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A branched-chain amino acid metabolite drives vascular fatty acid transport and causes insulin resistance

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Jang, Cholsoon, Oh, Sungwhan F, Wada, Shogo, Rowe, Glenn C, Liu, Laura, Chan, Mun Chun, Rhee, James, Hoshino, Atsushi, Kim, Boa, Ibrahim, Ayon, Baca, Luisa G, Kim, Esl, Ghosh, Chandra C, Parikh, Samir M, Jiang, Aihua, Chu, Qingwei, Forman, Daniel E, Lecker, Stewart H, Krishnaiah, Saikumari, Rabinowitz, Joshua D, Weljie, Aalim M, Baur, Joseph A, Kasper, Dennis L, Arany, Zoltan·2016·Nature Medicine
DOI 10.1038/nm.4057
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Epidemiological and experimental data implicate branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) in the development of insulin resistance, but the mechanisms that underlie this link remain unclear. Insulin resistance in skeletal muscle stems from the excess accumulation of lipid species, a process that requires blood-borne lipids to initially traverse the blood vessel wall. How this trans-endothelial transport occurs and how it is regulated are not well understood. Here we leveraged PPARGC1a (also known as PGC-1α; encoded by Ppargc1a), a transcriptional coactivator that regulates broad programs of fatty acid consumption, to identify 3-hydroxyisobutyrate (3-HIB), a catabolic intermediate of the BCAA valine, as a new paracrine regulator of trans-endothelial fatty acid transport. We found that 3-HIB is secreted from muscle cells, activates endothelial fatty acid transport, stimulates muscle fatty acid uptake in vivo and promotes lipid accumulation in muscle, leading to insulin resistance in mice. Conversely, inhibiting the synthesis of 3-HIB in muscle cells blocks the ability of PGC-1α to promote endothelial fatty acid uptake. 3-HIB levels are elevated in muscle from db/db mice with diabetes and from human subjects with diabetes, as compared to those without diabetes. These data unveil a mechanism in which the metabolite 3-HIB, by regulating the trans-endothelial flux of fatty acids, links the regulation of fatty acid flux to BCAA catabolism, providing a mechanistic explanation for how increased BCAA catabolic flux can cause diabetes.

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Authors
Jang, C., Oh, S. F., Wada, S., Rowe, G. C., Liu, L., Chan, M. C., Rhee, J., Hoshino, A., Kim, B., Ibrahim, A., Baca, L. G., Kim, E., Ghosh, C. C., Parikh, S. M., Jiang, A., Chu, Q., Forman, D. E., Lecker, S. H., Krishnaiah, S., Rabinowitz, J. D., Weljie, A. M., Baur, J. A., Kasper, D. L., & Arany, Z.
Venue
Nature Medicine
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2016-03-07
Volume
22
Issue
4
Pages
421-426
ISSN
  • 1078-8956 (ISSN-L)
  • 1546-170X
DOI
10.1038/nm.4057
OpenAlex
W2294856235
Cited by
583
References
7
FWCI
47.63
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
green
Licence
www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)

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Jang, C., Oh, S. F., Wada, S., Rowe, G. C., Liu, L., Chan, M. C., Rhee, J., Hoshino, A., Kim, B., Ibrahim, A., Baca, L. G., Kim, E., Ghosh, C. C., Parikh, S. M., Jiang, A., Chu, Q., Forman, D. E., Lecker, S. H., Krishnaiah, S., . . . Arany, Z. (2016). A branched-chain amino acid metabolite drives vascular fatty acid transport and causes insulin resistance. Nature Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1038/nm.4057

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