RT Journal Article T1 Hepatic p63 regulates steatosis via IKKβ/ER stress. A1 Porteiro, Begoña A1 Fondevila, Marcos F A1 Delgado, Teresa C A1 Iglesias, Cristina A1 Imbernon, Monica A1 Iruzubieta, Paula A1 Crespo, Javier A1 Zabala-Letona, Amaia A1 Fernø, Johan A1 Gonzalez-Teran, Barbara A1 Matesanz, Nuria A1 Hernandez-Cosido, Lourdes A1 Marcos, Miguel A1 Tovar, Sulay A1 Vidal, Anxo A1 Sanchez-Ceinos, Julia A1 Malagon, Maria M A1 Pombo, Celia A1 Zalvide, Juan A1 Carracedo, Arkaitz A1 Buque, Xabier A1 Dieguez, Carlos A1 Sabio, Guadalupe A1 Lopez, Miguel A1 Aspichueta, Patricia A1 Martinez-Chantar, Maria L A1 Nogueiras, Ruben K1 Adult K1 Animals K1 Endoplasmic reticulum stress K1 Fatty liver K1 Hepatocytes AB p53 family members control several metabolic and cellular functions. The p53 ortholog p63 modulates cellular adaptations to stress and has a major role in cell maintenance and proliferation. Here we show that p63 regulates hepatic lipid metabolism. Mice with liver-specific p53 deletion develop steatosis and show increased levels of p63. Down-regulation of p63 attenuates liver steatosis in p53 knockout mice and in diet-induced obese mice, whereas the activation of p63 induces lipid accumulation. Hepatic overexpression of N-terminal transactivation domain TAp63 induces liver steatosis through IKKβ activation and the induction of ER stress, the inhibition of which rescues the liver functions. Expression of TAp63, IKKβ and XBP1s is also increased in livers of obese patients with NAFLD. In cultured human hepatocytes, TAp63 inhibition protects against oleic acid-induced lipid accumulation, whereas TAp63 overexpression promotes lipid storage, an effect reversible by IKKβ silencing. Our findings indicate an unexpected role of the p63/IKKβ/ER stress pathway in lipid metabolism and liver disease. PB Nature Publishing Group YR 2017 FD 2017-03-01 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10668/11180 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10668/11180 LA en NO Porteiro B, Fondevila MF, Delgado TC, Iglesias C, Imbernon M, Iruzubieta P, et al. Hepatic p63 regulates steatosis via IKKβ/ER stress. Nat Commun. 2017 May 8;8:15111. doi: 10.1038/ncomms15111. Erratum in: Nat Commun. 2017 Jun 16;8:16059 NO This work has been supported by grants from Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (C.D.: BFU2014–55,871; R.N.: BFU2015-70,664-R; M.M.M.: BFU2013-44229-R; A.C.: SAF2016-79381-R, FEDER/UE; GS: SAF2013-43506-R; M.L.M.-C.: SAF2014-54658-R; M.L.: SAF2015-71026-R; P.A.: SAF2015-64352-R; B.G.-T.: FPI Severo Ochoa CNIC program SVP-2013-067639), Xunta de Galicia (M.L.: 2015-CP079; R.N.: 2015-CP080 andPIE13/00024), Comunidad de Madrid (G.S.: S2010/BMD-2326); Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias (M.M.: PI10/01692), Fundacio´n SEEN (R.N.), GV-Departamento de Salud-2013111114 (to M.L.M.-C.), ISCIII: PIE14/00031 (to M.L.M.-C.), Junta Provincial de Bizkaia- AECC (to M.L.M.-C.), AECC (T.C.D.); Basque Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade (Etortek) (A.C.), the BBVA foundation (A.C.), Fundación AstraZeneca (R.N.) Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red (CIBER) de Fisiopatología de la Obesidad yNutrición (CIBERobn). CIBERobn is an initiative of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) of Spain, which is supported by FEDER funds. The participation of A.C. and A.Z.-L. as part of CIBERONC was co-funded with FEDER funds. The research leading to these results has also received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme under the following grant: A.C.: ERC StG-336343; R.N.: ERC StG-281408 and G.S.: ERC StG-260464. DS RISalud RD Apr 17, 2025