bims-obesme Biomed News
on Obesity metabolism
Issue of 2024‒09‒01
seven papers selected by
Xiong Weng, University of Edinburgh
  1. The complexity of adipocyte heterogeneity.
  2. Visceral adipocyte-derived extracellular vesicle miR-27a-5p elicits glucose intolerance by inhibiting pancreatic β-cell insulin secretion.
  3. Release of mitochondrial dsRNA into the cytosol is a key driver of the inflammatory phenotype of senescent cells.
  4. The senescence-associated secretome of hedgehog-deficient hepatocytes drives MASLD progression.
  5. P53-dependent hypusination of eIF5A affects mitochondrial translation and senescence immune surveillance.
  6. A functional genomic framework to elucidate novel causal metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease genes.
  7. Drp1 depletion protects against ferroptotic cell death by preserving mitochondrial integrity and redox homeostasis.
  1. Nat Rev Endocrinol. 2024 Aug 27.
    The complexity of adipocyte heterogeneity.
    Claire Greenhill.
      
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41574-024-01031-6
  2. Diabetes. 2024 Aug 21. pii: db240177. [Epub ahead of print]
    Visceral adipocyte-derived extracellular vesicle miR-27a-5p elicits glucose intolerance by inhibiting pancreatic β-cell insulin secretion.
    Yaqin Zhang, Bin Qian, Yangyang, Fandi Niu, Changsong Lin, Honglei Yuan, Jianan Wang, Tijun Wu, Yixue Shao, Shulin Shao, Aiming Liu, Jingwen Wu, Peng Sun, Xiaoai Chang, Yan Bi, Wei Tang, Yunxia Zhu, Fang Chen, Dongming Su, Xiao Han.
      Pancreatic β-cell dysfunction caused by obesity can be associated with alterations in the levels of microRNAs (miRNAs). However, the role of miRNAs in such processes remains elusive. Here, we show that pancreatic islet miR-27a-5p, which is markedly increased in obese mice and impairs insulin secretion, is mainly delivered by visceral adipocyte-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs). Depleting miR-27a-5p significantly improves insulin secretion and glucose intolerance in db/db mice. Supporting the function of EVs' miR-27a-5p as a key pathogenic factor, intravenous injection of miR-27a-5p-containing EVs shows their distribution in mouse pancreatic islets. Tracing the injected AAV-miR-27a-5p (AAV-miR-27a) or AAV-FABP4-miR-27a-5p (AAV-FABP4-miR-27a) in visceral fat results in upregulating miR-27a-5p in EVs and serum, and elicits mouse pancreatic β-cell dysfunction. Mechanistically, miR-27a-5p directly targets L-type Ca2+ channel subtype CaV1.2 (Cacna1c) and reduces insulin secretion in β-cells. Overexpressing mouse CaV1.2 largely abolishes the insulin secretion injury induced by miR-27a-5p. These findings reveal a causative role of EVs' miR-27a-5p in visceral adipocyte-mediated pancreatic β-cell dysfunction in obesity-associated type 2 diabetes mellitus.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.2337/db24-0177
  3. Nat Commun. 2024 Aug 27. 15(1): 7378
    Release of mitochondrial dsRNA into the cytosol is a key driver of the inflammatory phenotype of senescent cells.
    Vanessa López-Polo, Mate Maus, Emmanouil Zacharioudakis, Miguel Lafarga, Camille Stephan-Otto Attolini, Francisco D M Marques, Marta Kovatcheva, Evripidis Gavathiotis, Manuel Serrano.
