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JOURNAL OF LIPID RESEARCH
Volume 54, Issue 11, Pages 2998-3008Publisher
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DOI: 10.1194/jlr.M037861
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obesity; inflammation; innate immunity; interleukin-1beta; palmitate; stearate; oleate; linoleate
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- Interuniversity Attraction Poles (IAP) program
- Belgian Fonds National pour la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS)
- Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO) [P7/32]
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The NLRP3 inflammasome is involved in many obesity-associated diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, atherosclerosis, and gouty arthritis, through its ability to induce interleukin (IL)-1 beta release. The molecular link between obesity and inflammasome activation is still unclear, but free fatty acids have been proposed as one triggering event. Here we reported opposite effects of saturated fatty acids (SFAs) compared with unsaturated fatty acids (UFAs) on NLRP3 inflammasome in human monocytes/macrophages. Palmitate and stearate, both SFAs, triggered IL-1 beta secretion in a caspase-1/ASC/NLRP3-dependent pathway. Unlike SFAs, the UFAs oleate and linoleate did not lead to IL-1 beta secretion. In addition, they totally prevented the IL-1 beta release induced by SFAs and, with less efficiency, by a broad range of NLRP3 inducers, including nigericin, alum, and monosodium urate. UFAs did not affect the transcriptional effect of SFAs, suggesting a specific effect on the NLRP3 activation. These results provide a new anti-inflammatory mechanism of UFAs by preventing the activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome and, therefore, IL-1 beta processing. By this way, UFAs might play a protective role in NLRP3-associated diseases.
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