Affiliation:
1. Molecular Medicine BranchNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 9N319, 10 Center Drive MSC-1822, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1822, USA
Abstract
The arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus is essential for metabolic homeostasis and responds to leptin by producing several neuropeptides including proopiomelanocortin (POMC). We previously reported that high-dose erythropoietin (Epo) treatment in mice while increasing hematocrit reduced body weight, fat mass, and food intake and increased energy expenditure. Moreover, we showed that mice with Epo receptor (EpoR) restricted to erythroid cells (ΔEpoRE) became obese and exhibited decreased energy expenditure. Epo/EpoR signaling was found to promote hypothalamus POMC expression independently from leptin. Herein we used WT and ΔEpoREmice and hypothalamus-derived neural culture system to study the signaling pathways activated by Epo in POMC neurons. We show that Epo stimulation activated STAT3 signaling and upregulated POMC expression in WT neural cultures. ΔEpoREmice hypothalamus showed reduced POMC levels and lower STAT3 phosphorylation, with and without leptin treatment, compared toin vivoandex vivoWT controls. Collectively, these data show that Epo regulates hypothalamus POMC expression via STAT3 activation, and provide a previously unrecognized link between Epo and leptin response.
Subject
Endocrinology,Molecular Biology
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