Neuregulin 4 suppresses NASH-associated liver cancer through restraining tumor-prone liver microenvironment
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ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
PROVIDER: GSE185042 | GEO | 2022/08/15
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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Project description:Interorgan crosstalk via secreted hormones and metabolites is a fundamental aspect of mammalian metabolic physiology. Beyond the highly specialized endocrine cells, peripheral tissues are emerging as an important source of metabolic hormones that influence energy and nutrient metabolism and contribute to disease pathogenesis. Neuregulin 4 (Nrg4) is a fat-derived hormone that protects mice from nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and NASH-associated liver cancer by shaping hepatic lipid metabolism and the liver immune microenvironment. Despite its enriched expression in brown fat, whether NRG4 plays a role in thermogenic response and mediates the metabolic benefits of cold exposure remain unexplored. Here we show that Nrg4 expression in inguinal white adipose tissue (iWAT) is highly responsive to chronic cold exposure. Nrg4 deficiency impairs beige fat induction and renders mice more susceptible to diet-induced metabolic disorders under mild cold conditions. Using mice with adipocyte and hepatocyte-specific Nrg4 deletion, we reveal that adipose tissue-derived NRG4, but not hepatic NRG4, is essential for beige fat induction following cold acclimation. Furthermore, treatment with recombinant NRG4-Fc fusion protein promotes beige fat induction in iWAT and improves metabolic health in diet-induced obese mice. These findings highlight a critical role of NRG4 in mediating beige fat induction and preserving metabolic health under mild cold conditions.
2024-01-01 | GSE246993 | GEO
Project description:Nrg4 is a brown fat-enriched adipokine that binds to the liver and preserves metabolic homeostasis during chronic energy excess. Adipose tissue Nrg4 expression is reduced in mouse and human obesity. Nrg4 deficient mice develp more severe insulin resistance and hepatic fat accumulation upon high-fat diet feeding. We used microarrays to elucidate the metabolic pathways that are regulated by Nrg4 in the liver. Wild type and Neuregulin 4 (Nrg4) knockout mice were fed high-fat diet (Research Diets D12492) for eight weeks. Tissues were harvested under ad lib condition for RNA isolation and microarray hybridization using Affymetrix Mouse MG-430 PM Strip arrays. Three independent pools of WT and KO mouse liver RNA were included in the study. Manuscript title: A brown fat-enriched secreted factor preserves metabolic homeostasis through attenuating hepatic lipogenesis, (journal information TBD)
2014-11-17 | E-GEOD-53877 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Nrg4 is a brown fat-enriched adipokine that binds to the liver and suppress the process of steatosis-to-NASH progression. Adipose tissue Nrg4 expression was reduced in mice under NASH diet feeding. Nrg4 homozygous knockout mice are prone to diet-induced steatohepatitis We used microarrays to elucidate the pathogenic pathways that are regulated by Nrg4 deficiency in the livers of mice under NASH diet feeding.
2018-02-14 | GSE99753 | GEO
Project description:Growth factors are essential for maintenance of intestinal health at homeostasis and during inflammation. We have previously shown that exogenous treatment with the growth factor neuregulin-4 (NRG4) promotes colonocyte survival during cytokine challenge and is protective in acute models of intestinal inflammation. However, the role of endogenously expressed NRG4 in colitis is not well understood. Using NRG4-/- mice, we tested the effect of endogenous NRG4 on colitis. NRG4-/- and wild type cage-mate mice were subjected to an IL-10R neutralization model of chronic colitis. NRG4-/- mice displayed reduced inflammatory cytokine expression in the colon and a reduction in tissue CD8+ T cells at 5 weeks post induction of colitis. In unchallenged NRG4-/- mice, baseline numbers of colonic CD8+ T cell numbers were unchanged. However, there was a significant decrease in splenic CD8+ T cells. RNA sequencing from colonic homogenates showed a loss of St3gal4, a sialyltransferase involved in immune cell trafficking, in the NRG4-null animals. This loss was verified in both tissue and epithelium. The regulation of St3gal4 by NRG4 was confirmed with ex vivo epithelial colon organoid cultures from NRG4-/- mice and by induction of St3gal4 in vivo following NRG4 treatment. Together our data suggest that NRG4 regulates colonic epithelial ST3GAL4 and thus the recruitment of CD8+ T cells, but also has systemic effects on T cell maturation. These effects may combine to stimulate immune mediated inflammation during IL-10R neutralization colitis.
