期刊
JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY
卷 64, 期 2, 页码 409-418出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2015.08.037
关键词
Autophagy; SAMe; Methionine; Liver; Steatosis; Gnmt
资金
- NIH (US Department of Health and Human services) [R01AR001576-11A1]
- ISCIII [PI12/00005, PI12/00402, PI10/00067, PIE14/00031, PI13/01299]
- MINECO [RYC-2010-06901, RYC-2008-02347, SAF2014-54658-R, SAF2014-52097-R]
- integrated in Plan nacional de I+d+I
- FEDER
- integrated in Plan Estatal de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnica y Innovacion
- Fundacion AECC (Cancer Infantil)
- GV-Departamento de desarrollo economico y Competitividad [IE13-370]
- GV-Departamento de Salud [2013111114, -2011111106]
- GV-Departamento de Educacion Politica Linguistica y Cultura [PI2011-29, -PI2012-48, PI2013-46]
- Junta Provincial de Bizkaia- ECC
- Basque Government [IT-336-10]
- Unidad de Formacion e Investigacion [UFI11/20]
- University of Basque Country
- Ciberehd_ISCIII_MINECO
Background & Aims: Glycine N-methyltransferase (GNMT) expression is decreased in some patients with severe nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Gnmt deficiency in mice (Gnmt-KO) results in abnormally elevated serum levels of methionine and its metabolite S-adenosylmethionine (SAMe), and this leads to rapid liver steatosis development. Autophagy plays a critical role in lipid catabolism (lipophagy), and defects in autophagy have been related to liver steatosis development. Since methionine and its metabolite SAMe are well known inactivators of autophagy, we aimed to examine whether high levels of both metabolites could block autophagy-mediated lipid catabolism. Methods: We examined methionine levels in a cohort of 358 serum samples from steatotic patients. We used hepatocytes cultured with methionine and SAMe, and hepatocytes and livers from Gnmt-KO mice. Results: We detected a significant increase in serum methionine levels in steatotic patients. We observed that autophagy and lipophagy were impaired in hepatocytes cultured with high methionine and SAMe, and that Gnmt-KO livers were characterized by an impairment in autophagy functionality, likely caused by defects at the lysosomal level. Elevated levels of methionine and SAMe activated PP2A by methylation, while blocking PP2A activity restored autophagy flux in Gnmt-KO hepatocytes, and in hepatocytes treated with SAMe and methionine. Finally, normalization of methionine and SAMe levels in Gnmt-KO mice using a methionine deficient diet normalized the methylation capacity, PP2A methylation, autophagy, and ameliorated liver steatosis. Conclusions: These data suggest that elevated levels of methionine and SAMe can inhibit autophagic catabolism of lipids contributing to liver steatosis. (C) 2015 European Association for the Study of the Liver. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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