1 Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Departments of 2 Internal Medicine, Cellular and Molecular Physiology, and 3 Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8020
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ABSTRACT |
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To examine the mechanism by
which fish oil protects against fat-induced insulin resistance, we
studied the effects of control, fish oil, and safflower oil diets on
peroxisomal content, fatty acyl-CoA, diacylglycerol, and ceramide
content in rat liver and muscle. We found that, in contrast to control
and safflower oil-fed rats, fish oil feeding induced a 150% increase
in the abundance of peroxisomal acyl-CoA oxidase and 3-ketoacyl-CoA
thiolase in liver but lacked similar effects in muscle. This was
paralleled by an almost twofold increase in hepatic peroxisome content
(both P < 0.002 vs. control and safflower). These
changes in the fish oil-fed rats were associated with a more than
twofold lower hepatic triglyceride/diacylglycerol, as well as
intramuscular triglyceride/fatty acyl-CoA, content. In conclusion,
these data strongly support the hypothesis that n-3 fatty acids protect
against fat-induced insulin resistance by serving as peroxisome
proliferator-activated receptor- ligands and thereby induce hepatic,
but not intramuscular, peroxisome proliferation. In turn, an increased
hepatic
-oxidative capacity results in lower hepatic
triglyceride/diacylglycerol and intramyocellular triglyceride/fatty
acyl-CoA content.
peroxisome proliferator-activating receptor-;
-oxidation; diacylglycerol; acyl-CoA oxidase; 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase
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INTRODUCTION |
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INSULIN
RESISTANCE is a critical factor in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes (16). Recent studies have demonstrated a strong
relationship between accumulation of intramyocellular and intrahepatic
triglycerides and insulin resistance in these organs (5, 7,
8, 10, 13). In contrast to most long-chain fatty acids,
long-chain n-3 fatty acids have been shown to protect against
fat-induced insulin resistance (6, 11, 12, 17-19). Recent studies by our group have demonstrated a lower intramyocellular triglyceride content in fish oil-fed rats compared with safflower oil-fed rats (6). One possible explanation for this
finding is that n-3 fatty acids promote increased fatty acid
oxidation by stimulating peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-
(PPAR
) in liver, which in turn induces peroxisome proliferation in
liver. Indeed, it was recently demonstrated in vitro that n-3
polyunsaturated fatty acids, such as docosahexaenoic acid (C22:6n-3)
and eicosapentaenoic acid (C20:5n-3), bind to PPAR
and serve as
primary regulators of transcriptional events (3).
To examine this hypothesis, we pair-fed three groups of rats with isocaloric diets containing standard chow (control, 17% fat-derived calories), menhaden fish oil (fish oil, 59% fat-derived calories), or safflower oil (safflower oil, 59% fat-derived calories) and examined respective increases in peroxisomal and mitochondrial content in liver. Furthermore, because recent studies have implicated fatty acid metabolites as the mediators of fat-induced insulin resistance in muscle and liver by interfering with insulin activation of insulin receptor substrate (IRS)-1- and IRS-2-associated phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase activity (respectively 7, 16), we also measured fatty acyl-CoA, diacylglycerol, and ceramide content in these tissues.
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METHODS |
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Animals and Research Design
Male Sprague-Dawley rats (body wt ~100 g) were purchased from Charles River (Raleigh, NC) and housed under standard vivarium conditions (12:12-h light-dark cycle). Weight-matched rats were divided into control, safflower, and fish oil groups (studies 1 and 2; n = 10 in each group) for 21 days of dietary treatment. Control rats were fed a high-carbohydrate diet (59% carbohydrate-derived calories, 17% soybean oil, 24% protein), whereas rats of the other two groups were supplied with high-fat diets ad libitum (59% fat-derived calories, 23% carbohydrate, 18% protein) consisting of either safflower oil or menhaden fish oil. An overview of the dietary free fatty acid composition is shown in Fig. 1A. All diets (nos. 112245, 112246, and 110700) were supplemented with minerals (no. 210025) and vitamins (no. 310025) and were purchased from Dyets (Bethlehem, PA).
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Study 1.