2023-05-23 | GSE206965 | GEO
Project description:Nrg4 is a brown fat-enriched adipokine that binds to the liver and preserves metabolic homeostasis during chronic energy excess. Adipose tissue Nrg4 expression is reduced in mouse and human obesity. Nrg4 deficient mice develp more severe insulin resistance and hepatic fat accumulation upon high-fat diet feeding. We used microarrays to elucidate the metabolic pathways that are regulated by Nrg4 in the liver.
2014-11-17 | GSE53877 | GEO
Project description:Limb expression 1-like protein (LIX1L) plays important role in various liver disorders, but its role and underlying mechanism in nonalcoholic hepatitis (NASH) and HCC progression remains obscure. Here, we report that LIX1L functions as a key integrative regulator linking lipid metabolism and inflammation, adipose tissue dysfunction and hepatic microenvironment reprogramming which promotes NASH progression. LIX1L significantly upregulated in NAFLD/NASH patients, mouse models and palmitic acid-stimulated hepatocytes. Lix1l deletion inhibits lipid deposition, inflammatory response and fibrosis in liver as well as adipocyte differentiation by downregulation of fatty acid translocase CD36 expression, alleviating NASH and associated HCC progression. In contrast, adeno-associated virus (AAV)-mediated LIX1L overexpression exacerbates NASH progression in mice. Mechanistically, metabolic stress promotes PARP1 mediated poly-ADP-ribosylation (PARylation) of LIX1L, subsequently increasing the stability and RNA binding ability of LIX1L protein. LIX1L binds to AU-rich element (ARE) in the 3’ untranslated region (UTR) of CD36 mRNA, thus attenuating CD36 mRNA decay. In NASH and associated HCC mouse models, LIX1L deficiency-mediated downregulation of CD36 suppresses adipogenesis, hepatic lipid uptake, and reprograms the tumor-prone liver microenvironment with increased cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs), reduced immunosuppressive cell proportions. These data indicate a systematic function of LIX1L in the pathogenesis of NASH and underscore the PARP1/LIX1L/CD36 axis as a potential target for treatment of NASH and associated HCC.
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Project description:Immunotherapy has opened hitherto unknown possibilities to treat cancer. Whereas some cancer types (e.g. melanoma) can be efficiently treated, others lack measurable positive effects (e.g. PDAC). Moreover, stratification of responders/non-responders is only possible in some cancer types (e.g. melanoma). Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has a dismal prognosis, limited treatment options and survival benefit, and represents a potential cancer entity for successful immunotherapy. Here, we investigated NASH-triggered HCC in the context PD-1-targeted immunotherapy. Using flow cytometry, single cell RNA sequencing, immunohistochemistry and mass spectrometric analyses, we found a progressive increase of CD8+PD-1+ effector T-cells with a unique profile of exhaustion and activation markers rising with murine and human NASH severity. Notably, late-stage HCC treatment with PD-1-targeted immunotherapy enhanced hepatic carcinogenesis in mice. Dissecting potential mechanisms of action during tumor-initiation and -progression we analyzed the effects of PD-1-targeted immunotherapy at HCC initiation. PD-1-targeted immunotherapy induced a pro-tumorigenic environment, enhanced necro-inflammation and increased NAFLD-activation score (NAS), leading to increased liver cancer incidence, tumor number and nodule size. In contrast, anti-CD8 or anti-CD8/anti-NK1.1 treatment reduced NAS and abrogated the development of liver cancer, thus identifying CD8+PD-1+ T-cells as drivers of liver cancer in NASH-triggered HCC. Increased apoptotic signaling, STAT3 phosphorylation and hepatic proliferation were detected in intra-tumoral liver tissue upon PD-1-targeted immunotherapy. In line, PD-1-/- mice challenged with a NASH diet displayed early onset of hepatocarcinogenesis, corroborating the pro-tumorigenic role of absent or reduced PD-1. Mechanistically PD-1-targeted immunotherapy mainly affected hepatic abundance of CD8+PD-1+ T-cells, instead of altering the quality of Tox+CXCR6+ expressing CD8+PD-1+TNF+CD39+Gzmb+ T-cells found in NASH livers, leading to an aggressive, pro-tumorigenic liver environment. Single-cell mapping of human NASH-, borderline NASH- or unaffected livers corroborated our preclinical NASH results. Moreover, in human NASH livers a correlation of hepatic CD8+, PD-1+, TNF+ T-cells with fibrosis and NASH severity was observed. Accordingly, HCC patients with NASH etiology display a sharp increase in intra- and peri-tumoral CD8+ PD-1+ T-cells. In a cohort of 65 patients recruited across 6 centers in Germany and Austria, patients with NAFLD/NASH-driven HCC responded worse to PD-1-targeted immunotherapy by Nivolumab or Pembrolizumab compared to non-NAFLD patients. This resulted in significant reduced overall survival, in trends of faster disease progression and reduced progression free survival. Histological analysis of livers derived from HCC patients treated with PD-1-targeted immunotherapy displayed high levels of intra and peri-tumoral CD8+ PD-1+ T-cells and Ki67+ hepatocytes. Taken together, these data indicate that PD-1-targeted immunotherapy induces immune-related adverse effects in NAFLD/NASH-driven HCC through CD8+PD-1+ T-cells. Our data call for stratification of HCC patients subjected to PD-1-targeted immunotherapy, with NAFLD being a negative predictor.
