Dynamic repression by BCL6 controls the genome-wide liver response to fasting and steatosis
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Transcription is tightly regulated to maintain energy homeostasis during periods of feeding or fasting, but the molecular factors that control these alternating gene programs are incompletely understood. Here, we find that the B cell lymphoma 6 (BCL6) repressor is enriched in the fed state and converges genome-wide with PPARα to potently suppress the induction of fasting transcription. Deletion of hepatocyte Bcl6 enhances lipid catabolism and ameliorates high-fat-diet-induced steatosis. In Ppara -null mice, hepatocyte Bcl6 ablation restores enhancer activity at PPARα-dependent genes and overcomes defective fasting-induced fatty acid oxidation and lipid accumulation. Together, these findings identify BCL6 as a negative regulator of oxidative metabolism and reveal that alternating recruitment of repressive and activating transcription factors to shared cis-regulatory regions dictates hepatic lipid handling.
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Bcl6 is a transcriptional repressor that is enriched in the fed state and cooperates with PPARα to suppress the induction of fasting transcription, and Bcl6 loss has been shown to increase insulin sensitivity and repress NASH.
“Bcl6 is a transcriptional repressor that is enriched in the fed state and cooperates with PPARα to suppress the induction of fasting transcription, and Bcl6 loss has been shown to increase insulin sensitivity and repress NASH36-38.”
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The Abstract describes BCL6 as a fed-state repressor that converges with PPARα to suppress fasting transcription; the Discussion clarifies that they bind independently and BCL6 opposes PPARα rather than cooperating with it. The Results ('Bcl6 ablation enhances hepatic lipid catabolism and reduces steatosis'; page not provided) report only a trend toward enhanced insulin responsiveness and protection from steatosis in mice. They do not establish increased insulin sensitivity or repression of NASH. (LLM, conf=0.89)
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- Sommars, M. A., Ramachandran, K., Senagolage, M. D., Futtner, C. R., Germain, D. M., Allred, A. L., Omura, Y., Bederman, I. R., & Barish, G. D.
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- Northwestern University (US)
- Case Western Reserve University (US)
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- 2019-04-15
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- National Institutes of Health (R01DK108987, K08HL092298, T32GM008061)
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- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Biochemistry › Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis
- Keywords
- BCL6, PPARα, fasting, hepatic steatosis, transcriptional repression, energy homeostasis, fatty acid oxidation, lipid degradation, enhancer activity, high-fat diet, hepatocytes, oxidative metabolism, cis-regulatory elements
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Fasting, Fatty Liver, Gene Expression Regulation, Liver, Gene Deletion, Lipid Metabolism, Mice, Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-6
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