Rats were housed in groups of five animals per cage. On day
20 of control, safflower oil, or fish oil feeding, rats were
fasted overnight (18 h) and were anesthetized the next day with an
injection of ketamine-xylazine (100/10 mg/kg ip). Livers and skeletal
muscles were freeze-clamped in situ and powdered under liquid nitrogen with a mortar and pestle cooled to 70°C. Powdered tissues were stored at
80°C until further analysis.
Study 2. Rats were housed individually to control feed intake and body weight gain during the dietary regimen. For the 1st wk, rats were fed a regular laboratory chow to stabilize their metabolic conditions; then they were matched for body weight and divided into a control, safflower, or fish oil group for dietary treatment. Body weight and feed intake measurements were taken every 2-3 days, and feed was exchanged in the same intervals. After 20 days of feeding, rats were fasted overnight (18 h) and were anesthetized with ketamine-xylazine (100/10 mg/kg ip) on the next day. Blood samples were obtained via cardiac puncture. Fresh liver sections from peri- and centrilobular regions of the lobus sinister medialis were collected in a fixative for morphological investigations.
Metabolites and Hormone Analysis
Plasma glucose concentrations were determined with a glucose analyzer (Beckman, Fullerton, CA) and the glucose oxidase method. Plasma immunoreactive insulin was measured with a double-antibody radioimmunoassay technique (Linco Research, St. Charles, MO). Plasma fatty acids were determined with an acyl-CoA oxidase-based colorimetric kit (Wako NEFA-C, Wako Pure Chemicals Industries, Osaka, Japan).Extraction and Measurement of Skeletal Muscle and Liver Triglyceride
The protocol was adapted from methods described previously (4, 17). Tissues (~200 mg) were homogenized for 90 s (Ultra Turrax T25, IKA Works, Wilmington, NC) in ice-cold chloroform-methanol (2:1, vol/vol). Triglycerides were extracted during 5-h shaking at room temperature. For phase separation, H2SO4 was added, samples were centrifuged, and the organic bottom layer was collected. The organic solvent was dried using a SpeedVacPlus (SC210A, Savant Instruments, Farmingdale, NY) and redissolved in chloroform. Triglyceride content of each sample was measured in triplicate by use of an enzymatic method (Sigma Diagnostics, St. Louis, MO).Solid Phase Extraction of Skeletal Muscle and Liver Long-Chain and Very Long-Chain Fatty Acyl-CoA
Tissues (~200 mg) were homogenized, and long-chain (LC) and very long-chain (VLC) fatty acyl-CoAs were extracted according to methods described previously (1). Stepwise KH2PO4-2-propanol (1:1, vol/vol), saturated (NH4)2SO4, and acetonitrile were added, and the emulsion was vortexed and centrifuged. The supernatant was diluted with KH2PO4 (pH 4.9), and the acyl-CoA fraction was eluted using preconditioned oligonucleotide purification columns (no. 400771; Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA). Acyl-CoA fractions were dried in a SpeedVacPlus and redissolved in methanol-H2O (1:1, vol/vol) for LC/MS/MS analysis. Total LC/VLC fatty acyl-CoA concentrations are defined by summarizing values obtained from all individual species.Extraction of Skeletal Muscle and Liver Diacylglycerol and Ceramide
Tissues (~100 mg) were homogenized and lipids extracted according to methods described previously (1). After addition of ice-cold chloroform-methanol (2:1, vol/vol) containing the antioxidant 0.01% butylated hydroxytoluene, samples were extracted by shaking at room temperature. Organic and/or aqueous phase separation was induced by stepwise addition of chloroform and H2O. Samples were centrifuged, dried using a SpeedVacPlus, reconstituted in chloroform-methanol (3:1, vol/vol), and filtered (Acrodisc 13-mm syringe filter with 0.2 mm HAT Taffryn membrane; Pall Gelman laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI) for LC/MS/MS analysis. Total diacylglycerol and ceramide concentrations are defined as the sum of values obtained from all individual species.LC/MS/MS Analysis
