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ThermoMouse: an in vivo model to identify modulators of UCP1 expression in brown adipose tissue

  • Cell Rep. 2014 Dec 11;9(5):1584-1593. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.10.066.
Andrea Galmozzi 1,  Si B Sonne 2,  Svetlana Altshuler-Keylin 2,  Yutaka Hasegawa 2,  Kosaku Shinoda 2,  Ineke H N Luijten 2,  Jae Won Chang 1,  Louis Z Sharp 2,  Benjamin F Cravatt 1,  Enrique Saez 3,  Shingo Kajimura 4
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Chemical Physiology and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
  • 2 UCSF Diabetes Center, Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California, San Francisco, 35 Medical Center Way, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
  • 3 Department of Chemical Physiology and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. Electronic address: esaez@scripps.edu.
  • 4 UCSF Diabetes Center, Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California, San Francisco, 35 Medical Center Way, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. Electronic address: skajimura@diabetes.ucsf.edu.
PMID: 25466254 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.10.066
Abstract

Obesity develops when energy intake chronically exceeds energy expenditure. Because brown adipose tissue (BAT) dissipates energy in the form of heat, increasing energy expenditure by augmenting BAT-mediated thermogenesis may represent an approach to counter obesity and its complications. The ability of BAT to dissipate energy is dependent on expression of mitochondrial uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1). To facilitate the identification of pharmacological modulators of BAT UCP1 levels, which may have potential as antiobesity medications, we developed a transgenic model in which luciferase activity faithfully mimics endogenous UCP1 expression and its response to physiologic stimuli. Phenotypic screening of a library using cells derived from this model yielded a small molecule that increases UCP1 expression in brown fat cells and mice. Upon adrenergic stimulation, compound-treated mice showed increased energy expenditure. These tools offer an opportunity to identify pharmacologic modulators of UCP1 expression and uncover regulatory pathways that impact BAT-mediated thermogenesis.

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