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  2. LPS-Induced Inhibition of miR-143 Expression in Brown Adipocytes Promotes Thermogenesis and Fever

LPS-Induced Inhibition of miR-143 Expression in Brown Adipocytes Promotes Thermogenesis and Fever

  • Int J Mol Sci. 2022 Nov 9;23(22):13805. doi: 10.3390/ijms232213805.
Jie Liu 1 Dewei Zeng 1 Junyi Luo 1 Huan Wang 1 Jiali Xiong 1 Xingping Chen 1 2 Ting Chen 1 Jiajie Sun 1 Qianyun Xi 1 Yongliang Zhang 1
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Affiliations

  • 1 Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition Control, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China.
  • 2 Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China.
Abstract

Fever is an important part of inflammatory response to Infection. Although brown adipose tissue (BAT) thermogenesis is known to be potently influenced by systemic inflammation, the role of BAT during infection-induced fever remains largely unknown. Here, we injected mice with a low dose of LPS and found that low-dose LPS can directly induce thermogenesis of brown adipocytes. It is known that miR-143 is highly expressed in the BAT, and miR-143 knockout mice exhibited stronger thermogenesis under cold exposure. Interestingly, miR-143 was negatively correlated with an LPS-induced increase of TNFα and IL-6 mRNA levels, and the IL-6 pathway may mediate the inhibition of miR-143 expression. Moreover, miR-143 is down-regulated by LPS, and overexpression of miR-143 in brown adipocytes by lentivirus could rescue the enhancement of UCP1 protein expression caused by LPS, hinting miR-143 may be an important regulator of the thermogenesis in brown adipocytes. More importantly, the knockout of miR-143 further enhanced the LPS-induced increase of body temperature and BAT thermogenesis, and this result was further confirmed by in vitro experiments by using primary brown adipocytes. Mechanistically, Adenylate Cyclase 9 (AC9) is a new target gene of miR-143 and LPS increases BAT thermogenesis by a way of inhibiting miR-143 expression, a negative regulator for AC9. Our study considerably improves our collective understanding of the important function of miR-143 in inflammatory BAT thermogenesis.

Keywords

AC9; BAT; LPS; UCP1; fever; miR-143; thermogenesis.

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