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Impaired insulin signaling upon loss of ovarian function is associated with a reduction of tristetraprolin and an increased stabilization of chemokine in adipose tissue.

Loss of ovarian function can activate inflammation and lead to insulin resistance (IR). IR is also a core feature of obesity and obesity-associated metabolic dysfunction. Tristetraprolin/zinc finger protein 36 (TTP) interferes with TNF-α production by destabilizing TNF-α mRNA, and mice deficient in TTP develop a complex syndrome of inflammatory disease (Carballo et al., 1998; Taylor et al., 1999). We hypothesized that ovariectomy (OVX) might also prime inflammation by reducing tristetraprolin/zinc finger protein 36 (TTP) levels. We used a mouse OVX model to study impaired insulin signaling due to loss of ovarian function by evaluating Akt activity upon insulin stimulus. Impaired insulin signaling was initially detected in adipose tissue (AT) at 4 weeks after OVX, and then spread to liver and muscle, finally resulting in systemic IR at 12 weeks after OVX. OVX decreased TTP protein levels and increased adipocyte size, oxidative stress, chemokine expression and fat mass in AT by 4 weeks after surgery. TTP deficiency due to TTP gene deletion induced aberrant insulin signaling and increased chemokine expression and macrophage numbers in AT but did not increase adipocyte size, oxidative stress, or fat mass, suggesting that it promotes insulin signaling by decreasing AT inflammation independent of oxidative stress and adiposity. OVX, like TTP deficiency, increased the stability of chemokine transcripts as assessed from their half-lives. Our data indicate that the impaired insulin signaling resulting from OVX is due to an OVX-induced reduction of TTP and the resulting stabilization of inflammatory chemokines.

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