PMID- 32771373 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210726 LR - 20210726 IS - 1873-5169 (Electronic) IS - 0196-9781 (Linking) VI - 133 DP - 2020 Nov TI - Liraglutide ameliorates lipotoxicity-induced inflammation through the mTORC1 signalling pathway. PG - 170375 LID - S0196-9781(20)30124-8 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.peptides.2020.170375 [doi] AB - Lipotoxicity has been implicated in many disease processes, and prolonged exposure to high lipid levels often leads to the activation of a variety of abnormal signals, which in turn leads to the induction of inflammation. The aim of our study was to explore the correlation between mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) and inflammation by studying high-fat diet (HFD)-induced non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in rats and palmitate (PA)-induced inflammation (lipotoxicity) in HepG2 cells. In addition, we investigated whether the glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) analogue liraglutide can protect rats and HepG2 cells from lipotoxicity. Our results showed that an HFD and PA significantly increased inflammation by activating the mTORC1 pathway in vitro and in vivo. Treatment with rapamycin (an mTOR inhibitor) inhibited some effects of PA on inflammation. Furthermore, we observed that liraglutide inhibited PA-induced inflammation by inactivating mTORC1 signalling molecules. Overall, our findings demonstrated that mTORC1 signalling pathways were involved primarily in high lipid level-induced inflammation. Importantly, liraglutide may protect against lipotoxicity-induced inflammation by regulating mTORC1-dependent pathways. CI - Copyright (c) 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Ao, Na AU - Ao N AD - Department of Endocrinology, the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China. FAU - Ma, Zhuoqi AU - Ma Z AD - Department of Endocrinology, the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China. FAU - Yang, Jing AU - Yang J AD - Department of Endocrinology, the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China. FAU - Jin, Shi AU - Jin S AD - Department of Endocrinology, the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China. FAU - Zhang, Keying AU - Zhang K AD - Department of Endocrinology, the Fifth People's Hospital of Shenyang, Shenyang, China. FAU - Luo, Enjie AU - Luo E AD - Department of Pathogen Biology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Medical University, Shenyang, China. Electronic address: enjie359@126.com. FAU - Du, Jian AU - Du J AD - Department of Endocrinology, the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China. Electronic address: dujianbox@126.com. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20200807 PL - United States TA - Peptides JT - Peptides JID - 8008690 RN - 0 (Inflammasomes) RN - 0 (NLR Family, Pyrin Domain-Containing 3 Protein) RN - 0 (Nlrp3 protein, rat) RN - 0 (Palmitates) RN - 839I73S42A (Liraglutide) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 1) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Body Weight/drug effects MH - Diet, High-Fat/adverse effects MH - Eating/drug effects MH - Hep G2 Cells MH - Hepatitis/*drug therapy/etiology MH - Humans MH - Inflammasomes/drug effects/metabolism MH - Insulin Resistance MH - Liraglutide/*pharmacology MH - Male MH - Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 1/*drug effects/metabolism MH - NLR Family, Pyrin Domain-Containing 3 Protein/metabolism MH - Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease/*drug therapy/etiology/pathology MH - Palmitates/toxicity MH - Rats, Sprague-Dawley OTO - NOTNLM OT - Inflammation OT - Lipotoxicity OT - Liraglutide OT - Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease OT - mTORC1 EDAT- 2020/08/11 06:00 MHDA- 2021/07/27 06:00 CRDT- 2020/08/11 06:00 PHST- 2020/04/25 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/07/16 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/07/17 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/08/11 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/07/27 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/08/11 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0196-9781(20)30124-8 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.peptides.2020.170375 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Peptides. 2020 Nov;133:170375. doi: 10.1016/j.peptides.2020.170375. Epub 2020 Aug 7.