Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Apolipoprotein J is a hepatokine regulating muscle glucose metabolism and insulin sensitivity

  • Ji A Seo,
  • Min-Cheol Kang,
  • Won-Mo Yang,
  • Won Min Hwang,
  • Sang Soo Kim,
  • Soo Hyun Hong,
  • Jee-In Heo,
  • Achana Vijyakumar,
  • Leandro Pereira de Moura,
  • Aykut Uner,
  • Hu Huang,
  • Seung Hwan Lee,
  • Inês S. Lima,
  • Kyong Soo Park,
  • Min Seon Kim,
  • Yossi Dagon,
  • Thomas E. Willnow,
  • Vanita Aroda,
  • Theodore P. Ciaraldi,
  • Robert R. Henry,
  • Young-Bum Kim

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15963-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Hepatokines are proteins secreted by the liver that can regulate whole body metabolism. Here the authors identify apolipoprotein J as a hepatokine that regulates muscle glucose metabolism and insulin resistance through a low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein−2 mediated mechanism in mice.