Abstract：
:Adipogenesis plays a central role in obesity development. The processes of adipogenesis include migration, adhesion, proliferation and survival of preadipocytes and differentiation to mature adipocytes. Many of these biological functions are related to integrins. Here, we found that snake venom-derived arginine-glycine-aspartic acid (RGD)-containing disintegrin inhibited adipogenesis. Rhodostomin but not rhodostomin RGD mutants (RGE-Rn and AKGDWN-Rn) caused the detachment of primary cultured preadipocyte. Furthermore, rhodostomin also inhibited focal adhesion of preadipocyte, including the inhibition of the expression of focal adhesion kinase (FAK) and FAK phosphorylation, assembly of vinculin and reorganization of actin cytoskeleton. Cell viability of preadipocytes was decreased after rhodostomin treatment in a concentration-dependent manner. The results of flow cytometric analysis showed that rhodostomin induced cell apoptosis. In addition, chromatin condensation was observed in DAPI staining. The increase of Bax expression and activation of capsase-3 was detected following rhodostomin treatment. Addition of dexamethasone, IBMX and insulin induced differentiation of preadipocytes into mature adipocytes and treatment of cells with rhodostomin during the initial 3 days showed less mature adipocytes following 9-10 days of differentiating period. The triglyceride content and gene expression of peroxisome proliferators-activated receptor gamma (PPARgamma) and leptin also decreased in response to the treatment of rhodostomin. These results suggest that disintegrin inhibits processes of adipogenesis and may be developed to treat obesity.
journal_name
Biochem Pharmacoljournal_title
Biochemical pharmacologyauthors
Lin YT,Tang CH,Chuang WJ,Wang SM,Huang TF,Fu WMdoi
10.1016/j.bcp.2005.07.035subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2005-11-15 00:00:00pages
1469-78issue
10eissn
0006-2952issn
1873-2968pii
S0006-2952(05)00498-3journal_volume
70pub_type
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