Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

FGF6 and FGF9 regulate UCP1 expression independent of brown adipogenesis

  • Farnaz Shamsi,
  • Ruidan Xue,
  • Tian Lian Huang,
  • Morten Lundh,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Luiz O. Leiria,
  • Matthew D. Lynes,
  • Elena Kempf,
  • Chih-Hao Wang,
  • Satoru Sugimoto,
  • Pasquale Nigro,
  • Kathrin Landgraf,
  • Tim Schulz,
  • Yiming Li,
  • Brice Emanuelli,
  • Srinivas Kothakota,
  • Lewis T. Williams,
  • Niels Jessen,
  • Steen Bønløkke Pedersen,
  • Yvonne Böttcher,
  • Matthias Blüher,
  • Antje Körner,
  • Laurie J. Goodyear,
  • Moosa Mohammadi,
  • C. Ronald Kahn,
  • Yu-Hua Tseng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15055-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Uncoupling protein-1 (UCP1) plays a central role in energy dissipation in brown adipose tissue. Here the authors show that FGF6 and FGF9 induce UCP1 expression in adipocytes and preadipocytes, via modulation of a transcriptional network that is dissociated from brown adipogenesis.