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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION
Volume 123, Issue 1, Pages 455-468Publisher
AMER SOC CLINICAL INVESTIGATION INC
DOI: 10.1172/JCI62819
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- NIH [R01-DK55758, P01DK088761, 5PLDK081182, R01-GM38545]
- Welch Foundation [I-1168]
- American Diabetes Association [7-08-MN-53]
- American Heart Association [10POST4320009]
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Postprandially, the liver experiences an extensive metabolic reprogramming that is required for the switch from glucose production to glucose assimilation. Upon refeeding, the unfolded protein response (UPR) is rapidly, though only transiently, activated. Activation of the UPR results in a cessation of protein translation, increased chaperone expression, and increased ER-mediated protein degradation, but it is not clear how the UPR is involved in the postprandial switch to alternate fuel sources. Activation of the inositol-requiring enzyme 1 (IRE1) branch of the UPR signaling pathway triggers expression of the transcription factor Xbp1s. Using a mouse model with liver-specific inducible Kbp1s expression, we demonstrate that Xbp1s is sufficient to provoke a metabolic switch characteristic of the postprandial state, even in the absence of caloric influx. Mechanistically, we identified UDP-galactose-4-epimerase (GalE) as a direct transcriptional target of Xbp1s and as the key mediator of this effect. Our results provide evidence that the Xbp1s/GslE pathway functions as a novel regulatory nexus connecting the UP R to the characteristic postprandial metabolic changes in hepatocytes.
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