RNA-seq analysis in adipocytes that lack APPBP2 and/or PRDM16

We systematically determined the extent to which APPBP2 loss stimulate beige adipocyte biogenesis in a PRDM16-dependent fashion. To this end, we ran RNA-seq analysis in adipocytes that lack APPBP2 and/or PRDM16. By overlapping the transcriptome data with published dataset of brown/beige fat (Chondronikola et al., 2016; Perdikari et al., 2018; Shinoda et al., 2015a), we found that APPBP2 loss significantly increased 72 genes whose expression was enriched in brown adipocytes relative to white fat. Among 72 brown/beige fat-enriched genes, we found that 90.28% (65/72 genes) of them were regulated in a PRDM16-dependent manner. The data suggest that PRDM16 is required for the majority, if not all, of APPBP2’s action on brown fat genes mRNA profiles of vehicle or cAMP treated inguinal adipocytes that lack APPBP2 and/or PRDM16