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. 2024 May 24.
doi: 10.1007/5584_2024_808. Online ahead of print.

Transcriptional Control of Lipid Metabolism

Laura Palanker Musselman #  1 , Huy G Truong  2 , Justin R DiAngelo #  3
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Transcriptional Control of Lipid Metabolism

Laura Palanker Musselman et al. Adv Exp Med Biol. .

Abstract

Transcriptional control of lipid metabolism uses a framework that parallels the control of lipid metabolism at the protein or enzyme level, via feedback and feed-forward mechanisms. Increasing the substrates for an enzyme often increases enzyme gene expression, for example. A paucity of product can likewise potentiate transcription or stability of the mRNA encoding the enzyme or enzymes needed to produce it. In addition, changes in second messengers or cellular energy charge can act as on/off switches for transcriptional regulators to control transcript (and protein) abundance. Insects use a wide range of DNA-binding transcription factors (TFs) that sense changes in the cell and its environment to produce the appropriate change in transcription at gene promoters. These TFs work together with histones, spliceosomes, and additional RNA processing factors to ultimately regulate lipid metabolism. In this chapter, we will first focus on the important TFs that control lipid metabolism in insects. Next, we will describe non-TF regulators of insect lipid metabolism such as enzymes that modify acetylation and methylation status, transcriptional coactivators, splicing factors, and microRNAs. To conclude, we consider future goals for studying the mechanisms underlying the control of lipid metabolism in insects.

Keywords: Insect; Lipid; Lipogenesis; Lipolysis; Metabolism; Splicing; Transcription factor; Transcriptional coactivator; Triglyceride; microRNA.

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