title: ER stress and autophagy dysfunction contribute to fatty liver in diabetic mice.
abstract: Diabetes mellitus and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are often identified in patients simultaneously. Recent evidence suggests that endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and autophagy dysfunction play an important role in hepatocytes injury and hepatic lipid metabolism, however the mechanistic interaction between diabetes and NAFLD is largely unknown. In this study, we used a diabetic mouse model to study the interplay between ER stress and autophagy during the pathogenic transformation of NAFLD. The coexist of inflammatory hepatic injury and hepatic accumulation of triglycerides (TGs) stored in lipid droplets indicated development of steatohepatitis in the diabetic mice. The alterations of components for ER stress signaling including ATF6, GRP78, CHOP and caspase12 indicated increased ER stress in liver tissues in early stage but blunted in the later stage during the development of diabetes. Likewise, autophagy functioned well in the early stage but suppressed in the later stage. The inactivation of unfolded protein response and suppression of autophagy were positively related to the development of steatohepatitis, which linked to metabolic abnormalities in the compromised hepatic tissues in diabetic condition. We conclude that the adaption of ER stress and impairment of autophagy play an important role to exacerbate lipid metabolic disorder contributing to steatohepatitis in diabetes.
authors.affiliation: 1. Department of Infectious Diseases, Affiliated Hospital of Guiyang Medical College, Guiyang, Guizhou, China, 550004 ; 4. Kosair Children's Hospital Research Institute, the Department of Pediatrics of the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202, USA.
authors.forename: Quan
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: 2. Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY 40202, USA.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: 1. Department of Infectious Diseases, Affiliated Hospital of Guiyang Medical College, Guiyang, Guizhou, China, 550004 ; 4. Kosair Children's Hospital Research Institute, the Department of Pediatrics of the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202, USA.
authors.forename: Tingting
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.affiliation: 3. Chinese-American Research Institute for Diabetic Complications RuiAn Center, the Department of Endocrinology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Ruian, Zhejiang, China, 325200.
authors.forename: Xuemian
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.affiliation: 3. Chinese-American Research Institute for Diabetic Complications RuiAn Center, the Department of Endocrinology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Ruian, Zhejiang, China, 325200.
authors.forename: Chi
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: 4. Kosair Children's Hospital Research Institute, the Department of Pediatrics of the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202, USA ; 5. The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China 130021.
authors.forename: Xingkai
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: 5. The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China 130021.
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.affiliation: 2. Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY 40202, USA.
authors.forename: Robert C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.affiliation: 1. Department of Infectious Diseases, Affiliated Hospital of Guiyang Medical College, Guiyang, Guizhou, China, 550004.
authors.forename: Mingliang
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.affiliation: 3. Chinese-American Research Institute for Diabetic Complications RuiAn Center, the Department of Endocrinology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Ruian, Zhejiang, China, 325200 ; 4. Kosair Children's Hospital Research Institute, the Department of Pediatrics of the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202, USA.
authors.forename: Lu
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cai
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017209:Apoptosis / Q000502:physiology; D001343:Autophagy / Q000502:physiology*; D049109:Cell Proliferation; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D004721:Endoplasmic Reticulum / Q000502:physiology*; D000091342:Endoplasmic Reticulum Chaperone BiP; D005234:Fatty Liver / Q000209:etiology*; D051379:Mice; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: Autophagic dysfunction; Diabetes; Diabetic liver toxicity; ER stress