      The escape of mitochondrial double-stranded dsRNA (mt-dsRNA) into the cytosol has been recently linked to a number of inflammatory diseases. Here, we report that the release of mt-dsRNA into the cytosol is a general feature of senescent cells and a critical driver of their inflammatory secretome, known as senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP). Inhibition of the mitochondrial RNA polymerase, the dsRNA sensors RIGI and MDA5, or the master inflammatory signaling protein MAVS, all result in reduced expression of the SASP, while broadly preserving other hallmarks of senescence. Moreover, senescent cells are hypersensitized to mt-dsRNA-driven inflammation due to their reduced levels of PNPT1 and ADAR1, two proteins critical for mitigating the accumulation of mt-dsRNA and the inflammatory potency of dsRNA, respectively. We find that mitofusin MFN1, but not MFN2, is important for the activation of the mt-dsRNA/MAVS/SASP axis and, accordingly, genetic or pharmacologic MFN1 inhibition attenuates the SASP. Finally, we report that senescent cells within fibrotic and aged tissues present dsRNA foci, and inhibition of mitochondrial RNA polymerase reduces systemic inflammation associated to senescence. In conclusion, we uncover the mt-dsRNA/MAVS/MFN1 axis as a key driver of the SASP and we identify novel therapeutic strategies for senescence-associated diseases.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51363-0
  4. J Clin Invest. 2024 Aug 27. pii: e180310. [Epub ahead of print]
    The senescence-associated secretome of hedgehog-deficient hepatocytes drives MASLD progression.
    Ji Hye Jun, Kuo Du, Rajesh Kumar Dutta, Raquel Maeso-Diaz, Seh-Hoon Oh, Liuyang Wang, Guannan Gao, Ana Ferreira, Jon Hill, Steven S Pullen, Anna Mae Diehl.
      The burden of senescent hepatocytes correlates with MASLD severity but mechanisms driving senescence, and how it exacerbates MASLD are poorly understood. Hepatocytes become senescent when Smoothened (Smo) is deleted to disrupt Hedgehog signaling. We aimed to determine if the secretomes of Smo-deficient hepatocytes perpetuate senescence to drive MASLD progression. RNA seq analysis confirmed that hepatocyte populations of MASLD livers are depleted of Smo(+) cells and enriched with senescent cells. When fed CDA-HFD, Smo(-) mice had lower antioxidant markers and developed worse DNA damage, senescence, MASH and liver fibrosis than Smo(+) mice. Sera and hepatocyte-conditioned medium from Smo(-) mice were depleted of thymidine phosphorylase (TP), a protein that maintains mitochondrial fitness. Treating Smo(-) hepatocytes with TP reduced senescence and lipotoxicity; inhibiting TP in Smo(+) hepatocytes had the opposite effects and exacerbated hepatocyte senescence, MASH, and fibrosis in CDA-HFD-fed mice. Therefore, we found that inhibiting Hedgehog signaling in hepatocytes promotes MASLD by suppressing hepatocyte production of proteins that prevent lipotoxicity and senescence.
    Keywords:  Cell stress; Cellular senescence; Hepatology; Metabolism; Mitochondria
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI180310
  5. Nat Commun. 2024 Aug 28. 15(1): 7458
    P53-dependent hypusination of eIF5A affects mitochondrial translation and senescence immune surveillance.
    Xiangli Jiang, Ali Hyder Baig, Giuliana Palazzo, Rossella Del Pizzo, Toman Bortecen, Sven Groessl, Esther A Zaal, Cinthia Claudia Amaya Ramirez, Alexander Kowar, Daniela Aviles-Huerta, Celia R Berkers, Wilhelm Palm, Darjus Tschaharganeh, Jeroen Krijgsveld, Fabricio Loayza-Puch.
      Cellular senescence is characterized by a permanent growth arrest and is associated with tissue aging and cancer. Senescent cells secrete a number of different cytokines referred to as the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP), which impacts the surrounding tissue and immune response. Here, we find that senescent cells exhibit higher rates of protein synthesis compared to proliferating cells and identify eIF5A as a crucial regulator of this process. Polyamine metabolism and hypusination of eIF5A play a pivotal role in sustaining elevated levels of protein synthesis in senescent cells. Mechanistically, we identify a p53-dependent program in senescent cells that maintains hypusination levels of eIF5A. Finally, we demonstrate that functional eIF5A is required for synthesizing mitochondrial ribosomal proteins and monitoring the immune clearance of premalignant senescent cells in vivo. Our findings establish an important role of protein synthesis during cellular senescence and suggest a link between eIF5A, polyamine metabolism, and senescence immune surveillance.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51901-w
  6. Hepatology. 2024 Aug 27.
    A functional genomic framework to elucidate novel causal metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease genes.
