YIPF6 controls sorting of FGF21 into COPII vesicles and promotes obesity. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) is an endocrine hormone that regulates glucose, lipid, and energy homeostasis. While gene expression of FGF21 is regulated by the nuclear hormone receptor peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha in the fasted state, little is known about the regulation of trafficking and secretion of FGF21. We show that mice with a mutation in the Yip1 domain family, member 6 gene (Klein-Zschocher [KLZ]; Yipf6KLZ/Y ) on a high-fat diet (HFD) have higher plasma levels of FGF21 than mice that do not carry this mutation (controls) and hepatocytes from Yipf6KLZ/Y mice secrete more FGF21 than hepatocytes from wild-type mice. Consequently, Yipf6KLZ/Y mice are resistant to HFD-induced features of the metabolic syndrome and have increased lipolysis, energy expenditure, and thermogenesis, with an increase in core body temperature. Yipf6KLZ/Y mice with hepatocyte-specific deletion of FGF21 were no longer protected from diet-induced obesity. We show that YIPF6 binds FGF21 in the endoplasmic reticulum to limit its secretion and specifies packaging of FGF21 into coat protein complex II (COPII) vesicles during development of obesity in mice. Levels of YIPF6 protein in human liver correlate with hepatic steatosis and correlate inversely with levels of FGF21 in serum from patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). YIPF6 is therefore a newly identified regulator of FGF21 secretion during development of obesity and could be a target for treatment of obesity and NAFLD.

publication date

  • July 9, 2019

Research

keywords

  • Fibroblast Growth Factors
  • Liver
  • Membrane Proteins
  • Metabolic Syndrome
  • Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
  • Obesity

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC6660779

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85069677617

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1073/pnas.1904360116

PubMed ID

  • 31289229

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 116

issue

  • 30