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Modulation of Lipid Metabolism by Celastrol

Journal

JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH
Volume 18, Issue 3, Pages 1133-1144

Publisher

AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.8b00797

Keywords

celastrol; lipidomics; hyperlipidemia; LC-MS

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [81360509]
  2. National Key Research and Development Program of China [2017YFC0906903, 2017YFC1700906]
  3. CAS Light of West China Program [Y72E8211W1]
  4. Kunming Institute of Botany [Y76E1211K1, Y4662211K1]
  5. State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China [52Y67A9211Z1]
  6. NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [ZIABC005708] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER

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Hyperlipidemia, characterized by high serum lipids, is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Recent studies have identified an important role for celastrol, a proteasome inhibitor isolated from Tripterygium wilfordii Hook. F., in obesity-related metabolic disorders. However, the exact influences of celastrol on lipid metabolism remain largely unknown. Celastrol inhibited the terminal differentiation of 3T3-L1 adipocytes and decreased the levels of triglycerides in wild-type mice. Lipidomics analysis revealed that celastrol increased the metabolism of lysophosphatidylcholines (LPCs), phosphatidylcholines (PCs), sphingomyelins (SMs), and phosphatidylethanolamines (PEs). Further, celastrol reversed the tyloxapol-induced hyperlipidemia induced associated with increased plasma LPCs, PCs, SMs, and ceramides (CMs). Among these lipids, LPC(16:0), LPC(18:1), PC(22:2/15:0), and SM(d18:1/22:0) were also decreased by celastrol in cultured 3T3-L1 adipocytes, mice, and tyloxapol-treated mice. The mRNAs encoded by hepatic genes associated with lipid synthesis and catabolism, including Lpcat1, Pld1, Smpd3, and Sptc2, were altered in tyloxapol-induced hyperlipidemia, and significantly recovered by celastrol treatment. The effect of celastrol on lipid metabolism was significantly reduced in Fxr-null mice, resulting in decreased Cers6 and Acer2 mRNAs compared to wild-type mice. These results establish that FXR was responsible in part for the effects of celastrol in controlling lipid metabolism and contributing to the recovery of aberrant lipid metabolism in obesity-related metabolic disorders.

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