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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 296, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1074/jbc.RA120.016203
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- Lotte Shigemitsu Prize from the LOTTE Foundation
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI Grant [JP15H05781, JP16K18699, JP19K15786]
- Japanese Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED-CREST) [16gm0910008h0001]
- Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program [14533567]
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TGR5 activation in skeletal muscle improved glucose utilization and blood glucose clearance in mice, without altering insulin sensitivity or reducing body weight. The results suggest that TGR5 may ameliorate glucose metabolism disorders caused by diet-induced obesity and aging, offering a potential novel strategy for preventing or treating hyperglycemia.
TGR5, a G protein-coupled bile acid receptor, is expressed in various tissues and regulates several physiological processes. In the skeletal muscle, TGR5 activation is known to induce muscle hypertrophy; however, the effects on glucose and lipid metabolism are not well understood, despite the fact that the skeletal muscle plays a major role in energy metabolism. Here, we demonstrate that skeletal muscle-specific TGR5 transgenic (Tg) mice exhibit increased glucose utilization, without altering the expression of major genes related to glucose and lipid metabolism. Metabolite profiling analysis by capillary electrophoresis time-of-flight mass spectrometry showed that glycolytic flux was activated in the skeletal muscle of Tg mice, leading to an increase in glucose utilization. Upon long-term, high-fat diet challenge, blood glucose clearance was improved in Tg mice without an accompanying increase in insulin sensitivity in skeletal muscle and a reduction of body weight. Moreover, Tg mice showed improved age-associated glucose intolerance. These results strongly suggest that TGR5 ameliorated glucose metabolism disorder that is caused by diet-induced obesity and aging by enhancing the glucose metabolic capacity of the skeletal muscle. Our study demonstrates that TGR5 activation in the skeletal muscle is effective in improving glucose metabolism and may be beneficial in developing a novel strategy for the prevention or treatment of hyperglycemia.
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