Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Phosphorylation of 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 13 at serine 33 attenuates nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in mice

  • Wen Su,
  • Sijin Wu,
  • Yongliang Yang,
  • Yanlin Guo,
  • Haibo Zhang,
  • Jie Su,
  • Lei Chen,
  • Zhuo Mao,
  • Rongfeng Lan,
  • Rong Cao,
  • Chunjiong Wang,
  • Hu Xu,
  • Cong Zhang,
  • Sha Li,
  • Min Gao,
  • Xiaocong Chen,
  • Zhiyou Zheng,
  • Bing Wang,
  • Yi’ao Liu,
  • Zuojun Liu,
  • Zimei Wang,
  • Baohua Liu,
  • Xinmin Fan,
  • Xiaoyan Zhang,
  • Youfei Guan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34299-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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A truncating variant of 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase-13 (17β-HSD13), a lipid droplet -associated protein, associates with lower risk of chronic liver disease. Here the authors identify a phosphorylation site in 17β-HSD13 which promotes lipolysis, and report that a knock-in mouse with a 17β-HSD13 mutant defective for phosphorylation is more susceptible to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.