Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE21321: Blood microRNA profiles and upregulation of hsa-miR-144 in males with type 2 diabetes mellitus. GSE26167: MicroRNA 144 impairs insulin signaling by inhibiting the expression of insulin receptor substrate 1 in Type 2 Diabetes mellitus Refer to individual Series
Project description:Animal studies have linked disturbed adipose tissue clock gene rhythms to the pathophysiology of the metabolic syndrome. However, data on molecular clock rhythms in human patients are limited. Therefore, in a standardized real life setting, we compared diurnal gene expression profiles in subcutaneous adipose tissue between obese patients with type 2 diabetes and age-matched healthy lean control subjects, using RNA sequencing. In patients, 1.8% (303 genes) of expressed genes showed significant diurnal rhythms, compared to 8.4% (1421 genes) in healthy controls. In patients, the core clock genes showed reduced amplitude oscillations. Enrichment analysis revealed a loss of rhythm in canonical metabolic pathways including AMPK signaling and cAMP mediated signaling in patients. In conclusion, we provide the first transcriptomics atlas of human adipose tissue diurnal rhythms, and show evidence of decreased diurnal clock and metabolic gene expression rhythms in subcutaneous adipose tissue of obese patients with type 2 diabetes.
Project description:To evaluate whether serum micoRNAs can be biomarkers for diagnosis of type 1 diabetes mellitus, we analyzed the serum microRNA expression profiles in 6 patients with new-onset type 1 diabetes mellitus and 6 age- and gender-matched healthy controls. A difference was observed in 31 miRNAs between the patients and controls (fold change ≥ 2, P < 0.05)
Project description:Type 2 diabetes mellitus represents a major health problem with increasing prevalence worldwide. Limited efficacy of current therapies have prompted a search for novel therapeutic options. Here we show that treatment of pre-diabetic mice with mitochondrially targeted tamoxifen, a potential anti-cancer agent with senolytic activity, improves glucose tolerance and reduces body weight with most pronounced reduction of visceral adipose tissue due to reduced food intake, suppressed adipogenesis and elimination of senescent cells. Glucose-lowering effect of mitochondrially targeted tamoxifen is linked to improvement of type 2 diabetes mellitus-related hormones profile and is accompanied by reduced lipid accumulation in liver. Lower senescent cell burden in various tissues, as well as its inhibitory effect on pre-adipocyte differentiation, results in lower level of circulating inflammatory mediators that typically enhance metabolic dysfunction. Targeting senescence with mitochodrially targeted tamoxifen thus represents an approach to the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus and its related comorbidities, promising a complex impact on senescence-related pathologies in aging population of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus with potential translation into the clinic.
Project description:<p><strong>OBJECTIVE: </strong>Brown adipose tissue (BAT) burns fatty acids (FAs) to produce heat, and shows diurnal oscillation in glucose and triglyceride (TG)-derived FA-uptake, peaking around wakening. Here we aimed to gain insight in the diurnal regulation of metabolic BAT activity.</p><p><strong>METHODS: </strong>RNA-sequencing, chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP)-sequencing and lipidomics analyses were performed on BAT samples of wild type C57BL/6J mice collected at 3-h intervals throughout the day. Knockout and overexpression models were used to study causal relationships in diurnal lipid handling by BAT.</p><p><strong>RESULTS: </strong>We identified pronounced enrichment of oscillating genes involved in extracellular lipolysis in BAT, accompanied by oscillations of FA and monoacylglycerol content. This coincided with peak lipoprotein lipase (Lpl) expression, and was predicted to be driven by peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ) activity. ChIP-sequencing for PPARγ confirmed oscillation in binding of PPARγ to Lpl. Of the known LPL-modulators, angiopoietin-like 4 (Angptl4) showed the largest diurnal amplitude opposite to Lpl, and both Angptl4 knockout and overexpression attenuated oscillations of LPL activity and TG-derived FA-uptake by BAT.</p><p><strong>CONCLUSIONS: </strong>Our findings highlight involvement of PPARγ and a crucial role of ANGPTL4 in mediating the diurnal oscillation of TG-derived FA-uptake by BAT, and imply that time of day is essential when targeting LPL activity in BAT to improve metabolic health.</p>
Project description:To establish the role of proximal tubular hypoxia in diabetic kidney disease, we use a mouse line with a specific deletion of von-Hippel-Lindau (VHL) in the proximal tubule and treat them with streptozotocin (STZ) to induce a type I diabetes mellitus. 10 weeks after induction of diabetes mellitus samples were collected.