scholarly journals Global Gene Expression Profiling in PPAR-γAgonist-Treated Kidneys in an Orthologous Rat Model of Human Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease

PPAR Research ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daisuke Yoshihara ◽  
Masanori Kugita ◽  
Tamio Yamaguchi ◽  
Harold M. Aukema ◽  
Hiroki Kurahashi ◽  
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Kidneys are enlarged by aberrant proliferation of tubule epithelial cells leading to the formation of numerous cysts, nephron loss, and interstitial fibrosis in polycystic kidney disease (PKD). Pioglitazone (PIO), a PPAR-γagonist, decreased cell proliferation, interstitial fibrosis, and inflammation, and ameliorated PKD progression in PCK rats (Am. J. Physiol.-Renal, 2011). To explore genetic mechanisms involved, changes in global gene expression were analyzed. By Gene Set Enrichment Analysis of 30655 genes, 13 of the top 20 downregulated gene ontology biological process gene sets and six of the top 20 curated gene set canonical pathways identified to be downregulated by PIOtreatment were related to cell cycle and proliferation, including EGF, PDGF and JNK pathways. Their relevant pathways were identified using the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Gene and Genomes database. Stearoyl-coenzyme A desaturase 1 is a key enzyme in fatty acid metabolism found in the top 5 genes downregulated by PIO treatment. Immunohistochemical analysis revealed that the gene product of this enzyme was highly expressed in PCK kidneys and decreased by PIO. These data show that PIO alters the expression of genes involved in cell cycle progression, cell proliferation, and fatty acid metabolism.

2011 ◽  
Vol 300 (1) ◽  
pp. F177-F188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masanori Kugita ◽  
Kazuhiro Nishii ◽  
Miwa Morita ◽  
Daisuke Yoshihara ◽  
Hiroe Kowa-Sugiyama ◽  
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Han:SPRD Cy is a spontaneous rat model of polycystic kidney disease (PKD) caused by a missense mutation in Pkdr1. Cystogenesis in this model is not clearly understood. In the current study, we performed global gene expression profiling in early-stage PKD cyst development in Cy/Cy kidneys and normal (+/+) kidneys at 3 and 7 days of postnatal age. Expression profiles were determined by microarray analysis, followed by validation with real-time RT-PCR. Genes were selected with over 1.5-fold expression changes compared with age-matched +/+ kidneys for canonical pathway analysis. We found nine pathways in common between 3- and 7-day Cy/Cy kidneys. Three significantly changed pathways were designated “Vitamin D Receptor (VDR)/Retinoid X Receptor (RXR) Activation,” “LPS/IL-1-Mediated Inhibition of RXR Function,” and “Liver X Receptor (LXR)/RXR Activation.” These results suggest that RXR-mediated signaling is significantly altered in developing kidneys with mutated Pkdr1. In gene ontology analysis, the functions of these RXR-related genes were found to be involved in regulating cell proliferation and organ morphogenesis. With real-time RT-PCR analysis, the upregulation of Ptx2, Alox15b, OSP, and PCNA, major markers of cell proliferation associated with the RXR pathway, were confirmed in 3- and 7-day Cy/Cy kidneys compared with 3-day +/+ kidneys. The increased RXR protein was observed in both the nucleus and cytoplasm of cystic epithelial cells in early-stage Cy/Cy kidneys, and the RXR-positive cells were strongly positive for PCNA staining. Taken together, cell proliferation and organ morphogenesis signals transduced by RXR-mediated pathways may have important roles for cystogenesis in early-stage PKD in this Pkdr1-mutated Cy rat.


2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Selman ◽  
Nicola D. Kerrison ◽  
Anisha Cooray ◽  
Matthew D. W. Piper ◽  
Steven J. Lingard ◽  
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Caloric restriction (CR) increases healthy life span in a range of organisms. The underlying mechanisms are not understood but appear to include changes in gene expression, protein function, and metabolism. Recent studies demonstrate that acute CR alters mortality rates within days in flies. Multitissue transcriptional changes and concomitant metabolic responses to acute CR have not been described. We generated whole genome RNA transcript profiles in liver, skeletal muscle, colon, and hypothalamus and simultaneously measured plasma metabolites using proton nuclear magnetic resonance in mice subjected to acute CR. Liver and muscle showed increased gene expressions associated with fatty acid metabolism and a reduction in those involved in hepatic lipid biosynthesis. Glucogenic amino acids increased in plasma, and gene expression for hepatic gluconeogenesis was enhanced. Increased expression of genes for hormone-mediated signaling and decreased expression of genes involved in protein binding and development occurred in hypothalamus. Cell proliferation genes were decreased and cellular transport genes increased in colon. Acute CR captured many, but not all, hepatic transcriptional changes of long-term CR. Our findings demonstrate a clear transcriptional response across multiple tissues during acute CR, with congruent plasma metabolite changes. Liver and muscle switched gene expression away from energetically expensive biosynthetic processes toward energy conservation and utilization processes, including fatty acid metabolism and gluconeogenesis. Both muscle and colon switched gene expression away from cellular proliferation. Mice undergoing acute CR rapidly adopt many transcriptional and metabolic changes of long-term CR, suggesting that the beneficial effects of CR may require only a short-term reduction in caloric intake.


