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A diet-induced type 2 diabetes model in Drosophila

ABSTRACT: We showed in this present study that HSD feeding could induce type 2 diabetes-like phenotype in fruit flies, resembling the key disease features including hyperglycemia, glucosuria, increased hunger and thirsty, unexplained weight loss, and reduced female fecundity. We also showed that HSD-fed flies shared similar molecular mechanisms underlying type 2 diabetes patients, including both insulin deficiency and insulin resistance. Last but not least, disrupting insulin signaling in fruit flies could mimic the effect of HSD feeding to induce type 2 diabetes-like phenotype, further confirming that these phenotypes were a result of compromised insulin signaling upon HSD feeding. Taken together, we demonstrated that this diet-induced type 2 diabetes model in fruit flies rightly and comprehensively recapitulated the physiological, metabolic, behavioral, and molecular features of human type 2 diabetes, offering a valid and accessible model to study the underlying mechanism of this disease and to validate potential diagnostics and therapeutic tools. Given the highly conserved regulatory framework of physiology and metabolism between flies and human, our work has paved a way to generate novel insights into type 2 diabetes, a common, severe, and yet poorly understood disease in human.

ORGANISM(S): Drosophila melanogaster

PROVIDER: GSE150565 | GEO | 2021/05/17

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Obesity has been shown to increase risk for cardiovascular disease and type-2 diabetes. In addition, it has been implicated in aggravation of neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s. In the model organism Drosophila melanogaster, a physiological state mimicking diet-induced obesity can be induced by subjecting fruit flies to a solid medium disproportionately higher in sugar than protein (HSD) or that has been supplemented with a rich source of saturated fat (HFD). These flies can exhibit increased circulating glucose levels, increased triglyceride content, insulin-like peptide resistance, and behavior indicative of neurological decline, such as decreased climbing ability. We subjected Oregon-R-C flies to variants of the HSD, HFD, or normal (control) diet (ND), followed by a total RNA extraction from fly heads of each diet group for the purpose of Poly-A selected RNA-Sequencing. We targeted at least 50 million paired-end, stranded reads of 75 basepairs in size, and analyzed 4 biological replicates per dietary condition. Our objective was to identify the effects of obesogenic diets on transcriptome patterns, how they differed between obesogenic diets, and identify genes that may relate to pathogenesis accompanying an obesity-like state. Functional annotation and enrichment analysis among genes whose expression was significantly affected by the obesogenic diets indicated an overrepresentation of genes associated with immunity, metabolism, and hemocyanin in the HFD group, and CHK, cell cycle activity, and DNA binding and transcription in the HSD group. Heat map representation of genes affected by both diets illustrated a large fraction of differentially expressed genes between the two diet groups. Diets high in sugar and diets high in fat both have notableeffects on the Drosophila transcriptome in head tissue. The impacted genes, and how they may relate to pathogenesis in the Drosophila obesity-like state, warrant further experimental investigation. Our results also indicate differences in the effects of the HFD and HSD on expression profiles in head tissue of Oregon-R-C flies, despite the reportedly similar phenotypic impacts of the diets.

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A diet-induced type 2 diabetes model in Drosophila

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