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In contrast, mechanisms which promote low body weight maintenance receive less attention and are largely unknown. To uncover these intrinsic mechanisms, we investigated a human cohort of constitutionally thin (CT) individuals which maintain a low body weight and are resistant to weight gain despite exposure to an obesogenic environment.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>To identify novel genes that contribute to low body weight maintenance, we performed transcriptomics on adipose tissue biopsies collected from CT and normal body weight (NBW) individuals and identified sulfotransferase 1A1 (SULT1A1) as a target for further investigation in mice. Sult1a1 knockout (KO) mice were fed a standard diet to assess the impact of Sult1a1 deletion on metabolic traits. To determine if high-fat feeding recapitulated the CT weight gain resistance phenotype, Sult1a1 KO mice were fed a high-fat diet for 13-weeks. A subset of wild-type and Sult1a1 KO mice from the standard diet were further analyzed for characterization of adipose tissue respiratory capacity.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>In comparison to NBW controls, adipose tissue from CT individuals expresses less SULT1A1. Sult1a1 KO mice weigh 10% less at the end of the study period and on a high-fat diet, Sult1a1 KO mice tended to gain less weight and had reduced fat mass at 14-weeks of age. These changes were associated with reduced fasting insulin and lessened adipose tissue inflammation and fibrosis. Subcutaneous adipose tissue from Sult1a1 KO mice on a standard chow diet had elevated leak respiration, uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1) expression and increased expression of a mitochondrial marker, VDAC, associating Sult1a1 deletion to adipose tissue browning.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>Our results associate Sult1a1 deletion with a tendency for lower body weight through remodeling of white adipose tissue towards a brown phenotype. 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