An API 3000 tandem mass spectrometer (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA) interfaced with a turbo ion spray or APCI source combined with a Perkin-Elmer Series 200 micropump and autosampler (Perkin-Elmer, Norwalk, CT) were employed. Fatty acyl-CoAs were ionized in negative electrospray mode, and the transition pairs [M-2H]2Histocytochemistry and Quantification of Peroxisomes
The alkaline 3,3-diaminobenzidine (DAB) reaction for peroxidase activity of catalase was adapted from LeHir et al. (14). Fresh peri- and centrilobular liver sections (n = 5 each group and region) were fixed by immersion in a fixative containing 1.5% glutaraldehyde and 4% paraformaldehyde in 0.1 M cacodylate buffer (pH 7.2) for 30 min. Liver samples were cut into ~40-µm sections, rinsed in glycine-NaOH buffer containing 7.5% sucrose, and incubated for 60 min with 5 mM DAB in 0.1 M glycine-NaOH buffer (pH 10.5) and 0.15% H2O2. Samples were rinsed thoroughly with 0.1 M glycine-NaOH buffer, postfixed in 2% aqueous osmium tetroxide for 90 min, rinsed with distilled H2O, and dehydrated through a graded series of ethanol. Liver sections embedded in Epon 812 were sectioned and examined in an electron microscope (Philips Tecnai 12, Eindhoven, The Netherlands). From each liver sample a total of 10 micrographs were taken from two separate blocks at a final magnification of ×17,000, and volume density of peroxisomes was estimated by the point-counting method.Preparation of cDNA Probes
Probes for cytoplasmicVectors containing rat acyl-CoA oxidase and 3-ketoacyl-CoA
thiolase cDNAs were kind gifts from Dr. Takashi Osumi, Department of
Life Science, Himeji Institute of Technology, (Kamigori, Hyogo, Japan).
Genes encoding -actin, PPAR
, L-FABP, or CPT-I were amplified from
rat liver and muscle cDNA libraries (Clontech Laboratories) as
described in Table 1.
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Preparation of Total RNA and Northern Blot Analysis
Total liver and skeletal muscle RNA was extracted from frozen tissues with an RNA isolation kit according to the manufacturer's protocol (Totally RNA, Ambion, Austin, TX). Ten micrograms of total RNA per sample were separated on a denaturing agarose gel and transferred onto nitrocellulose membranes (Hybond-N, Amersham Pharmacia Biotech, Buckinghamshire, UK). Northern blots were hybridized with cDNA probes labeled with [Statistical Analysis
All data are presented as means ± SE. ANOVA was performed on data at a minimum P < 0.05 threshold. A multiple-comparison Bonferroni-Dunn post hoc test was performed to determine significance among the three groups except for muscle acyl-CoA oxidase mRNA content, for which Fisher's protected least significant difference test was performed, since the group size was six or less than six. ![]() |
RESULTS |
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Basal Studies
Rats of all studies were matched according to their initial body weights before the onset of the dietary regimen. When held in groups of five per cage, safflower oil- and fish oil-fed rats gained ~1.2-fold more weight than control rats (P < 0.0001 vs. control, Table 2).
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Isocaloric feeding (~350 cal · g body
wt1 · day
1) of singly housed rats
resulted in similar body weights (Table 2). Despite similar fasting
plasma glucose concentrations, fish oil-fed rats displayed
significantly lower fasting plasma insulin levels compared with control
or safflower rats (P < 0.02 vs. control and safflower; Table 2).
Liver and Skeletal Muscle Triglyceride Content
Livers of rats fed safflower oil accumulated about eightfold more triglycerides than those from controls (P < 0.0001 vs. control). In contrast, fish oil feeding protected from this massive increase in hepatic triglycerides compared with the safflower-fed rats (Table 3).
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Consistent with the findings of our previous study (6), safflower oil-fed rats displayed an ~80% increase in triglyceride content compared with the controls, and fish oil feeding protected against this increase in muscle triglyceride (Table 3).
