Transcriptional profiling of trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) stimulated human aortic endothelial cells (HAECs)
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ABSTRACT: Purpose: The goals of this study were to identify preferential gene expression signatures that are unique to HAECs stimulated with the uremic toxin, TMAO, to accelerate vascular inflammation associated with chronic kidney diseases. Methods and results: HAECs were treated with TMAO (600 µM) for 18 hours, and RNAs were collected to generate mRNA transcription profiles. Transcriptional profiling revealed a unique TMAO stimulated HAECs relative to a non-stimulated control HAECs. Conclusion: Our study represents the first detailed analysis of TMAO treated HAECs transcriptome.
Project description:To investigate the mechanism how TMAO deteriorates cardiac dysfunction in murine left ventricular pressure overload model, we performed RNA-seq analysis with cardiac tissue from TMAO-treated mice.
Project description:Gene-expression measurements were made over a 24 h time course as fermentative steady state E. coli cells were subjected to a shift to TMAO respiration.
Project description:β-Cell dysfunction, manifested as impaired glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS), and β-cell loss, which presents as dedifferentiation, inhibited transcriptional identity and death, are the hallmarks of type 2 diabetes. Trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO), a gut microbiota metabolite, has been shown to play a role in cardiovascular disease. Here, we found that plasma TMAO levels are elevated in both diabetic mice and human subjects and that TMAO at a similar concentration to that found in diabetes could directly decrease β-cell GSIS in both MIN6 cells and primary islets from mice or humans. Elevation of TMAO levels through choline diet feeding impairs GSIS, the β-cell proportion, and glucose tolerance. TMAO inhibits calcium transients through NLRP3 inflammasome-related inflammatory cytokines and induced Serca2 loss, and a Serca2 agonist reversed the effect of TMAO on β-cell function in vitro and in vivo. Additionally, long-term TMAO exposure promotes β-cell ER stress, dedifferentiation, and apoptosis and inhibits β-cell transcriptional identity. Inhibition of TMAO production through either genetic knockdown or antisense oligomers of Fmo3, the TMAO-producing enzyme, improves β-cell GSIS, the β-cell proportion, and glucose tolerance in both db/db and choline diet-fed mice. These observations elucidate a novel role for TMAO in β-cell dysfunction and maintenance, and inhibition of TMAO could be a new approach for the treatment of type 2 diabetes.
Project description:Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are leading causes of death worldwide. Endothelial dysfunction is a critical initiating factor contributing to CVDs, which progression involves the gut microbiome-derived metabolite Trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO). Here, we aim to clarify the time-dependent pathways by which TMAO mediates endothelial dysfunction.
Project description:Trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO), a metabolite derived from intestine microbial flora, enhances vascular inflammation in a variety of cardiovascular disease, and the bacterial communities associated with trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) metabolism is higher in pulmonary hypertension (PH) patients. The effects of TMAO on PH, however, has not been elucidated. In the present study, we found that circulating TMAO is elevated in intermediate to high-risk PH patients when compared to healthy control or low-risk PH patients. In monocrotaline-induced rat PH models, circulating TMAO is elevated; and reduction of TMAO using 3,3-dimethyl-1-butanol (DMB) significantly decreased right ventricle systolic pressure, pulmonary vascular muscularization in both monocrotaline-induced rat PH and hypoxia induced mice PH models. RNA sequencing of rat lungs on DMB revealed significant suppression of pathways involved in cytokine-cytokine receptor interaction, and cytokine and chemokine signaling. Protein-protein interaction analysis of the differentially expressed transcripts regulated by DMB showed 5 hub genes with a strong connectivity of proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines including Kng1, Cxcl1, Cxcl2, CxcL6 and Il6. In vivo, TMAO significantly increased the expression of Kng1, Cxcl1, Cxcl2, CxcL6 and Il6 in bone marrow derived macrophage. And TMAO-treated conditioned medium from macrophage increased the proliferation and migration of pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells; but TMAO treatment did not change the proliferation or migration of pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells. In conclusion, our study demonstrates that TMAO is increased in severe PH, and the reduction of TMAO using DMB reduces pulmonary vascular muscularization and alleviates PH via suppressing the macrophage production of chemokines and cytokines.
Project description:We report the identification of RCI5, an Arabidopsis cold inducible gene encoding a FMO. RCI5 seems to participate in the biosynthesis of TMAO, a new plant methabolite. We also demonstrate that TMAO positevely controls Arabidopsis tolerance to low temperature, high salt in the soil and drough stress, by promoting a wide transcriptomic reprograming of stress-relate genes. Finally, we found that diferent crops also contain TMAO in their tissues, and that exogenous applications of TMAO also increases tomato tolerance to abiotic stress.
Project description:Trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) is a uremic toxin, which has been associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Renal tubular epithelial cells play a central role in the pathophysiology of CKD. Megalin is an albumin-binding surface receptor on tubular epithelial cells, which is indispensable for urine protein reabsorption. To date, no studies have investigated the effect of TMAO on megalin expression and the functional properties of human tubular epithelial cells. The aim of this study was first to identify the functional effect of TMAO on human renal proximal tubular cells and second, to unravel the effects of TMAO on megalin-cubilin receptor expression. We found through global gene expression analysis that TMAO was associated with kidney disease. The microarray analysis also showed that megalin expression was suppressed by TMAO, which was also validated at the gene and protein level. High glucose and TMAO was shown to downregulate megalin expression and albumin uptake similarly. We also found that TMAO suppressed megalin expression via PI3K and ERK signaling. Furthermore, we showed that candesartan, dapagliflozin and enalaprilat counter-acted the suppressive effect of TMAO on megalin expression. Our results may further help us un-ravel the role of TMAO in CKD development and to identify new therapeutic targets to counteract TMAOs effects.
Project description:Vascular dementia (2VO) is the second-most cause of dementia, and our previous investigation showed that Trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) exacerbates cognitive dysfunction and neuropathological changes in 2VO rats. Therefore, this study is aimed to evaluate the mechanism of TMAO in 2VO. Bilateral common carotid artery (2VO) model was established in rats and TMAO (120 mg/kg) was administered for 8 consecutive weeks, 4 weeks preoperatively and 4 weeks postoperatively. High-throughput sequencing was performed to find out the effects of TMAO treatment on lncRNA expression in rat hippocampus and bioinformatics analysis was conducted to identify potential downstream targets. Learning and spatial memory capacities were measured, as well as inflammatory factors. Nissl staining was used to observe neuronal injury in the CA1 area of the hippocampus. TMAO administration upregulated lncRNA Fendrr expression in the rat hippocampus, while the damaging effects of TMAO were counteracted after knockdown of Fendrr. Fendrr was highly expressed in 2VO rats and sponged miR-145-5p, which targets PXN. Silencing of Fendrr or PXN, or promotion of miR-145-5p improved neurological function injury, reduced neuronal damage, as well as repressed inflammation response. Inhibition of miR-145-5p abrogated up Fendrr knockdown mediated influence on 2VO rats. Taken together, our results showed that TMAO inhibits the miR-145-5p/PXN axis by increasing the Fendrr expression, thus exacerbating the development of 2VO.