Nature Communications (Apr 2016)

Adipose tissue mTORC2 regulates ChREBP-driven de novo lipogenesis and hepatic glucose metabolism

  • Yuefeng Tang,
  • Martina Wallace,
  • Joan Sanchez-Gurmaches,
  • Wen-Yu Hsiao,
  • Huawei Li,
  • Peter L. Lee,
  • Santiago Vernia,
  • Christian M. Metallo,
  • David A. Guertin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11365
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The kinase mTOR controls anabolic metabolism. Here, the authors create fat-specific mTORC2 knockout mice using the Adiponectin-Cre driver and show mTORC2 signalling is important for systemic metabolic homeostasis by controlling adipocyte de novolipogenesis and glucose uptake.