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Retinoid acid-related orphan receptor ?, ROR?, participates in diurnal transcriptional regulation of lipid metabolic genes.

ABSTRACT: The hepatic circadian clock plays a pivotal role in regulating major aspects of energy homeostasis and lipid metabolism. In this study, we show that ROR? robustly regulates the rhythmic expression of several lipid metabolic genes, including the insulin-induced gene 2a, Insig2a, elongation of very long chain fatty acids-like 3, Elovl3 and sterol 12?-hydroxylase, Cyp8b1, by enhancing their expression at ZT20-4. The time-dependent increase in their expression correlates with the rhythmic expression pattern of ROR?. The enhanced recruitment of ROR? to ROREs in their promoter region, increased histone acetylation, and reporter and mutation analysis support the concept that ROR? regulates the transcription of several lipid metabolic genes directly by binding ROREs in their promoter regulatory region. Consistent with the disrupted expression of a number of lipid metabolic genes, loss of ROR? reduced the level of several lipids in liver and blood in a ZT-preferred manner. Particularly the whole-body bile acid pool size was considerably reduced in ROR?(-/-) mice in part through its regulation of several Cyp genes. Similar observations were made in liver-specific ROR?-deficient mice. Altogether, our study indicates that ROR? functions as an important link between the circadian clock and the transcriptional regulation of several metabolic genes.

SUBMITTER: Takeda Y

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4176349 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Retinoid acid-related orphan receptor γ, RORγ, participates in diurnal transcriptional regulation of lipid metabolic genes.

Takeda Yukimasa Y Kang Hong Soon HS Lih Fred B FB Jiang Hongfeng H Blaner William S WS Jetten Anton M AM

Nucleic acids research 20140820 16

The hepatic circadian clock plays a pivotal role in regulating major aspects of energy homeostasis and lipid metabolism. In this study, we show that RORγ robustly regulates the rhythmic expression of several lipid metabolic genes, including the insulin-induced gene 2a, Insig2a, elongation of very long chain fatty acids-like 3, Elovl3 and sterol 12α-hydroxylase, Cyp8b1, by enhancing their expression at ZT20-4. The time-dependent increase in their expression correlates with the rhythmic expression ...[more]

PMID: 25143535

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Retinoid acid-related orphan receptor ?, ROR?, participates in diurnal transcriptional regulation of lipid metabolic genes.

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Retinoid acid-related orphan receptor γ, RORγ, participates in diurnal transcriptional regulation of lipid metabolic genes.

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