Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Autophagy regulates lipid metabolism through selective turnover of NCoR1

  • Tetsuya Saito,
  • Akiko Kuma,
  • Yuki Sugiura,
  • Yoshinobu Ichimura,
  • Miki Obata,
  • Hiroshi Kitamura,
  • Shujiro Okuda,
  • Hyeon-Cheol Lee,
  • Kazutaka Ikeda,
  • Yumi Kanegae,
  • Izumu Saito,
  • Johan Auwerx,
  • Hozumi Motohashi,
  • Makoto Suematsu,
  • Tomoyoshi Soga,
  • Takehiko Yokomizo,
  • Satoshi Waguri,
  • Noboru Mizushima,
  • Masaaki Komatsu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08829-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Defective autophagy has been associated with metabolic disorders. Here Saito et al. show that autophagy promotes the selective degradation of NCoR1, a repressor of lipid metabolism regulator PPARα, in response to starvation, and thus induces the expression of enzymes involved in lipid oxidation and the production of ketone bodies.