Obesity (Silver Spring). 2012;20(3):482-7.
Regulation of Wnt/β-catenin signaling by CCAAT/enhancer binding protein β during adipogenesis.
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Abstract
Activation of the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway inhibits adipogenesis, while disruption of Wnt signaling leads to spontaneous adipogenesis. CCAAT/enhancer binding protein β (C/EBPβ) is rapidly induced in early stages of adipogenesis and is responsible for transcriptional induction of two major adipogenic transcription factors, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ (PPARγ) and C/EBPα. In this study, we examined whether C/EBPβ is involved in the suppression of Wnt/β-catenin signaling during adipogenesis. Knockdown of C/EBPβ expression not only inhibited adipogenesis but also maintained active Wnt/β-catenin signaling, after addition of adipogenic inducers. In contrast, overexpression of C/EBPβ substantially inhibited Wnt signaling. Interestingly, our data showed that C/EBPβ is involved in the expression of Wnt10b, a major Wnt ligand in preadipocytes, even though C/EBPβ is not an essential factor to regulate Wnt10b expression during adipogenesis, and that C/EBPβ inhibits Wnt10b promoter activity by directly binding to specific regions of the promoter. These results suggest a dual function of C/EBPβ: stimulating expression of adipogenic genes and inhibiting Wnt signaling.
그 밖의 정보
- 출판 형태
- Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
- 저널
- Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · eISSN 1930-739X
- 전자 출판
- 2011-07-14
- MeSH
- Adipocytes / metabolism · Adipogenesis* / genetics · Blotting, Western · CCAAT-Enhancer-Binding Protein-beta / genetics / metabolism · Cell Differentiation · Cells, Cultured · Humans · PPAR gamma / genetics / metabolism · Proto-Oncogene Proteins / genetics / metabolism · Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction · Signal Transduction · Wnt Proteins / genetics / metabolism · Wnt Signaling Pathway* / genetics
- Substances
- CCAAT-Enhancer-Binding Protein-beta · PPAR gamma · Proto-Oncogene Proteins · WNT10B protein, human · Wnt Proteins