Hui Peng1,2, Huiting Xu3,4, Jie Wu5, Jiangyuan Li1,6, Yi Zhou1,2, Zehuan Ding1, Stefan K Siwko5, Xianglin Yuan2, Kevin L Schalinske7, Gianfranco Alpini8, Ke K Zhang1,5,3, Linglin Xie1. 1. Department of Nutrition, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. 2. Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China. 3. Department of Pathology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA. 4. Hubei Cancer Hospital, Wuhan, Hubei, China. 5. Institute of Biosciences & Technology, Texas A&M University, Houston, TX, USA. 6. Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. 7. Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA. 8. Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Pregnant women may transmit their metabolic phenotypes to their offspring, enhancing the risk for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD); however, the molecular mechanisms remain unclear. METHODS: Prior to pregnancy female mice were fed either a maternal normal-fat diet (NF-group, "no effectors"), or a maternal high-fat diet (HF-group, "persistent effectors"), or were transitioned from a HF to a NF diet before pregnancy (H9N-group, "effectors removal"), followed by pregnancy and lactation, and then offspring were fed high-fat diets after weaning. Offspring livers were analysed by functional studies, as well as next-generation sequencing for gene expression profiles and DNA methylation changes. RESULTS: The HF, but not the H9N offspring, displayed glucose intolerance and hepatic steatosis. The HF offspring also displayed a disruption of lipid homeostasis associated with an altered methionine cycle and abnormal one-carbon metabolism that caused DNA hypermethylation and L-carnitine depletion associated with deactivated AMPK signalling and decreased expression of PPAR-α and genes for fatty acid oxidation. These changes were not present in H9N offspring. In addition, we identified maternal HF diet-induced genes involved in one-carbon metabolism that were associated with DNA methylation modifications in HF offspring. Importantly, the DNA methylation modifications and their associated gene expression changes were reversed in H9N offspring livers. CONCLUSIONS: Our results demonstrate for the first time that maternal HF diet disrupted the methionine cycle and one-carbon metabolism in offspring livers which further altered lipid homeostasis. CpG islands of specific genes involved in one-carbon metabolism modified by different maternal diets were identified.
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Pregnant women may transmit their metabolic phenotypes to their offspring, enhancing the risk for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD); however, the molecular mechanisms remain unclear. METHODS: Prior to pregnancy female mice were fed either a maternal normal-fat diet (NF-group, "no effectors"), or a maternal high-fat diet (HF-group, "persistent effectors"), or were transitioned from a HF to a NF diet before pregnancy (H9N-group, "effectors removal"), followed by pregnancy and lactation, and then offspring were fed high-fat diets after weaning. Offspring livers were analysed by functional studies, as well as next-generation sequencing for gene expression profiles and DNA methylation changes. RESULTS: The HF, but not the H9N offspring, displayed glucose intolerance and hepatic steatosis. The HF offspring also displayed a disruption of lipid homeostasis associated with an altered methionine cycle and abnormal one-carbon metabolism that caused DNA hypermethylation and L-carnitine depletion associated with deactivated AMPK signalling and decreased expression of PPAR-α and genes for fatty acid oxidation. These changes were not present in H9N offspring. In addition, we identified maternal HF diet-induced genes involved in one-carbon metabolism that were associated with DNA methylation modifications in HF offspring. Importantly, the DNA methylation modifications and their associated gene expression changes were reversed in H9N offspring livers. CONCLUSIONS: Our results demonstrate for the first time that maternal HF diet disrupted the methionine cycle and one-carbon metabolism in offspring livers which further altered lipid homeostasis. CpG islands of specific genes involved in one-carbon metabolism modified by different maternal diets were identified.
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