Research
Effect of acute high-fat feeding on systemic immune activation
Obesity is associated with chronic low-grade inflammation, as evidenced by increased circulating inflammatory cytokines. In line with this fact, obesity has been identified as a risk factor for multiple metabolic and inflammatory diseases including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, asthma and arthritis. Considerable evidence has pointed to adipose tissue as the source of elevated circulating cytokines in obesity, with macrophages, the most numerous immune cells in adipose tissue, being viewed as the major source of cytokine production. In accordance with this concept, obesity is associated with a substantial increase in adipose macrophage number and these macrophages have an inflammatory phenotype, known as an ‘M1’ phenotype. Recently, the origin of the inflammatory macrophages infiltrating adipose tissue has been questioned and there is strong evidence that they derive from circulating monocytes, rather than conversion of resident anti-inflammatory ‘M2’ macrophages.
Publications
Petkevicius K, Virtue S, Bidault G, Jenkins B, Çubuk C, Morgantini C, Aouadi M, Dopazo J, Serlie MJ, Koulman A, Vidal-Puig Accelerated phosphatidylcholine turnover in macrophages promotes adipose tissue inflammation in obesity.Elife. 2019 Aug 16;8. pii: e47990. doi: 10.7554/eLife.47990.PMID:31418690
Rana BMJ, Jou E, Barlow JL, Rodriguez-Rodriguez N, Walker JA, Knox C, Jolin HE, Hardman CS, Sivasubramaniam M, Szeto A, Cohen ES, Scott IC, Sleeman MA, Chidomere CI, Cruz Migoni S, Caamano J, Jorgensen HF, Carobbio S, Vidal-Puig A, McKenzie ANJ. A stromal cell niche sustains ILC2-mediated type-2 conditioning in adipose tissue. J Exp Med. 2019 Sep 2;216(9):1999-2009. doi: 10.1084/jem.20190689. Epub 2019 Jun 27.PMID:31248899
Johann K, Cremer AL, Fischer AW, Heine M, Pensado ER, Resch J, Nock S, Virtue S, Harder L, Oelkrug R, Astiz M, Brabant G, Warner A, Vidal-Puig A, Oster H, Boelen A, López M, Heeren J, Dalley JW, Backes H, Mittag J. Thyroid-Hormone-Induced Browning of White Adipose Tissue Does Not Contribute to Thermogenesis and Glucose Consumption. Cell Rep. 2019 Jun 11;27(11):3385-3400.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.05.054.PMID:31189119
Araiz C, Yan A, Bettedi L, Samuelson I, Virtue S, McGavigan AK, Dani C, Vidal-Puig A, Foukas LC. Enhanced β-adrenergic signalling underlies an age-dependent beneficial metabolic effect of PI3K p110α inactivation in adipose tissue. Nature Communication. 2019 Apr 4;10(1):1546.doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-09514-1.PMID:3094872
Patel S, Alvarez-Guaita A, Melvin A, Rimmington D, Dattilo A, Miedzybrodzka EL, Cimino I, Maurin AC, Roberts GP, Meek CL, Virtue S, Sparks LM, Parsons SA, Redman LM, Bray GA, Liou AP, Woods RM, Parry SA, Jeppesen PB, Kolnes AJ, Harding HP, Ron D, Vidal-Puig A, Reimann F, Gribble FM, Hulston CJ, Farooqi IS, Fafournoux P, Smith SR, Jensen J, Breen D, Wu Z, Zhang BB, Coll AP, Savage DB, O’Rahilly S. GDF15 Provides an Endocrine Signal of Nutritional Stress in Mice and Humans. Cell Metab. 2019 Mar 5;29(3):707-718.e8. doi:10.1016/j.cmet.2018.12.016.
