Increased Glucose Uptake and Oxidation in Mouse Hearts Prevent High Fatty Acid Oxidation but Cause Cardiac Dysfunction in Diet-Induced Obesity
- 2 June 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Circulation
- Vol. 119 (21), 2818-2828
- https://doi.org/10.1161/circulationaha.108.832915
Abstract
Background— Shift of myocardial substrate preference has been observed in many chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart failure. This study was undertaken to elucidate the mechanisms underlying the chronic substrate switch in adult hearts and to determine the functional consequences of the switch. Methods and Results— Transgenic mice with cardiac-specific overexpression of the insulin-independent glucose transporter GLUT1 (TG) were used to increase intracellular glucose in cardiac myocytes. A high-fat diet was used to increase the fatty acid supply to the heart. High-fat diet induced a 40% increase in fatty acid oxidation in wild-type hearts, whereas glucose oxidation was decreased to 30% of the control. In contrast, glucose oxidation was >2-fold higher in TG hearts, and the high-fat diet failed to upregulate fatty acid oxidation in these hearts. Glucose induced changes in the expression of multiple metabolic genes, including peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-α (decreased by 51%), 3-oxoacid CoA transferase (decreased by 67%), and acetyl-CoA carboxylase (increased by 4-fold), resulting in a remodeling of the metabolic network to favor a shift of substrate preference toward glucose. Although TG mice on a normal diet maintained normal cardiac energetics and function, the inability to upregulate myocardial fatty acid oxidation in TG mice fed a high-fat diet resulted in increased oxidative stress in the heart, activation of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase, and contractile dysfunction. Conclusions— We have demonstrated that chronic increases in myocardial glucose uptake and oxidation reduce the metabolic flexibility and render the heart susceptible to contractile dysfunction.Keywords
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