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FOXN3 controls liver glucose metabolism by regulating gluconeogenic substrate selection.

ABSTRACT: The FOXN3 gene locus is associated with fasting blood glucose levels in non-diabetic human population genetic studies. The blood glucose-modifying variation within this gene regulates the abundance of both FOXN3 protein and transcript in primary human hepatocytes, with the hyperglycemia risk allele causing increases in both FOXN3 protein and transcript. Using transgenic and knock-out zebrafish models, we showed previously that FOXN3 is a transcriptional repressor that regulates fasting blood glucose by altering liver gene expression of MYC, a master transcriptional regulator of glucose utilization, and by modulating pancreatic ? cell mass and function through an unknown mechanism. Since homozygous Foxn3 null mice die perinatally, and heterozygous carries of the null allele are smaller than wild-type siblings, we examine the metabolic effects of decreasing mouse liver Foxn3 expression in adult life, performing dynamic endocrine tests not feasible in adult zebrafish. Fasting glucose, glucagon, and insulin; and dynamic responses to glucose, insulin, pyruvate, glutamine, and glucagon were measured. Gluconeogenic and amino acid catabolic gene expression was examined in livers, as well. Knocking down liver Foxn3 expression via transduction with adeno-associated virus serotype 8 particles encoding a short hairpin RNA targeting Fonx3 decreases fasting glucose and increases Myc expression, without altering fasting glucagon or fasting insulin. Liver Foxn3 knock-down confers increases glucose tolerance, has no effect on insulin tolerance or response to glucagon challenge, blunts pyruvate and glutamine tolerance, and modulates expression of amino acid transporters and catabolic enzymes. We conclude that liver Foxn3 regulates substrate selection for gluconeogenesis.

SUBMITTER: Karanth S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6759504 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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FOXN3 controls liver glucose metabolism by regulating gluconeogenic substrate selection.

Karanth Santhosh S Chaurasia Bhagirath B Bowman Faith M FM Tippetts Trevor S TS Holland William L WL Summers Scott A SA Schlegel Amnon A

Physiological reports 20190901 18

The FOXN3 gene locus is associated with fasting blood glucose levels in non-diabetic human population genetic studies. The blood glucose-modifying variation within this gene regulates the abundance of both FOXN3 protein and transcript in primary human hepatocytes, with the hyperglycemia risk allele causing increases in both FOXN3 protein and transcript. Using transgenic and knock-out zebrafish models, we showed previously that FOXN3 is a transcriptional repressor that regulates fasting blood glu ...[more]

PMID: 31552709

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FOXN3 controls liver glucose metabolism by regulating gluconeogenic substrate selection.

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