Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B (Dec 2024)

Intestinal epithelial cell NCoR deficiency ameliorates obesity and metabolic syndrome

  • Shaocong Hou,
  • Hengcai Yu,
  • Caihong Liu,
  • Andrew M.F. Johnson,
  • Xingfeng Liu,
  • Qian Jiang,
  • Qijin Zhao,
  • Lijuan Kong,
  • Yanjun Wan,
  • Xiaowei Xing,
  • Yibing Chen,
  • Jingwen Chen,
  • Qing Wu,
  • Peng Zhang,
  • Changtao Jiang,
  • Bing Cui,
  • Pingping Li

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 12
pp. 5267 – 5285

Abstract

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Nuclear receptor corepressor (NCoR1) interacts with various nuclear receptors and regulates the anabolism and catabolism of lipids. An imbalance in lipid/energy homeostasis is also an important factor in obesity and metabolic syndrome development. In this study, we found that the deletion of NCoR1 in intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) mainly activated the nuclear receptor PPARα and attenuated metabolic syndrome by stimulating thermogenesis. The increase in brown adipose tissue thermogenesis was mediated by gut-derived tricarboxylic acid cycle intermediate succinate, whose production was significantly enhanced by PPARα activation in the fed state. Additionally, NCoR1 deletion derepressed intestinal LXR, increased cholesterol excretion, and impaired duodenal lipid absorption by decreasing bile acid hydrophobicity, thereby reversing the possible negative effects of intestinal PPARα activation. Therefore, the simultaneous regulatory effect of intestinal NCoR1 on both lipid intake and energy expenditure strongly suggests that it is a promising target for developing metabolic syndrome treatment.

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