Pellegrinelli V, Peirce VI, Howard L, Virtue S, Turei D, Senzacqua M, FrontiniA , Dalley JW, AR Horton AR, Bidault G, SeveriI, Whittle A, Saez-Rodriguez J, Cinti S Davie AM and A Vidal-Puig Adipocyte secreted BMP8b mediates adrenergic-induced remodeling of the neuro-vascular network in adipose tissue. Nat Comm 2018 Nov 26;9(1):4974. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-07453-x.
Virtue S, Petkevicius K, Moreno-Navarrete JM, Jenkins B, Hart D, Dale M, Koulman A, Fernández-Real JM, Vidal-Puig A. Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor γ2 Controls the Rate of Adipose Tissue Lipid Storage and Determines Metabolic Flexibility. Cell Rep. 2018 Aug 21;24(8):2005-2012.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.07.063. PMID:30134163
Senyilmaz-Tiebe D, Pfaff DH, Virtue S, Schwarz KV, Fleming T, Altamura S, Muckenthaler MU, Okun JG, Vidal-Puig A, Nawroth P, Teleman AA. Dietary stearic acid regulates mitochondria in vivo in humans. Nat Commun. 2018 Aug 7;9(1):3129. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-05614-6. PMID:3008734
Meal rich in carbohydrate, but not protein or fat, reveals adverse immunometabolic responses associated with obesity. Parvaresh Rizi E, Baig S, Shabeer M, Teo Y, Mok SF, Loh TP, Magkos F, Virtue S, Vidal-Puig A, Tai ES, Khoo CM, Toh SA. Nutr J. 2016 Dec 1;15(1):100.
Lipid zonation and phospholipid remodeling in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Hall Z, Bond NJ, Ashmore T, Sanders F, Ament Z, Wang X, Murray AJ, Bellafante E, Virtue S, Vidal-Puig A, Allison M, Davies SE, Koulman A, Vacca M, Griffin JL. Hepatology. 2016 Nov 18.
Metabolic gene expression profile in circulating mononuclear cells reflects obesity-associated metabolic inflexibility. Baig S, Parvaresh Rizi E, Shabeer M, Chhay V, Mok SF, Loh TP, Magkos F, Vidal-Puig A, Tai ES, Khoo CM, Toh SA. Nutr Metab (Lond). 2016 Oct 27;13:74.
Stearoyl-CoA Desaturase 1 Is a Key Determinant of Membrane Lipid Composition in 3T3-L1 Adipocytes. Rodriguez-Cuenca S, Whyte L, Hagen R, Vidal-Puig A, Fuller M. PLoS One. 2016 Sep 15;11(9):e0162047.
Assessment of plasma acylcarnitines before and after weight loss in obese subjects. Schooneman MG, Napolitano A, Houten SM, Ambler GK, Murgatroyd PR, Miller SR, Hollak CE, Tan CY, Virtue S, Vidal-Puig A, Nunez DJ, Soeters MR. Arch Biochem Biophys. 2016 Sep 15;606:73-80.
Genetic identification of thiosulfate sulfurtransferase as an adipocyte-expressed antidiabetic target in mice selected for leanness. Morton NM, Beltram J, Carter RN, Michailidou Z, Gorjanc G, McFadden C, Barrios-Llerena ME, Rodriguez-Cuenca S, Gibbins MT, Aird RE, Moreno-Navarrete JM, Munger SC, Svenson KL, Gastaldello A, Ramage L, Naredo G, Zeyda M, Wang ZV, Howie AF, Saari A, Sipilä P, Stulnig TM, Gudnason V, Kenyon CJ, Seckl JR, Walker BR, Webster SP, Dunbar DR, Churchill GA, Vidal-Puig A, Fernandez-Real JM, Emilsson V, Horvat S. Nat Med. 2016 Jul;22(7):771-9.
Cdkn1c Boosts the Development of Brown Adipose Tissue in a Murine Model of Silver Russell Syndrome. Van De Pette M, Tunster SJ, McNamara GI, Shelkovnikova T, Millership S, Benson L, Peirson S, Christian M, Vidal-Puig A, John RM. PLoS Genet. 2016 Mar 10;12(3):e1005916.
