The cellular and functional complexity of thermogenic fat

P Cohen, S Kajimura - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2021 - nature.com
Brown and beige adipocytes are mitochondria-enriched cells capable of dissipating energy
in the form of heat. These thermogenic fat cells were originally considered to function solely …

Browning of the white adipose tissue regulation: New insights into nutritional and metabolic relevance in health and diseases

SA Machado, G Pasquarelli-do-Nascimento… - Nutrition & …, 2022 - Springer
Adipose tissues are dynamic tissues that play crucial physiological roles in maintaining
health and homeostasis. Although white adipose tissue and brown adipose tissue are …

Brown adipose tissue is associated with cardiometabolic health

T Becher, S Palanisamy, DJ Kramer, M Eljalby… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
White fat stores excess energy, whereas brown and beige fat are thermogenic and dissipate
energy as heat. Thermogenic adipose tissues markedly improve glucose and lipid …

snRNA-seq reveals a subpopulation of adipocytes that regulates thermogenesis

W Sun, H Dong, M Balaz, M Slyper, E Drokhlyansky… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Adipose tissue is usually classified on the basis of its function as white, brown or beige
(brite). It is an important regulator of systemic metabolism, as shown by the fact that …

Quick COVID-19 healers sustain anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody production

Y Chen, A Zuiani, S Fischinger, J Mullur, C Atyeo… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Antibodies are key immune effectors that confer protection against pathogenic threats. The
nature and longevity of the antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 infection are not well defined …

Feeding induces cholesterol biosynthesis via the mTORC1–USP20–HMGCR axis

XY Lu, XJ Shi, A Hu, JQ Wang, Y Ding, W Jiang, M Sun… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Cholesterol is an essential lipid and its synthesis is nutritionally and energetically costly,. In
mammals, cholesterol biosynthesis increases after feeding and is inhibited under fasting …

[HTML][HTML] Lipolysis drives expression of the constitutively active receptor GPR3 to induce adipose thermogenesis

OS Johansen, T Ma, JB Hansen, LK Markussen… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Thermogenic adipocytes possess a therapeutically appealing, energy-expending capacity,
which is canonically cold-induced by ligand-dependent activation of β-adrenergic G protein …

Integration of Hippo-YAP signaling with metabolism

C Ibar, KD Irvine - Developmental cell, 2020 - cell.com
The Hippo-Yes-associated protein (YAP) signaling network plays a central role as an
integrator of signals that control cellular proliferation and differentiation. The past several …

BCAA–BCKA axis regulates WAT browning through acetylation of PRDM16

QX Ma, WY Zhu, XC Lu, D Jiang, F Xu, JT Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The link between branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) and obesity has been known for
decades but the functional role of BCAA metabolism in white adipose tissue (WAT) of obese …

Single-nucleus transcriptomics identifies separate classes of UCP1 and futile cycle adipocytes

T Wang, AK Sharma, C Wu, CI Maushart, A Ghosh… - Cell Metabolism, 2024 - cell.com
Adipose tissue can recruit catabolic adipocytes that utilize chemical energy to dissipate heat.
This process occurs either by uncoupled respiration through uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1) or …