Journal: Nature Communications
Article Title: Senescence-associated 13-HODE production promotes age-related liver steatosis by directly inhibiting catalase activity
doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-44026-z
Figure Lengend Snippet: a – e Eight-week-old mice were injected with AAV- Cat -flag bearing TBG promoter or control AAV; 10 days after AAV injection, mice were treated with or without 13-HODE (0.5 μg/g body weight) once a day for 9 days. a Western blot analysis of protein level of CAT in liver, pancreas, eWAT, iWAT, and skeletal muscle. b H&E, Oil Red O and Nile Red staining of liver sections; scale bar = 100 μm for H&E and Oil Red O; scale bar = 20 μm for Nile red. c Liver TG and CHO content. d , e Western blot analysis of protein level of cleaved SREBP1 and FASN; ( b – e ) n = 6 mice in Ctrl group and 13-HODE group; n = 7 mice in 13-HODE + CAT group. f – i Eight-month-old mice were injected with AAV- Cat -flag or control AAV, and mice were sacrificed 2 months after AAV injection. f H&E, Oil Red O, and Nile Red staining of liver sections; scale bar = 100 μm for H&E and Oil Red O; scale bar = 20 μm for Nile red. g Liver TG and CHO content. h , i Western blot analysis of protein levels of cleaved SREBP1 and FASN; n = 8 mice per group. Data represent the mean ± SEM. One-way ANOVA with Fisher’s LSD was performed for c , e ; Two-tailed Student’s t test was performed for g , i . eWAT epididymal white adipose tissue, iWAT inguinal WAT, TG triglyceride, CHO total cholesterol, CAT OE catalase overexpression.
Article Snippet: To study the role of tetramerization of CAT in 13-HODE-induced hepatocyte steatosis, plasmid expressing CAT lacking N-terminal arm (residues 5-70; ΔCAT) was constructed to disrupt the tetramerization of CAT. Primary mouse hepatocytes were transfected with a his-tagged Cat - plasmid, a Δ Cat plasmid, or control pcDNA 3.1 plasmid, after 6 h, the cells were treated with 1 μM 13-HODE for another 48 h. For SREBP1 cleavage inhibition, hepatocytes were pretreated with 1 μM 13-HODE for 24 h before being co-treated with 1 μg/mL 25-HC (HY-113134, MedChemExpress, NJ) for another 24 h. For SREBP1 degradation assays, hepatocytes were pretreated with 1 μM 13-HODE for 36 h before being co-treated with 10 μM MG132 (HY-13259, MedChemExpress, NJ) for another 12 h. For Nr2c2 , Pparg and Rictor knockdown, hepatocytes were transfected for 48 h with siRNA targeting Nr2c2 , Pparg , Rictor , or negative control siRNA (Sangon Biotech, Shanghai).
Techniques: Injection, Control, Western Blot, Staining, Two Tailed Test, Over Expression