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. 2007 Jul;6(1):13-24.
doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2007.06.007.

ERRgamma directs and maintains the transition to oxidative metabolism in the postnatal heart

William A Alaynick  1 , Richard P Kondo, Wen Xie, Weimin He, Catherine R Dufour, Michael Downes, Johan W Jonker, Wayne Giles, Robert K Naviaux, Vincent Giguère, Ronald M Evans
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ERRgamma directs and maintains the transition to oxidative metabolism in the postnatal heart

William A Alaynick et al. Cell Metab. 2007 Jul.
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Abstract

At birth, the heart undergoes a critical metabolic switch from a predominant dependence on carbohydrates during fetal life to a greater dependence on postnatal oxidative metabolism. This remains the principle metabolic state throughout life, although pathologic conditions such as heart failure and cardiac hypertrophy reactivate components of the fetal genetic program to increase carbohydrate utilization. Disruption of the ERRgamma gene (Esrrg), which is expressed at high levels in the fetal and postnatal mouse heart, blocks this switch, resulting in lactatemia, electrocardiographic abnormalities, and death during the first week of life. Genomic ChIP-on-chip and expression analysis identifies ERRgamma as both a direct and an indirect regulator of a nuclear-encoded mitochondrial genetic network that coordinates the postnatal metabolic transition. These findings reveal an unexpected and essential molecular genetic component of the oxidative metabolic gene program in the heart and highlight ERRgamma in the study of cardiac hypertrophy and failure.

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