Tbc1d1 mutation in lean mouse strain confers leanness and protects from diet-induced obesity

Alexandra Chadt; Katja Leicht; Atul Deshmukh; Lake Q Jiang; Stephan Scherneck; Ulrike Bernhardt; Tanja Dreja; Heike Vogel; Katja Schmolz; Reinhart Kluge; Juleen R Zierath; Claus Hultschig; Rob C Hoeben; Annette Schürmann; Hans-Georg Joost; Hadi Al-Hasani

doi:10.1038/ng.244

Tbc1d1 mutation in lean mouse strain confers leanness and protects from diet-induced obesity

Alexandra Chadt, Katja Leicht, Atul Deshmukh, Lake Q Jiang, Stephan Scherneck, Ulrike Bernhardt, Tanja Dreja, Heike Vogel, Katja Schmolz, Reinhart Kluge, Juleen R Zierath, Claus Hultschig, Rob C Hoeben, Annette Schürmann, Hans-Georg Joost, Hadi Al-Hasani

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Abstract

We previously identified Nob1 as a quantitative trait locus for high-fat diet-induced obesity and diabetes in genome-wide scans of outcross populations of obese and lean mouse strains. Additional crossbreeding experiments indicated that Nob1 represents an obesity suppressor from the lean Swiss Jim Lambert (SJL) strain. Here we identify a SJL-specific mutation in the Tbc1d1 gene that results in a truncated protein lacking the TBC Rab-GTPase-activating protein domain. TBC1D1, which has been recently linked to human obesity, is related to the insulin signaling protein AS160 and is predominantly expressed in skeletal muscle. Knockdown of TBC1D1 in skeletal muscle cells increased fatty acid uptake and oxidation, whereas overexpression of TBC1D1 had the opposite effect. Recombinant congenic mice lacking TBC1D1 showed reduced body weight, decreased respiratory quotient, increased fatty acid oxidation and reduced glucose uptake in isolated skeletal muscle. Our data strongly suggest that mutation of Tbc1d1 suppresses high-fat diet-induced obesity by increasing lipid use in skeletal muscle.

Original language	English
Journal	Nature Genetics
Volume	40
Issue number	11
Pages (from-to)	1354-1359
Number of pages	6
ISSN	1061-4036
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.244
Publication status	Published - 2008
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Adiposity
Amino Acid Sequence
Animals
Base Sequence
Cells, Cultured
Diet
Exons
Fatty Acids
GTPase-Activating Proteins
Gene Expression Profiling
Glucose
Mice
Mice, Mutant Strains
Molecular Sequence Data
Muscle Cells
Muscle, Skeletal
Mutation
Nuclear Proteins
Obesity
Oxidation-Reduction
Protein Structure, Tertiary
Quantitative Trait Loci
Sequence Deletion
Suppression, Genetic
Thinness
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Chadt, A., Leicht, K., Deshmukh, A., Jiang, L. Q., Scherneck, S., Bernhardt, U., Dreja, T., Vogel, H., Schmolz, K., Kluge, R., Zierath, J. R., Hultschig, C., Hoeben, R. C., Schürmann, A., Joost, H-G., & Al-Hasani, H. (2008). Tbc1d1 mutation in lean mouse strain confers leanness and protects from diet-induced obesity. Nature Genetics, 40(11), 1354-1359. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.244

Chadt, A, Leicht, K, Deshmukh, A, Jiang, LQ, Scherneck, S, Bernhardt, U, Dreja, T, Vogel, H, Schmolz, K, Kluge, R, Zierath, JR, Hultschig, C, Hoeben, RC, Schürmann, A, Joost, H-G & Al-Hasani, H 2008, 'Tbc1d1 mutation in lean mouse strain confers leanness and protects from diet-induced obesity', Nature Genetics, vol. 40, no. 11, pp. 1354-1359. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.244

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Tbc1d1 mutation in lean mouse strain confers leanness and protects from diet-induced obesity

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