Nature Communications (May 2022)

Identification of oleoylethanolamide as an endogenous ligand for HIF-3α

  • Xiaotong Diao,
  • Fei Ye,
  • Meina Zhang,
  • Xintong Ren,
  • Xiaoxu Tian,
  • Jingping Lu,
  • Xiangnan Sun,
  • Zeng Hou,
  • Xiaoyu Chen,
  • Fengwei Li,
  • Jingjing Zhuang,
  • Hong Ding,
  • Chao Peng,
  • Fraydoon Rastinejad,
  • Cheng Luo,
  • Dalei Wu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30338-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Whether hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) can be directly regulated by endogenous small molecules is a long-standing question. Here authors identified the metabolite oleoylethanolamide as a HIF-3α ligand and further revealed its mechanism of action.