期刊
METABOLITES
卷 11, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/metabo11010009
关键词
oxysterol sulfates; oxysterol sulfation; epigenetic regulators; 25-hydroxysterol; 25-hydroxycholesterol 3-sulfate; 25-hydroxycholesterol 3; 25-disulfate
资金
- Department of Veterans Affairs [1l01BX003656]
- DURECT Research Agreement
Oxysterols play key roles in lipid homeostasis, the immune system, and are associated with various cell functions and diseases. Sulfated oxysterols can decrease lipid biosynthesis, suppress inflammatory responses, and promote cell survival through different mechanisms. Oxysterols and their sulfates serve as epigenetic regulators of DNA methyltransferases, indicating a global regulatory function through epigenetic modification.
Oxysterols have long been believed to be ligands of nuclear receptors such as liver x receptor (LXR), and they play an important role in lipid homeostasis and in the immune system, where they are involved in both transcriptional and posttranscriptional mechanisms. However, they are increasingly associated with a wide variety of other, sometimes surprising, cell functions. Oxysterols have also been implicated in several diseases such as metabolic syndrome. Oxysterols can be sulfated, and the sulfated oxysterols act in different directions: they decrease lipid biosynthesis, suppress inflammatory responses, and promote cell survival. Our recent reports have shown that oxysterol and oxysterol sulfates are paired epigenetic regulators, agonists, and antagonists of DNA methyltransferases, indicating that their function of global regulation is through epigenetic modification. In this review, we explore our latest research of 25-hydroxycholesterol and 25-hydroxycholesterol 3-sulfate in a novel regulatory mechanism and evaluate the current evidence for these roles.
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