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Journal Article
Mitochondrial RNA stimulates beige adipocyte development in young mice
2022
Overview
Childhood obesity is a serious public health crisis and a critical factor that determines future obesity prevalence. Signals affecting adipocyte development in early postnatal life have a strong potential to trigger childhood obesity; however, these signals are still poorly understood. We show here that mitochondrial (mt)RNA efflux stimulates transcription of nuclear-encoded genes for mitobiogenesis and thermogenesis in adipocytes of young mice and human infants. While cytosolic mtRNA is a potential trigger of the interferon (IFN) response, young adipocytes lack such a response to cytosolic mtRNA due to the suppression of IFN regulatory factor (IRF)7 expression by vitamin D receptor signalling. Adult and obese adipocytes, however, strongly express IRF7 and mount an IFN response to cytosolic mtRNA. In turn, suppressing IRF7 expression in adult adipocytes restores mtRNA-induced mitobiogenesis and thermogenesis and eventually mitigates obesity. Retrograde mitochondrion-to-nucleus signalling by mtRNA is thus a mechanism to evoke thermogenic potential during early adipocyte development and to protect against obesity.
Hoang et al. show that mitochondrial RNA in young beige adipocytes triggers mitobiogenesis and thermogenesis, while an interferon response is avoided through vitamin D-mediated suppression of IRF7 expression.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group
Subject
/ 64/60
/ 96/31
/ 96/34
/ Adipocytes, Beige - metabolism
/ Adult
/ Animals
/ Biomedical and Life Sciences
/ Body fat
/ Child
/ Children
/ Energy
/ Humans
/ Interferon regulatory factor 7
/ Lipids
/ Mice
/ Obesity
/ RNA
