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Query: UNIPROT:P36959 (guanosine monophosphate reductase)
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Non-shivering thermogenesis is required for survival of rodents during cold stress. Uncoupling protein-1 acts in brown adipose tissue (BAT) to transport protons, thus dissipating the proton gradient across the inner mitochondrial membrane. This permits respiration uncoupled from ATP synthesis. UCP-1 function is inhibited by the binding of purine nucleotides, with GTP/GDP being more potent than ATP/ADP. We used a cDNA subtraction analysis to identify cDNAs rapidly induced by cold exposure. One of these encodes rat guanosine monophosphate reductase (GMP-r). This was surprising in that previous data had suggested that this enzyme was absent in rodents. Rat GMP-r is 96% identical to human GMP-r, and its mRNA is increased 30-fold in BAT within 6 h of cold exposure. The gene is also expressed (but not cold-responsive) in muscle and kidney, but not in white fat. We speculate that the physiological function of the marked increase in BAT GMP-r during cold stress may be to deplete the brown adipocyte of guanine nucleotides, converting them to IMP, thus permitting enhanced UCP-1 function. This is a previously unrecognized regulatory aspect of thermogenesis, an essential physiological response of rodents to cold.
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PMID:The guanosine monophosphate reductase gene is conserved in rats and its expression increases rapidly in brown adipose tissue during cold exposure. 981 9

The Dio2 gene encodes the type 2 deiodinase (D2) that activates thyroxine (T4) to 3,3',5-triiodothyronine (T3), the disruption of which (Dio2(-/-)) results in brown adipose tissue (BAT)-specific hypothyroidism in an otherwise euthyroid animal. In the present studies, cold exposure increased Dio2(-/-) BAT sympathetic stimulation approximately 10-fold (normal approximately 4-fold); as a result, lipolysis, as well as the mRNA levels of uncoupling protein 1, guanosine monophosphate reductase, and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator 1, increased well above the levels detected in the cold-exposed wild-type animals. The sustained Dio2(-/-) BAT adrenergic hyperresponse suppressed the three- to fourfold stimulation of BAT lipogenesis normally seen after 24-48 h in the cold. Pharmacological suppression of lipogenesis with betabeta'-methyl-substituted alpha-omega-dicarboxylic acids of C14-C18 in wild-type animals also impaired adaptive thermogenesis in the BAT. These data constitute the first evidence that reduced adrenergic responsiveness does not limit cold-induced adaptive thermogenesis. Instead, the resulting compensatory hyperadrenergic stimulation prevents the otherwise normal stimulation in BAT lipogenesis during cold exposure, rapidly exhausting the availability of fatty acids. The latter is the preponderant determinant of the impaired adaptive thermogenesis and hypothermia in cold-exposed Dio2(-/-) mice.
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PMID:Mice with targeted disruption of the Dio2 gene have cold-induced overexpression of the uncoupling protein 1 gene but fail to increase brown adipose tissue lipogenesis and adaptive thermogenesis. 1498 40