Liver and Skeletal Muscle Diacylglycerol Content
When animals were treated with 59% safflower oil, total hepatic LC diacylglycerol levels were about twofold higher than in rats fed with fish oil or control chow (P < 0.0001 vs. control and fish oil; Table 3), whereas no difference in total LC diacylglycerol accumulation between the two groups was present in skeletal muscle (Table 3). In contrast, when fish oil was fed, total hepatic LC diacylglycerol levels equaled levels found in control rats (Table 3). In skeletal muscles of fish oil-fed rats, total LC diacylglycerol concentrations were found to be reduced by 21% vs. control (P < 0.02 vs. control; Table 3).When the individual LC diacylglycerol profiles in liver and skeletal muscle were screened, their fatty acid composition mainly reflected the dietary fatty acid composition. Therefore, when safflower oil, which consists mainly of polyunsaturated linoleic acid (C18:2; Table 2), was fed, the predominant fatty acid incorporated in diacylglycerols was C18:2, with 84% of total fatty acids in liver (P < 0.0001 vs. control and fish oil) and 68% in skeletal muscle (P < 0.0001 vs. control and fish oil). Neither rats of the control nor those of the fish oil group showed an equivalent tendency to accumulate any particulate diacylglycerol species.
Liver and Skeletal Muscle Fatty Acyl-CoA Content
Independent from the dietary regimen, the total hepatic LC and VLC acyl-CoA pools did not differ (Table 3).Findings in skeletal muscle contrasted, because safflower oil-fed rats accumulated almost twice as much total LC/VLC acyl-CoAs than rats provided with either a control or a fish oil diet (P < 0.02 vs. control; P < 0.007 vs. fish oil). In contrast, when fish oil was the dietary fat source, total skeletal muscle acyl-CoA levels were similar to those of controls (Table 3).
When rats consumed safflower oil, consisting of 78% linoleic acid (C18:2), the corresponding fatty acyl-CoA species accounted for 58% of the total acyl-CoA fraction in liver and for 50% in skeletal muscle (Fig. 1, B and C). Compared with control or safflower oil-fed rats, fish oil feeding increased the acyl-CoA fractions of eicosapentaenoic (C20:5) and docosahexaenoic acid (C22:6) about twofold in liver (P < 0.0001 vs. control and safflower; Fig. 1B). In skeletal muscle of fish oil-fed rats, the docosahexaenoic acid (C22:6) fatty acyl-CoA species was found to be increased by 41% compared with controls (P < 0.02 vs. control; Fig. 1C).
Liver and Skeletal Muscle Ceramide Content
Ceramide, a biosynthetic precursor of sphingomyelin and a product of sphingomyelinase action on sphingomyelin, has been reported to induce differentiation, proliferation, or even cell arrest in certain cell types and to be implicated in the activation of stress kinases, such as c-Jun NH2-terminal kinase (9). Within the three groups, total ceramide levels were approximately twofold higher in livers than in skeletal muscles, but total ceramide levels were not different in liver or skeletal muscle among the three groups (Table 3).Effect of Fish Oil on mRNA Expression of Peroxisomal Enzymes
Involved in -Oxidation
In liver, chronic fish oil feeding induced the transcription of both
genes ~150% compared with control or safflower oil-fed rats
(acyl-CoA oxidase: P > 0.001 vs. control, P
0.0001 vs. safflower; 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase: P > 0.002 vs. control, P > 0.0001 vs. safflower; Fig.
2).
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Determination of peroxisomal acyl-CoA oxidase mRNA abundance in skeletal muscle revealed no difference between control (n = 6; 94 ± 21 arbitrary units) and fish oil-fed rats (n = 6; 107 ± 18 arbitrary units). Compared with both controls and fish oil-fed rats, a more than 50% reduced acyl-CoA oxidase mRNA content was detected in skeletal muscles from safflower oil-fed rats (n = 6; 38 ± 15 arbitrary units; P = 02 vs. fish oil).
Effect of Fish Oil on Hepatic Peroxisomal and Mitochondrial Density
The observed fish oil-induced induction of peroxisomal enzymes was paralleled by an almost twofold increased peroxisomal density in liver compared with either control or safflower oil-fed rats. In liver sections obtained from control rats, peroxisomal volume accounted for 1.8% ± 0.1, in safflower oil-fed rats for 1.6 ± 0.1%, and in fish oil-fed rats 3.4 ± 0.4% of total cell volume (means ± SE for n = 10 each group; P < 0.0001 vs. control and safflower; Fig. 3).
