Elevated TCA cycle function in the pathology of diet-induced hepatic insulin resistance and fatty liver[S]

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Title: Elevated TCA cycle function in the pathology of diet-induced hepatic insulin resistance and fatty liver[S]
Authors: Santhosh Satapati, Nishanth E. Sunny, Blanka Kucejova, Xiaorong Fu, Tian Teng He, Andrés Méndez-Lucas, John M. Shelton, Jose C. Perales, Jeffrey D. Browning, Shawn C. Burgess
Source: Journal of Lipid Research, Vol 53, Iss 6, Pp 1080-1092 (2012)
Publisher Information: Elsevier, 2012.
Publication Year: 2012
Collection: LCC:Biochemistry
Subject Terms: tricarboxylic acid cycle, fatty acid/metabolism, inflammation, mitochondria, obesity, gluconeogenesis, Biochemistry, QD415-436
More Details: The manner in which insulin resistance impinges on hepatic mitochondrial function is complex. Although liver insulin resistance is associated with respiratory dysfunction, the effect on fat oxidation remains controversial, and biosynthetic pathways that traverse mitochondria are actually increased. The tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle is the site of terminal fat oxidation, chief source of electrons for respiration, and a metabolic progenitor of gluconeogenesis. Therefore, we tested whether insulin resistance promotes hepatic TCA cycle flux in mice progressing to insulin resistance and fatty liver on a high-fat diet (HFD) for 32 weeks using standard biomolecular and in vivo 2H/13C tracer methods. Relative mitochondrial content increased, but respiratory efficiency declined by 32 weeks of HFD. Fasting ketogenesis became unresponsive to feeding or insulin clamp, indicating blunted but constitutively active mitochondrial β-oxidation. Impaired insulin signaling was marked by elevated in vivo gluconeogenesis and anaplerotic and oxidative TCA cycle flux. The induction of TCA cycle function corresponded to the development of mitochondrial respiratory dysfunction, hepatic oxidative stress, and inflammation. Thus, the hepatic TCA cycle appears to enable mitochondrial dysfunction during insulin resistance by increasing electron deposition into an inefficient respiratory chain prone to reactive oxygen species production and by providing mitochondria-derived substrate for elevated gluconeogenesis.
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
ISSN: 0022-2275
Relation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022227520317016; https://doaj.org/toc/0022-2275
DOI: 10.1194/jlr.M023382
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/ba94d3a6be124555b8986617945852ef
Accession Number: edsdoj.ba94d3a6be124555b8986617945852ef
Database: Directory of Open Access Journals
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ISSN:00222275
DOI:10.1194/jlr.M023382
Published in:Journal of Lipid Research
Language:English