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Direct link between metabolic regulation and the heat-shock response through the transcriptional regulator PGC-1?.


ABSTRACT: In recent years an extensive effort has been made to elucidate the molecular pathways involved in metabolic signaling in health and disease. Here we show, surprisingly, that metabolic regulation and the heat-shock/stress response are directly linked. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor ? coactivator 1? (PGC-1?), a critical transcriptional coactivator of metabolic genes, acts as a direct transcriptional repressor of heat-shock factor 1 (HSF1), a key regulator of the heat-shock/stress response. Our findings reveal that heat-shock protein (HSP) gene expression is suppressed during fasting in mouse liver and in primary hepatocytes dependent on PGC-1?. HSF1 and PGC-1? associate physically and are colocalized on several HSP promoters. These observations are extended to several cancer cell lines in which PGC-1? is shown to repress the ability of HSF1 to activate gene-expression programs necessary for cancer survival. Our study reveals a surprising direct link between two major cellular transcriptional networks, highlighting a previously unrecognized facet of the activity of the central metabolic regulator PGC-1? beyond its well-established ability to boost metabolic genes via its interactions with nuclear hormone receptors and nuclear respiratory factors. Our data point to PGC-1? as a critical repressor of HSF1-mediated transcriptional programs, a finding with possible implications both for our understanding of the full scope of metabolically regulated target genes in vivo and, conceivably, for therapeutics.

SUBMITTER: Minsky N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4620912 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Direct link between metabolic regulation and the heat-shock response through the transcriptional regulator PGC-1α.

Minsky Neri N   Roeder Robert G RG  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20151005 42


In recent years an extensive effort has been made to elucidate the molecular pathways involved in metabolic signaling in health and disease. Here we show, surprisingly, that metabolic regulation and the heat-shock/stress response are directly linked. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ coactivator 1α (PGC-1α), a critical transcriptional coactivator of metabolic genes, acts as a direct transcriptional repressor of heat-shock factor 1 (HSF1), a key regulator of the heat-shock/stress respo  ...[more]

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