Figure 9. Sirt1 inhibited ER stress-induced brown adipocyte apoptosis through the Smad3/ATF4 signal.
Sirt1 inhibited ER stress-induced brown adipocyte apoptosis and directly binding with ATF4. Smad3 was a novel transcriptional activator of ATF4 in alleviating ER stress and apoptosis of brown adipocytes.