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CELL METABOLISM
卷 34, 期 1, 页码 140-+出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2021.11.003
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资金
- Claudia Adams Barr Program
- Lavine Family Fund
- Pew Charitable Trust
- NIH [DK123095, DK123321, R01R01 AI134861, DK123228]
- National Cancer Center
- Medical Research Council UK [MC_U105663142]
- Wellcome Trust Investigator award [110159/A/15/Z]
- American Diabetes Association [1-16-JDF-061]
- JPB Foundation [6293803]
- Nikon Imaging Center at Harvard Medical School [NIH-5-P30-CA06516]
UCP1 C253 is a crucial site that regulates UCP1 activity, playing an important role in acute thermogenesis and sex-dependent tissue inflammation.
Uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1) is a major regulator of brown and beige adipocyte energy expenditure and metabolic homeostasis. However, the widely employed UCP1 loss-of-function model has recently been shown to have a severe deficiency in the entire electron transport chain of thermogenic fat. As such, the role of UCP1 in metabolic regulation in vivo remains unclear. We recently identified cysteine-253 as a regulatory site on UCP1 that elevates protein activity upon covalent modification. Here, we examine the physiological importance of this site through the generation of a UCP1 cysteine-253-null (UCP1 C253A) mouse, a precise genetic model for selective disruption of UCP1 in vivo. UCP1 C253A mice exhibit significantly compromised thermogenic responses in both males and females but display no measurable effect on fat accumulation in an obesogenic environment. Unexpectedly, we find that a lack of C253 results in adipose tissue redox stress, which drives substantial immune cell infiltration and systemic inflammatory pathology in adipose tissues and liver of male, but not female, mice. Elevation of systemic estrogen reverses this male-specific pathology, providing a basis for protection from inflammation due to loss of UCP1 C253 in females. Together, our results establish the UCP1 C253 activation site as a regulator of acute thermogenesis and sex-dependent tissue inflammation.
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