Project description:PPARgamma null (PpargΔ/Δ) mice and AZIP mice present a generalized lipodystrophy, accompanied by strong hyperlipidemia and hyperglycemia. Both mouse model develop progressive nephropathy. To shed ligh on the molecular mechanisms underlying the early kidney damage induced by lipodystrophy, we used microarrays to detail the global program of gene expression in whole kidney of PpargΔ/Δ mice and AZIP mice with their respective control mice at 3 weeks of age.
Project description:PPARgamma null (PpargΔ/Δ) mice present a generalized lipoatrophy and a dramatic skin phenotype, characterized by delayed hair morphogensis and the appearance, at adult age, of severe inflammatory infiltration. To investigate the molecular mechanisms underlying the delayed hair morphogenesis observed in PpargΔ/Δ mice, we used microarrays to detail the global program of gene expression in full thickness skin of PpargΔ/Δ mice and respective control mice at embryionic stage E17.5.
Project description:The nuclear receptor Peroxisome Proliferator Activated Receptor gamma (PPARgamma) is known to regulate lipid metabolism in many tissues, including macrophages. Here we report that macrophage respiration is enhanced by rosiglitazone, an activating PPARgamma ligand, in a PPARgamma dependent manner. Moreover, PPARgamma is required for macrophage respiration even in the absence of exogenous ligand. Unexpectedly, the absence of PPARgamma dramatically affects the oxidation of glutamine. Both glutamine and PPARgamma have been implicated in alternative activation (AA) of macrophages and PPARgamma was required for IL4-dependent gene expression and stimulation of macrophage respiration. Remarkably, depletion of PPARgamma phenocopied the effects of glutamine depletion on transcription. Thus, PPARgamma supports alternative activation by facilitating glutamine metabolism. Yet PPARgamma expression is itself markedly increased by IL4. Thus, PPARgamma functions at the center of a feed forward loop that is central to AA of macrophages.
Project description:The nuclear receptor Peroxisome Proliferator Activated Receptor gamma (PPARgamma) is known to regulate lipid metabolism in many tissues, including macrophages. Here we report that macrophage respiration is enhanced by rosiglitazone, an activating PPARgamma ligand, in a PPARgamma dependent manner. Moreover, PPARgamma is required for macrophage respiration even in the absence of exogenous ligand. Unexpectedly, the absence of PPARgamma dramatically affects the oxidation of glutamine. Both glutamine and PPARgamma have been implicated in alternative activation (AA) of macrophages and PPARgamma was required for IL4-dependent gene expression and stimulation of macrophage respiration. Remarkably, depletion of PPARgamma phenocopied the effects of glutamine depletion on transcription. Thus, PPARgamma supports alternative activation by facilitating glutamine metabolism. Yet PPARgamma expression is itself markedly increased by IL4. Thus, PPARgamma functions at the center of a feed forward loop that is central to AA of macrophages.
Project description:The nuclear receptor Peroxisome Proliferator Activated Receptor gamma (PPARgamma) is known to regulate lipid metabolism in many tissues, including macrophages. Here we report that macrophage respiration is enhanced by rosiglitazone, an activating PPARgamma ligand, in a PPARgamma dependent manner. Moreover, PPARgamma is required for macrophage respiration even in the absence of exogenous ligand. Unexpectedly, the absence of PPARgamma dramatically affects the oxidation of glutamine. Both glutamine and PPARgamma have been implicated in alternative activation (AA) of macrophages and PPARgamma was required for IL4-dependent gene expression and stimulation of macrophage respiration. Remarkably, depletion of PPARgamma phenocopied the effects of glutamine depletion on transcription. Thus, PPARgamma supports alternative activation by facilitating glutamine metabolism. Yet PPARgamma expression is itself markedly increased by IL4. Thus, PPARgamma functions at the center of a feed forward loop that is central to AA of macrophages.
Project description:We highlight sex dimorphism of NAFLD in a lipodystrophic mouse model obtained via total body deletion of PPARγ. The hepatic sex dimorphism is characterized by a more important hepatosteatosis in females compared to males, and is PPARγ- and sex-hormone-dependent. To characterize the molecular mechanisms underlying this phenotype microarray analysis of gene expression was performed in the liver of 7 and 20 week old mice, before and after the onset of the the hepatic sex-dimorphism.