Lipodystrophy in methylmalonic acidemia associated with elevated FGF21 and abnormal methylmalonylation

A distinct adipose tissue distribution pattern was observed in patients with methylmalonyl-CoA mutase deficiency, an inborn error of branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) metabolism, characterized by centripetal obesity with proximal upper and lower extremity fat deposition and paucity of visceral fat, that resembles familial multiple lipomatosis syndrome. To explore brown and white fat physiology in methylmalonic acidemia (MMA), body composition, adipokines, and inflammatory markers were assessed in 46 patients with MMA and 99 matched controls. Fibroblast growth factor 21 levels were associated with acyl-CoA accretion, aberrant methylmalonylation in adipose tissue, and an attenuated inflammatory cytokine profile. In parallel, brown and white fat were examined in a liver-specific transgenic MMA mouse model (Mmut-/- TgINS-Alb-Mmut). The MMA mice exhibited abnormal nonshivering thermogenesis with whitened brown fat and had an ineffective transcriptional response to cold stress. Treatment of the MMA mice with bezafibrates led to clinical improvement with beiging of subcutaneous fat depots, which resembled the distribution seen in the patients. These studies defined what we believe to be a novel lipodystrophy phenotype in patients with defects in the terminal steps of BCAA oxidation and demonstrated that beiging of subcutaneous adipose tissue in MMA could readily be induced with small molecules.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

Enthalten in:

JCI insight - 9(2024), 4 vom: 22. Feb.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Manoli, Irini [VerfasserIn]
Sysol, Justin R [VerfasserIn]
Head, PamelaSara E [VerfasserIn]
Epping, Madeline W [VerfasserIn]
Gavrilova, Oksana [VerfasserIn]
Crocker, Melissa K [VerfasserIn]
Sloan, Jennifer L [VerfasserIn]
Koutsoukos, Stefanos A [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Cindy [VerfasserIn]
Ktena, Yiouli P [VerfasserIn]
Mendelson, Sophia [VerfasserIn]
Pass, Alexandra R [VerfasserIn]
Zerfas, Patricia M [VerfasserIn]
Hoffmann, Victoria [VerfasserIn]
Vernon, Hilary J [VerfasserIn]
Fletcher, Laura A [VerfasserIn]
Reynolds, James C [VerfasserIn]
Tsokos, Maria G [VerfasserIn]
Stratakis, Constantine A [VerfasserIn]
Voss, Stephan D [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Kong Y [VerfasserIn]
Brown, Rebecca J [VerfasserIn]
Hamosh, Ada [VerfasserIn]
Berry, Gerard T [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Xiaoyuan Shawn [VerfasserIn]
Yanovski, Jack A [VerfasserIn]
Venditti, Charles P [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

62031-54-3
Amino acid metabolism
FGF21 protein, human
Fibroblast Growth Factors
Fibroblast growth factor 21
Genetics
Journal Article
Mouse models
Obesity
Therapeutics

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Date Completed 24.02.2024

Date Revised 30.03.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1172/jci.insight.174097

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM367615266