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Da Som Lee1,2 , Tae Hyeon An2,3, Hyunmi Kim2,3, Eunsun Jung4 , Gyeonghun Kim5 , Seung Yeon Oh6 , Jun Seok Kim7, Hye Jin Chun8 , Jaeeun Jung9 , Eun-Woo Lee2,3 , Baek-Soo Han3,10 , Dai Hoon Han11 , Yong-Ho Lee8,12 , Tae-Su Han3,4 , Keun Hur13 , Chul-Ho Lee3,14 , Dae-Soo Kim9 , Won Kon Kim2,3, Jun Won Park15 , Seung-Hoi Koo7 , Je Kyung Seong5,6 , Sang Chul Lee2,3, Hail Kim1 , Kwang-Hee Bae2,3 , Kyoung-Jin Oh2,3
1 Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
2 Metabolic Regulation Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Daejeon, Republic of Korea
3 Department of Functional Genomics, KRIBB School of Bioscience, University of Science and Technology (UST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea
4 Biotherapeutics Translational Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Daejeon, Republic of Korea
5 College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
6 Korea Mouse Phenotyping Center (KMPC), Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
7 Division of Life Sciences, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
8 Department of Systems Biology, Glycosylation Network Research Center, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
9 Environmental Diseases Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Daejeon, Republic of Korea
10 Biodefense Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Daejeon, Republic of Korea
11 Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
12 Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
13 Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
14 Laboratory Animal Resource Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Daejeon, Republic of Korea
15 Division of Biomedical Convergence, College of Biomedical Science, Kangwon National University, ChunCheon-si, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea
Da Som Lee, Tae Hyeon An and Hyunmi Kim contributed equally to this study.
Corresponding authors : Correspondence to Hail Kim, Kwang-Hee Bae or Kyoung-Jin Oh.
Abstract
Aims/hypothesis: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) associated with type 2 diabetes may more easily progress towards severe forms of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and cirrhosis. Although the Wnt effector transcription factor 7-like 2 (TCF7L2) is closely associated with type 2 diabetes risk, the role of TCF7L2 in NAFLD development remains unclear. Here, we investigated how changes in TCF7L2 expression in the liver affects hepatic lipid metabolism based on the major risk factors of NAFLD development.
Methods: Tcf7l2 was selectively ablated in the liver of C57BL/6N mice by inducing the albumin (Alb) promoter to recombine Tcf7l2 alleles floxed at exon 5 (liver-specific Tcf7l2-knockout [KO] mice: Alb-Cre;Tcf7l2f/f). Alb-Cre;Tcf7l2f/f and their wild-type (Tcf7l2f/f) littermates were fed a high-fat diet (HFD) or a high-carbohydrate diet (HCD) for 22 weeks to reproduce NAFLD/NASH. Mice were refed a standard chow diet or an HCD to stimulate de novo lipogenesis (DNL) or fed an HFD to provide exogenous fatty acids. We analysed glucose and insulin sensitivity, metabolic respiration, mRNA expression profiles, hepatic triglyceride (TG), hepatic DNL, selected hepatic metabolites, selected plasma metabolites and liver histology.
Results: Alb-Cre;Tcf7l2f/f essentially exhibited increased lipogenic genes, but there were no changes in hepatic lipid content in mice fed a normal chow diet. However, following 22 weeks of diet-induced NAFLD/NASH conditions, liver steatosis was exacerbated owing to preferential metabolism of carbohydrate over fat. Indeed, hepatic Tcf7l2 deficiency enhanced liver lipid content in a manner that was dependent on the duration and amount of exposure to carbohydrates, owing to cell-autonomous increases in hepatic DNL. Mechanistically, TCF7L2 regulated the transcriptional activity of Mlxipl (also known as ChREBP) by modulating O-GlcNAcylation and protein content of carbohydrate response element binding protein (ChREBP), and targeted Srebf1 (also called SREBP1) via miRNA (miR)-33-5p in hepatocytes. Eventually, restoring TCF7L2 expression at the physiological level in the liver of Alb-Cre;Tcf7l2f/f mice alleviated liver steatosis without altering body composition under both acute and chronic HCD conditions.
Conclusions/interpretation: In mice, loss of hepatic Tcf7l2 contributes to liver steatosis by inducing preferential metabolism of carbohydrates via DNL activation. Therefore, TCF7L2 could be a promising regulator of the NAFLD associated with high-carbohydrate diets and diabetes since TCF7L2 deficiency may lead to development of NAFLD by promoting utilisation of excess glucose pools through activating DNL.
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- Research article
- 2023년 02월 (BRIC 등록일 2023-02-21)
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- 생명과학 > 생리학
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