PMID- 20112424 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20100426 LR - 20140730 IS - 1527-3350 (Electronic) IS - 0270-9139 (Linking) VI - 51 IP - 3 DP - 2010 Mar TI - 5-lipoxygenase deficiency reduces hepatic inflammation and tumor necrosis factor alpha-induced hepatocyte damage in hyperlipidemia-prone ApoE-null mice. PG - 817-27 LID - 10.1002/hep.23463 [doi] AB - The actual risk factors that drive hepatic inflammation during the transition from steatosis to steatohepatitis are unknown. We recently demonstrated that hyperlipidemia-prone apolipoprotein E-deficient (ApoE(-/-)) mice exhibit hepatic steatosis and increased susceptibility to hepatic inflammation and advanced fibrosis. Because the proinflammatory 5-lipoxygenase (5-LO) pathway was found to be up-regulated in these mice and given that 5-LO deficiency confers cardiovascular protection to ApoE(-/-) mice, we determined the extent to which the absence of 5-LO would alter liver injury in these mice. Compared with ApoE(-/-) mice, which showed expected hepatic steatosis and inflammation, ApoE/5-LO double-deficient (ApoE(-/-)/5-LO(-/-)) mice exhibited reduced hepatic inflammation, macrophage infiltration, tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) and interleukin (IL)-18 expression, caspase-3 and nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) activities, and serum alanine aminotransferase levels in the absence of changes in hepatic steatosis. The lack of 5-LO produced a remarkable insulin-sensitizing effect in the adipose tissue because peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma, insulin receptor substrate-1, and adiponectin were up-regulated, whereas c-Jun amino-terminal kinase phosphorylation and MCP-1 and IL-6 expression were down-regulated. On the other hand, hepatocytes isolated from ApoE(-/-)/5-LO(-/-) mice were more resistant to TNF-alpha-induced apoptosis. The 5-LO products leukotriene (LT) B(4), LTD(4), and 5-HETE consistently triggered TNF-alpha-induced apoptosis and compromised hepatocyte survival by suppressing NF-kappaB activity in the presence of actinomycin D. Moreover, ApoE(-/-)/5-LO(-/-) mice were protected against sustained high-fat diet (HFD)-induced liver injury and hepatic inflammation, macrophage infiltration and insulin resistance were significantly milder than those of ApoE(-/-) mice. Finally, pharmacological inhibition of 5-LO significantly reduced hepatic inflammatory infiltrate in the HFD and ob/ob models of fatty liver disease. CONCLUSION: These combined data indicate that hyperlipidemic mice lacking 5-LO are protected against hepatic inflammatory injury, suggesting that 5-LO is involved in mounting hepatic inflammation in metabolic disease. FAU - Martinez-Clemente, Marcos AU - Martinez-Clemente M AD - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Hospital Clinic, Centro de Investigacion Biomedica Esther Koplowitz, Institut d'Investigacions Biomediques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain. FAU - Ferre, Natalia AU - Ferre N FAU - Gonzalez-Periz, Ana AU - Gonzalez-Periz A FAU - Lopez-Parra, Marta AU - Lopez-Parra M FAU - Horrillo, Raquel AU - Horrillo R FAU - Titos, Esther AU - Titos E FAU - Moran-Salvador, Eva AU - Moran-Salvador E FAU - Miquel, Rosa AU - Miquel R FAU - Arroyo, Vicente AU - Arroyo V FAU - Funk, Colin D AU - Funk CD FAU - Claria, Joan AU - Claria J LA - eng GR - MOP-67146/Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Canada PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - Hepatology JT - Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) JID - 8302946 RN - 0 (Apolipoproteins E) RN - 0 (Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha) RN - EC 1.13.11.34 (Arachidonate 5-Lipoxygenase) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Apolipoproteins E/genetics MH - Arachidonate 5-Lipoxygenase/*deficiency/*physiology MH - Hepatitis MH - Hepatocytes/*pathology MH - Hyperlipidemias/*enzymology/genetics/metabolism MH - Mice MH - Mice, Knockout MH - Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/*physiology EDAT- 2010/01/30 06:00 MHDA- 2010/04/27 06:00 CRDT- 2010/01/30 06:00 PHST- 2010/01/30 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2010/01/30 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2010/04/27 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1002/hep.23463 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Hepatology. 2010 Mar;51(3):817-27. doi: 10.1002/hep.23463.