肝细胞核因子4
肝细胞核因子
转录因子
生物
过氧化物酶体增殖物激活受体
核受体
细胞生物学
激活剂(遗传学)
基因
生物化学
作者
Celia P. Martínez-Jiménez,Irene Kyrmizi,Philippe Cardot,Frank J. Gonzalez,Iannis Talianidis
摘要
Adaptation of liver to nutritional signals is regulated by several transcription factors that are modulated by intracellular metabolites. Here, we demonstrate a transcription factor network under the control of hepatocyte nuclear factor 4alpha (HNF4alpha) that coordinates the reciprocal expression of fatty acid transport and metabolizing enzymes during fasting and feeding conditions. Hes6 is identified as a novel HNF4alpha target, which in normally fed animals, together with HNF4alpha, maintains PPARgamma expression at low levels and represses several PPARalpha-regulated genes. During fasting, Hes6 expression is diminished, and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPARalpha) replaces the HNF4alpha/Hes6 complex on regulatory regions of target genes to activate transcription. Gene expression and promoter occupancy analyses confirmed that HNF4alpha is a direct activator of the Pparalpha gene in vivo and that its expression is subject to feedback regulation by PPARalpha and Hes6 proteins. These results establish the fundamental role of dynamic regulatory interactions between HNF4alpha, Hes6, PPARalpha, and PPARgamma in the coordinated expression of genes involved in fatty acid transport and metabolism.
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