Lise Van Wyngene, Tineke Vanderhaeghen, Ioanna Petta, Steven Timmermans, Katrien Corbeels, Bart Van der Schueren, Jolien Vandewalle, Kelly Van Looveren, Charlotte Wallaeys, Melanie Eggermont, Sylviane Dewaele, Leen Catrysse, Geert van Loo, Rudi Beyaert, Roman Vangoitsenhoven, Toshinori Nakayama, Jan Tavernier, Karolien De Bosscher, Claude Libert
The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis forms a complex neuroendocrine system that regulates the body's response to stress such as starvation. In contrast with the glucocorticoid receptor (GR), Zinc finger and BTB domain containing 32 (ZBTB32) is a transcription factor with poorly described functional relevance in physiology. This study shows that ZBTB32 is essential for the production of glucocorticoids (GCs) in response to starvation, since ZBTB32-/- mice fail to increase their GC production in the absence of nutrients...
July 23, 2021: IScience