    Peter Saliba-Gustafsson, Johanne M Justesen, Amanda Ranta, Disha Sharma, Ewa Bielczyk-Maczynska, Jiehan Li, Laeya A Najmi, Maider Apodaka, Patricia Aspichueta, Hanna M Björck, Per Eriksson, Theresia M Schurr, Anders Franco-Cereceda, Mike Gloudemans, Endrina Mujica, Marcel den Hoed, Themistocles L Assimes, Thomas Quertermous, Ivan Carcamo-Orive, Chong Y Park, Joshua W Knowles.
      BACKGROUND AIMS: Metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease (MASLD) is the most prevalent chronic liver pathology in western countries, with serious public health consequences. Efforts to identify causal genes for MASLD have been hampered by the relative paucity of human data from gold-standard magnetic resonance quantification of hepatic fat. To overcome insufficient sample size, genome-wide association studies using MASLD surrogate phenotypes have been used, but only a small number of loci have been identified to date. In this study, we combined GWAS of MASLD composite surrogate phenotypes with genetic colocalization studies followed by functional in vitro screens to identify bona fide causal genes for MASLD.APPROACH RESULTS: We used the UK Biobank to explore the associations of our novel MASLD score, and genetic colocalization to prioritize putative causal genes for in vitro validation. We created a functional genomic framework to study MASLD genes in vitro using CRISPRi. Our data identify VKORC1, TNKS, LYPLAL1 and GPAM as regulators of lipid accumulation in hepatocytes and suggest the involvement of VKORC1 in the lipid storage related to the development of MASLD.
    CONCLUSIONS: Complementary genetic and genomic approaches are useful for the identification of MASLD genes. Our data supports VKORC1 as a bona fide MASLD gene. We have established a functional genomic framework to study at scale putative novel MASLD genes from human genetic association studies.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1097/HEP.0000000000001066
  7. Cell Death Dis. 2024 Aug 27. 15(8): 626
    Drp1 depletion protects against ferroptotic cell death by preserving mitochondrial integrity and redox homeostasis.
    Stephan Tang, Anneke Fuß, Zohreh Fattahi, Carsten Culmsee.
      Mitochondria are highly dynamic organelles which undergo constant fusion and fission as part of the mitochondrial quality control. In genetic diseases and age-related neurodegenerative disorders, altered mitochondrial fission-fusion dynamics have been linked to impaired mitochondrial quality control, disrupted organelle integrity and function, thereby promoting neural dysfunction and death. The key enzyme regulating mitochondrial fission is the GTPase Dynamin-related Protein 1 (Drp1), which is also considered as a key player in mitochondrial pathways of regulated cell death. In particular, increasing evidence suggests a role for impaired mitochondrial dynamics and integrity in ferroptosis, which is an iron-dependent oxidative cell death pathway with relevance in neurodegeneration. In this study, we demonstrate that CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genetic depletion of Drp1 exerted protective effects against oxidative cell death by ferroptosis through preserved mitochondrial integrity and maintained redox homeostasis. Knockout of Drp1 resulted in mitochondrial elongation, attenuated ferroptosis-mediated impairment of mitochondrial membrane potential, and stabilized iron trafficking and intracellular iron storage. In addition, Drp1 deficiency exerted metabolic effects, with reduced basal and maximal mitochondrial respiration and a metabolic shift towards glycolysis. These metabolic effects further alleviated the mitochondrial contribution to detrimental ROS production thereby significantly enhancing neural cell resilience against ferroptosis. Taken together, this study highlights the key role of Drp1 in mitochondrial pathways of ferroptosis and expose the regulator of mitochondrial dynamics as a potential therapeutic target in neurological diseases involving oxidative dysregulation.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41419-024-07015-8
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