Mitochondria at the crossroads of health and disease

A Suomalainen, J Nunnari - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Mitochondria reside at the crossroads of catabolic and anabolic metabolism—the essence of
life. How their structure and function are dynamically tuned in response to tissue-specific …

GDF15: emerging biology and therapeutic applications for obesity and cardiometabolic disease

D Wang, EA Day, LK Townsend, D Djordjevic… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF15) is a member of the TGFβ superfamily
whose expression is increased in response to cellular stress and disease as well as by …

Adipokines, hepatokines and myokines: focus on their role and molecular mechanisms in adipose tissue inflammation

Y Ren, H Zhao, C Yin, X Lan, L Wu, X Du… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Chronic low-grade inflammation in adipose tissue (AT) is a hallmark of obesity and
contributes to various metabolic disorders, such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular …

GFRAL is the receptor for GDF15 and the ligand promotes weight loss in mice and nonhuman primates

SE Mullican, X Lin-Schmidt, CN Chin, JA Chavez… - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF15), a distant member of the transforming
growth factor (TGF)-β family, is a secreted protein that circulates as a 25-kDa dimer. In …

GDF15 is an inflammation-induced central mediator of tissue tolerance

HH Luan, A Wang, BK Hilliard, F Carvalho, CE Rosen… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Growth and differentiation factor 15 (GDF15) is an inflammation-associated hormone with
poorly defined biology. Here, we investigated the role of GDF15 in bacterial and viral …

[HTML][HTML] GDF15 provides an endocrine signal of nutritional stress in mice and humans

S Patel, A Alvarez-Guaita, A Melvin, D Rimmington… - Cell metabolism, 2019 - cell.com
GDF15 is an established biomarker of cellular stress. The fact that it signals via a specific
hindbrain receptor, GFRAL, and that mice lacking GDF15 manifest diet-induced obesity …

GFRAL is the receptor for GDF15 and is required for the anti-obesity effects of the ligand

L Yang, CC Chang, Z Sun, D Madsen, H Zhu… - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF15; also known as MIC-1) is a divergent
member of the TGF-β superfamily and is associated with body-weight regulation in humans …

Mitochondrial diseases: the contribution of organelle stress responses to pathology

A Suomalainen, BJ Battersby - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2018 - nature.com
Mitochondrial diseases affect one in 2,000 individuals; they can present at any age and they
can manifest in any organ. How defects in mitochondria can cause such a diverse range of …

[HTML][HTML] The MIC-1/GDF15-GFRAL pathway in energy homeostasis: implications for obesity, cachexia, and other associated diseases

VWW Tsai, Y Husaini, A Sainsbury, DA Brown, SN Breit - Cell metabolism, 2018 - cell.com
MIC-1/GDF15 is a stress response cytokine and a distant member of the transforming growth
factor beta (TGFb) superfamily, with no close relatives. It acts via a recently identified …

Metformin-induced increases in GDF15 are important for suppressing appetite and promoting weight loss

EA Day, RJ Ford, BK Smith… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Metformin is the most commonly prescribed medication for type 2 diabetes, owing to its
glucose-lowering effects, which are mediated through the suppression of hepatic glucose …