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BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 427, Issue 4, Pages 758-763Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2012.09.134
Keywords
p53; Adipocyte; Differentiation; Obesity; Autophagosome; Autophagic flux
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- Kyorin Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
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Autophagy is induced by several kinds of stress, including oxidative, genotoxic, endoplasmic reticulum and nutrient stresses. The tumor suppressor p53; which is a stress sensor, plays a critical role in the regulation of autophagy. Although p53 is required for starvation (nutrient deficient stress)-induced autophagy, it is still not clear whether p53 is also required for the autophagy observed in differentiated and hypertrophic adipocytes, which accumulate excessive amounts of nutrients in the form of triglycerides. In this study, we demonstrated that starvation induces autophagy in p53-proficient adipocytes, but not in p53-deficient adipocytes as previously reported. On the other hand, autophagy was equally observed in both p53-deficient and -proficient differentiated and hypertrophic adipocytes. Similar results were obtained by in vivo analysis using white adipose tissue of high-fat diet-induced obese mice. Moreover, unexpectedly, the autophagy observed in the differentiated and hypertrophic adipocytes involved increased accumulation of autophagosomes and decreased autophagic flux. Thus, we concluded that in differentiated and hypertrophic adipocytes autophagosomes accumulate in a p53-independent manner, and this accumulation is caused by reduced autophagic flux. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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