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NATURE METABOLISM
Volume 1, Issue 9, Pages 886-898Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s42255-019-0106-z
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- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [DK97441, DK108822]
- NIH Office of Dietary Supplements
- Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation
- NIH [DK107583]
- JSPS [17H03605]
- Manpei Suzuki Diabetes Foundation
- JSPS Overseas Research Fellowship
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [17H03605] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue (BAT) declines with age; however, what regulates this process is poorly understood. Here, we identify mitochondrial lipoylation as a previously unappreciated molecular hallmark of aged BAT in mice. Using mitochondrial proteomics, we show that mitochondrial lipoylation is disproportionally reduced in aged BAT through a post-transcriptional decrease in the iron-sulfur (Fe-S) cluster formation pathway. A defect in Fe-S cluster formation by the fat-specific deletion of Bola3 significantly reduces mitochondrial lipoylation and fuel oxidation in BAT, leading to glucose intolerance and obesity. In turn, enhanced mitochondrial lipoylation by alpha-lipoic acid supplementation effectively restores BAT function in old mice, thereby preventing age-associated obesity and glucose intolerance. The effect of alpha-lipoic acids requires mitochondrial lipoylation via the BOLA3 pathway and does not depend on the antioxidant activity of alpha-lipoic acid. These results open up the possibility of alleviating age-associated decline in energy expenditure by enhancing the mitochondrial lipoylation pathway.
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