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Li Y, Cai H, Lin Y, Huang Z, Zhou A, Huang T, Zeng YE, Ye M, Guo G, Huang Z. Association of lipoprotein lipase (LPL) gene variants with hyperlipidemic acute pancreatitis in southeastern Chinese population. Arch Endocrinol Metab 2024; 68:e230195. [PMID: 38530959 PMCID: PMC11081040 DOI: 10.20945/2359-4292-2023-0195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2023] [Accepted: 08/15/2023] [Indexed: 03/28/2024]
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Objective The study aims to explore the relationship between lipoprotein lipase (LPL) variants and hyperlipidemic acute pancreatitis (HLAP) in the southeastern Chinese population. Subjects and methods In total, 80 participants were involved in this study (54 patients with HLAP and 26 controls). All coding regions and intron-exon boundaries of the LPL gene were sequenced. The correlations between variants and phenotypes were also analysed. Results The rate of rare LPL variants in the HLAP group is 14.81% (8 of 54), higher than in controls. Among the detected four variants (rs3735959, rs371282890, rs761886494 and rs761265900), the most common variant was rs371282890. Further analysis demonstrated that subjects with rs371282890 "GC" genotype had a 2.843-fold higher risk for HLAP (odds ratio [OR]: 2.843, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.119-7.225, p = 0.028) than subjects with the "CC" genotype. After adjusting for sex, the association remained significant (adjusted OR: 3.083, 95% CI: 1.208-7.869, p = 0.018). Subjects with rs371282890 "GC" genotype also exhibited significantly elevated total cholesterol, triglyceride and non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels in all the participants and the HLAP group (p < 0.05). Conclusion Detecting rare variants in LPL might be valuable for identifying higher-risk patients with HLAP and guiding future individualised therapeutic strategies.
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- Yingyi Li
- Department of Gastroenterology, The First Hospital of Quanzhou Affiliated to Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, People's Republic of China,
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- Clinical Laboratory, The First Hospital of Quanzhou Affiliated to Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, People's Republic of China
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- HI. Q Biomedical Laboratory, Third Floor Building 5 Derun Industrial Park, Taiwan Investment Zone, Quanzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The First Hospital of Quanzhou Affiliated to Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The First Hospital of Quanzhou Affiliated to Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The First Hospital of Quanzhou Affiliated to Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The First Hospital of Quanzhou Affiliated to Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The First Hospital of Quanzhou Affiliated to Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The First Hospital of Quanzhou Affiliated to Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The First Hospital of Quanzhou Affiliated to Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, People's Republic of China
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Fujita S, Nishizawa H, Miyashita Y, Imada T, Yamaguchi T, Murano T, Bujo H, Asano Y, Kozawa J, Maeda N, Shimomura I. Genetic assessment using whole-exome sequencing for a young hypertriglyceridemic patient with repeated acute pancreatitis. Endocr J 2022; 69:1101-1108. [PMID: 35387941 DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.ej22-0024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Hypertriglyceridemia is caused not only by environmental factors but also by genetic factors. Severe hypertriglyceridemia is prone to complications of acute pancreatitis. Here, we report a whole-exome sequencing (WES) analysis for a young hypertriglyceridemic patient with recurrent acute pancreatitis and the patient's mother. A 28-year-old hypertriglyceridemic female was admitted to our hospital. At 23 years old, a health checkup clarified her hypertriglyceridemia. At the age of 26 and 27, she had repeated acute pancreatitis with severe hypertriglyceridemia (serum triglyceride level were 3,888 mg/dL and 12,080 mg/dL, respectively). The patient's BMI was 29.0 kg/m2, and blood samples under fibrate medication showed triglyceride 451 mg/dL and HbA1c 7.2%. Type V dyslipidemia became more apparent at postprandial state. The WES analysis showed that the patients had two heterozygous variants in Apolipoprotein A5 (APOA5) gene (p.G185C and p.V153M), a heterozygous variant in Apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene (p.R176C), three heterozygous variants in Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR) gene (p.T1220I, p.R1453W and p.V470M). On the other hand, her mother, who had moderate hypertriglyceridemia without acute pancreatitis, had a heterozygous variant in APOA5 gene (p.G185C) and two heterozygous variants in CFTR gene (p.T1220I and p.V470M). These results suggest that the more severe pathology of the patient than her mother might be due to the possible compound heterozygous APOA5 variants, the heterozygous APOE variant, and the possible compound heterozygous CFTR variants. In this case, WES analyses were useful to evaluate not only the causative genes of hypertriglyceridemia (APOA5 and APOE) but also the genes involved in the development of acute pancreatitis (CFTR) simultaneously.
