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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 280, Issue 51, 41793-41804, December 23, 2005

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Regulation of Fatty Acid Synthesis by Farnesyl Pyrophosphate^*

Shubha Murthy1, Huaxiang Tong, and Raymond J. Hohl

From the Departments of Internal Medicine and Pharmacology, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242

Fatty acid biosynthesis is transcriptionally regulated by liver X receptor (LXR) and its gene target, sterol regulatory element binding protein-1c (SREBP-1c). LXR activation is induced by oxysterol end products of the mevalonate pathway and is inhibited by the upstream non-sterol isoprenoid, geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate (GGPP). Whether isoprenoids play a role in regulating the transcription of genes involved in fatty acid biosynthesis is unknown. In CaCo-2 colon epithelial cells, depletion of mevalonate and its derivatives, including oxysterol ligands for LXR, increased fatty acid synthesis. Addition of mevalonate or its isoprenoid derivative, farnesyl pyrophosphate (FPP), prevented this increase. The effects of FPP were likely due to itself or its degradation products, because none of its downstream derivatives, GGPP, ubiquinone, or cholesterol, were effective. Moreover, the effects of FPP could not be accounted for by protein prenylation, because inhibition of farnesylation did not alter fatty acid synthesis in mevalonate-depleted cells incubated with the isoprenoid. Neither was fatty acid synthesis in these cells altered by inhibition of -oxidation. Mevalonate depletion increased fatty acid synthase (FAS) mRNA by transcriptional mechanisms, without increasing gene expression of other enzymes involved in fatty acid biosynthesis or of SREBP-1c. The abundance of mature SREBP-2 but not SREBP-1 was increased following mevalonate depletion. FPP prevented the increase in FAS mRNA in mevalonate-depleted cells without altering SREBP-2 activation. Thus, FPP regulates fatty acid synthesis by a mechanism that is likely independent of the SREBP pathway.

Received for publication, April 14, 2005 , and in revised form, September 9, 2005.

^* This work was supported by the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust as a Research Program of Excellence and the Roland W. Holden Family Program for Experimental Cancer Therapeutics. The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

¹ To whom correspondence should be addressed: Dept. of Internal Medicine, 5219 MERF, 375 Newton Road, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242. Tel.: 319-335-8272; Fax: 319-335-8891; E-mail: murthys{at}mail.medicine.uiowa.edu.

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