Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 23, Issue 18, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms231810826
Keywords
obesity; extracellular vesicles; exosomes; adipose tissue; white adipose tissue; brown adipose tissue; batosomes; proteome; metabolic diseases; cell communication
Funding
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III/Union Europea-FEDER [ISCIII/PI19/00305]
- FPU Program (Ministerio de Educacion Cultura y Deporte, Spain)
- GAIN (Xunta de Galicia)
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Brown adipose tissue extracellular vesicles (EVs) play an important role in promoting energy expenditure and could potentially serve as biomarkers of thermogenesis activity. This study isolated EVs from lean and obese rats and found that the protein cargo of BAT EVs is affected by metabolic status and contains potential obesity biomarkers.
Brown adipose tissue (BAT) is a key target for the development of new therapies against obesity due to its role in promoting energy expenditure; BAT secretory capacity is emerging as an important contributor to systemic effects, in which BAT extracellular vesicles (EVs) (i.e., batosomes) might be protagonists. EVs have emerged as a relevant cellular communication system and carriers of disease biomarkers. Therefore, characterization of the protein cargo of batosomes might reveal their potential as biomarkers of the metabolic activity of BAT. In this study, we are the first to isolate batosomes from lean and obese Sprague-Dawley rats, and to establish reference proteome maps. An LC-SWATH/MS analysis was also performed for comparisons with EVs secreted by white adipose tissue (subcutaneous and visceral WAT), and it showed that 60% of proteins were exclusive to BAT EVs. Precisely, batosomes of lean animals contain proteins associated with mitochondria, lipid metabolism, the electron transport chain, and the beta-oxidation pathway, and their protein cargo profile is dramatically affected by high fat diet (HFD) intervention. Thus, in obesity, batosomes are enriched with proteins involved in signal transduction, cell communication, the immune response, inflammation, thermogenesis, and potential obesity biomarkers including UCP1, Glut1, MIF, and ceruloplasmin. In conclusion, the protein cargo of BAT EVs is affected by the metabolic status and contains potential biomarkers of thermogenesis activity.
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