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Chen 2018 Endocrinology

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Publications in the MiPMap
Chen Y, McCommis KS, Ferguson D, Hall AM, Harris CA, Finck BN (2018) Inhibition of the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier by tolylfluanid. Endocrinology 159:609-21.

» PMID: 29126303

Chen Y, McCommis KS, Ferguson D, Hall AM, Harris CA, Finck BN (2018) Endocrinology

Abstract: Several recent studies have suggested that compounds known as endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) can promote obesity by serving as ligands for nuclear receptors, including the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ (PPARγ) and the glucocorticoid receptor (GR). Thiazolidinedione insulin sensitizers, which act as ligands for PPARγ, also interact with and regulate the activity of the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier (MPC). We evaluated whether several EDCs might also affect MPC activity. Most of the EDCs evaluated did not acutely affect pyruvate metabolism. However, the putative endocrine disruptors tributyltin (TBT) and tolylfluanid (TF) acutely and markedly suppressed pyruvate metabolism in isolated mitochondria. Using mitochondria isolated from brown adipose tissue in mice with adipocyte-specific deletion of the MPC2 protein, we determined that the effect of TF on pyruvate metabolism required MPC2, whereas TBT did not. We attempted to determine whether the obesogenic effects of TF might involve MPC2 in adipose tissue. However, we were unable to replicate the published effects of TF on weight gain and adipose tissue gene expression in wild-type or fat-specific MPC2 knockout mice. Treatment with TF modestly enhanced adipogenic gene expression in vitro but had no effect on GR activation or phosphorylation in cultured cells. These data suggest that TF may affect mitochondrial pyruvate metabolism via the MPC complex but also call into question whether this compound affects GR activity and is obesogenic in mice.

Bioblast editor: Kandolf G O2k-Network Lab: US MO St Louis Finck B, US MO St Louis McCommis KS


Labels: MiParea: Respiration, Genetic knockout;overexpression, mt-Medicine, Pharmacology;toxicology  Pathology: Obesity 

Organism: Mouse  Tissue;cell: Fat  Preparation: Isolated mitochondria 


Coupling state: OXPHOS  Pathway: N, NS  HRR: Oxygraph-2k 

Labels, 2018-01