title: Oxidative phosphorylation flexibility in the liver of mice resistant to high-fat diet-induced hepatic steatosis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify metabolic pathways that may underlie susceptibility or resistance to high-fat diet-induced hepatic steatosis.
  
  
  METHODS
  We performed comparative transcriptomic analysis of the livers of A/J and C57Bl/6 mice, which are, respectively, resistant and susceptible to high-fat diet-induced hepatosteatosis and obesity. Mice from both strains were fed a normal chow or a high-fat diet for 2, 10, and 30 days, and transcriptomic data were analyzed by time-dependent gene set enrichment analysis. Biochemical analysis of mitochondrial respiration was performed to confirm the transcriptomic analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Time-dependent gene set enrichment analysis revealed a rapid, transient, and coordinate upregulation of 13 oxidative phosphorylation genes after initiation of high-fat diet feeding in the A/J, but not in the C57Bl/6, mouse livers. Biochemical analysis using liver mitochondria from both strains of mice confirmed a rapid increase by high-fat diet feeding of the respiration rate in A/J but not C57Bl/6 mice. Importantly, ATP production was the same in both types of mitochondria, indicating increased uncoupling of the A/J mitochondria.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Together with previous data showing increased expression of mitochondrial β-oxidation genes in C57Bl/6 but not A/J mouse livers, our present study suggests that an important aspect of the adaptation of livers to high-fat diet feeding is to increase the activity of the oxidative phosphorylation chain and its uncoupling to dissipate the excess of incoming metabolic energy and to reduce the production of reactive oxygen species. The flexibility in oxidative phosphorylation activity may thus participate in the protection of A/J mouse livers against the initial damages induced by high-fat diet feeding that may lead to hepatosteatosis.
authors.affiliation: Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Carinne
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Poussin
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ibberson
authors.forename: Diana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hall
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.forename: Jamie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Soto
authors.forename: E Dale
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Abel
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Thorens
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004041:Dietary Fats / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000378:metabolism; D005234:Fatty Liver / Q000209:etiology / Q000378:metabolism*; D007328:Insulin / Q000378:metabolism; D007333:Insulin Resistance / Q000502:physiology; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism*; D051379:Mice; D008930:Mitochondria, Liver / Q000378:metabolism*; D010085:Oxidative Phosphorylation; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D004041:Dietary Fats; D007328:Insulin; D012333:RNA, Messenger