Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Primary cilia mediate early life programming of adiposity through lysosomal regulation in the developing mouse hypothalamus

  • Chan Hee Lee,
  • Do Kyeong Song,
  • Chae Beom Park,
  • Jeewon Choi,
  • Gil Myoung Kang,
  • Sung Hoon Shin,
  • Ijoo Kwon,
  • Soyoung Park,
  • Seongjun Kim,
  • Ji Ye Kim,
  • Hong Dugu,
  • Jae Woo Park,
  • Jong Han Choi,
  • Se Hee Min,
  • Jong-Woo Sohn,
  • Min-Seon Kim

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19638-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Ciliary defects and obesity has been associated, but the underlying mechanism is unclear. Here, the authors show that inhibition of ciliogenesis in POMC neurons during development results in lysosomal protein degradation-dependent axonal disruption and adult obesity in mice.