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Furthermore, hepatic mitochondrial volume was increased >32% by dietary fish oil treatment. In liver sections obtained from control rats, mitochondrial volume accounted for 16.8% ± 0.8, in safflower oil-fed rats for 16.6% ± 0.9, and in fish oil-fed rats for 22.4% ± 0.2 of total cell volume (n = 10 each group; P < 0.004 vs. control and safflower; Fig. 3).
Effect of Fish Oil on mRNA Expression of Hepatic Proteins Involved in Lipid Metabolism
Both the dietary fat composition and the quantity of dietary fat-derived calories failed to affect hepatic PPAR
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DISCUSSION |
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In contrast to other types of fat, fish oil has been shown to
protect against fat-induced insulin resistance; however, the mechanism
responsible for this protective effect remains unknown (6,
18). In this regard, a recent study by our group has shown that
rats fed a diet consisting of 59% of calories derived mainly from fish
oil had greater insulin responsiveness and lower intramuscular
triglyceride content compared with pair-fed rats on an isocaloric
safflower oil diet (6). We hypothesized that the
protective effect of fish oil on fat-induced insulin resistance in vivo
may be due to the rats' ability to activate PPAR and promote
hepatic peroxisome proliferation, which in turn might lead to increased
hepatic fatty acid oxidation. Indeed, in this study we found that, in
contrast to control and safflower oil-fed rats, fish oil-fed rats had a
150% increase in the abundance of the peroxisome enzymes acyl-CoA
oxidase and 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase, which was paralleled by an almost
twofold increase in hepatic peroxisome content. These changes in the
fish oil-fed rats were associated with markedly lower hepatic
triglyceride/diacylglycerol content, as well as decreased intramuscular
triglyceride/fatty acyl-CoA content. Despite massive hepatic peroxisome
proliferation in the fish oil-fed rats, there was no associated
increase in PPAR
gene expression in liver. Taken together, these
data strongly support the notion that n-3 fatty acids act as potent
naturally occurring PPAR
ligands that can bind and activate PPAR
receptors predominantly in the liver to cause peroxisome proliferation
and increased hepatic fat oxidation, resulting in lower hepatic
triglyceride/diacylglycerol content and secondary intramyocellular
triglyceride/fatty acyl-CoA content. In support of this hypothesis,
similar intramuscular lipid-lowering and insulin-sensitizing effects
have recently been reported for WY-14643, a potent synthetic PPAR
agonist (19).
In contrast to liver, the expression of peroxisomal acyl-CoA oxidase
mRNA in skeletal muscle was unaffected by fish oil treatment. These
data suggest that the ability of fish oil to lower muscle triglyceride
and fatty acyl-CoA content in addition to hepatic triglyceride content
occurs primarily through activation of hepatic PPAR and is
consistent with the reported tissue distribution pattern of rodent
PPAR
expressed in liver (2).
In view of the increasing evidence demonstrating a strong relationship
between accumulation of intramuscular and intrahepatic lipid content
and insulin resistance in these tissues (7, 8, 15), these
data support the hypothesis that n-3 fatty acids protect against
fat-induced insulin resistance by serving as PPAR ligands, which
thereby induce hepatic peroxisome and mitochondrial proliferation.
This, in turn, increases hepatic
-oxidative capacity, which results
in lower hepatic triglyceride/diacylglycerol and intramyocellular
triglyceride/fatty acyl-CoA content.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
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We are indebted to Nicole Barucci, Yanna Kosover, Aida Grossmann, and Kim Murphy for expert technical assistance.
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FOOTNOTES |
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This study was supported by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Grants R01 DK-49036 and P30 DK-45735. S. Neschen is a research associate, and G. I. Shulman is an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Address for reprint requests and other correspondence: G. I. Shulman, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Yale Univ. School of Medicine, BCMM 254, 295 Congress Ave., New Haven, CT 06520-8020 (E-mail: gerald.shulman{at}yale.edu).
The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. The article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.
10.1152/ajpendo.00414.2001
Received 17 September 2001; accepted in final form 22 October 2001.
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