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Conserved transcriptional activity and ligand responsiveness of avian PPARs: Potential role in regulating lipid metabolism in mirgratory birds.

Migratory birds undergo metabolic remodeling in tissues, including increased lipid storage in white adipose and fatty acid uptake and oxidation in skeletal muscle, to optimize energy substrate availability and utilization in preparation for long-distance flight. Different tissues undergo gene expression changes in keeping with their specialized functions and driven by tissue specific transcriptional pathways. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) are lipid-activated nuclear receptors that regulate metabolic pathways involved in lipid and glucose utilization or storage in mammals. To examine whether PPARs might mediate fatty acid activation of metabolic gene programs that would be relevant during pre-migratory fattening, we used gray catbird as the focal species. PPAR isoforms cloned from catbird share high amino acid identity with mammalian homologs (% vs human): gcPPARα (88.1%), gcPPARδ (87.3%), gcPPARγ (91.2%). We tested whether gcPPARs activated fatty acid (FA) utilization genes using Lpl and Cpt1b gene promoter-luciferase reporters in mammalian cell lines. In C2C12 mouse myocytes gcPPARα was broadly activated by the saturated and unsaturated FAs tested; while gcPPARδ showed highest activation by the mono-unsaturated FA, 18:1 oleic acid (+80%). In CV-1 monkey kidney cells gcPPARγ responded to the poly-unsaturated fatty acid, 20:5 eicosapentaenoic acid (+60%). Moreover, in agreement with their structural conservation, gcPPARs were activated by isoform selective synthetic agonists similar to the respective mammalian isoform. Adenoviral mediated over-expression of PPARα in C2C12 myocytes induced expression of genes involved in fatty acid transport, including Cd36/Fat, as well as Cpt1b, which mediates a key rate limiting step of mitochondrial β-oxidation. These gene expression changes correlated with increased lipid droplet accumulation in C2C12 myoblasts and differentiated myotubes and enhanced β-oxidation in myotubes. Collectively, the data predict that the PPARs play a conserved role in gray catbirds to regulate lipid metabolism in target tissues that undergo metabolic remodeling throughout the annual migratory cycle.

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