Nature Communications (May 2019)

Adipose HuR protects against diet-induced obesity and insulin resistance

  • Jingyuan Li,
  • Li Gong,
  • Shaozhuang Liu,
  • Yujie Zhang,
  • Chunmei Zhang,
  • Mi Tian,
  • Huixia Lu,
  • Peili Bu,
  • Jianmin Yang,
  • Changhan Ouyang,
  • Xiuxin Jiang,
  • Jiliang Wu,
  • Yun Zhang,
  • Qing Min,
  • Cheng Zhang,
  • Wencheng Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10348-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Human antigen R (HuR) is a RNA-binding protein. Here the authors investigate its role in adipose tissue and find that it protects mice from diet-induced obesity, prevents adipocyte hypertrophy, and promotes lipolysis, which may at least in part be due to HuR-dependent ATGL mRNA stability regulation demonstrated in-vitro.