2016 ◽  
Vol 119 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Junko S Warren ◽  
Dane W Barton ◽  
Mickey Miller ◽  
Li Wang ◽  
James Cox ◽  
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Epigenetic control of metabolism in the healthy and diseased heart remains poorly understood. We recently demonstrated that chromatin-bound Smyd1, a muscle-specific histone methyltransferase, is significantly upregulated in a mouse model of pressure overload-induced heart failure (HF) and that inducible, cardiac-specific Smyd1 knock-out (Smyd1-KO) mice develop cellular hypertrophy and fulminate HF. Bioinformatic analysis of transcripts differentially regulated in these mice revealed that cardiac metabolism was the most perturbed biological function in the heart. However, it was not clear whether alterations in cardiac metabolism were a direct consequence of Smyd1 deletion or were secondary to developed HF. Here we hypothesized that Smyd1 directly regulates cardiac metabolism; the effects of which should be detectable in Smyd1-KO mice before overt cardiac dysfunction. To test this hypothesis we performed unbiased metabolomic analysis of Smyd1-KO mice using GC/MS and MS/MS (n=9 control, n=10 KO) combined with targeted gene expression analysis. Our results showed significant changes in the metabolic profile of Smyd1-KO mice at the earliest time point (3 weeks after tamoxifen treatment) in which Smyd1 protein expression was significantly reduced while cardiac function remained normal. The most profound difference, in energetics-associated pathways in these mice, was found in fatty acid β-oxidation, manifested by the decreased myocardial content of carnitine and free fatty acids and downregulation of their transporters, OCTN2 and CD36. In addition, mRNA levels of the PPAR-α complex (PPAR-α;RXR-α;PGC-1α), an established regulator of fatty acid β-oxidation, and its target genes (CPT1b;CD36;Acox1;MCAD) were significantly reduced in Smyd1-KO mice prior to the onset of cardiac dysfunction (all p<0.05). To identify whether Smyd1 directly controls gene expression of PPAR-α, we examined the PPAR-α loci using chromatin-immunoprecipitation followed by qPCR and observed significant binding of Smyd1 upstream of the PPAR-α transcriptional start site. Overall, this study identifies Smyd1 as a novel regulator of fatty acid metabolism and suggests that Smyd1 controls cardiac energetics directly by regulating gene expression of PPAR-α.


2014 ◽  
Vol 115 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Drosatos ◽  
Nina Pollak ◽  
Panagiotis Ntziachristos ◽  
Chad M Trent ◽  
Yunying Hu ◽  
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Krüppel-like factors (KLF) have been associated with metabolic phenotypes. Our study focused on the metabolic role of cardiac KLF5, as it showed the highest increase among all KLFs that were detected by whole genome microarrays of energy-starved hearts obtained from lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-treated mice. Analysis of ppara promoter indicated two potential binding sites for c-Jun (AP-1 sites), the transcriptional factor that is activated by LPS and reduces cardiac PPARα expression: −792/-772 bp and −719/-698 bp prior to the transcription initiation site. This analysis showed that both AP-1 sites overlap with potential KLF-binding sites. Adenovirus-mediated expression of constitutively active c-Jun in a mouse cardiomyocyte cell line (HL-1) reduced PPARα gene expression, while treatment with Ad-KLF5 had the opposite effect. Chromatin immunoprecipitation analysis (ChIP) showed that c-Jun binds both −792/-772 bp and −719/-698 sites of ppara promoter while KLF5 binds on −792/-772 bp. ChIP analysis also showed that LPS promotes c-Jun binding on −792/-772 bp, which prohibits occupation of this region by KLF5. A cardiomyocyte-specific KLF5 knockout mouse (αMHC-KLF5-/-) had normal cardiac function but reduced cardiac expression of PPARα (50%) and other fatty acid metabolism-associated genes such as CD36 (40%), LpL (20%), PGC1α (45%), AOX (28%) and Cpt1 (45%). High fat diet (HFD)-fed αMHC-KLF5-/- mice had a more profound body weight increase (35%) compared to HFD-fed WT mice (15%), as well as larger white adipocytes and brown adipocytes (H&E) and increased hepatic neutral lipid accumulation (Oil-Red-O). The obesogenic effect of cardiomyocyte-specific deletion of KLF5 resembles the phenotype of the αMHC-MED13-/- mice. We showed that KLF5 ablation reduced cardiac MED13 levels despite lack of changes in the expression levels of miR-208, a known regulator of MED13. Infection of HL-1 cells with Ad-KLF5 increased MED13 gene expression. ChIP identified a KLF5 binding site on med13 gene promoter region (-730/-714 bp). Thus, KLF5 regulates cardiac PPARα and MED13 and affects cardiac and systemic fatty acid metabolism and obesity, thus indicating KLF5 as a potential target for cardiac dysfunction associated with energetic complications, as well as for obesity


