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Series GSE264356 Query DataSets for GSE264356
Status Public on Jun 18, 2024
Title Wnt/Wingless signaling promotes lipid mobilization through signal-induced transcriptional repression
Organism Drosophila melanogaster
Experiment type Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing
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Summary The Wnt/Wingless signaling pathway plays critical roles in metazoan development and energy metabolism, but its involvement in lipid mobilization has remained unclear. Here, we report that canonical Wnt/Wg signaling reduces lipid accumulation in both larval and adult adipocytes, as well as cultured S2R+ cells, in Drosophila. This reduction occurs through promoting lipolysis while concurrently repressing lipogenesis and fatty acid β-oxidation. Leveraging RNA-sequencing and CUT&RUN assays, we have identified a set of Wnt target genes responsible for intracellular lipid homeostasis. Notably, active Wnt signaling directly represses the transcription of these genes, resulting in decreased triglyceride accumulation in lipid droplets, increased lipolysis, and reduced fatty acid β-oxidation. These changes lead to elevated free fatty acids and reduced triglyceride accumulation in adipocytes with active Wnt signaling. Conversely, downregulation of Wnt signaling in the fat body promotes triglyceride accumulation in both larval and adult stages. The attenuation of Wnt signaling also increases the expression of specific lipid metabolism-related genes in larval adipocytes, wing discs, and adult intestines. Collectively, our findings suggest that Wnt signaling-induced transcriptional repression plays an important role in regulating lipid homeostasis by enhancing lipolysis while simultaneously suppressing lipogenesis and fatty acid β-oxidation processes.
 
Overall design To gain insights into the molecular mechanism underlying Wnt signaling-stimulated lipid catabolism and reduced lipogenesis, we conducted bulk RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) analyses on dissected larval fat body with specific depletions of Axn or slmb, and BTZ treated animals. To investigate potential direct targets of Wnt signaling, we performed CUT&Run on EGFP tagged Pan.
 
Contributor(s) Liu M, Hemba-Waduge R, Li X, Huang X, Liu T, Han X, Wang Y, Ji J
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Submission date Apr 18, 2024
Last update date Jun 18, 2024
Contact name Jun-yuan Ji
E-mail(s) ji@tulane.edu
Organization name Tulane University
Department Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Street address 1700 Tulane Avenue
City New Orleans
State/province LA
ZIP/Postal code 70112
Country USA
 
Platforms (2)
GPL17275 Illumina HiSeq 2500 (Drosophila melanogaster)
GPL32218 DNBSEQ-G400 (Drosophila melanogaster)
Samples (24)
GSM8216767 DMSO w1118,RNA-seq,Rep1
GSM8216768 DMSO w1118,RNA-seq,Rep2
GSM8216769 DMSO w1118,RNA-seq,Rep3
Relations
BioProject PRJNA1102019

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Supplementary file Size Download File type/resource
GSE264356_BTZ_cts.txt.gz 247.2 Kb (ftp)(http) TXT
GSE264356_axni_slmbi_cts.txt.gz 982.0 Kb (ftp)(http) TXT
GSE264356_pan.bw 64.1 Mb (ftp)(http) BW
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