Obesity Resistance and Deregulation of Lipogenesis in Δ6-fatty Acid Desaturase (FADS2) Deficiency

Overview

Journal EMBO Rep

Specialty Molecular Biology

Date 2014 Jan 1

PMID 24378641

Citations 38

Authors

Wilhelm Stoffel

Ina Hammels

Britta Jenke

Erika Binczek

Inga Schmidt-Soltau

Susanne Brodesser

Margarete Odenthal

Mario Thevis

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Abstract

Δ-6-fatty acid desaturase (FADS2) is the key enzyme in the biosynthesis of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), the essential structural determinants of mammalian membrane lipid-bilayers. We developed the auxotrophic fads2(-/-) mouse mutant to assess the enigmatic role of ω3- and ω6-PUFAs in lipid homeostasis, membrane structure and function. Obesity resistance is another major phenotype of the fads2(-/-) mutant, the molecular basis of which is unknown. Phospholipidomic profiling of membrane systems of fads2(-/-)mice revealed diacylglycerol-structures, deprived of PUFAs but substituted with surrogate eicosa-5,11,14-trienoic acid. ω6-Arachidonic (AA) and ω3-docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) supplemented diets transformed fads2(-/-) into AA-fads2(-/-) and DHA-fads2(-/-) mutants. Severely altered phospholipid-bilayer structures of subcellular membranes of fads2(-/-) liver specifically interfered with maturation of transcription factor sterol-regulatory-element-binding protein, the key regulator of lipogenesis and lipid homeostasis. This study strengthens the concept that specific PUFA-substituted membrane phospholipid species are critical constituents of the structural platform operative in lipid homeostasis in normal and disease conditions.

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