Publication Date:
2013-07-23
Description:
Melanocortin receptor accessory proteins (MRAPs) modulate signaling of melanocortin receptors in vitro. To investigate the physiological role of brain-expressed melanocortin 2 receptor accessory protein 2 (MRAP2), we characterized mice with whole-body and brain-specific targeted deletion of Mrap2, both of which develop severe obesity at a young age. Mrap2 interacts directly with melanocortin 4 receptor (Mc4r), a protein previously implicated in mammalian obesity, and it enhances Mc4r-mediated generation of the second messenger cyclic adenosine monophosphate, suggesting that alterations in Mc4r signaling may be one mechanism underlying the association between Mrap2 disruption and obesity. In a study of humans with severe, early-onset obesity, we found four rare, potentially pathogenic genetic variants in MRAP2, suggesting that the gene may also contribute to body weight regulation in humans.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3788688/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3788688/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Asai, Masato -- Ramachandrappa, Shwetha -- Joachim, Maria -- Shen, Yuan -- Zhang, Rong -- Nuthalapati, Nikhil -- Ramanathan, Visali -- Strochlic, David E -- Ferket, Peter -- Linhart, Kirsten -- Ho, Caroline -- Novoselova, Tatiana V -- Garg, Sumedha -- Ridderstrale, Martin -- Marcus, Claude -- Hirschhorn, Joel N -- Keogh, Julia M -- O'Rahilly, Stephen -- Chan, Li F -- Clark, Adrian J -- Farooqi, I Sadaf -- Majzoub, Joseph A -- 098497/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- G0802796/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- G0900554/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- G9824984/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- P30-HD18655/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- R01 DK075787/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01DK075787/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- T32 DK007699/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- T32 MH020017/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2013 Jul 19;341(6143):275-8. doi: 10.1126/science.1233000.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23869016" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adolescent
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Animals
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Body Mass Index
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Body Weight/*genetics
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Carrier Proteins/*genetics
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Child
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Child, Preschool
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Energy Metabolism/genetics
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Female
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Gene Deletion
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Humans
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Male
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Mice
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Mice, Knockout
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Obesity/*genetics/metabolism
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Receptor Activity-Modifying Proteins/genetics/*metabolism
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Receptor, Melanocortin, Type 4/genetics/*metabolism
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Young Adult
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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