Impact of L-FABP and glucose on polyunsaturated fatty acid induction of PPARα-regulated β-oxidative enzymes

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Output type: Journal article

Author list: Petrescu A., Huang H., Martin G., Mcintosh A., Storey S., Landrock D., Kier A., Schroeder F.

Publisher: American Physiological Society

Publication year: 2013

Journal: American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology (0193-1857)

Volume number: 304

Issue number: 3

Number of pages: 16

ISSN: 0193-1857

eISSN: 1522-1547

URL: http://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id:84873335173

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Full text URL: https://europepmc.org/articles/pmc3566512

Abstract

Liver fatty acid binding protein (L-FABP) is the major soluble protein that binds very-long-chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 PUFAs) in hepatocytes. However, nothing is known about L-FABP's role in n-3 PUFA-mediated peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-α (PPARα) transcription of proteins involved in long-chain fatty acid (LCFA) (β-oxidation. This issue was addressed in cultured primary hepatocytes from wild-type, L-FABP-null, and PPARα-null mice with these major findings: 1) PUFA-mediated increase in the expression of PPARα-regulated LCFA β-oxidative enzymes, LCFA/LCFA-CoA binding proteins (L-FABP, ACBP), and PPARα itself was L-FABP dependent; 2) PPARα transcription, robustly potentiated by high glucose but not maltose, a sugar not taken up, correlated with higher protein levels of these LCFA β-oxidative enzymes and with increased LCFA (β-oxidation; and 3) high glucose altered the potency of n-3 relative to n-6 PUFA. This was not due to a direct effect of glucose on PPARα transcriptional activity nor indirectly through de novo fatty acid synthesis from glucose. Synergism was also not due to glucose impacting other signaling pathways, since it was observed only in hepatocytes expressing both L-FABP and PPARα. Ablation of L-FABP or PPARα as well as treatment with MK886 (PPARα inhibitor) abolished/ reduced PUFA-mediated PPARα transcription of these genes, especially at high glucose. Finally, the PUFA-enhanced L-FABP distribution into nuclei with high glucose augmentation of the L-FABP/ PPARα interaction reveals not only the importance of L-FABP for PUFA induction of PPARα target genes in fatty acid β-oxidation but also the significance of a high glucose enhancement effect in diabetes. © 2013 the American Physiological Society.

Keywords

Fatty acid, Glucose, Hepatocyte, Liver fatty acid binding protein, Oxidation, Peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-α, Polyunsaturated

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