Oxidized eicosapentaenoic acids more potently reduce LXRα-induced cellular triacylglycerol via suppression of SREBP-1c, PGC-1β and GPA than its intact form

Lipids in Health and Disease

Research

Hidehiro Furumoto¹  Tharnath Nanthirudjanar¹  Tatsuya Sugawara¹  Takashi Hirata¹ 

[1] Division of Applied Biosciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, 606-8502, Kyoto, Japan;

关键词: Oxidation;    Eicosapentaenoic acid;    HepG2;    Triacylglycerol;    LXRα;    SREBP-1c;    PGC-1β;    GPA;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1476-511X-12-73

 received in 2013-04-05, accepted in 2013-05-13,  发布年份 2013

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

Dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), especially eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), improve lipid metabolism and contribute to the prevention of vascular diseases such as atherosclerosis. However, EPA in the diet is easily oxidized at room temperature and several types of oxidized EPA (OEPA) derivatives are generated. To compare the efficiencies of OEPAs on lipid metabolism with EPA, human hepatocellular liver carcinoma cell line (HepG2) was treated with EPA or OEPAs and their effects on lipid metabolism related genes were studied. OEPAs more potently suppressed the expression of sterol-responsive element-binding protein (SREBP)-1c, a major transcription factor that activates the expression of lipogenic genes, and its downstream target genes than did EPA under conditions of lipid synthesis enhanced by T0901317, a synthetic liver X receptor (LXR) agonist. Furthermore, PGC-1β, a coactivator of both LXRα and SREBP-1, was markedly down-regulated by OEPAs compared with EPA. The treatment of OEPAs also significantly down-regulated the expression of glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase (GPA), the initiating enzyme in triacylglycerol (TG) synthesis, more than EPA. Therefore, the advantageous effects of OEPAs on cardiovascular diseases might be due to their SREBP-1c, PGC-1β and GPA mediated ameliorating effects.

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