Nature Communications (Jul 2017)

RORα controls hepatic lipid homeostasis via negative regulation of PPARγ transcriptional network

  • Kyeongkyu Kim,
  • Kyungjin Boo,
  • Young Suk Yu,
  • Se Kyu Oh,
  • Hyunkyung Kim,
  • Yoon Jeon,
  • Jinhyuk Bhin,
  • Daehee Hwang,
  • Keun Il Kim,
  • Jun-Su Lee,
  • Seung-Soon Im,
  • Seul Gi Yoon,
  • Il Yong Kim,
  • Je Kyung Seong,
  • Ho Lee,
  • Sungsoon Fang,
  • Sung Hee Baek

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00215-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Hepatic steatosis development may result from dysregulation of lipid metabolism, which is finely tuned by several transcription factors including the PPAR family. Here Kim et al. show that the nuclear receptor RORα inhibits PPARγ-mediated transcriptional activity by interacting with HDAC3 and competing for the promoters of lipogenic genes.