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One possibility is that hormones secreted by adipocytes compromise peripheral insulin sensitivity, and a number of candidates for such adipocyte signals have been identified.
They proliferated rapidly in culture, had an adherent, spread morphology, displayed cytoskeletal, cytoplasmic, and surface markers of mesenchymal precursors, and had a capacity for differentiation into fibroblast, osteoblast, and adipocyte lineages.
Leptin production is primarily regulated by insulin-induced changes in adipocyte metabolism—its secretion levels correlate with adipocyte mass and lipid loads.
Potential mechanisms for altered adipocyte function include, direct binding to PPARgamma or inhibition of transcription of PPARgamma promoter [ 37 ] . The lipodystrophy syndrome may be a result of the inhibition of 2 proteins involved in lipid metabolism that have significant homology to the catalytic site of HIV proteases; namely cytoplasmic retinoic acid binding protein type 1 and low density lipoprotein-receptor-related protein [ 38 ] . An additional mechanism of PPAR down-regulation may be related to Tat expression in latent cells.
C/EBPα binds to and activates transcription of the gene promoter for the p21 inhibitor of cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) [ 37 ] . This led to speculation that p21 gene activation may contribute to cell cycle arrest by C/EBPα [ 37 ] . Similarly, suppression of mitotic growth during adipocyte differentiation was associated with C/EBPα activation of the promoters of gadd45 (growth arrest and DNA damage-inducible gene 45), gas2 and gas3 (growth arrest-associated genes 2 and 3) [ 5 6 38 39 ] . However, C/EBPα mutants defective in DNA binding still blocked proliferation [ 25 33 ] . This suggested that direct promoter activation was unnecessary, or redundant, for C/EBPα proliferation arrest [ 18 ] .
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