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Altered gene expression and metabolism in fetal umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells correspond with differences in 5-month-old infant adiposity gain

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Baker, Peter R., Patinkin, Zachary W., Shapiro, Allison L. B., de la Houssaye, Becky A., Janssen, Rachel C., Vanderlinden, Lauren A., Dabelea, Dana, Friedman, Jacob E.·2017·Scientific Reports

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The intrauterine period is a critical time wherein developmental exposure can influence risk for chronic disease including childhood obesity. Using umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells (uMSC) from offspring born to normal-weight and obese mothers, we tested the hypothesis that changes in infant body composition over the first 5 months of life correspond with differences in cellular metabolism and transcriptomic profiles at birth. Higher long-chain acylcarnitine concentrations, lipid transport gene expression, and indicators of oxidative stress in uMSC-adipocytes were related to higher adiposity at 5 months of age. In uMSC-myocytes, lower amino acid concentrations and global differential gene expression for myocyte growth, amino acid biosynthesis, and oxidative stress were related to lower infant percent fat-free mass at 5 months of age, particularly in offspring of obese mothers. This is the first evidence of human infant adipocyte- or myocyte-related alterations in cellular metabolic pathways that correspond with increased adiposity and lower fat-free mass in early infancy. These pathways might reflect the effects of an adverse maternal metabolic environment on the fetal metabolome and genome. Our findings suggest that programmed differences in infant stem cell metabolism correspond with differences in body composition in early life, a known contributor to obesity risk.

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  • There is a positive correlation between the preference of mesenchymal stem cell fate decisions towards the adipocyte lineage and infant adiposity.

    “Previous work has shown there is a positive correlation between the preference of mesenchymal stem cell fate decisions towards the adipocyte lineage and infant adiposity [88, 146].”

    From Developmental programming of offspring adipose tissue biology and obesity risk (2021) · cites this paper as [146]

    The Results section links higher infant adiposity at five months with altered lipid transport and metabolism in uMSC-derived adipocytes. But the Methods section says the cells were exposed to adipocyte or myocyte differentiation media; the paper does not show that the stem cells preferentially chose the adipocyte lineage. The claimed correlation with lineage fate decisions is therefore unsupported. (LLM, conf=0.87)

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  • Higher adiposity in infants of obese mothers is linked to increased lipid species content and lipid transport gene expression in differentiated adipocytes and elevated oxidative stress, lower amino acid concentrations, and expression of growth-promoting genes in their differentiated neonatal myocytes.

    “Higher adiposity in infants of obese mothers was also linked to increased lipid species content and lipid transport gene expression in differentiated adipocytes and elevated oxidative stress, lower amino acid concentrations and expression of growth-promoting genes in their differentiated neonatal myocytes [146].”

    From Developmental programming of offspring adipose tissue biology and obesity risk (2021) · cites this paper as [146]

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Baker, P. R., Patinkin, Z. W., Shapiro, A. L. B., de la Houssaye, B. A., Janssen, R. C., Vanderlinden, L. A., Dabelea, D., & Friedman, J. E.
Affiliations
  • University of Colorado Anschutz (US)
  • Colorado School of Public Health (US)
Corresponding author
Baker, Peter R.
Venue
Scientific Reports
Published
2017-12-22
Volume
7
Issue
1
Pages
18095-18095
ISSN
2045-2322 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2777541288
Cited by
33
References
51
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 3
FWCI
3.29
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Scientific Reports (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • American Heart Association (14PRE18230008)
  • Children's Hospital Colorado
  • Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance (UL1TR001082)
  • National Institutes of Health (UL1TR001082)
  • Nutrition Obesity Research Center, University of North Carolina (P30DK048520)
  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01DK076648, R24DK090964, P30DK048520)
  • National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (TR001082)
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (K12HD068372)
  • Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (UL1TR001082, TR001082)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Birth, Development, and Health
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases
Keywords
human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells, maternal obesity, infant adiposity, fat-free mass, long-chain acylcarnitines, oxidative stress, amino acid metabolism, adipocyte metabolism, fetal programming, early infancy, body composition, gene expression profiling
MeSH terms
Birth Weight, Cell Differentiation, Female, Gene Expression Regulation, Humans, Infant, Male, Gene Expression, Body Mass Index, Oxidative Stress, Gene Expression Profiling, Adiposity, Metabolomics, Mesenchymal Stem Cells

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