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. 2021 Sep;101(12):4995-5001.
doi: 10.1002/jsfa.11144. Epub 2021 Mar 12.

A mouse model of short-term, diet-induced fatty liver with abnormal cardiolipin remodeling via downregulated Tafazzin gene expression

Toshihiro Sakurai #  1 , Zhen Chen #  1 , Arisa Yamahata #  1 , Takahiro Hayasaka  1 , Hiroshi Satoh  2   3 , Hirotaka Sekiguchi  2   4 , Hitoshi Chiba  5 , Shu-Ping Hui  1
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A mouse model of short-term, diet-induced fatty liver with abnormal cardiolipin remodeling via downregulated Tafazzin gene expression

Toshihiro Sakurai et al. J Sci Food Agric. 2021 Sep.
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Abstract

Background: Cardiolipin (CL) helps maintain mitochondrial structure and function. Here we investigated whether a high carbohydrate diet (HCD) fed to mice for a short period (5 days) could modulate the CL level, including that of monolysoCL (MLCL) in the liver.

Results: Total CL in the HCD group was 22% lower than that in the normal chow diet (NCD) group (P < 0.05). The CL72:8 level strikingly decreased by 93% (P < 0.0001), whereas total nascent CLs (CLs other than CL72:8) increased (P < 0.01) in the HCD group. The total MLCL in the HCD group increased by 2.4-fold compared with that in the NCD group (P < 0.05). Tafazzin expression in the HCD group was significantly downregulated compared with that in the NCD group (P < 0.05). A strong positive correlation between nascent CL and total MLCL (r = 0.955, P < 0.0001), and a negative correlation between MLCL and Tafazzin expression (r = -0.593, P = 0.0883) were observed.

Conclusion: A HCD modulated the fatty acid composition of CL and MLCL via Tafazzin in the liver, which could lead to mitochondrial dysfunction. This model may be useful for elucidating the relationship between fatty liver and mitochondrial dysfunction. © 2021 Society of Chemical Industry.

Keywords: high-carbohydrate diet; lipidomics; liquid chromatography mass spectrometry; mitochondria; monolysocardiolipin.

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