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Dysregulated expression of proteins associated with ER stress, autophagy and apoptosis in tissues from nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Seungwoo Lee, Soohee Kim, Seungwoo Hwang, Nathan J. Cherrington and Doug-Young Ryu _

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Oncotarget. 2017; 8:63370-63381. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.18812

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Abstract

Seungwoo Lee1, Soohee Kim1, Seungwoo Hwang2, Nathan J. Cherrington3 and Doug-Young Ryu1

1BK21 Plus Program for Creative Veterinary Science Research, Research Institute for Veterinary Science and College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea

2Korean Bioinformation Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea

3College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, U.S.A.

Correspondence to:

Doug-Young Ryu, email: [email protected]

Keywords: nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, endoplasmic reticulum stress, apoptosis, autophagy

Received: November 25, 2016     Accepted: June 04, 2017     Published: June 28, 2017

ABSTRACT

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is categorized into nonalcoholic fatty liver (NAFL) and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and has emerged as a risk factor for more critical clinical conditions. However, the underlying mechanisms of NAFLD pathogenesis are not fully understood. In this study, expression of proteins associated with endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, apoptosis and autophagy were analyzed in normal, NAFL and NASH human livers by western blotting. Levels of some ER stress-transducing transcription factors, including cleaved activating transcription factor 6, were higher in NASH than in the normal tissues. However, the expression of a majority of the ER chaperones and foldases analyzed, including glucose-regulated protein 78 and ER protein 44, was lower in NASH than in the normal tissues. Levels of apoptosis markers, such as cleaved poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase, were also lower in NASH tissues, in which expression of some B-cell lymphoma-2 family proteins was up- or down-regulated compared to the normal tissues. The level of the autophagy substrate p62 was not different in NASH and normal tissues, although some autophagy regulators were up- or down-regulated in the NASH tissues compared to the normal tissues. Levels of most of the proteins analyzed in NAFL tissues were either similar to those in one of the other two types, NASH and normal, or were somewhere in between. Together, these findings suggest that regulation of certain important tissues processes involved in protein quality control and cell survival were broadly compromised in the NAFLD tissues.


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