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Real-time monitoring of cAMP in brown adipocytes reveals differential compartmentation of β 1 and β 3 -adrenoceptor signalling

Kannabiran SA., Gosejacob D., Niemann B., Nikolaev VO., Pfeifer A.

Animal Study, published in Mol Metab (2020) — summary generated from the PubMed abstract.

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Study type
Animal Study
Journal
Mol Metab (2020)
Reported sample size
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Source database
Europe PMC
PMID
32247064
PMCID
PMC7191645
DOI
10.1016/j.molmet.2020.100986
Citations
12

Abstract (original English)

Objective 3',5'-Cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) is a central second messenger governing brown adipocyte differentiation and function. β-adrenergic receptors (β-ARs) stimulate adenylate cyclases which produce cAMP. Moreover, cyclic nucleotide levels are tightly controlled by phosphodiesterases (PDEs), which can generate subcellular microdomains of cAMP. Since the spatio-temporal organisation of the cAMP signalling pathway in adipocytes is still unclear, we sought to monitor real-time cAMP dynamics by live cell imaging in pre-mature and mature brown adipocytes. Methods We measured the real-time dynamics of cAMP in murine pre-mature and mature brown adipocytes during stimulation of individual β-AR subtypes, as well as its regulation by PDEs using a Förster Resonance Energy Transfer based biosensor and pharmacological tools. We also correlated these data with β-AR stimulated lipolysis and analysed the expression of β-ARs and PDEs in brown adipocytes using qPCR and immunoblotting. Furthermore, subcellular distribution of PDEs was studied using cell fractionation and immunoblots. Results Using pre-mature and mature brown adipocytes isolated from transgenic mice expressing a highly sensitive cytosolic biosensor Epac1-camps, we established real-time measurements of cAMP responses. PDE4 turned out to be the major PDE regulating cytosolic cAMP in brown preadipocytes. Upon maturatio

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AnimalsMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicHumansMiceReceptors, AdrenergicReceptors, Adrenergic, beta-1Receptors, Adrenergic, beta-3Cyclic AMPSignal Transduction

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