Chronic subordination stress selectively downregulates the insulin signaling pathway in liver and skeletal muscle but not in adipose tissue of male mice. Sanghez V, Cubuk C, Sebastián-Leon P, Carobbio S, Dopazo J, Vidal-Puig A, Bartolomucci A. Stress. 2016;19(2):214-24.
Mild cold effects on hunger, food intake, satiety and skin temperature in humans. Langeveld M, Tan CY, Soeters MR, Virtue S, Ambler GK, Watson LP, Murgatroyd PR, Chatterjee VK, Vidal-Puig A. Endocr Connect. 2016 Mar;5(2):65-73.
Mitochondria are required for pro-ageing features of the senescent phenotype. Correia-Melo C, Marques FD, Anderson R, Hewitt G, Hewitt R, Cole J, Carroll BM, Miwa S, Birch J, Merz A, Rushton MD, Charles M, Jurk D, Tait SW, Czapiewski R, Greaves L, Nelson G, Bohlooly-Y M, Rodriguez-Cuenca S, Vidal-Puig A, Mann D, Saretzki G, Quarato G, Green DR, Adams PD, von Zglinicki T, Korolchuk VI, Passos JF. EMBO J. 2016 Apr 1;35(7):724-42.
Stress-induced activation of brown adipose tissue prevents obesity in conditions of low adaptive thermogenesis. Razzoli M, Frontini A, Gurney A, Mondini E, Cubuk C, Katz LS, Cero C, Bolan PJ, Dopazo J, Vidal-Puig A, Cinti S, Bartolomucci A. Mol Metab. 2015 Nov 11;5(1):19-33.
Adipose tissue fatty acid chain length and mono-unsaturation increases with obesity and insulin resistance. Yew Tan C, Virtue S, Murfitt S, Roberts LD, Phua YH, Dale M, Griffin JL, Tinahones F, Scherer PE, Vidal-Puig A. Sci Rep. 2015 Dec 17;5:18366.
Brown Adipose Tissue Thermogenic Capacity Is Regulated by Elovl6. Tan CY, Virtue S, Bidault G, Dale M, Hagen R, Griffin JL, Vidal-Puig A. Cell Rep. 2015 Dec 15;13(10):2039-47.
Unsuppressed lipolysis in adipocytes is linked with enhanced gluconeogenesis and altered bile acid physiology in Insr(P1195L/+) mice fed high-fat-diet. Lee EY, Sakurai K, Zhang X, Toda C, Tanaka T, Jiang M, Shirasawa T, Tachibana K, Yokote K, Vidal-Puig A, Minokoshi Y, Miki T. Sci Rep. 2015 Nov 30;5:17565.
Soluble LR11/SorLA represses thermogenesis in adipose tissue and correlates with BMI in humans. Whittle AJ, Jiang M, Peirce V, Relat J, Virtue S, Ebinuma H, Fukamachi I, Yamaguchi T, Takahashi M, Murano T, Tatsuno I, Takeuchi M, Nakaseko C, Jin W, Jin Z, Campbell M, Schneider WJ, Vidal-Puig A, Bujo H. Nat Commun. 2015 Nov 20;6:8951.
Hypophagia and metabolic adaptations in mice with defective ATGL-mediated lipolysis cause resistance to HFD-induced obesity. Schreiber R, Hofer P, Taschler U, Voshol PJ, Rechberger GN, Kotzbeck P, Jaeger D, Preiss-Landl K, Lord CC, Brown JM, Haemmerle G, Zimmermann R, Vidal-Puig A, Zechner R. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Nov 10;112(45):13850-5.
Regulation of mitochondrial morphology and function by stearoylation of TFR1. Senyilmaz D, Virtue S, Xu X, Tan CY, Griffin JL, Miller AK, Vidal-Puig A, Teleman AA. Nature. 2015 Sep 3;525(7567):124-8.
