Mfn2 is critical for brown adipose tissue thermogenic function

EMBO Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 1543-1558

  Boutant, Marie ^a   Kulkarni, Sameer S ^a   Joffraud, Magali ^a   Ratajczak, Joanna ^a,b   Valera Alberni, Miriam ^a,b   Combe, Roy ^b   Zorzano, Antonio ^c,d,e   Cantó, Carles ^a,b  

^a NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

brown adipose tissue; insulin resistance; lipid droplet; mitochondrial dynamics; mitofusin 2

Indexed keywords

FAT DROPLET; MITOFUSIN 2; PERILIPIN 1; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MFN2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; PLIN1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; PROTEIN BINDING;

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATTY LIVER; HOMEOSTASIS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIPID DIET; LIPOLYSIS; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THERMOGENESIS; ANIMAL; DEFICIENCY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ANIMALS; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MITOCHONDRIA; PERILIPIN-1; PROTEIN BINDING; THERMOGENESIS;

EID: 85017395263     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/embj.201694914     Document Type: Article

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