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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 447, Issue 1-2, Pages 137-149Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/s11010-018-3299-7
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Betaine; C2C12; Intramuscular fat; PPAR; ERK1/2
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- National Basic Research Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China [2012CB124705]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
- Special Fund for Cultivation and Breeding of New Transgenic Organism of Ministry of Agriculture of China [2014ZX0800949B]
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Betaine, a neutral zwitterionic compound, could regulate intramuscular fat (IMF) deposition and meat quality. However, the efficacy is controversial. Moreover, the regulatory mechanism of betaine on lipid metabolism in skeletal muscle cells remains unclear. Therefore, in this study, we examined the effects and regulatory mechanism of betaine on lipid accumulation in adipogenic-differentiated C2C12 cells. We found that adipogenic-induced C2C12 cells treated with 10mM betaine for 24 and 48h had more lipid accumulation than the control group. Real-time PCR and Western blot results revealed that betaine treatment did not alter the expression of lipolysis and lipid oxidation-related genes, but dramatically increased the expression of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) and its target genes such as fatty acid binding protein 4 (aP2), fatty acid synthase (FAS) and lipoprteinlipase (LPL). Furthermore, betaine combined with PPAR inhibitor GW9662 treatment showed that betaine elevated C2C12 lipid accumulation through upregulation of PPAR. Mechanistically, we found that betaine promoted PPAR expression and lipid accumulation through inhibition of extracellular regulated protein kinases1/2 (ERK1/2) signalling pathway. These results demonstrate that betaine acts through ERK1/2-PPAR signalling pathway to regulate lipid metabolism in adipogenic-differentiated skeletal muscle cells, which could provide some useful information for controlling muscle lipid accumulation by manipulating ERK1/2 and PPAR signalling pathway.
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