Nature Communications (May 2020)

The scaffold protein p62 regulates adaptive thermogenesis through ATF2 nuclear target activation

  • Katrin Fischer,
  • Anna Fenzl,
  • Dianxin Liu,
  • Kenneth A. Dyar,
  • Maximilian Kleinert,
  • Markus Brielmeier,
  • Christoffer Clemmensen,
  • Anna Fedl,
  • Brian Finan,
  • Andre Gessner,
  • Martin Jastroch,
  • Jianfeng Huang,
  • Susanne Keipert,
  • Martin Klingenspor,
  • Jens C. Brüning,
  • Manfred Kneilling,
  • Florian C. Maier,
  • Ahmed E. Othman,
  • Bernd J. Pichler,
  • Ines Pramme-Steinwachs,
  • Stephan Sachs,
  • Angelika Scheideler,
  • Wolfgang M. Thaiss,
  • Henriette Uhlenhaut,
  • Siegfried Ussar,
  • Stephen C. Woods,
  • Julia Zorn,
  • Kerstin Stemmer,
  • Sheila Collins,
  • Maria Diaz-Meco,
  • Jorge Moscat,
  • Matthias H. Tschöp,
  • Timo D. Müller

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16230-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Beta-adrenergic stimulation of brown adipose tissue leads to thermogenesis via the activating transcription factor 2 (ATF2) mediated expression of the thermogenic genes Ucp1 and Pgc-1α. Here, the authors show that the scaffold protein p62 regulates brown adipose tissue function through modifying ATF2 genomic binding and subsequent Ucp1 and Pgc-1α induction.