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ColXV promotes adipocyte differentiation via inhibiting DNA methylation and cAMP/PKA pathway in mice

Guannv Liu, Meihang Li, Yatao Xu, Song Wu, Muhammad Saeed and Chao Sun _

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Oncotarget. 2017; 8:60135-60148. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.18550

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Abstract

Guannv Liu1,*, Meihang Li1,*, Yatao Xu1, Song Wu1, Muhammad Saeed1 and Chao Sun1

1College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A and F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, China

*These authors contributed equally to this work

Correspondence to:

Chao Sun, email: [email protected]

Keywords: ColXV, adipocyte differentiation, CREB, methylation, cAMP/PKA pathway

Received: April 12, 2017     Accepted: June 04, 2017     Published: June 16, 2017

ABSTRACT

Extracellular matrix (ECM), as an essential component of adipose tissue, not only provides mechanical support for adipocyte growth, but also participates in ECM-adipocyte communication via various secreted proteins, including highly enriched collagens. Collagen XV (ColXV) is a secreted non-fibrillar collagen within ECM Basement Membrane (BM) zones and well recognized as a tumor suppressor. However, the role of ColXV in adipose tissue is still unknown. In this study, high fat diet (HFD) fed mice were used as obese model, in which we deeply investigated the interaction between ColXV and adipocyte differentiation or adipose metabolism. We found great elevated ColXV expression and positive effect of ColXV on lipid deposition during adipocyte differentiation or obesity both in vitro and in vivo. cAMP response element binding protein (CREB) is a cellular transcription factor that can inhibit adipogenesis and promote lipolysis. Here we proposed ColXV as a newly discovered downstream gene of CREB. We further proved that CREB can repress adipocyte differentiation and enhance lipolysis by negatively regulating ColXV transcription. Mechanistic studies showed ColXV enhanced adipocyte differentiation and lipid deposition through reducing its DNA methylation and repressing the cAMP/PKA signaling pathway. Collectively, our study identified ColXV as a novel downstream gene for CREB and could promote adipocyte differentiation, inhibit lipolysis through repressing cAMP/PKA signaling pathway and positively regulating adipogenic markers expressions by repressing the activity of maintenance methyltransferase Dnmt1. Our data discovered a novel role of ColXV in adipocyte differentiation and provide insight into obesity and related metabolic diseases.


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