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Front Physiol ; 13: 953199, 2022.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36091365

RESUMO

Background: Increased waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) is associated with increased mortality and risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The TBX15-WARS2 locus has consistently been associated with increased WHR. Previous study of the hypomorphic Wars2 V117L/V117L mouse model found phenotypes including severely reduced fat mass, and white adipose tissue (WAT) browning, suggesting Wars2 could be a potential modulator of fat distribution and WAT browning. Methods: To test for differences in browning induction across different adipose depots of Wars2 V117L/V117L mice, we measured multiple browning markers of a 4-month old chow-fed cohort in subcutaneous and visceral WAT and brown adipose tissue (BAT). To explain previously observed fat mass loss, we also tested for the upregulation of plasma mitokines FGF21 and GDF15 and for differences in food intake in the same cohort. Finally, to test for diet-associated differences in fat distribution, we placed Wars2 V117L/V117L mice on low-fat or high-fat diet (LFD, HFD) and assessed their body composition by Echo-MRI and compared terminal adipose depot weights at 6 months of age. Results: The chow-fed Wars2 V117L/V117L mice showed more changes in WAT browning marker gene expression in the subcutaneous inguinal WAT depot (iWAT) than in the visceral gonadal WAT depot (gWAT). These mice also demonstrated reduced food intake and elevated plasma FGF21 and GDF15, and mRNA from heart and BAT. When exposed to HFD, the Wars2 V117L/V117L mice showed resistance to diet-induced obesity and a male and HFD-specific reduction of gWAT: iWAT ratio. Conclusion: Severe reduction of Wars2 gene function causes a systemic phenotype which leads to upregulation of FGF21 and GDF15, resulting in reduced food intake and depot-specific changes in browning and fat mass.

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Biol Lett ; 18(3): 20210630, 2022 03.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35317627

RESUMO

Understanding the genetic aetiology of loci associated with a disease is crucial for developing preventative measures and effective treatments. Mouse models are used extensively to understand human pathobiology and mechanistic functions of disease-associated loci. However, the utility of mouse models is limited in part by evolutionary divergence in transcription regulation for pathways of interest. Here, we summarize the alignment of genomic (exonic and multi-cell regulatory) annotations alongside Mendelian and complex disease-associated variant sites between humans and mice. Our results highlight the importance of understanding evolutionary divergence in transcription regulation when interpreting functional studies using mice as models for human disease variants.


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Regulação da Expressão Gênica , Genoma , Animais , Humanos , Camundongos
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Biochim Biophys Acta Gene Regul Mech ; 1863(11): 194640, 2020 11.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33007465

RESUMO

We have prioritised a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs2645294 as one candidate functional SNP in the TBX15-WARS2 waist-hip-ratio locus using posterior probability analysis. This SNP is located in the 3' untranslated region of the WARS2 (tryptophanyl tRNA synthetase 2, mitochondrial) gene with which it has an expression quantitative trait in subcutaneous white adipose tissue. We show that transcripts of the WARS2 gene in a human white adipose cell line, heterozygous for the rs2645294 SNP, showed allelic imbalance. We tested whether the rs2645294 SNP altered WARS2 RNA stability using three different methods: actinomycin-D inhibition and RNA decay, mature and nascent RNA analysis and luciferase reporter assays. We found no evidence of a difference in RNA stability between the rs2645294 alleles indicating that the allelic expression imbalance was likely due to transcriptional regulation.


Assuntos
Estudos de Associação Genética , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único , Característica Quantitativa Herdável , Proteínas com Domínio T/genética , Triptofano-tRNA Ligase/genética , Regiões 3' não Traduzidas , Adipócitos Brancos/metabolismo , Alelos , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Biologia Computacional/métodos , Genes Reporter , Heterozigoto , Humanos , Conformação de Ácido Nucleico , Locos de Características Quantitativas , Estabilidade de RNA , Relação Cintura-Quadril
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Biofabrication ; 12(1): 015018, 2019 12 11.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31715591

RESUMO

Adipose models have been applied to mechanistic studies of metabolic diseases (such as diabetes) and the subsequent discovery of new therapeutics. However, typical models are either insufficiently complex (2D cell cultures) or expensive and labor intensive (mice/in vivo). To bridge the gap between these models and in order to better inform pre-clinical studies we have developed a drug-responsive 3D model of white adipose tissue (WAT). Here, spheroids (680 ± 60 µm) comprising adipogenic 3T3-L1 cells encapsulated in 3D matrix were fabricated manually on a 96 well scale. Spheroids were highly characterised for lipid morphology, selected metabolite and adipokine secretion, and gene expression; displaying significant upregulation of certain adipogenic-specific genes compared with a 2D model. Furthermore, induction of lipolysis and promotion of lipogenesis in spheroids could be triggered by exposure to 8-br-cAMP and oleic-acid respectively. Metabolic and high content imaging data of spheroids exposed to an adipose-targeting drug, rosiglitazone, resulted in dose-responsive behavior. Thus, our 3D WAT model has potential as a powerful scalable tool for compound screening and for investigating adipose biology.


Assuntos
Avaliação Pré-Clínica de Medicamentos/métodos , Ensaios de Triagem em Larga Escala/métodos , Células 3T3-L1 , Adipócitos/citologia , Adipócitos/efeitos dos fármacos , Adipócitos/metabolismo , Adipocinas/metabolismo , Tecido Adiposo/citologia , Tecido Adiposo/efeitos dos fármacos , Tecido Adiposo/metabolismo , Animais , Avaliação Pré-Clínica de Medicamentos/instrumentação , Camundongos , Rosiglitazona/farmacologia , Esferoides Celulares/citologia , Esferoides Celulares/efeitos dos fármacos , Esferoides Celulares/metabolismo
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