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SUBMITTER: Iizuka K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC409910 | biostudies-literature | 2004 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Iizuka Katsumi K Bruick Richard K RK Liang Guosheng G Horton Jay D JD Uyeda Kosaku K
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20040426 19
The liver provides for long-term energy needs of the body by converting excess carbohydrate into fat for storage. Insulin is one factor that promotes hepatic lipogenesis, but there is increasing evidence that glucose also contributes to the coordinated regulation of carbohydrate and fat metabolism in liver by mechanisms that are independent of insulin. In this study, we show that the transcription factor, carbohydrate response element-binding protein (ChREBP), is required both for basal and carb ...[more]