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Fatty Acid Transport Proteins (fatty + acid_transport_protein)

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Hypolipidaemic mechanisms of action of CM108 (a flavone derivative) in hyperlipidaemic rats

JOURNAL OF PHARMACY AND PHARMACOLOGY: AN INTERNATI ONAL JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCE, Issue 9 2008
Wei Ji
ABSTRACT In the present study, the molecular mechanisms by which CM108, a flavone derivative, improves lipid profiles were investigated further. Hyperlipidaemia was induced by oral administration of high cholesterol and fat. After 4 weeks of treatment, the lipid levels in the serum, liver and faeces were measured and the liver genes involved in lipid metabolism were analysed to explore the molecular mechanisms of lowering lipids. CM108 modulated lipid profiles, including elevating the level of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C; 40%) and reducing serum levels of triglyceride (10%), total cholesterol (10%) and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (26%). Levels of triglyceride and total cholesterol in the liver were reduced by 18% and 24%, respectively. Increased HDL-C level was attributed to the synergic effects of CM108 in increasing levels of ATP-binding cassette transporter (ABC)A1, apolipoprotein AI and apolipoprotein AII in the liver. Intriguingly, CM108 induced genes, including fatty acid transport protein, acyl-CoA synthetase and lipoprotein lipase that are important for more efficient fatty acid ,-oxidation, thereby reducing serum and liver triglyceride levels. In addition, induction of ABCG5, ABCG8 and cholesterol 7,-hydroxylase contributed to cholesterol metabolism, leading to decreases in serum and liver cholesterol levels. Thus, the genes involved in lipid metabolism were systemically modulated by CM108, which contributed to the improvement of lipid profiles in hyperlipidaemic rats. [source]

Altered expression of CCAAT/enhancer binding protein and FABP11 genes during adipogenesis in vitro in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

AQUACULTURE NUTRITION, Issue 1 2010
T.-S. HUANG
Abstract The study of CCAAT/enhancer binding proteins (C/EBPs) is important in the understanding of adipogenesis, but little is known about their regulation in fish. Here, we report three Atlantic salmon orthologs of c/ebp, and their expression in different tissues and in adipogenesis in vitro. During differentiation the expression of c/ebp, and fatp1 were upregulated in early differentiation stage with continuing high expression level in mature adipocytes, whereas c/ebp, and fabp11 expression were elevated in mature adipocytes. Furthermore, the fatty acids eicosapentaenoic (EPA) and docosahexaenoic (DHA), suppressed the expression of the c/ebps, ppar,, and fatty acid transport protein (fatp1) during terminal adipocyte differentiation. The study indicates that C/EBPs are induced upon the differentiation of primary-cultured adipocytes from Atlantic salmon and that marine n-3 highly unsaturated fatty acids (HUFAs) affect the c/ebps expressions in mature adipocytes. Therefore, the established cell model described here appears to be valuable for studying modulation of fat content in farmed Atlantic salmon. [source]

Apoptosis is associated with CD36/fatty acid translocase upregulation in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis

LIVER INTERNATIONAL, Issue 6 2010
Lars P. Bechmann
Abstract Background & aims: Hepatocyte apoptosis is a key event in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). We studied the effect of obesity on free fatty acid (FFA) levels, fatty acid transport proteins (FATPs) and on extrinsic and intrinsic activation of apoptosis in the liver. Methods: Liver biopsies were harvested from 52 morbidly obese patients [body mass index (BMI): 53.82±1.41; age: 45±10.50; 15 males/37 females] undergoing bariatric surgery, and were scored for NASH, evaluated for fibrosis, and investigated for intrahepatic expression of FATPs, death receptors and cytosolic apoptosis-related molecules. Findings were correlated with serum FFA levels and the degrees of intrahepatic (terminal dUTP nick end labelling) and systemic (M30) apoptosis. Results: In patients' liver sections, FATPs as well as select parameters of extrinsic and intrinsic apoptosis were found to be upregulated (CD36/FAT: × 11.56; FATP-5: × 1.33; CD95/Fas: × 3.18; NOXA: × 2.79). These findings correlated with significantly elevated serum FFAs (control: 14.72±2.32 mg/dl vs. patients: 23.03±1.24 mg/dl) and M30 levels (control: 83.12±7.46 U/L vs. patients: 212.61±22.16 U/L). We found correlations between FATPs and apoptosis mediators as well as with histological criteria of NASH and fibrosis. Conclusions: Increased FFA and FATPs are associated with extrinsically and intrinsically induced apoptosis, liver damage and fibrosis in obese patients. Thus, FATPs may offer an interesting new approach to understand and potentially intervene NASH pathogenesis. [source]

Gene expression of fatty acid-binding proteins, fatty acid transport proteins (cd36 and FATP) and ,-oxidation-related genes in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) fed fish oil or vegetable oil

AQUACULTURE NUTRITION, Issue 4 2009
B.E. TORSTENSEN
Abstract Relative gene expression pattern of fatty acid transport proteins (FATP and cd36), intracellular fatty acid-binding proteins (FABP3, FABP10 and FABP11), ,-oxidation-related genes [carnitine palmitoyl transferase II (CPTII), peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor , (PPAR,), acyl-CoA oxidase (AOX), long-chain fatty acyl-CoA synthetase (FACS), acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (dehydrogenase)] and uncoupling protein 2 (UCP2) was assessed by RT-qPCR in Atlantic salmon muscle (red and white), liver, heart, myosepta and visceral fat. FABP11, a FABP isoform not previously described in Atlantic salmon, was highly expressed in visceral fat and myosepta and at the lower level in red muscle, white muscle, myosepta and heart. Furthermore, Atlantic salmon were fed either a diet containing fish oil (FO) or a complete replacement of FO with a vegetable oil blend (55% rapeseed oil, 30% palm oil and 15% linseed oil; VO) for the production cycle (27 months from start of feeding and until ,4.5 kg mean weight). The expression of genes related to ,-oxidation, fatty acid uptake and transport in the white muscle indicate (n = 3) significant down-regulation in VO fed Atlantic salmon and correlated with previously reported white muscle triacylglycerol stores and ,-oxidation. FABP11 in visceral fat and myosepta was also down-regulated in VO fed fish. [source]