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Mechanisms of lysophosphatidylcholine-induced hepatocyte lipoapoptosis Kakisaka K; Cazanave SC; Fingas CD; Guicciardi ME; Bronk SF; Werneburg NW; Mott JL; Gores GJAm J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 2012[Jan]; 302 (1): G77-84Isolated hepatocytes undergo lipoapoptosis, a feature of hepatic lipotoxicity, on treatment with saturated free fatty acids (FFA) such as palmitate (PA). However, it is unknown if palmitate is directly toxic to hepatocytes or if its toxicity is indirect via the generation of lipid metabolites such as lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC). PA-mediated hepatocyte lipoapoptosis is associated with endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, c-Jun NH(2)-terminal kinase (JNK) activation, and a JNK-dependent upregulation of the potent proapoptotic BH3-only protein PUMA (p53 upregulated modulator of apoptosis). Our aim was to determine which of these mechanisms of lipotoxicity are activated by PA-derived LPC. We employed Huh-7 cells and isolated murine and human primary hepatocytes. Intracellular LPC concentrations increase linearly as a function of the exogenous, extracellular PA, stearate, or LPC concentration. Incubation of Huh-7 cells or primary hepatocytes with LPC induced cell death by apoptosis in a concentration-dependent manner. Substituting LPC for PA resulted in caspase-dependent cell death that was accompanied by activating phosphorylation of JNK with c-Jun phosphorylation and an increase in PUMA expression. LPC also induced ER stress as manifest by eIF2alpha phosphorylation and CAAT/enhancer binding homologous protein (CHOP) induction. LPC cytotoxicity was attenuated by pharmacological inhibition of JNK or glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3). Similarly, short-hairpin RNA (shRNA)-targeted knockdown of CHOP protected Huh-7 cells against LPC-induced toxicity. The LPC-induced PUMA upregulation was prevented by JNK inhibition or shRNA-targeted knockdown of CHOP. Finally, genetic deficiency of PUMA rendered murine hepatocytes resistant to LPC-induced apoptosis. We concluded that LPC-induced lipoapoptosis is dependent on mechanisms largely indistinguishable from PA. These data suggest that FFA-mediated cytotoxicity is indirect via the generation of the toxic metabolite, LPC.|Animals[MESH]|Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins/metabolism[MESH]|Apoptosis/*drug effects[MESH]|Cell Line, Tumor[MESH]|Cells, Cultured[MESH]|Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress/drug effects[MESH]|Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology[MESH]|Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-2/metabolism[MESH]|Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3/antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism[MESH]|Hepatocytes/drug effects/*metabolism[MESH]|Humans[MESH]|Lysophosphatidylcholines/metabolism/*pharmacology[MESH]|MAP Kinase Kinase 4/antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism[MESH]|Mice[MESH]|Mice, Inbred C57BL[MESH]|Palmitates/metabolism[MESH]|Phosphorylation[MESH]|Proto-Oncogene Proteins/metabolism[MESH]|Stearates/metabolism[MESH]|Transcription Factor CHOP/metabolism[MESH]|Tumor Suppressor Proteins/metabolism[MESH] |
