Uncoupling protein-2 and-3 messenger ribonucleic acids in adipose tissue and skeletal muscle of healthy males: Variability, factors affecting expression, and relation to measures of metabolic rate

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Boivin, M
Camirand, A
Carli, F
Hoffer, LJ
Silva, JE
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[1] Jewish Gen Hosp, Div Endocrinol, Montreal, PQ H3T 1E2, Canada
[2] Jewish Gen Hosp, Div Internal Med, Montreal, PQ H3T 1E2, Canada
[3] Jewish Gen Hosp, Dept Med, Montreal, PQ H3T 1E2, Canada
[4] McGill Univ, Lady Davis Inst, Montreal, PQ, Canada
[5] McGill Univ, Dept Anesthesia, Montreal, PQ, Canada
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10.1210/jc.85.5.1975
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R5 [内科学];
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Mitochondrial uncoupling protein-a and -3 (UCP2 and UCP3) may be involved in the modulation of resting metabolic rate and energy balance. To investigate their variability, the influence of this on the variability of energy expenditure, and potential regulatory factors of the expression of the corresponding genes, we measured their messenger ribonucleic acids (mRNAs) in muscle and white adipose tissue of lean, healthy men and correlated the abundance of these mRNAs (attomoles per mu g total RNA) with measures of resting metabolic rate, hormone levels (thyroid hormones, insulin, glucagon, leptin, and catecholamines), and fuels potentially involved in energy balance regulation. We also investigated whether the thiazolidinedione, troglitazone, stimulates UCP2 and UCP3 mRNA levels to follow up on the observation that this antidiabetic drug increases the levels of expression in cultured cells. We found UCP2 and UCP3 mRNA levels to be highly variable and poorly correlated with measures of energy expenditure and with most factors affecting energy balance; Only nocturnal urinary norepinephrine excretion could explain a significant fraction of the variability in both UCP2 and UCP3 expression in muscle, but not adipose tissue. Thyroid hormone and norepinephrine excretion were found to contribute to the variability of resting metabolic rate, but this could not be explained by an effect on UCP mRNAs. Troglitazone affected neither the expression of UCPs nor the hormones or the measures of metabolic rate investigated. In conclusion, our results show that the expression of UCP2 and UCP3 genes is quite variable in healthy males and that this variability does not explain that in resting energy expenditure, and suggest that sympathetic activity is an important potential regulator of the expression of these proteins in skeletal muscle. However, the data do not support the concept that regulation of the expression of these genes is the most important level of control of UCP3 and UCPB functions, and other levels of control have to be invoked.
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