Glucocorticoid Signaling Defines a Novel Commitment State during AdipogenesisIn Vitro
- 1 October 2008
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) in Molecular Biology of the Cell
- Vol. 19 (10), 4032-4041
- https://doi.org/10.1091/mbc.e08-04-0420
Abstract
Differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes can be induced by a 2-d treatment with a factor "cocktail" (DIM) containing the synthetic glucocorticoid dexamethasone (dex), insulin, the phosphodiesterase inhibitor methylisobutylxanthine (IBMX) and fetal bovine serum (FBS). We temporally uncoupled the activities of the four DIM components and found that treatment with dex for 48 h followed by IBMX treatment for 48 h was sufficient for adipogenesis, whereas treatment with IBMX followed by dex failed to induce significant differentiation. Similar results were obtained with C3H10T1/2 and primary mesenchymal stem cells. The 3T3-L1 adipocytes differentiated by sequential treatment with dex and IBMX displayed insulin sensitivity equivalent to DIM adipocytes, but had lower sensitivity to ISO-stimulated lipolysis and reduced triglyceride content. The nondifferentiating IBMX-then-dex treatment produced transient expression of adipogenic transcriptional regulatory factors C/EBPbeta and C/EBPdelta, and little induction of terminal differentiation factors C/EBPalpha and PPARgamma. Moreover, the adipogenesis inhibitor preadipocyte factor-1 (Pref-1) was repressed by DIM or by dex-then-IBMX, but not by IBMX-then-dex treatment. We conclude that glucocorticoids drive preadipocytes to a novel intermediate cellular state, the dex-primed preadipocyte, during adipogenesis in cell culture, and that Pref-1 repression may be a cell fate determinant in preadipocytes.Keywords
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