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. 2021 Jul 20;13(7):480–499. doi: 10.1093/jmcb/mjab043

Table 1.

Histone modifications involved in energy metabolism.

Gene IDs Model Tissues/cells Target genes Modifications Brief phenotypes References
GCN5 Knockout Skeletal muscle PPARγ, PGC-1α Acetylation Decrease fatty acid oxidation and facilitate brown adipogenesis and beige adipocyte differentiation Gerhart-Hines et al. (2007); Jin et al. (2014); Kawabe et al. (2019)
HDAC1/2 Knockdown White adipocytes CK2, UCP1, PGC-1α Acetylation, phosphorylation Inhibit thermogenesis Shinoda et al. (2015); Kim et al. (2019)
HDAC3 Knockout Hepatocytes, white adipocytes GPAM, REV-ERBa, NCoR, PGC-1α, PPARα/γ, UCP1 Acetylation Increase lipogenesis, decrease fatty acid oxidation, and impose a futile cycle of fatty acid utilization and synthesis Feng et al. (2011); Sun et al. (2012); Ferrari et al. (2017)
HDAC3 Knockout Brown adipocytes UCP1, PGC-1α, OXPHOS Acetylation Decrease capacity for thermogenesis in BAT Emmett et al. (2017)
HDAC5/9 Knockdown Liver PPARα, IL-6 Acetylation, phosphorylation Induce hepatic fatty acid oxidation and increase energy expenditure and adaptive thermogenesis Chatterjee et al. (2014); Qiu et al. (2018)
HDAC6/10 Knockout Adipocytes CIDEC Acetylation Increase fat accumulation and reduce insulin sensitivity Qian et al. (2017)
HDAC11 Knockout Liver, adipocytes UCP1 Acetylation Induce adiponectin‒AMPK signaling-mediated TG accumulation and promote thermogenic function Sun et al. (2018)
CBP, p300 Knockout Adipocytes UCP1 Acetylation Induce severe lipodystrophy along with marked hepatic steatosis, hyperglycemia, and hyperlipidemia Namwanje et al. (2019)
HDAC6 Knockout Adipocytes CIDEC Acetylation Increase fat storage and contribute to the development of obesity Qian et al. (2017); Lieber et al. (2019)
LSD1 Activate Adipocytes FAD, C/EBP, H3K4me1, H3K4me2 Methylation Promote oxidative metabolism and energy expenditure Duteil et al. (2014)
EHMT1/2 Knockout Adipocytes H3K9me2, H3K9me3 Methylation Reduce adaptive thermogenesis, obesity, and systemic insulin resistance Ohno et al. (2013); Harms et al. (2014)
PRDM16 Knockout Brown adipocytes IRF-E, ISRE Methylation Induce brown fatlike characteristics Kissig et al. (2017)
JMJD1A Knockout Brown adipocytes UCP1, PPARGC1A, PDK4, PCK1, ADRB1 Methylation Decrease heat generation in BAT and oxygen consumption Tateishi et al. (2009); Abe et al. (2015)
JMJD1A Activate Adipocytes H3K9me2 Phosphorylation, methylation Promote beige adipogenesis Abe et al. (2018)
EZH2 Knockout Adipocytes APOE Methylation Increase lipid uptake in adipocytes Yiew et al. (2019)
JMJD3 Activate Adipocytes UCP1, Cidea, H3K27me3 Methylation Induce brown adipogenesis Pan et al. (2015)
KMT5A, KMT5B, KMT5C Knockout Adipocytes PPARγ, TRP53, H4K20me1, H3K27me3 Methylation Impair thermogenic program and susceptible to HFD-induced obesity Zhao et al. (2020)
KDM6B Activate White adipocytes H3K27me3, H3K4me3 Methylation Facilitate the browning of iWAT Pan et al. (2015)
PARP1 Knockout Adipocytes C/EBPβ, HPF1, PPARγ, Fabp4 ADP-ribosylation Induce the formation of mature adipocytes Luo et al. (2017)
OGT Knockout Breast cancer cells AMPK, SREBP1 O-GlcNAcylation Induce decreases in lipids Sodi et al. (2018)
PTM Activate BMDMs Lactoyl-CoA, P300 Lactylation Promote M1 macrophage polarization and elevate intracellular lactate amounts Zhang et al. (2019a)