Gharanei, Seley, Shabir, Kiran, Brown, James E., Weickert, Martin O., Barber, Thomas M., Kyrou, Ioannis and Randeva, Harpal S. (2020). Regulatory microRNAs in Brown, Brite and White Adipose Tissue. Cells, 9 (11),
Abstract
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) constitute a class of short noncoding RNAs which regulate gene expression by targeting messenger RNA, inducing translational repression and messenger RNA degradation. This regulation of gene expression by miRNAs in adipose tissue (AT) can impact on the regulation of metabolism and energy homeostasis, particularly considering the different types of adipocytes which exist in mammals, i.e., white adipocytes (white AT; WAT), brown adipocytes (brown AT; BAT), and inducible brown adipocytes in WAT (beige or brite or brown-in-white adipocytes). Indeed, an increasing number of miRNAs has been identified to regulate key signaling pathways of adipogenesis in BAT, brite AT, and WAT by acting on transcription factors that promote or inhibit adipocyte differentiation. For example, MiR-328, MiR-378, MiR-30b/c, MiR-455, MiR-32, and MiR-193b-365 activate brown adipogenesis, whereas MiR-34a, MiR-133, MiR-155, and MiR-27b are brown adipogenesis inhibitors. Given that WAT mainly stores energy as lipids, whilst BAT mainly dissipates energy as heat, clarifying the effects of miRNAs in different types of AT has recently attracted significant research interest, aiming to also develop novel miRNA-based therapies against obesity, diabetes, and other obesity-related diseases. Therefore, this review presents an up-to-date comprehensive overview of the role of key regulatory miRNAs in BAT, brite AT, and WAT.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/cells9112489 |
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Divisions: | College of Health & Life Sciences > School of Biosciences College of Health & Life Sciences College of Health & Life Sciences > Chronic and Communicable Conditions |
Additional Information: | © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | BAT,WAT,adipocytes,adipose tissue,beige,brite,diabetes,energy homeostasis,metabolism,micro-RNA,obesity,General Medicine |
Publication ISSN: | 2073-4409 |
Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2024 07:05 |
Date Deposited: | 18 Nov 2020 11:58 |
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PURE Output Type: | Review article |
Published Date: | 2020-11-16 |
Accepted Date: | 2020-11-13 |
Authors: |
Gharanei, Seley
Shabir, Kiran Brown, James E. ( ![]() Weickert, Martin O. Barber, Thomas M. Kyrou, Ioannis Randeva, Harpal S. |