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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION
Volume 121, Issue 9, Pages 3701-3712Publisher
AMER SOC CLINICAL INVESTIGATION INC
DOI: 10.1172/JCI44736
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- Division of Intramural Research program of the NHLBI
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/NIH
- NIH/Pfizer
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It has long been hypothesized that abnormalities in lipid biology contribute to degenerative brain diseases. Consistent with this, emerging epidemiologic evidence links lipid alterations with Parkinson disease (PD), and disruption of lipid metabolism has been found to predispose to cc-synuclein toxicity. We therefore investigated whether Parkin, an E3 ubiquitin ligase found to be defective in patients with early onset PD, regulates systemic lipid metabolism. We perturbed lipid levels by exposing Parkin(+/+) and Parkin(-/-) mice to a high-fat and -cholesterol diet (HFD). Parkin(-/-) mice resisted weight gain, steatohepatitis, and insulin resistance. In wild-type mice, the HFD markedly increased hepatic Parkin levels in parallel with lipid transport proteins, including CD 36, Sr-B1, and FABP. These lipid transport proteins were not induced in Parkin(-/-) mice. The role of Parkin in fat uptake was confirmed by increased oleate accumulation in hepatocytes overexpressing Parkin and decreased uptake in Parkin(-/-) mouse embryonic fibroblasts and patient cells harboring complex heterozygous mutations in the Parkin-encoding gene PARK2. Parkin conferred this effect, in part, via ubiquitin-mediated stabilization of the lipid transporter CD36. Reconstitution of Parkin restored hepatic fat uptake and CD36 levels in Parkin(-/-) mice, and Parkin augmented fat accumulation during adipocyte differentiation. These results demonstrate that Parkin is regulated in a lipid-dependent trimmer and modulates systemic fat uptake via ubiquitin ligase-dependent effects. Whether this metabolic regulation contributes to premature Parkinsonism warrants investigation.
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