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- Shingo Fujita
- Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Legal Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Center of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Toho University Sakura Medical Center, Chiba 285-8741, Japan
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- Clinical Laboratory Program, Faculty of Science, Toho University, Chiba 274-8510, Japan
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- Department of Clinical-Laboratory and Experimental-Research Medicine, Toho University Sakura Medical Center, Chiba 285-8741, Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
- Department of Diabetes Care Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
- Department of Metabolism and Atherosclerosis, Graduate School of Medicine Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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Kobayashi J, Minamizuka T, Koshizaka M, Maezawa Y, Ono H, Yokote K. Serum HDL-C values: An extremely useful marker for differentiating homozygous lipoprotein lipase deficiency from severe hypertriglyceridemia with other causes in Japan: A meta-analysis based on literatures on Japanese homozygous lipoprotein lipase deficiency. Clin Chim Acta 2021; 521:85-89. [PMID: 34242636 DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2021.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2021] [Accepted: 07/04/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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BACKGROUNDS AND AIM Lipoprotein lipase (LPL) deficiency is a genetic disorder with a defective gene for lipoprotein lipase, leading to very high triglycerides. In the daily practice it is much more common to come across severely hypertriglyceridemia without homozygous or compound heterozygous LPL deficiency (SHTG). METHODS We investigated on how to screen homozygous or compound heterozygous LPL deficiency using lipid parameters by meta-analyzing past 20 subjects on this genetic disease reported by Japanese investigators. As a comparison with LPL deficiency, 21 subjects with SHTG from recent two studies were included in this study. RESULTS Serum HDL-C levels were significantly lower in LPL deficiency than in SHTG (0.38 ± 0.13 vs 0.94 ± 0.28 mmol/L (mean ± SD), p < 0.001), whereas other serum lipids did not differ between the two groups. The ROC curve ± standard error for serum HDL-C for discriminating the two groups was 0.97 ± 0.019. Sensitivity and specificity for distinguishing the two groups were 90% and 95%, respectively when serum HDL-C 0.62 mmol/L was adopted as cut point. CONCLUSION We found for the first time that serum HDL-C is an extremely useful marker for discriminating LPL deficiency from SHTG in Japanese population.
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- Junji Kobayashi
- Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University Endocrine Metabolism/Hematology/Geriatric Medicine, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba City, Chiba 260-8677, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University Endocrine Metabolism/Hematology/Geriatric Medicine, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba City, Chiba 260-8677, Japan
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- Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University Endocrine Metabolism/Hematology/Geriatric Medicine, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba City, Chiba 260-8677, Japan
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- Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University Endocrine Metabolism/Hematology/Geriatric Medicine, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba City, Chiba 260-8677, Japan
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- Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University Endocrine Metabolism/Hematology/Geriatric Medicine, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba City, Chiba 260-8677, Japan
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- Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University Endocrine Metabolism/Hematology/Geriatric Medicine, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba City, Chiba 260-8677, Japan
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Yang Q, Pu N, Li XY, Shi XL, Chen WW, Zhang GF, Hu YP, Zhou J, Chen FX, Li BQ, Tong ZH, Férec C, Cooper DN, Chen JM, Li WQ. Digenic Inheritance and Gene-Environment Interaction in a Patient With Hypertriglyceridemia and Acute Pancreatitis. Front Genet 2021; 12:640859. [PMID: 34040631 PMCID: PMC8143378 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.640859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2021] [Accepted: 03/30/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The etiology of hypertriglyceridemia (HTG) and acute pancreatitis (AP) is complex. Herein, we dissected the underlying etiology in a patient with HTG and AP. The patient had a 20-year history of heavy alcohol consumption and an 8-year history of mild HTG. He was hospitalized for alcohol-triggered AP, with a plasma triglyceride (TG) level up to 21.4 mmol/L. A temporary rise in post-heparin LPL concentration (1.5–2.5 times of controls) was noted during the early days of AP whilst LPL activity was consistently low (50∼70% of controls). His TG level rapidly decreased to normal in response to treatment, and remained normal to borderline high during a ∼3-year follow-up period during which he had abstained completely from alcohol. Sequencing of the five primary HTG genes (i.e., LPL, APOC2, APOA5, GPIHBP1 and LMF1) identified two heterozygous variants. One was the common APOA5 c.553G > T (p.Gly185Cys) variant, which has been previously associated with altered TG levels as well as HTG-induced acute pancreatitis (HTG-AP). The other was a rare variant in the LPL gene, c.756T > G (p.Ile252Met), which was predicted to be likely pathogenic and found experimentally to cause a 40% loss of LPL activity without affecting either protein synthesis or secretion. We provide evidence that both a gene-gene interaction (between the common APOA5 variant and the rare LPL variant) and a gene-environment interaction (between alcohol and digenic inheritance) might have contributed to the development of mild HTG and alcohol-triggered AP in the patient, thereby improving our understanding of the complex etiology of HTG and HTG-AP.
