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NATURE MEDICINE
Volume 10, Issue 3, Pages 268-274Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nm995
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [P01DK58398, R01 DK040936] Funding Source: Medline
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Lipid infusion or ingestion of a high-fat diet results in insulin resistance, but the mechanism underlying this phenomenon remains unclear. Here we show that, in rats fed a high-fat diet, whole-animal, muscle and liver insulin resistance is ameliorated following hepatic overexpression of malonyl-coenzyme A (CoA) decarboxylase (MCD), an enzyme that affects lipid partitioning. MCD overexpression decreased circulating free fatty acid (FFA) and liver triglyceride content. In skeletal muscle, levels of triglyceride and long-chain acyl-CoA (LC-CoA)-two candidate mediators of insulin resistance-were either increased or unchanged. Metabolic profiling of 36 acylcarnitine species by tandem mass spectrometry revealed a unique decrease in the concentration of one lipid-derived metabolite, beta-OH-butyrate, in muscle of MCD-overexpressing animals. The best explanation for our findings is that hepatic expression of MCD lowered circulating FFA levels, which led to lowering of muscle beta-OH-butyrate levels and improvement of insulin sensitivity.
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