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Fig. 1 | Cardiovascular Diabetology

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From: Forkhead box transcription factor 1: role in the pathogenesis of diabetic cardiomyopathy

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Regulation and function of FOXO-1 in the development of DCM. In diabetes mellitus, various stimuli like excess glucose, excess lipids, oxygen free radicals, cytokines and other growth factors triggers several mechanisms that promote posttranslational modifications like phosphorylation, acetylation, deacetylation which may regulate the FOXO-1 activity and function. Akt promotes the phosphorylation and translocation of FOXO1 to cytosol and facilitates its binding with 14-3-3 protein which directs it for degradation whereas protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) causes dephosphorylation and translocates FOXO1 to nucleus from cytosol. E3 ubiquitin ligase facilitates ubiquination of FOXO1, while ubiquitin specific protease (USP7) inverted the process. Further, phosphorylation by Mst1 stimulates FOXO1 transcriptional activity. In addition, cAMP response element binding protein (CBP) and p300 histone acetyltransferase acetylates FOXO1, and silent information regulator 1 (SIRT1) deacetylates it. Activated FOXO-1 binds to the FOXO-binding site and triggers several genes involved in inflammation, oxidative stress, nitrosative stress, glucose and lipid metabolism, hypertrophy, autophagy and apoptosis that finally leads to alteration of cardiac structure, metabolism, function and cardiac cell death. P phoshorylation; Ub ubiquitination; Ac acetylation

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