Transcriptome profiling of brown adipocytes treated with BML-260, DMSO or ISO for revealing the BML-260 mechanism

To explore BML-260 how to increase thermogenesis, we treated brown adipocytes with BML-260 and DMSO for 1 day or 3 days after seven days' differenciation. Meanwhile, we also set ISO (isoproterenol)-treated brown adipocytes as positive control. We found that BML-260 treatment led to very significant upregulation of genes involved in oxidative phosphorylation, fatty acid beta-oxidation, and mitochondrial function.When compared to cells treated with ISO, although both showed significant upregulation of UCP1, BML-260-treated cells showed a rather distinct gene profile when compared to ISO-treated cells. This work provides evidences that BML-260 can also exert a JSP-1-independent effect in activating UCP1 and thermogenesis in adipocytes, and be potentially applied to treat obesity. Five groups of compound-treated brown adipocytes, including one-day and three-day BML-260 or DMSO treatment as well as ISO treatment. Each group has two samples.