PUBLICATION
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma is essential for stress adaptation by maintaining lipid homeostasis in female fish
- Authors
- Wang, X., Ma, Q., Chen, L., Wu, H., Chen, L.Q., Qiao, F., Luo, Y., Zhang, M.L., Du, Z.Y.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-220419-9
- Date
- 2022
- Source
- Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular and cell biology of lipids 1867(7): 159162 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Du, Zhen-Yu, Qiao, Fang, Zhang, Mei-Ling
- Keywords
- Environmental stress resistance, Lipotoxicity, Oxidative stress, Zebrafish, pparg
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Female
- Homeostasis
- PPAR gamma*/agonists
- PPAR gamma*/genetics
- Zebrafish*
- Rosiglitazone
- Fatty Acids, Nonesterified
- PubMed
- 35427795 Full text @ BBA Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids
Citation
Wang, X., Ma, Q., Chen, L., Wu, H., Chen, L.Q., Qiao, F., Luo, Y., Zhang, M.L., Du, Z.Y. (2022) Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma is essential for stress adaptation by maintaining lipid homeostasis in female fish. Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular and cell biology of lipids. 1867(7):159162.
Abstract
Reduction of lipid synthesis often causes free fatty acid (FFA) overload, resulting consequential oxidative stress and health damage. Environmental stresses also induce cellular oxidative stress in organisms. The functional peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (pparg) gene is essential for lipid synthesis and homeostatic lipid maintenance. However, the relationship between the pparg-mediated lipid synthesis and environmental stress adaptation awaits full elucidation. Here, we generated a pparg-knockout zebrafish model. The conversion of free fatty acids into triglycerides in the female pparg mutants was hampered by reduced esterification efficiency, thus induced lipotoxicity, as evidenced by high oxidative stress and damaged health in these mutants, which led to reduced resistance to cold, heat and ammonia nitrogen stresses. Activating pparg in the wild-type female fish via dietary supplementation with rosiglitazone (a pparg agonist), or reducing oxidative stress in the female pparg mutants via dietary supplementation with N-acetylcysteine (an antioxidant), or promoting mitochondrial fatty acid β-oxidation in the female pparg mutants via dietary supplementation with l-carnitine, resulted in significantly reduced cellular injury, and improved environmental stress resistance. Collectively, our findings reveal that the regulative function of pparg in FFA esterification is important in stress resistance in female fish, and highlight the tight correlation existing between lipotoxicity and environmental adaptation.
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Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
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