Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ coactivator 1α (PGC-1α): Transcriptional coactivator and metabolic regulator

Endocrine Reviews

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 78-90

  Puigserver, Pere ^a   Spiegelman, Bruce M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOBESITY AGENT; CYCLIC AMP; CYTOKINE; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA COACTIVATOR 1ALPHA; RNA; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; CELL FATE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENERGY; FIBER; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOGENESIS; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; METABOLIC REGULATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STIMULATION; THERMOGENESIS;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ADIPOCYTES; ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCONEOGENESIS; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; THERMOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0037326196     PISSN: 0163769X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/er.2002-0012     Document Type: Review

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