PUBLICATION

F6P/G6P-mediated ChREBP activation promotes the insulin resistance-driven hepatic lipid deposition in zebrafish

Authors
Gong, Y., Lu, Q., Xi, L., Liu, Y., Yang, B., Su, J., Liu, H., Jin, J., Zhang, Z., Yang, Y., Zhu, X., Xie, S., Han, D.
ID
ZDB-PUB-231002-115
Date
2023
Source
The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry   122: 109452 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Han, Dong, Xie, Shouqi, Zhu, Xiaoming
Keywords
ChREBP, Frucotose-6-phosphate, Insulin resistance, Lipid metabolism
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors/genetics
  • Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors/metabolism
  • Carbohydrates
  • Insulin/metabolism
  • Insulin Resistance*/physiology
  • Lipids
  • Lipogenesis
  • Liver/metabolism
  • Mice
  • Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease*/etiology
  • Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease*/metabolism
  • Phosphates/metabolism
  • Proteins/metabolism
  • Sterol Regulatory Element Binding Protein 1/genetics
  • Sterol Regulatory Element Binding Protein 1/metabolism
  • Zebrafish/metabolism
PubMed
37748621 Full text @ J. Nutr. Biochem.
Abstract
Insulin-sensitive lipogenesis dominates the body lipid deposition; however, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) develops in the insulin-resistant state. The regulation mechanism of insulin resistance-driven NAFLD remains elusive. Using zebrafish model of insulin resistance (ZIR, insrb-/-) and mouse hepatocytes (NCTC 1469), we explored the regulation mechanism of insulin resistance-driven hepatic lipid deposition under the stimulation of carbohydrate diet (CHD). In ZIR model, insulin resistance induced hyperlipidemia and elevated hepatic lipid deposition via elevating the gene/protein expressions of lipogenic enzymes, that was activated by carbohydrate response element binding protein (ChREBP), rather than sterol regulatory element binding proteins 1c (SREBP-1c). The metabolomic analysis in zebrafish and silencing of chrebp in mouse hepatocytes revealed that the increased hepatic frucotose-6-phosphate (F6P) and glucose-6-phosphate (G6P) promoted the ChREBP-mediated lipid deposition. We further identified that F6P alone was sufficient to activate ChREBP-mediated lipid deposition by a SREBP-1c-independent manner. Moreover, we clarified the suppressed hepatic phosphofructokinase/glucose-6-phosphatase functions and the normal glucokinase function preserved by glucose transporter 2 (GLUT2) manipulated the increased F6P/G6P content in ZIR. In conclusion, the present study revealed that insulin resistance promoted hepatic lipid deposition via the F6P/G6P-mediated ChREBP activation. Our findings deciphered the main regulation pathway for the liver lipid deposition in the insulin-resistant state and identified F6P as a new potential regulator for ChREBP.
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