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FABP5 Deficiency Impaired Macrophage Inflammation by Regulating AMPK/NF-κB Signaling Pathway

  • J Immunol. 2022 Oct 24;ji2200182. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.2200182.
Yangxiao Hou 1 2 Dong Wei 1 2 Elhusseny A Bossila 1 2 3 Zhaoqi Zhang 1 2 Sihong Li 1 2 Jiaming Bao 1 2 Huawen Xu 1 2 Lianfeng Zhang 4 Yong Zhao 5 2 6
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
  • 2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
  • 3 Biotechnology Department, Faculty of Agriculture Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.
  • 4 Key Laboratory of Human Diseases Comparative Medicine, Ministry of Health, Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China; and zhaoy@ioz.ac.cn zhanglf@cnilas.org.
  • 5 State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; zhaoy@ioz.ac.cn zhanglf@cnilas.org.
  • 6 Beijing Institute for Stem Cell and Regeneration, Beijing, China.
Abstract

Fatty acid binding protein 5 (FABP5) is mainly involved in the uptake, transport, and metabolism of fatty acid in the cytoplasm, and its role in immune cells has been recognized in recent years. However, the role of FABP5 in macrophage inflammation and its underlying mechanisms were not fully addressed. In our study, the acute liver injury and sepsis mouse models were induced by i.p. injection of LPS and cecal contents, respectively. Oleic acid (0.6 g/kg) was injected four times by intragastric administration every week, and this lasted for 1 wk before the LPS or cecal content challenge. We found that myeloid-specific deletion of FABP5 mitigated LPS-induced acute liver injury with reduced mortality of mice, histological liver damage, alanine aminotransferase, and proinflammatory factor levels. Metabolic analysis showed that FABP5 deletion increased the intracellular unsaturated fatty acids, especially oleic acid, in LPS-induced macrophages. The addition of oleic acid also decreased LPS-stimulated macrophage inflammation in vitro and reduced acute liver injury in LPS-induced or cecal content-induced sepsis mice. RNA-sequencing and molecular mechanism studies showed that FABP5 deletion or oleic acid supplementation increased the AMP/ATP ratio and AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) activation and inhibited the NF-κB pathway during the inflammatory response to LPS stimulation of macrophages. Inhibiting AMPK activation or expression by chemical or genetic approaches significantly rescued the decreased NF-κB signaling pathway and inflammatory response in LPS-treated FABP5-knockout macrophages. Our present study indicated that inhibiting FABP5 or supplementation of oleic acid might be used for the treatment of sepsis-caused acute liver injury.

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