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Nuclear MEK1 sequesters PPARγ and bisects MEK1/ERK signaling: a non-canonical pathway of retinoic acid inhibition of adipocyte differentiation.

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Title Nuclear MEK1 sequesters PPARγ and bisects MEK1/ERK signaling: a non-canonical pathway of retinoic acid inhibition of adipocyte differentiation.
 
Creator Dave, Sandeep
Nanduri, Ravikanth
Dkhar, Hedwin Kitdorlang
Bhagyaraj, Ella
Rao, Alka
Gupta, Pawan
 
Subject QR Microbiology
 
Description Uncontrolled adipogenesis and adipocyte proliferation have been connected to human comorbidities. Retinoic acid (RA) is known to inhibit adipocyte differentiation, however the underlying mechanisms have not been adequately understood. This study reports that RA acting as a ligand to RA receptors (RARs and RXRs) is not a sine qua non to the inhibition of adipogenesis. Our intriguing observation of a negative correlation between increased retinoylation and adipogenesis led us to explore retinoylated proteins in adipocytes. Exportin (CRM1) was found to be retinoylated, which in turn can affect the spatio-temporal regulation of the important signaling molecule mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase 1 (MEK1), likely by disrupting its export from the nucleus. Nuclear enrichment of MEK1 physically sequesters peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ), the master regulator of adipogenesis, from its target genes and thus inhibits adipogenesis while also disrupting the MEK1-extracellular-signal regulated kinase (ERK) signaling cascade. This study is first to report the inhibition of adipocyte differentiation by retinoylation.
 
Publisher Public Library of Science
 
Date 2014
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Relation http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0100862
http://crdd.osdd.net/open/1690/
 
Identifier Dave, Sandeep and Nanduri, Ravikanth and Dkhar, Hedwin Kitdorlang and Bhagyaraj, Ella and Rao, Alka and Gupta, Pawan (2014) Nuclear MEK1 sequesters PPARγ and bisects MEK1/ERK signaling: a non-canonical pathway of retinoic acid inhibition of adipocyte differentiation. PloS one, 9 (6). e100862. ISSN 1932-6203