Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Vav2 catalysis-dependent pathways contribute to skeletal muscle growth and metabolic homeostasis

  • Sonia Rodríguez-Fdez,
  • L. Francisco Lorenzo-Martín,
  • Isabel Fernández-Pisonero,
  • Begoña Porteiro,
  • Christelle Veyrat-Durebex,
  • Daniel Beiroa,
  • Omar Al-Massadi,
  • Antonio Abad,
  • Carlos Diéguez,
  • Roberto Coppari,
  • Rubén Nogueiras,
  • Xosé R. Bustelo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19489-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 26

Abstract

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Skeletal muscle plays a key role in regulating systemic glucose and metabolic homeostasis. Here, the authors show that the catalytic activity of Vav2, an activator of Rho GTPases, modulates those processes by favoring the responsiveness of this tissue to insulin and related factors.