UMMS Affiliation
Program in Molecular Medicine
Publication Date
11-23-2007
Document Type
Article
Subjects
3T3-L1 Cells; Adipocytes; Adipogenesis; Animals; Base Sequence; Cell Differentiation; DNA, Complementary; Fatty Acids; Male; Mice; Mice, Inbred C57BL; Models, Biological; Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; PPAR gamma; RNA, Messenger; RNA, Small Interfering; Stearoyl-CoA Desaturase
Disciplines
Life Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences
Abstract
Based on recent evidence that fatty acid synthase and endogenously produced fatty acid derivatives are required for adipogenesis in 3T3-L1 adipocytes, we conducted a small interfering RNA-based screen to identify other fatty acid-metabolizing enzymes that may mediate this effect. Of 24 enzymes screened, stearoyl-CoA desaturase 2 (SCD2) was found to be uniquely and absolutely required for adipogenesis. Remarkably, SCD2 also controls the maintenance of adipocyte-specific gene expression in fully differentiated 3T3-L1 adipocytes, including the expression of SCD1. Despite the high sequence similarity between SCD2 and SCD1, silencing of SCD1 did not down-regulate 3T3-L1 cell differentiation or gene expression. SCD2 mRNA expression was also uniquely elevated 44-fold in adipose tissue upon feeding mice a high fat diet, whereas SCD1 showed little response. The inhibition of adipogenesis caused by SCD2 depletion was associated with a decrease in peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARgamma) mRNA and protein, whereas in mature adipocytes loss of SCD2 diminished PPARgamma protein levels, with little change in mRNA levels. In the latter case, SCD2 depletion did not change the degradation rate of PPARgamma protein but decreased the metabolic labeling of PPARgamma protein using [(35)S]methionine/cysteine, indicating protein translation was decreased. This requirement of SCD2 for optimal protein synthesis in fully differentiated adipocytes was verified by polysome profile analysis, where a shift in the mRNA to monosomes was apparent in response to SCD2 silencing. These results reveal that SCD2 is required for the induction and maintenance of PPARgamma protein levels and adipogenesis in 3T3-L1 cells.
DOI of Published Version
10.1074/jbc.M705656200
Source
J Biol Chem. 2008 Feb 1;283(5):2906-16. Epub 2007 Nov 21. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
The Journal of biological chemistry
Related Resources
PubMed ID
18032385
Repository Citation
Christianson, Jennifer L.; Nicoloro, Sarah M.; Straubhaar, Juerg R.; and Czech, Michael P., "Stearoyl-CoA desaturase 2 is required for peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma expression and adipogenesis in cultured 3T3-L1 cells" (2007). Open Access Articles. 1920.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/oapubs/1920