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BIOMEDICINES
卷 10, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines10040909
关键词
high-fat diet; sperm parameters; sncRNA; paternal epigenetic inheritance; inherited metabolic memory
资金
- Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology [SFRH/BD/128584/2017, PTDC/MEC-AND/28691/2017]
- UMIB [UIDB/00 215/2020, UIDP/00215/2020]
- ITR [LA/P/0064/2020]
- FEDER funds (POCI/COMPETE 2020)
- Portuguese Society of Diabetology
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/128584/2017] Funding Source: FCT
Excessive adiposity caused by high-fat diets may affect testicular metabolism and function in future generations through the influence of sperm small non-coding RNA.
Excessive adiposity caused by high-fat diets (HFDs) is associated with testicular metabolic and functional abnormalities up to grand-offspring, but the mechanisms of this epigenetic inheritance are unclear. Here we describe an association of sperm small non-coding RNA (sncRNA) with testicular inherited metabolic memory of ancestral HFD, using a transgenerational rodent model. Male founders were fed a standard chow for 200 days (CTRL), HFD for 200 days (HFD), or standard chow for 60 days followed by HFD for 140 days (HFDt). The male offspring and grand-offspring were fed standard chow for 200 days. The sncRNA sequencing from epidydimal spermatozoa revealed signatures associated with testicular metabolic plasticity in HFD-exposed mice and in the unexposed progeny. Sperm tRNA-derived RNA (tsRNA) and repeat-derived small RNA (repRNA) content were specially affected by HFDt and in the offspring of HFD and HFDt mice. The grand-offspring of HFD and HFDt mice showed lower sperm counts than CTRL descendants, whereas the sperm miRNA content was affected. Although the causality between sperm sncRNAs content and transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of HFD-related traits remains elusive, our results suggest that sperm sncRNA content is influenced by ancestral exposure to HFD, contributing to the sperm epigenome up to the grand-offspring.
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