Lipopolysaccharide binding protein is an adipokine involved in the resilience of the mouse adipocyte to inflammation. Moreno-Navarrete JM, Escoté X, Ortega F, Camps M, Ricart W, Zorzano A, Vendrell J, Vidal-Puig A, Fernández-Real JM. Diabetologia. 2015 Oct;58(10):2424-34.
Ribosomal S6K1 in POMC and AgRP Neurons Regulates Glucose Homeostasis but Not Feeding Behavior in Mice. Smith MA, Katsouri L, Irvine EE, Hankir MK, Pedroni SM, Voshol PJ, Gordon MW, Choudhury AI, Woods A, Vidal-Puig A, Carling D, Withers DJ. Cell Rep. 2015 Apr 21;11(3):335-43.
Prostaglandin profiling reveals a role for haematopoietic prostaglandin D synthase in adipose tissue macrophage polarisation in mice and humans. Virtue S, Masoodi M, de Weijer BA, van Eijk M, Mok CY, Eiden M, Dale M, Pirraco A, Serlie MJ, Griffin JL, Vidal-Puig A. Int J Obes (Lond). 2015 Jul;39(7):1151-60.
Human Adipocytes Induce Inflammation and Atrophy in Muscle Cells During Obesity. Pellegrinelli V, Rouault C, Rodriguez-Cuenca S, Albert V, Edom-Vovard F, Vidal-Puig A, Clément K, Butler-Browne GS, Lacasa D. Diabetes. 2015 Sep;64(9):3121-34.
Hematopoietic IKBKE limits the chronicity of inflammasome priming and metaflammation. Patel MN, Bernard WG, Milev NB, Cawthorn WP, Figg N, Hart D, Prieur X, Virtue S, Hegyi K, Bonnafous S, Bailly-Maitre B, Chu Y, Griffin JL, Mallat Z, Considine RV, Tran A, Gual P, Takeuchi O, Akira S, Vidal-Puig A, Bennett MR, Sethi JK. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Jan 13;112(2):506-11.
Increased dihydroceramide/ceramide ratio mediated by defective expression of degs1 impairs adipocyte differentiation and function. Barbarroja N, Rodriguez-Cuenca S, Nygren H, Camargo A, Pirraco A, Relat J, Cuadrado I, Pellegrinelli V, Medina-Gomez G, Lopez-Pedrera C, Tinahones FJ, Symons JD, Summers SA, Oresic M, Vidal-Puig A. Diabetes. 2014 Oct 28.
DLK1/PREF1 regulates nutrient metabolism and protects from steatosis. Charalambous M, Da Rocha ST, Radford EJ, Medina-Gomez G, Curran S, Pinnock SB, Ferrón SR, Vidal-Puig A, Ferguson-Smith AC. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Nov 11;111(45):16088-93.
Understanding disease mechanisms with models of signaling pathway activities. Sebastian-Leon P, Vidal E, Minguez P, Conesa A, Tarazona S, Amadoz A, Armero C, Salavert F, Vidal-Puig A, Montaner D, Dopazo J. BMC Syst Biol. 2014 Oct 25;8(1):121.
Dihydroceramide desaturase 1, the gatekeeper of ceramide induced lipotoxicity. Rodriguez-Cuenca S, Barbarroja N, Vidal-Puig A. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2015 Jan;1851(1):40-50.
The different shades of fat. Peirce V, Carobbio S, Vidal-Puig A. Nature. 2014 Jun 5;510(7503):76-83.
Regulation of glucose homoeostasis by brown adipose tissue. Peirce V, Vidal-Puig A. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2013 Dec;1(4):353-60.
Methods for performing lipidomics in white adipose tissue. Roberts LD, West JA, Vidal-Puig A, Griffin JL. Methods Enzymol. 2014;538:211-31.
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