ABSTRACT Background Dietary carbohydrate affects intestinal glucose absorption and lipid deposition, but the underlying mechanisms are unknown. Objectives We used yellow catfish and their isolated intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) to test the hypothesis that sodium/glucose cotransporters (SGLTs) 1/2 and acetylated carbohydrate response element binding protein (ChREBP) mediated glucose-induced changes in glucose absorption and lipid metabolism. Methods Yellow catfish (mean ± SEM weight: 4.68 ± 0.02 g, 3 mo old, mixed sex) were fed diets containing 250 g carbohydrates/kg from glucose (G, control), corn starch (CS), sucrose (S), potato starch (PS), or dextrin (D) for 10 wk. IECs were isolated from different yellow catfish and incubated for 24 h in a control or glucose (15 mM) solution with or without a 2-h pretreatment with an inhibitor [sotagliflozin (LX-4211) or tubastatin A (TBSA)]. Human embryonic kidney cells (HEK293T cells) were transfected with a Flag-ChREBP plasmid to explore ChREBP acetylation. Triglyceride (TG) and glucose concentrations and enzymatic activities were measured in the intestine and IECs of yellow catfish. They also were subjected to immunofluorescence, immunoprecipitation, qPCR, and immunoblotting. Immunoblotting and immunoprecipitation were performed with HEK293T cells. Results The G group had greater intestine TGs (0.99- to 2.30-fold); activities of glucose 6-phospate dehydrogenase, 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase, and isocitrate dehydrogenase (0.12- to 2.10-fold); and expression of lipogenic genes (0.32- to 2.34-fold) than the CS, PS, and D groups. The G group had greater intestine sglt1/2 mRNA and protein expression than the CS, S and D groups (0.35- to 1.12-fold and 0.40- to 4.67-fold, respectively), but lower mRNA amounts of lipolytic genes (48.6%–65.8%) than the CS and PS groups. LX-4211 alleviated the glucose-induced increase in sglt1/2 mRNA (38.2%–47.4%) and SGLT1 protein (48.0%) expression, TGs (29.3%), and lipogenic enzyme activities (27.7%–42.1%) and gene expression (38.0%–55.5%) in the IECs. TBSA promoted the glucose-induced increase in TGs (11.3%), fatty acid synthase activity (32.6%), and lipogenic gene expression (21.6%–34.4%) in the IECs and acetylated ChREBP (10.5%) in HEK293T cells. Conclusions SGLT1/2 signaling and acetylated ChREBP mediated glucose-induced changes in glucose absorption and lipid metabolism in the intestine and IECs of yellow catfish.

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Dysregulation in hepatic lipid synthesis by excess dietary carbohydrate intake are often relevant with the occurrence of fatty liver, and therefore the thorough understanding of the regulation of lipid deposition and metabolism seems crucial to search for potential regulatory targets. In the present study, we examined TG accumulation, lipid metabolism-related genes expression, the enzyme activities of lipogenesis-related enzymes, the protein levels of transcription factors or genes involving lipogenesis in the livers of yellow catfish fed five dietary carbohydrate sources, such as glucose, corn starch, sucrose, potato starch and dextrin, respectively. Generally speaking, compared to other carbohydrate sources, dietary glucose promoted the TG accumulation, up-regulated the lipogenic enzyme activities and gene expressions, and down-regulated mRNA expression of genes involved in lipolysis and SUMO modification pathways. Further studies found that SREBP1, key transcriptional factors relevant with lipogenic regulation, was modified by SUMO1. Mutational analyses found two important sites for sumoylation modification (K254R and K264R) in SREBP1. Mutant SREBPs lacking lysine 264 up-regulated the transactivation capacity on an SREBP-responsive promoter. Glucose reduced the SUMOylation level of SREBP1 and promoted the protein expression of SREBP1 and its target gene SCD1, indicating that SUMOylation of SREBP1 mediated glucose-induced hepatic lipid metabolism. Our study elucidated the molecular mechanism of dietary glucose increasing hepatic lipid deposition and found that the SREBP-dependent transactivation was regulated by SUMO1 modification, which served as a new target for the transcriptional programs governing lipid metabolism.

The autophagy-lysosome pathway, which involves many crucial genes and proteins, plays crucial roles in the maintenance of intracellular homeostasis by the degradation of damaged components. At present, some of these genes and proteins have been identified but their specific functions are largely unknown. This study was performed to clone and characterize the full-length cDNA sequences of nine key autolysosome-related genes (vps11, vps16, vps18, vps33b, vps41, lamp1, mcoln1, ctsd1 and tfeb) from yellow catfish Pelteobagrus fulvidraco. The expression of these genes and the transcriptional responses to a high-fat diet and fatty acids (FAs) (palmitic acid (PA) and oleic acid (OA)) were investigated. The mRNAs of these genes could be detected in heart, liver, muscle, spleen, brain, mesenteric adipose tissue, intestine, kidney and ovary, but varied with the tissues. In the liver, the mRNA levels of the nine autolysosome-related genes were lower in fish fed a high-fat diet than those fed the control, indicating that a high-fat diet inhibited formation of autolysosomes. Palmitic acid (a saturated FA) significantly inhibited the formation of autolysosomes at 12 h, 24 h and 48 h incubation. In contrast, oleic acid (an unsaturated FA) significantly induced the formation of autolysosomes at 12 h, but inhibited them at 24 h. At 48 h, the effects of OA incubation on autolysosomes were OA concentration-dependent in primary hepatocytes of P. fulvidraco. The results of flow cytometry and laser confocal observations confirmed these results. PA and OA incubation also increased intracellular non-esterified fatty acid (NEFA) concentration at 12 h, 24 h and 48 h, and influenced mRNA levels of fatty acid binding protein (fabp) and fatty acid transport protein 4 (fatp4) which facilitate FA transport in primary hepatocytes of P. fulvidraco. The present study demonstrated the molecular characterization of the nine autolysosome-related genes and their transcriptional responses to fat and FAs in fish, which provides the basis for further exploring their regulatory mechanism in vertebrates.