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CELL REPORTS
Volume 25, Issue 12, Pages 3299-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.11.077
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellowship
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) [D17AP00002]
- NIH [GM123558]
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Challenge Grant
- INSERM (France)
- NIH
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The circadian clock operates as intrinsic time-keeping machinery to preserve homeostasis in response to the changing environment. While food is a known zeitgeber for clocks in peripheral tissues, it remains unclear how lack of food influences clock function. We demonstrate that the transcriptional response to fasting operates through molecular mechanisms that are distinct from time-restricted feeding regimens. First, fasting affects core clock genes and proteins, resulting in blunted rhythmicity of BMAL1 and REV-ERB alpha both in liver and skeletal muscle. Second, fasting induces a switch in temporal gene expression through dedicated fasting-sensitive transcription factors such as GR, CREB, FOXO, TFEB, and PPARs. Third, the rhythmic genomic response to fasting is sustainable by prolonged fasting and reversible by refeeding. Thus, fasting imposes specialized dynamics of transcriptional coordination between the clock and nutrient-sensitive pathways, thereby achieving a switch to fasting-specific temporal gene regulation.
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