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ARCHIVES OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS
Volume 584, Issue -, Pages 90-97Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2015.08.009
Keywords
GLP-1R; Glucagon like peptide-1 receptor; Mesangial cell; Apoptosis; Palmitate; Metformin
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- National Research Foundation of Korea [NRF-2010-0023627]
- Animal Medical Institute of Chonnam National University
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Glucagon like peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1R), known to be expressed in pancreatic beta cells, is also expressed in glomerular mesangial cells and its agonist has protective effects in diabetic nephropathy. However, its regulatory mechanisms by lipotoxicity in glomerular mesangial cells are not understood. We found that palmitate-mediated lipotoxicity increased apoptosis and decreased GLP-1R expression in a rat mesangial cell line. Silencing GLP-1R expression also increased mesangial cell apoptosis. Interestingly, metformin, one of the biguanide drugs that has anti-diabetic effects, attenuated lipotoxicity-induced mesangial cell apoptosis and restored GLP-1R expression. Moreover, this treatment alleviated GLP-1R knockdown-induced mesangial cell apoptosis. To further evaluate in vivo, diabetic obese db/db mice were administered metformin. Glomerular GLP-1R expression was diminished in db/db mice, as compared with db/m control mice. However, this decrease significantly recovered on metformin administration. Together, these data provide novel evidence that lipotoxicity decreases the mesangial GLP-1R expression in intact cells and in vivo. The decrease induced mesangial cell apoptosis. Furthermore, we provided the evidence that metformin treatment has a renal protective effect partly via increased mesangial GLP-1R expression. Our data suggested that regulation of GLP-1R expression could be a promising approach to treat diabetic nephropathy and the novel mechanism of metformin mediated GLP-1R regulation. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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