Obesity and insulin resistance, cardinal features of metabolic

Enhancer elements in the human genome control how genes are expressed in specific cell types and harbor thousands of genetic variants that influence risk for common diseases [1][2][3][4] . Yet, we still do not know how enhancers regulate specific genes, and we lack general rules to predict enhancer-Users may view, print, copy, and download text and data-mine the content in such documents, for the purposes of academic research, subject always to the full Conditions of use:

Macrophage infiltration and activation in metabolic tissues underlie obesity-induced insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. While inflammatory activation of resident hepatic macrophages potentiates insulin resistance, the functions of alternatively activated Kupffer cells in metabolic disease remain unknown. Here we show that in response to the Th2 cytokine interleukin-4 (IL-4), peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor delta (PPARdelta) directs expression of the alternative phenotype in Kupffer cells and adipose tissue macrophages of lean mice. However, adoptive transfer of PPARdelta(-/-) (Ppard(-/-)) bone marrow into wild-type mice diminishes alternative activation of hepatic macrophages, causing hepatic dysfunction and systemic insulin resistance. Suppression of hepatic oxidative metabolism is recapitulated by treatment of primary hepatocytes with conditioned medium from PPARdelta(-/-) macrophages, indicating direct involvement of Kupffer cells in liver lipid metabolism. Taken together, these data suggest an unexpected beneficial role for alternatively activated Kupffer cells in metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes.

Highlights d Optimal transport analysis recovers trajectories from 315,000 scRNA-seq profiles d Induced pluripotent stem cell reprogramming produces diverse developmental programs d Regulatory analysis identifies a series of TFs predictive of specific cell fates d Transcription factor Obox6 and cytokine GDF9 increase reprogramming efficiency

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Perilipins, the major structural proteins coating the surfaces of mature lipid droplets of adipocytes, play an important role in the regulation of triacylglycerol storage and hydrolysis. We have used proteomic analysis to identify CGI-58, a member of the ␣/␤-hydrolase fold family of enzymes, as a component of lipid droplets of 3T3-L1 adipocytes. CGI-58 mRNA is highly expressed in adipose tissue and testes, tissues that also express perilipins, and at lower levels in liver, skin, kidney, and heart. Both endogenous CGI-58 and an ectopic CGI-58-GFP chimera show diffuse cytoplasmic localization in 3T3-L1 preadipocytes, but localize almost exclusively to the surfaces of lipid droplets in differentiated 3T3-L1 adipocytes. The localization of endogenous CGI-58 was investigated in 3T3-L1 cells stably expressing mutated forms of perilipin using microscopy. CGI-58 binds to lipid droplets coated with perilipin A or mutated forms of perilipin with an intact C-terminal sequence from amino acid 382 to 429, but not to lipid droplets coated with perilipin B or mutated perilipin A lacking this sequence. Immunoprecipitation studies confirmed these findings, but also showed co-precipitation of perilipin B and CGI-58. Remarkably, activation of cAMP-dependent protein kinase by the incubation of 3T3-L1 adipocytes with isoproterenol and isobutylmethylxanthine disperses CGI-58 from the surfaces of lipid droplets to a cytoplasmic distribution. This shift in subcellular localization can be reversed by the addition of propanolol to the culture medium. Thus, CGI-58 binds to perilipin Acoated lipid droplets in a manner that is dependent upon the metabolic status of the adipocyte and the activity of cAMP-dependent protein kinase.Lipid droplets, organelles that store neutral lipids, are found in nearly all types of eukaryotic cells. The most highly studied lipid droplet-associated proteins are members of the PAT 1 (for perilipin, adipophilin (also called adipose differentiation-related protein or ADRP), and TIP47) family of proteins (1) that includes perilipin, adipophilin, TIP47, and a related but structurally divergent protein, S3-12 (2, 3). Three protein isoforms of perilipins, named perilipins A, B, and C, are translated from alternatively spliced forms of mRNA. Perilipin A and S3-12 localize to lipid droplets in adipocytes (3-5), where they are the most abundant structural proteins of large mature and small nascent lipid droplets, respectively. In contrast, most other types of cells have small lipid droplets covered with adipophilin (6, 7) and TIP47 (1, 8, 9). Perilipins A and C, and adipophilin, coat the lipid droplets of steroidogenic cells (6) that store cholesterol ester precursors for steroid hormone synthesis.The members of the PAT family comprise the major structural proteins of lipid droplets. Studies in perilipin knockout mice have established an important role for perilipins in regulating lipolysis in adipocytes, and hence, controlling the mass of triacylglycerol deposited in adipose tissue (10, 11). The mechanisms by which per...

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Microfluidics and optogenetics enable the formation of light-excitable motor units in a compartmentalized and 3D environment.