• DOI:10.1016/j.cmet.2013.01.015
Corpus ID: 21814354

EBF2 determines and maintains brown adipocyte identity.

@article{Rajakumari2013EBF2DA,
  title={EBF2 determines and maintains brown adipocyte identity.},
  author={Sona Rajakumari and J. Wu and Jeff Ishibashi and H. Lim and An-Hoa Giang and Kyoung-Jae Won and R. Reed and P. Seale},
  journal={Cell metabolism},
  year={2013},
  volume={17 4},
  pages={
          562-74
        }
}

• Sona Rajakumari, J. Wu, +5 authors P. Seale
• Published 2013
• Biology, Medicine
• Cell metabolism

The master transcription factor Pparγ regulates the general differentiation program of both brown and white adipocytes. However, it has been unclear whether Pparγ also controls fat lineage-specific characteristics. Here, we show that early B cell factor-2 (Ebf2) regulates Pparγ binding activity to determine brown versus white adipocyte identity. The Ebf DNA-binding motif was highly enriched within brown adipose-specific Pparγ binding sites that we identified by genome-wide ChIP-Seq. Of the Ebf… Expand

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