Level D· Scientific groundwork from lab and animal studiesAnimal StudyEurope PMC

Impaired adipogenesis caused by a mutated thyroid hormone alpha1 receptor

Ying H., Araki O., Furuya F., Kato Y., Cheng SY.

Animal Study, published in Mol Cell Biol (2007) — summary generated from the PubMed abstract.

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Study type
Animal Study
Journal
Mol Cell Biol (2007)
Reported sample size
—
Source database
Europe PMC
PMID
17220280
PMCID
PMC1820484
DOI
10.1128/mcb.02189-06
Citations
62

Abstract (original English)

Thyroid hormone (T3) is critical for growth, differentiation, and maintenance of metabolic homeostasis. Mice with a knock-in mutation in the thyroid hormone receptor alpha gene (TRalpha1PV) were created previously to explore the roles of mutated TRalpha1 in vivo. TRalpha1PV is a dominant negative mutant with a frameshift mutation in the carboxyl-terminal 14 amino acids that results in the loss of T3 binding and transcription capacity. Homozygous knock-in TRalpha1(PV/PV) mice are embryonic lethal, and heterozygous TRalpha1(PV/+) mice display the striking phenotype of dwarfism. These mutant mice provide a valuable tool for identifying the defects that contribute to dwarfism. Here we show that white adipose tissue (WAT) mass was markedly reduced in TRalpha1(PV/+) mice. The expression of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARgamma), the key regulator of adipogenesis, was repressed at both mRNA and protein levels in WAT of TRalpha1(PV/+) mice. Moreover, TRalpha1PV acted to inhibit the transcription activity of PPARgamma by competition with PPARgamma for binding to PPARgamma response elements and for heterodimerization with the retinoid X receptors. The expression of TRalpha1PV blocked the T3-dependent adipogenesis of 3T3-L1 cells and repressed the expression of PPARgamma. Thus, mutations of TRalpha1 severely affect adipogenesis via cross talk with PPARgamma signaling

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Cell LineAnimalsMice, TransgenicHumansMiceLipoprotein LipaseThyroid Hormone Receptors alphaProtein IsoformsPPAR gammaAmino Acid Sequence

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