Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

FoxK1 and FoxK2 in insulin regulation of cellular and mitochondrial metabolism

  • Masaji Sakaguchi,
  • Weikang Cai,
  • Chih-Hao Wang,
  • Carly T. Cederquist,
  • Marcos Damasio,
  • Erica P. Homan,
  • Thiago Batista,
  • Alfred K. Ramirez,
  • Manoj K. Gupta,
  • Martin Steger,
  • Nicolai J. Wewer Albrechtsen,
  • Shailendra Kumar Singh,
  • Eiichi Araki,
  • Matthias Mann,
  • Sven Enerbäck,
  • C. Ronald Kahn

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09418-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Insulin signaling represses Forkhead transcription factor FoxO activity, which contributes to organismal metabolism. Here, the authors use proteomics to identify positively regulated insulin signaling targets FoxK1/K2 and demonstrate their role in lipid metabolism and mitochondrial regulation.