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GENES & DEVELOPMENT
Volume 26, Issue 7, Pages 657-667Publisher
COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB PRESS, PUBLICATIONS DEPT
DOI: 10.1101/gad.186858.112
Keywords
Rev-erb; nuclear receptors; circadian rhythm; metabolism
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- NIH [R01 DK45586]
- Cox Institute for Medical Research
- Danish Council for Independent Research (FNU)
- Lundbeck Foundation
- [P01 DK49210]
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The nuclear receptor Rev-erb alpha regulates circadian rhythm and metabolism, but its effects are modest and it has been considered to be a secondary regulator of the cell-autonomous clock. Here we report that depletion of Rev-erb alpha together with closely related Rev-erb beta has dramatic effects on the cell-autonomous clock as well as hepatic lipid metabolism. Mouse embryonic fibroblasts were rendered arrhythmic by depletion of both Rev-erbs. In mouse livers, Rev-erb beta mRNA and protein levels oscillate with a diurnal pattern similar to that of Rev-erb alpha, and both Rev-erbs are recruited to a remarkably similar set of binding sites across the genome, enriched near metabolic genes. Depletion of both Rev-erbs in liver synergistically derepresses several metabolic genes as well as genes that control the positive limb of the molecular clock. Moreover, deficiency of both Rev-erbs causes marked hepatic steatosis, in contrast to relatively subtle changes upon loss of either subtype alone. These findings establish the two Rev-erbs as major regulators of both clock function and metabolism, displaying a level of subtype collaboration that is unusual among nuclear receptors but common among core clock proteins, protecting the organism from major perturbations in circadian and metabolic physiology.
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