Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Adipocyte β-arrestin-2 is essential for maintaining whole body glucose and energy homeostasis

  • Sai P. Pydi,
  • Shanu Jain,
  • Wesley Tung,
  • Yinghong Cui,
  • Lu Zhu,
  • Wataru Sakamoto,
  • Shalini Jain,
  • Brent S. Abel,
  • Monica C. Skarulis,
  • Jie Liu,
  • Thanh Huynh,
  • Karel Pacak,
  • Marc G. Caron,
  • Oksana Gavrilova,
  • Toren Finkel,
  • Jürgen Wess

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11003-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Beta3-adrenergic receptor signaling regulates adipose tissue browning. Here, the authors show that barr2 regulates internalization of beta3-adrenergic receptors and that mice lacking barr2 in adipocytes are protected from diet-induced weight gain and metabolic complications.