Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Hepatocyte-specific loss of GPS2 in mice reduces non-alcoholic steatohepatitis via activation of PPARα

  • Ning Liang,
  • Anastasius Damdimopoulos,
  • Saioa Goñi,
  • Zhiqiang Huang,
  • Lise-Lotte Vedin,
  • Tomas Jakobsson,
  • Marco Giudici,
  • Osman Ahmed,
  • Matteo Pedrelli,
  • Serena Barilla,
  • Fawaz Alzaid,
  • Arturo Mendoza,
  • Tarja Schröder,
  • Raoul Kuiper,
  • Paolo Parini,
  • Anthony Hollenberg,
  • Philippe Lefebvre,
  • Sven Francque,
  • Luc Van Gaal,
  • Bart Staels,
  • Nicolas Venteclef,
  • Eckardt Treuter,
  • Rongrong Fan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09524-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Dysregulation of PPARα dependent fatty acid oxidation promotes hepatic steatosis. Here the authors show that GPS2 inhibits PPARα activity and that ablation of GPS2 ameliorates hepatic steatosis in mice.