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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM
Volume 298, Issue 5, Pages E988-E998Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00307.2009
Keywords
toll-like receptor 4; skeletal muscle; obesity; glucose metabolism; fatty acid metabolism; human; and mouse
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- American Diabetes Association [1-JF-05-24]
- National Institutes of Health [RO1 DK078765, R56 DK-078765, RO1 DK-56112]
- K. Voelker's time [RO1 AR049881]
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Frisard MI, McMillan RP, Marchand J, Wahlberg KA, Wu Y, Voelker KA, Heilbronn L, Haynie K, Muoio B, Li L, Hulver MW. Toll-like receptor 4 modulates skeletal muscle substrate metabolism. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 298: E988-E998, 2010. First published February 23, 2010; doi: 10.1152/ajpendo.00307.2009.-Tolllike receptor 4 (TLR4), a protein integral to innate immunity, is elevated in skeletal muscle of obese and type 2 diabetic humans and has been implicated in the development of lipid-induced insulin resistance. The purpose of this study was to examine the role of TLR4 as a modulator of basal (non-insulin-stimulated) substrate metabolism in skeletal muscle with the hypothesis that its activation would result in reduced fatty acid oxidation and increased partitioning of fatty acids toward neutral lipid storage. Human skeletal muscle, rodent skeletal muscle, and skeletal muscle cell cultures were employed to study the functional consequences of TLR4 activation on glucose and fatty acid metabolism. Herein, we demonstrate that activation of TLR4 with low (metabolic endotoxemia) and high (septic conditions) doses of LPS results in increased glucose utilization and reduced fatty acid oxidation in skeletal muscle and that these changes in metabolism in vivo occur in concert with increased circulating triglycerides. Moreover, animals with a loss of TLR4 function possess increased oxidative capacity in skeletal muscle and present with lower fasting levels of triglycerides and nonesterified free fatty acids. Evidence is also presented to suggest that these changes in substrate metabolism under metabolic endotoxemic conditions are independent of skeletal muscle-derived proinflammatory cytokine production. This report illustrates that skeletal muscle is a target for circulating endotoxin and may provide critical insight into the link between a proinflammatory state and dysregulated metabolism as observed with obesity, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome.
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