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Uncoupling protein 2 and 4 expression pattern during stem cell differentiation provides new insight into their putative function. | LitMetric

Uncoupling protein 2 and 4 expression pattern during stem cell differentiation provides new insight into their putative function.

PLoS One

Institute of Physiology, Pathophysiology and Biophysics, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria ; Institute of Cell Biology and Neurobiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.

Published: October 2014

AI Article Synopsis

  • UCP1 is the only uncoupling protein with clearly defined functions; the roles of UCP2 to UCP5 remain largely unknown.
  • In a study, it was found that UCP2 is present in undifferentiated mouse embryonic stem cells but disappears when they differentiate into neurons, while UCP4 increases during differentiation alongside neuronal markers.
  • UCP2 is linked to cells with high proliferation and glycolytic metabolism, like cancer and stem cells, whereas UCP4 is associated with mature, non-proliferative neurons.

Article Abstract

Apart from the first family member, uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1), the functions of other UCPs (UCP2-UCP5) are still unknown. In analyzing our own results and those previously published by others, we have assumed that UCP's cellular expression pattern coincides with a specific cell metabolism and changes if the latter is altered. To verify this hypothesis, we analyzed the expression of UCP1-5 in mouse embryonic stem cells before and after their differentiation to neurons. We have shown that only UCP2 is present in undifferentiated stem cells and it disappears simultaneously with the initiation of neuronal differentiation. In contrast, UCP4 is simultaneously up-regulated together with typical neuronal marker proteins TUJ-1 and NeuN during mESC differentiation in vitro as well as during murine brain development in vivo. Notably, several tested cell lines express UCP2, but not UCP4. In line with this finding, neuroblastoma cells that display metabolic features of tumor cells express UCP2, but not UCP4. UCP2's occurrence in cancer, immunological and stem cells indicates that UCP2 is present in cells with highly proliferative potential, which have a glycolytic type of metabolism as a common feature, whereas UCP4 is strongly associated with non-proliferative highly differentiated neuronal cells.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3921169PMC
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0088474PLOS

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