2019 ◽  
Vol 133 (15) ◽  
pp. 1745-1758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Songtao Cheng ◽  
Gang Wang ◽  
Yejinpeng Wang ◽  
Liwei Cai ◽  
Kaiyu Qian ◽  
...  

Abstract Tumor cells rely on aerobic glycolysis as their main energy resource (Warburg effect). Recent research has highlighted the importance of lipid metabolism in tumor progression, and certain cancers even turn to fatty acids as the main fuel. Related studies have identified alterations of fatty acid metabolism in human bladder cancer (BCa). Our microarray analysis showed that fatty acid metabolism was activated in BCa compared with normal bladder. The free fatty acid (FFA) level was also increased in BCa compared with paracancerous tissues. Inhibition of fatty acid oxidation (FAO) with etomoxir caused lipid accumulation, decreased adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) levels, suppressed BCa cell growth in vitro and in vivo, and reduced motility of BCa cells via affecting epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT)-related proteins. Furthermore, etomoxir induced BCa cell cycle arrest at G0/G1 phase through peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) γ-mediated pathway with alterations in fatty acid metabolism associated gene expression. The cell cycle arrest could be reversed by PPARγ antagonist GW9662. Taken together, our results suggest that inhibition of FAO with etomoxir may provide a novel avenue to investigate new therapeutic approaches to human BCa.


Biology ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 216-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Uzbekova ◽  
Sebastien Elis ◽  
Ana-Paula Teixeira-Gomes ◽  
Alice Desmarchais ◽  
Virginie Maillard ◽  
...  

Lipids ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 566-569 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenifer A. Lindsey ◽  
Nobuhiro Morisaki ◽  
Judith M. Stitts ◽  
Richard A. Zager ◽  
David G. Cornwell

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 748-757 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beom K Choi ◽  
Do Y Lee ◽  
Don G Lee ◽  
Young H Kim ◽  
Seon-Hee Kim ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Yu Hu ◽  
Hongyan Zai ◽  
Wei Jiang ◽  
Zhenglin Ou ◽  
Yuanbing Yao ◽  
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Background. Hepatoblastoma (HB) is the most common liver malignancy in pediatrics, but the treatment for this disease is minimal. This study is aimed at exploring the effect of FoxO1 and SREBP-1c on HB and their mechanism. Methods. FoxO1, SREBP-1c, FASN, ACLY, ACC, and MAGL expressions in tissue samples were detected by RT-qPCR and WB. IHC was utilized to measure FASN content. Overexpression and knockdown of FoxO1 and sSREBP-1c were performed on Huh-6 cells. Cell proliferation, migration, and invasion were examined by CCK8, scratch, and transwell assay. ELISA was performed to test the ATP, FAO, NEFA, and Acetyl-CoA contents. ChIP was used to detect the interaction between SREBP-1c protein and the FoxO1 gene. In vivo tumorigenesis was conducted on mice. The morphology of tumor tissue sections was observed by HE staining. Results. FoxO1 expression was downregulated in HB tissue, while the expressions of SREBP-1c, FASN, ACLY, ACC, and MAGL were upregulated. In Huh-6 cells and mouse tumor tissues, FoxO1 knockdown resulted in increased cell proliferation, migration, and invasion and active fatty acid metabolism. On the contrary, after the knockdown of SREBP-1c, cell proliferation, migration, and invasion were weakened, and fatty acid metabolism was significantly reduced. SREBP-1c interacted with the promoter of the FoxO1 gene. When FoxO1 was knocked down, the tumor tissue was more closely packed. After the knockdown of the SREBP-1c gene, the structure of tumor cells was deformed. Conclusion. FoxO1 and SREBP-1c inhibited each other in HB, leading to the increase of intracellular fatty acid metabolism, and ultimately facilitated the development of HB.


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