1. Ceramide Synthase Schlank Is a Transcriptional Regulator Adapting Gene Expression to Energy Requirements.
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Sociale M, Wulf AL, Breiden B, Klee K, Thielisch M, Eckardt F, Sellin J, Bülow MH, Löbbert S, Weinstock N, Voelzmann A, Schultze J, Sandhoff K, and Bauer R
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- Animals, Ceramides metabolism, Drosophila Proteins genetics, Drosophila melanogaster genetics, Gene Expression Regulation genetics, Sphingosine N-Acyltransferase genetics
- Abstract
Maintenance of metabolic homeostasis requires adaption of gene regulation to the cellular energy state via transcriptional regulators. Here, we identify a role of ceramide synthase (CerS) Schlank, a multiple transmembrane protein containing a catalytic lag1p motif and a homeodomain, which is poorly studied in CerSs, as a transcriptional regulator. ChIP experiments show that it binds promoter regions of lipases lipase3 and magro via its homeodomain. Mutation of nuclear localization site 2 (NLS2) within the homeodomain leads to loss of DNA binding and deregulated gene expression, and NLS2 mutants can no longer adjust the transcriptional response to changing lipid levels. This mechanism is conserved in mammalian CerS2 and emphasizes the importance of the CerS protein rather than ceramide synthesis. This study demonstrates a double role of CerS Schlank as an enzyme and a transcriptional regulator, sensing lipid levels and transducing the information to the level of gene expression., (Copyright © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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- 2018
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