression of PDK1 and PPARgamma1 in 293T cells stimulated
PPARgamma
response element-dependent reporter gene activity in either the presence or absence of ligand. PDK1-mediated stimulation of PPARgamma1 activity was comparable in magnitude to the coactivator activated in breast cancer-1, and was blocked by either the corepressor silencing mediator of retinoid and thyroid hormone receptor or dominant-negative PAX8-PPARgamma1. Heterologous Gal4-PPARgamma1 assays indicated that PDK1 interacted with the ligand binding domain, and physically associated with PPARgamma1; however, PDK1-mediated stimulation was not dependent on phosphorylation of PPARgamma1 by PDK1. PDK1 stimulatory activity was eliminated by mutation of the alpha-helical hydrophobic motifs in PDK1, L(268)XII, and V(313)XXLL, and expression of the alpha-helical region encompassing these motifs stimulated
PPARgamma
response element-dependent transcription. PDK1-
PPARgamma
interaction was confirmed by chromatin immunoprecipitation analysis of the lipoprotein lipase and adipocyte fatty acid-binding protein promoters. In cells expressing PDK1 and
PPARgamma
, binding to
PPARgamma
response elements occurred, which was enhanced by treatment with a
PPARgamma
agonist. Expression of PDK1 in 3T3-L1 or COMMA-1D mammary epithelial cells promoted adipocyte differentiation in the presence of a
PPARgamma
agonist that was comparable to the response of PPARgamma1-transfected cells in the presence of agonist; expression of PDK1 and
PPARgamma
resulted in a synergistic effect. Adipocyte differentiation in the presence of a
PPARgamma
agonist was markedly attenuated in PDK1 null cells. These results suggest that PDK1 can function as a PPARgamma1 coactivator independently of its catalytic activity and establishes an important mechanistic link between adipocyte differentiation and the insulin signaling pathway.
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PMID:3-phosphoinositide-dependent protein kinase-1 activates the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma and promotes adipocyte differentiation. 1615 Aug 67
In addition to their role in cell cycle progression, new data reveal an emerging role of D-type cyclins in transcriptional regulation and cellular differentiation processes. Using 3T3-L1 cell lines to study adipogenesis, we observed an up-regulation of cyclin D3 expression throughout the differentiation process. Surprisingly, cyclin D3 was only minimally expressed during the initial stages of adipogenesis, when mitotic division is prevalent. This seemingly paradoxical expression led us to investigate a potential cell cycle-independent role for cyclin D3 during adipogenesis. We show here a direct interaction between cyclin D3 and the nuclear receptor
peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma
(
PPARgamma
). Our experiments reveal cyclin D3 acts as a ligand-dependent
PPARgamma
coactivator, which, together with its
cyclin-dependent kinase
partner, phosphorylates the A-B domain of the nuclear receptor. Overexpression and knockdown studies with cyclin D3 had marked effects on
PPARgamma
activity and subsequently on adipogenesis. Chromatin immunoprecipitation assays confirm the participation of cyclin D3 in the regulation of
PPARgamma
target genes. We show that cyclin D3 mutant mice are protected from diet-induced obesity, display smaller adipocytes, have reduced adipogenic gene expression, and are insulin sensitive. Our results indicate that cyclin D3 is an important factor governing adipogenesis and obesity.
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PMID:Cyclin D3 promotes adipogenesis through activation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma. 1626 Jun 12
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