PMID- 35900851 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20221012 LR - 20231105 IS - 1479-6813 (Electronic) IS - 0952-5041 (Print) IS - 0952-5041 (Linking) VI - 69 IP - 4 DP - 2022 Nov 1 TI - Retinoid metabolism: new insights. PG - T37-T49 LID - 10.1530/JME-22-0082 [doi] AB - Vitamin A (retinol) is a critical micronutrient required for the control of stem cell functions, cell differentiation, and cell metabolism in many different cell types, both during embryogenesis and in the adult organism. However, we must obtain vitamin A from food sources. Thus, the uptake and metabolism of vitamin A by intestinal epithelial cells, the storage of vitamin A in the liver, and the metabolism of vitamin A in target cells to more biologically active metabolites, such as retinoic acid (RA) and 4-oxo-RA, must be precisely regulated. Here, I will discuss the enzymes that metabolize vitamin A to RA and the cytochrome P450 Cyp26 family of enzymes that further oxidize RA. Because much progress has been made in understanding the regulation of ALDH1a2 (RALDH2) actions in the intestine, one focus of this review is on the metabolism of vitamin A in intestinal epithelial cells and dendritic cells. Another focus is on recent data that 4-oxo-RA is a ligand required for the maintenance of hematopoietic stem cell dormancy and the important role of RARbeta (RARB) in these stem cells. Despite this progress, many questions remain in this research area, which links vitamin A metabolism to nutrition, immune functions, developmental biology, and nuclear receptor pharmacology. FAU - Gudas, Lorraine J AU - Gudas LJ AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3115-4777 AD - Department of Pharmacology, and Revlon Pharmaceutical Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Pharmacology Department, Weill Cornell Medicine of Cornell University, and the Meyer Cancer Center of Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA. LA - eng GR - R01 DK113088/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - R21 AA027637/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/United States GR - T32 CA062948/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Review DEP - 20221011 PL - England TA - J Mol Endocrinol JT - Journal of molecular endocrinology JID - 8902617 RN - 0 (Ligands) RN - 0 (Micronutrients) RN - 11103-57-4 (Vitamin A) RN - 5688UTC01R (Tretinoin) RN - 9035-51-2 (Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System) RN - EC 1.14.14.1 (Cytochrome P450 Family 26) SB - IM MH - Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System MH - Cytochrome P450 Family 26 MH - Ligands MH - Micronutrients MH - *Tretinoin/metabolism MH - *Vitamin A/metabolism PMC - PMC9561048 MID - NIHMS1820997 OTO - NOTNLM OT - ALDH1a2 OT - DHRS3 OT - RDH10 OT - cytochrome P450 OT - dendritic cell OT - differentiation OT - hematopoietic stem cell OT - immune system OT - nuclear receptor OT - nutrition OT - retinoic acid OT - retinol OT - review OT - stem cells OT - transcription OT - vitamin A COIS- DISCLOSURE OF INTEREST No conflict of interest. EDAT- 2022/07/29 06:00 MHDA- 2022/10/13 06:00 PMCR- 2023/11/01 CRDT- 2022/07/28 11:55 PHST- 2022/06/03 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/06/07 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/07/29 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/10/13 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/07/28 11:55 [entrez] PHST- 2023/11/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1530/JME-22-0082 [doi] PST - epublish SO - J Mol Endocrinol. 2022 Oct 11;69(4):T37-T49. doi: 10.1530/JME-22-0082. Print 2022 Nov 1.