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Project description:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), which accounts for 90% of all primary livers tumors, is the fourth most common cancer in the world. The development of HCC is a long-term and complex process, and uncovering the molecular mechanisms associated with HCC development is critical for the disease diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. Exploring these mechanisms using human HCC samples is desirable, but frequently impractical, with a number of limitations and shortcomings. The STAMTM (Stelic Institute & Co, Tokyo, Japan) mouse model of NASH-associated liver carcinogenesis is considered a useful and relevant model for investigating the molecular pathogenesis of NASH-derived HCC. This model resembles the human HCC development associated with progression from simple steatosis to NASH, fibrosis, and HCC. In the present study, by using high-throughput whole genome microarrays (SurePrint G3 Mouse Gene Expression v2, 8x60K; Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA), we examined the transcriptomic profiles in the livers of STAMTM mice at different stages of liver carcinogenesis, including steatosis (6 week time interval), NASH (8 weeks), fibrotic stage (12 weeks), and in full-fledged HCC (20 weeks). The results of microarray analyses showed significant progressive changes in hepatic gene expression during the development of HCC. A total of 970, 1462, 2742, and 2857 of differentially expressed genes were identified in the livers at 6, 8, 12, and 20 weeks, respectively. Detailed analysis of these differentially expressed genes will benefit the understanding of the underlying mechanisms of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease-derived HCC. Transcriptomic profile in the liver of STAM mice at 6 weeks (steatosis; n=3), 8 weeks (steatohepatitis; n=3) 12 weeks (fibrosis; n=4) and 20 weeks (HCC-stage tumor tissue, n=4) weeks. Age-matched control samples were also analyzed.
2016-06-22 | E-GEOD-83596 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:High-calorie diets lead hepatic steatosis and to the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), which can evolve over many years into the inflammatory form non-alcoholic steatohepatits (NASH) posing a risk for the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Due to the diet and the liver alteration, the axis between liver and gut is disturbed, resulting in gut microbiome alterations. Consequently, detecting these gut microbiome alterations repre-sents a promising strategy for early NASH and HCC detection. We analyzed medical parame-ters and the fecal metaproteome of 19 healthy controls, 32 NASH, and 29 HCC patients target-ing the discovery of diagnostic biomarkers. Here, NASH and HCC resulted in increased in-flammation status and shifts within the composition of the gut microbiome. Increased abun-dance of kielin/chordin, E3 ubiquitin ligase, and nucleophosmin 1 represented valuable fecal biomarkers indicating disease-related changes in the liver. Whereas a single biomarker failed to separate NASH and HCC, machine learning-based classification algorithms provided 0.86% accuracy in distinguishing between controls, NASH, and HCC. Conclusion: Fecal metaproteomics enables early detection of NASH and HCC by providing single biomarkers and ma-chine learning-based metaprotein panels.
2022-10-13 | PXD034175 | Pride
Project description:Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is now considered the most common form of chronic liver disease. It is a complex metabolic disease that silently progresses into non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). In fact, NASH is the tipping point for pericellular fibrosis, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Despite being a complex metabolic disease, identification of the metabolic readout that functions in metabolic pathway perpetuation for HCC progression from NASH is still incompletely understood. With the aid of LC MS/MS this study unveiled the metabolic fingerprint of NASH and HCC-NASH patients and it illustrates a detailed map for the most predominant reprogrammed metabolic pathways that target HCC development from NASH. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms24010210
2021-08-19 | MSV000088003 | MassIVE