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Summary: Eliminating SAPS3 from the genome of mice allowed the AMPK protein complex to activate and maintain a normal energy balance, even with high-fat meals. This discovery could pave the way for developing a new approach to metabolic disorders such as obesity, diabetes, and fatty liver disease.

Source: UC Irvine

Eating lots of fats increases the risk of metabolic disorders, but the mechanisms behind the problem have not been well understood. Now, University of California, Irvine biologists have made a key finding about how to ward off harmful effects caused by a high-fat diet.

Their study appears inNature Communications.

The UC Irvine research centered on aprotein complexcalled AMPK, which senses the bodys nutrition and takes action to keep it balanced. For example, if AMPK detects thatglucoseis low, it can boost lipid breakdown to produce energy in its place.

Scientists have known that consuming high amounts of fat blocks AMPKs activity, leading the metabolism to go out of balance. However, until now, how cells block this mechanism has not been widely examined, especially in live models.

The UCI biologists decided to investigate, believing an AMPK component called SAPS3 serves a significant role. They eliminated SAPS3 from the genome of a group of mice and fed them meals with a 45% fat content. The results were startling even to the research team.

Removing the SAPS3-inhibiting component freed the AMPK in these mice to activate, allowing them to maintain a normal energy balance despite eating a large amount of fat, said Mei Kong, professor of molecular biology and biochemistry, and the studys corresponding author.

We were surprised by how well they maintainednormal weight, avoiding obesity and development of diabetes.

The discovery could eventually lead to a new way to approach metabolism-related conditions.

If we block this inhibition activity, we could help people reactivate their AMPK, said first author Ying Yang, a project scientist in the Kong lab.

It could help in overcoming disorders such as obesity, diabetes, fatty liver disease and others. Its important to recognize how important normal metabolic function is for every aspect of the body.

The researchers are working on developing molecules that could inhibit SAPS3 and restore themetabolisms balance. They plan to next study SAPS3s role in other conditions with disturbed metabolic systems, such as cancer and aging.

The discovery comes as metabolic-related diseases such as obesity and diabetes continue to rise. More than half of the global population is expected to be overweight or obese by 2035, compared to 38% in 2020, according to the World Obesity Federation. The number of people worldwide with diabetes is expected to rise to 578 million by 2030, up 25% from 2019, reports the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

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Original Research: Open access.SAPS3 subunit of protein phosphatase 6 is an AMPK inhibitor and controls metabolic homeostasis upon dietary challenge in male mice by Ying Yang et al. Nature Communications

Abstract

SAPS3 subunit of protein phosphatase 6 is an AMPK inhibitor and controls metabolic homeostasis upon dietary challenge in male mice

Inhibition of AMPK is tightly associated with metabolic perturbations upon over nutrition, yet the molecular mechanisms underlying are not clear.

Here, we demonstrate the serine/threonine-protein phosphatase 6 regulatory subunit 3, SAPS3, is a negative regulator of AMPK. SAPS3 is induced under high fat diet (HFD) and recruits the PP6 catalytic subunit to deactivate phosphorylated-AMPK, thereby inhibiting AMPK-controlled metabolic pathways.

Either whole-body or liver-specific deletion of SAPS3 protects male mice against HFD-induced detrimental consequences and reverses HFD-induced metabolic and transcriptional alterations while loss of SAPS3 has no effects on mice under balanced diets. Furthermore, genetic inhibition of AMPK is sufficient to block the protective phenotype in SAPS3 knockout mice under HFD.

Together, our results reveal that SAPS3 is a negative regulator of AMPK and suppression of SAPS3 functions as a guardian when metabolism is perturbed and represents a potential therapeutic strategy to treat metabolic syndromes.

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