Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Depletion of mitochondrial methionine adenosyltransferase α1 triggers mitochondrial dysfunction in alcohol-associated liver disease

  • Lucía Barbier-Torres,
  • Ben Murray,
  • Jin Won Yang,
  • Jiaohong Wang,
  • Michitaka Matsuda,
  • Aaron Robinson,
  • Aleksandra Binek,
  • Wei Fan,
  • David Fernández-Ramos,
  • Fernando Lopitz-Otsoa,
  • Maria Luque-Urbano,
  • Oscar Millet,
  • Nirmala Mavila,
  • Hui Peng,
  • Komal Ramani,
  • Roberta Gottlieb,
  • Zhaoli Sun,
  • Suthat Liangpunsakul,
  • Ekihiro Seki,
  • Jennifer E. Van Eyk,
  • Jose M. Mato,
  • Shelly C. Lu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28201-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Lower activity of MATα1, which catalyzes the synthesis of the methyl donor S-adenosylmethionine, and mitochondrial dysfunction occur in alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD). Here the authors report that the peptidyl-prolyl cis/trans isomerase PIN1 mediates a selective depletion of MATα1 in the mitochondria, which contributes to mitochondrial dysfunction and fat accumulation, in mouse models of ALD.