PMID- 21850461 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20120615 LR - 20211020 IS - 1573-4919 (Electronic) IS - 0300-8177 (Linking) VI - 359 IP - 1-2 DP - 2012 Jan TI - High-fat diet-induced obesity and insulin resistance were ameliorated via enhanced fecal bile acid excretion in tumor necrosis factor-alpha receptor knockout mice. PG - 161-7 LID - 10.1007/s11010-011-1010-3 [doi] AB - Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) is one of the main mediators of inflammatory response activated by fatty acids in obesity, and this signaling through TNF-alpha receptor (TNFR) is responsible for obesity-associated insulin resistance. Recently, TNF-alpha has shown to affect lipid metabolism including the regulation of lipase activity and bile acid synthesis. However, there is scanty in vivo evidence for the involvement of TNF-alpha in this process, and the mechanistic role of TNFR remains unclear. In this study, TNFR2 knockout mice (R2KO) and wild-type (WT) mice were fed commercial normal diet (ND) or high-fat diet (HFD) for 8 weeks. In R2KO/HFD mice, the increase in body weight and the accumulation of fat were significantly ameliorated compared with WT/HFD mice in association with the decrease in plasma total cholesterol (137.7+/-3.1 vs. 98.6+/-3.1 mg/dL, P<0.005), glucose (221.9+/-14.7 vs. 167.3+/-8.1 mg/dL, P<0.01), and insulin (5.1+/-0.3 vs. 3.4+/-0.3 ng/mL, P<0.05). Fecal excretion of lipid contents was significantly increased in R2KO mice. In R2KO/HFD mice, the decrease in hepatic cholesterol-7a-hydroxylase activity, the rate-limiting enzyme in bile acid synthesis, was inhibited (1.7+/-0.2 vs. 8.1+/-1.0 pmol/min/mg protein, P<0.01). These results suggested that HFD-induced obesity with metabolic derangements could be ameliorated in mice lacking TNF-alpha receptor 2 via increasing fecal bile acid and lipid content excretion. Therefore, TNF-alpha signaling through TNFR2 is essentially involved in the bile acid synthesis and excretion of lipids, resulting in its beneficial effects. FAU - Yamato, Mayumi AU - Yamato M AD - Department REDOX Medicinal Science, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan. yamato68@redoxnavi.med.kyushu-u.ac.jp FAU - Shiba, Takeshi AU - Shiba T FAU - Ide, Tomomi AU - Ide T FAU - Seri, Naoko AU - Seri N FAU - Kudo, Wataru AU - Kudo W FAU - Ando, Makoto AU - Ando M FAU - Yamada, Ken-ichi AU - Yamada K FAU - Kinugawa, Shintaro AU - Kinugawa S FAU - Tsutsui, Hiroyuki AU - Tsutsui H LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20110818 PL - Netherlands TA - Mol Cell Biochem JT - Molecular and cellular biochemistry JID - 0364456 RN - 0 (Bile Acids and Salts) RN - 0 (Lipids) RN - 0 (Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor, Type II) RN - 0 (Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Bile Acids and Salts/metabolism/*physiology MH - *Diet, High-Fat MH - Feces/chemistry MH - *Insulin Resistance MH - Lipid Metabolism MH - Lipids/biosynthesis MH - Mice MH - Mice, Knockout MH - *Obesity MH - Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor, Type II/*deficiency MH - Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha EDAT- 2011/08/19 06:00 MHDA- 2012/06/16 06:00 CRDT- 2011/08/19 06:00 PHST- 2011/05/24 00:00 [received] PHST- 2011/07/27 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2011/08/19 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/08/19 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2012/06/16 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1007/s11010-011-1010-3 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Mol Cell Biochem. 2012 Jan;359(1-2):161-7. doi: 10.1007/s11010-011-1010-3. Epub 2011 Aug 18.