Nature Communications (Nov 2016)

Control of diabetic hyperglycaemia and insulin resistance through TSC22D4

  • Bilgen Ekim Üstünel,
  • Kilian Friedrich,
  • Adriano Maida,
  • Xiaoyue Wang,
  • Anja Krones-Herzig,
  • Oksana Seibert,
  • Anke Sommerfeld,
  • Allan Jones,
  • Tjeerd P. Sijmonsma,
  • Carsten Sticht,
  • Norbert Gretz,
  • Thomas Fleming,
  • Peter P. Nawroth,
  • Wolfgang Stremmel,
  • Adam J. Rose,
  • Mauricio Berriel-Diaz,
  • Matthias Blüher,
  • Stephan Herzig

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13267
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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TSC22D4 regulates hepatic lipoprotein production, but has so far mainly been studied in the context of cancer cachexia. Here, the authors show TSC22D4 inhibition improves insulin sensitivity in several mouse models of diabetes, which they attribute at least in part to the induction of secreted LCN13.