Nature Communications (Feb 2017)

Mitochondrial ATP transporter depletion protects mice against liver steatosis and insulin resistance

  • Joonseok Cho,
  • Yujian Zhang,
  • Shi-Young Park,
  • Anna-Maria Joseph,
  • Chul Han,
  • Hyo-Jin Park,
  • Srilaxmi Kalavalapalli,
  • Sung-Kook Chun,
  • Drake Morgan,
  • Jae-Sung Kim,
  • Shinichi Someya,
  • Clayton E. Mathews,
  • Young Jae Lee,
  • Stephanie E. Wohlgemuth,
  • Nishanth E. Sunny,
  • Hui-Young Lee,
  • Cheol Soo Choi,
  • Takayuki Shiratsuchi,
  • S. Paul Oh,
  • Naohiro Terada

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14477
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Adenine nucleotide translocase (ANT) 2 promotes ADP/ATP exchange across the mitochondrial inner membrane. Choet al. show that liver specific Ant2 deletion increases uncoupled respiration and protects mice against fatty liver and obesity-induced insulin resistance.