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Regulation of Lipid Metabolism and of Insulin Sensitivity by PPARs

Induction of overlapping genes by fasting and a peroxisome proliferator in pigs: evidence of functional PPAR in nonproliferating species

¹Division of Nutritional Sciences, ²Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, ³Biotechnology Center, ⁴Department of Animal Sciences, ⁵Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois

Submitted 4 November 2004 ; accepted in final form 10 January 2005

Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR), a key regulator of fatty acid oxidation, is essential for adaptation to fasting in rats and mice. However, physiological functions of PPAR in other species, including humans, are controversial. A group of PPAR ligands called peroxisome proliferators (PPs) causes peroxisome proliferation and hepatocarcinogenesis only in rats and mice. To elucidate the role of PPAR in adaptation to fasting in nonproliferating species, we compared gene expressions in pig liver from fasted and clofibric acid (a PP)-fed groups against a control diet-fed group. As in rats and mice, fasting induced genes involved with mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation and ketogenesis in pigs. Those genes were also induced by clofibric acid feeding, indicating that PPAR mediates the induction of these genes. In contrast to rats and mice, little or no induction of genes for peroxisomal or microsomal fatty acid oxidation was observed in clofibric acid-fed pigs. Histology showed no significant hyperplasia or hepatomegaly in the clofibric acid-fed pigs, whereas it showed a reduction of glycogen by clofibric acid, an effect of PPs also observed in rats. Copy number of PPAR mRNA was higher in pigs than in mice and rats, suggesting that peroxisomal proliferation and hyperresponse of several genes to PPs seen only in rats and mice are unrelated to the abundance of PPAR. In conclusion, PPAR is likely to play a central role in adaptation to fasting in pig liver as in rats and mice.

clofibric acid; fatty acid oxidation; rats; mice; microarray

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