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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 20.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Lipidol. 2008 Jun;19(3):242–247. doi: 10.1097/MOL.0b013e3282ffaf6a

Table 1.

Transcription factors controlling hepatic glycolysis, fatty acid synthesis and oxidation

Protein SREBP-1 ChREBP/MLX PPARα
Glycolysis and gluconeogenesis
 Glucose transporter-2 (Glut2) (+)
 L-Pyruvate kinase (L-PK) (+) (−)
 Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PepCk) (−) (+)
Fatty acyl synthetases and thioesterases
 Fatty acyl synthetase 1 (ACS1) (+)
 Cytosolic fatty acyl thioesterase (CTEI) (+)
 Mitochondrial fatty acyl thioesterase (MTEI) (+)
 Peroxisomal fatty acyl thioesterase (PTEI) (+)
Fatty acid synthesis, desaturation and elongation
 ATP citrate lyase (ACL) (+) (+)
 Acetyl CoA carboxylase (ACC) (+) (+)
 Fatty acid synthase (FAS) (+) (+)
 Δ5-desaturase (Δ5D) (+) (+)
 Δ6-desaturase (Δ6D) (+) (+)
 Stearoyl CoA desaturase (Δ9D) (+) (+) (+)
Fatty acid elongase-5 (Elovl5) (+)
 Fatty acid elongase-6 (Elovl6) (+) (+) (+)
Fatty acid oxidation
 Mitochondrial HMG CoA synthase (mtHMGCoASyn) (+)
 Peroxisomal acyl CoA oxidase (AOX) (+)
 Microsomal cytochrome P450-4A (Cyp4A) (+)

(+), Transcription factor induces enzyme expression; (−), transcription factor represses enzyme expression.