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- Qi Yang
- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Research Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Research Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Intensive Care Unit, The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Research Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Clinical Medical College, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Research Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Research Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Research Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Research Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Research Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Research Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Univ Brest, INSERM, EFS, UMR 1078, GGB, Brest, France.,Service de Génétique Médicale et de Biologie de la Reproduction, CHRU Brest, Brest, France
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- School of Medicine, Institute of Medical Genetics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- Univ Brest, INSERM, EFS, UMR 1078, GGB, Brest, France
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Research Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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Lu X. Structure and Function of Angiopoietin-like Protein 3 (ANGPTL3) in Atherosclerosis. Curr Med Chem 2020; 27:5159-5174. [PMID: 31223079 DOI: 10.2174/0929867326666190621120523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2018] [Revised: 04/24/2019] [Accepted: 04/30/2019] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND Angiopoietin-Like Proteins (ANGPTLs) are structurally related to the angiopoietins. A total of eight ANGPTLs (from ANGPTL1 to ANGPTL8) have been identified so far. Most ANGPTLs possess multibiological functions on lipid metabolism, atherosclerosis, and cancer. Among them, ANGPTL3 has been shown to regulate the levels of Very Low-Density Lipoprotein (VLDL) made by the liver and play a crucial role in human lipoprotein metabolism. METHOD A systematic appraisal of ANGPTLs was conducted, focusing on the main features of ANGPTL3 that has a significant role in atherosclerosis. RESULTS Angiopoietins including ANGPTL3 are vascular growth factors that are highly specific for endothelial cells, perform a variety of other regulatory activities to influence inflammation, and have been shown to possess both pro-atherosclerotic and atheroprotective effects. CONCLUSION ANGPTL3 has been demonstrated as a promising target in the pharmacological management of atherosclerosis. However, many questions remain about its biological functions.
