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COUP-TFII acts downstream of Wnt/β-catenin signal to silence PPARγ gene expression and repress adipogenesis

2009; National Academy of Sciences; Volume: 106; Issue: 14 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1073/pnas.0901676106

1091-6490

Masashi Okamura, Hiromi Kudo, Ken‐ichi Wakabayashi, Toshiya Tanaka, Aya Nonaka, Aoi Uchida, Shuichi Tsutsumi, Iori Sakakibara, Makoto Naito, Timothy F. Osborne, Takao Hamakubo, Sadayoshi Ito, Hiroyuki Aburatani, Masashi Yanagisawa, Tatsuhiko Kodama, Juro Sakai,

RNA modifications and cancer

Wnt signaling through beta-catenin and TCF maintains preadipocytes in an un-differentiated proliferative state; however, the molecular pathway has not been completely defined. By integrating gene expression microarray, chromatin immunoprecipitation-chip, and cell-based experimental approaches, we show that Wnt/beta-catenin signaling activates the expression of COUP-TFII which recruits the SMRT corepressor complex to the first introns located downstream from the first exons of both PPARgamma1 and gamma2 mRNAs. This maintains the local chromatin in a hypoacetylated state and represses PPARgamma gene expression to inhibit adipogenesis. Our experiments define the COUP-TFII/SMRT complex as a previously unappreciated component of the linear pathway that directly links Wnt/beta-catenin signaling to repression of PPARgamma gene expression and the inhibition of adipogenesis.