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Neutrophil infiltration regulates clock-gene expression to organize daily hepatic metabolism

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2020-12-08
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Crespo, Maria ; Gonzalez-Teran, Barbara ; Nikolic, Ivana ; Mora, Alfonso ; Folgueira, Cintia ; Leiva-Vega, Luis ; Pintor-Chocano, Aranzazu ; Macarena, Fernández-Chacón ; Irene, Ruiz-Garrido ; Cicuéndez, Beatriz ; Tomas-Loba, Antonia ; A-Gonzalez, Noelia ; Cabllero-Molano, Ainoa ; Beiroa, Daniel ; Hernández-Cosido, Lourdes ; Torres, Jorge L ; Kennedy, Norman J ; Davis, Roger J ; Benedito, Rui ; Marcos, Miguel ; Nogueiras, Ruben ; Hidalgo, Andres ; Matesanz, Nuria ; Leiva, Magdalena ; Sabio, Guadalupe
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eLife Sciences Publications
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Fisiología
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https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.59258
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©<2020>. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This document is the published version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in [eLife]. To access the final edited and published work see [https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.59258]
Abstract
Liver metabolism follows diurnal fluctuations through the modulation of molecular clock genes. Disruption of this molecular clock can result in metabolic disease but its potential regulation by immune cells remains unexplored. Here, we demonstrated that in steady state, neutrophils infiltrated the mouse liver following a circadian pattern and regulated hepatocyte clock- genes by neutrophil elastase (NE) secretion. NE signals through c-Jun NH2-terminal kinase (JNK) inhibiting fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) and activating Bmal1 expression in the hepatocyte. Interestingly, mice with neutropenia, defective neutrophil infiltration or lacking elastase were protected against steatosis correlating with lower JNK activation, reduced Bmal1 and increased FGF21 expression, together with decreased lipogenesis in the liver. Lastly, using a cohort of human samples we found a direct correlation between JNK activation, NE levels and Bmal1 expression in the liver. This study demonstrates that neutrophils contribute to the maintenance of daily hepatic homeostasis through the regulation of the NE/JNK/Bmal1 axis.
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eLife 2020;9:e59258, 2020
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http://hdl.handle.net/10201/138774
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