Glutamate Signaling in Hepatic Stellate Cells Drives Alcoholic Steatosis

Won Mook Choi, Hee Hoon Kim, Myung Ho Kim, Resat Cinar, Hyon Seung Yi, Hyuk Soo Eun, Seok Hwan Kim, Young Jae Choi, Young Sun Lee, So Yeon Kim, Wonhyo Seo, Jun Hee Lee, Young Ri Shim, Ye Eun Kim, Keungmo Yang, Tom Ryu, Jung Hwan Hwang, Chul Ho Lee, Hueng Sik Choi, Bin GaoWon Kim, Sang Kyum Kim, George Kunos, Won Il Jeong

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Abstract

Choi et al. show that chronic alcohol consumption induces CYP2E1-mediated reactive oxygen species (ROS) production by hepatocytes, which is compensated by GSH generation through xCT-mediated uptake of cystine. The parallel release of glutamate stimulates mGluR5 on hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) to produce 2-AG, which, in turn, activates CB1R on neighboring hepatocytes to induce de novo lipogenesis.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)877-889.e7
JournalCell Metabolism
Volume30
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019 Nov 5

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grants funded by the Korea government (MEST) (2018R1A2A1A05077608), Korea Mouse Phenotyping Project (2014M3A9D5A01073556), the Intelligent Synthetic Biology Center of Global Frontier Project (2011-0031955), and the Global Ph.D. Fellowship program (NRF-2015H1A2A1033124) through the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and future Planning and by intramural research funds of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, MD, USA. W.M.C. H.H.K. M.H.K. H.S.Y. Y.S.L. S.Y.K. J.H.L. Y.R.S. K.Y. T.R. and W.I.J. contributed to the design and performance of animal experiments and analysis of data. W.M.C. H.H.K. and Y.E.K. constructed the AAV2/8-Slc7a11-shRNA viral construction. W.M.C. H.S.E. S.H.K. J.H.L. and W.K. contributed to the isolation of human hepatic cells from patients and analyzed the data. Y.J.C. and S.K.K. performed and analyzed sulfur-containing metabolite measurements. J.H.H. C.H.L. and H.S.C. contributed to the generation of chimeric mice. R.C. and W.S. performed measurements of endocannabinoids. B.G. G.K. and W.I.J. wrote the manuscript and provided important advice for experiments. The authors declare no competing interests.

Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grants funded by the Korea government ( MEST ) ( 2018R1A2A1A05077608 ), Korea Mouse Phenotyping Project ( 2014M3A9D5A01073556 ), the Intelligent Synthetic Biology Center of Global Frontier Project ( 2011-0031955 ), and the Global Ph.D. Fellowship program (NRF- 2015H1A2A1033124 ) through the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and future Planning and by intramural research funds of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism , Bethesda, MD, USA.

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Keywords

  • 2-arachidonoylglycerol
  • Nrf2
  • alcoholic liver disease
  • cannabinoid receptor
  • metabotrophic glutamate receptor 5
  • transsulfuration pathway
  • xCT

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physiology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Cell Biology

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