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- Xinjie Lu
- The Mary and Garry Weston Molecular Immunology Laboratory, Thrombosis Research Institute, London SW3 6LR, England, United Kingdom
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Yamaguchi T, Murano T, Tatsuno I, Hiruta N, Suzuki T, Sawada S, Katagiri H, Shirai K, Schneider WJ, Bujo H. Severely impaired activity of lipoprotein lipase Arg243His is partially ameliorated by emulsifying phospholipids in in vitro triolein hydrolysis analysis. Ann Clin Biochem 2017; 54:712-715. [PMID: 28114790 DOI: 10.1177/0004563217693258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Background We investigated the in vitro effects of various phospholipids as emulsifiers on the hydrolysing activities of lipoprotein lipase (LPL) Arg243His against triolein as substrate. LPL Arg243His, identified in a patient with hyperchylomicronaemia, displays severely diminished activity for triolein when emulsified with Triton X-100. Methods Lipolytic activities of plasma obtained by heparin injection from a homozygous patient with LPL Arg243His were analysed using triolein emulsified with phosphatidylcholine (PC), phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), phosphatidylserine (PS), phosphatidylinositol (PI), lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC), or Triton X-100 as substrates. Results The hydrolysing activities of the patient's plasma for triolein emulsified with PC, PE, PS, PI, LPC and Triton X-100 were 9.22 ± 1.06 μmol/ml/h/ngLPL, 2.94 ± 1.60 μmol/ml/h/ng LPL, 3.72 ± 1.63 μmol/ml/h/ng LPL, 3.40 ± 1.20 μmol/ml/h/ngLPL, 3.72 ± 1.96 μmol/ml/h/ngLPL and 7.80 ± 4.48 μmol/ml/h/ng LPL, respectively. Thus, the specific activities of the patient's LPL determined with triolein emulsified with PC were significantly higher than those with PE, PS, PI or LPC as emulsifiers. Relative to the activities of normal plasma measured with PC, PE, PS, PI and LPC as emulsifiers, the mutant's activities were 49.1 ± 5.2%, 44.1 ± 5.7%, 31.7 ± 12.6%, 19.2 ± 6.9% and 23.8 ± 11.3%, respectively. Using PC, PE, PS, PI and LPC as emulsifiers, the mutant's activities for triolein-lipolysis relative to normal were significantly increased in comparison to the relative activity measured with the classical emulsifier, Triton X-100 (12.9 ± 6.7%). Conclusions Impaired triolein hydrolysis by LPL Arg243His was partially ameliorated by triolein emulsification with phospholipids. The in vitro analysis of triolein hydrolysis using various phospholipid emulsifiers may be useful for the further understanding of impaired LPL function.
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- Takashi Yamaguchi
- 1 Center of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Toho University Sakura Medical Center, Sakura, Japan
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- 2 Department of Clinical-Laboratory and Experimental-Research Medicine, Toho University Sakura Medical Center, Sakura, Japan
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- 1 Center of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Toho University Sakura Medical Center, Sakura, Japan
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- 2 Department of Clinical-Laboratory and Experimental-Research Medicine, Toho University Sakura Medical Center, Sakura, Japan
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- 3 Department of Diabetes and Metabolism, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, Japan
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- 3 Department of Diabetes and Metabolism, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, Japan
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- 3 Department of Diabetes and Metabolism, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, Japan
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- 4 Department of Vascular Function, Toho University Sakura Medical Center, Sakura, Japan
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- 5 Department of Medical Biochemistry, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- 2 Department of Clinical-Laboratory and Experimental-Research Medicine, Toho University Sakura Medical Center, Sakura, Japan
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Whittle AJ, Jiang M, Peirce V, Relat J, Virtue S, Ebinuma H, Fukamachi I, Yamaguchi T, Takahashi M, Murano T, Tatsuno I, Takeuchi M, Nakaseko C, Jin W, Jin Z, Campbell M, Schneider WJ, Vidal-Puig A, Bujo H. Soluble LR11/SorLA represses thermogenesis in adipose tissue and correlates with BMI in humans. Nat Commun 2015; 6:8951. [PMID: 26584636 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2015] [Accepted: 10/20/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue (BAT) is an important component of energy expenditure in mammals. Recent studies have confirmed its presence and metabolic role in humans. Defining the physiological regulation of BAT is therefore of great importance for developing strategies to treat metabolic diseases. Here we show that the soluble form of the low-density lipoprotein receptor relative, LR11/SorLA (sLR11), suppresses thermogenesis in adipose tissue in a cell-autonomous manner. Mice lacking LR11 are protected from diet-induced obesity associated with an increased browning of white adipose tissue and hypermetabolism. Treatment of adipocytes with sLR11 inhibits thermogenesis via the bone morphogenetic protein/TGFβ signalling pathway and reduces Smad phosphorylation. In addition, sLR11 levels in humans are shown to positively correlate with body mass index and adiposity. Given the need for tight regulation of a tissue with a high capacity for energy wastage, we propose that LR11 plays an energy conserving role that is exaggerated in states of obesity. Brown adipose tissue (BAT) thermogenesis is an important determinant of organismal energy expenditure in mammals. Here, Whittle et al. report that the protein sLR11 is a negative regulator of BAT activity in mice, repressing thermogenesis by inhibiting BMP/Smad signalling in brown adipocytes.
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