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 Overall design: mRNA profiles of vehicle or cAMP treated inguinal adipocytes that lack APPBP2 and/or PRDM16