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ArticleToxicology and applied pharmacology2013

Liver proteomics in progressive alcoholic steatosis.

Harshica Fernando, John E Wiktorowicz, Kizhake V Soman, Bhupendra S Kaphalia, M Firoze Khan, G A Shakeel Ansari

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Article in Toxicology and applied pharmacology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Harshica FernandoDepartment of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA.
John E Wiktorowicz
Kizhake V Soman
Bhupendra S Kaphalia
M Firoze Khan
G A Shakeel Ansari
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston · US

Funding

Synthetic Organic Chemistry CoreP30ES006676 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BR GALVESTON · PI ELFERINK, CORNELIS JOHAN · 1995 to 2017
$21.7M
Hepatic Steatosis and the Lipid MetabolomeR01AA016364 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON · PI ANSARI, GHULAM A.S. · 2007 to 2012
$2.0M
NHLBI NIH HHS HHSN268201000037CNIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA016364NIAAA NIH HHS R01AA016364NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES006676NIEHS NIH HHS P30ES06676
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fatty liver is an early stage of alcoholic and nonalcoholic liver disease (ALD and NALD) that progresses to steatohepatitis and other irreversible conditions. In this study, we identified proteins that were differentially expressed in the livers of rats fed 5% ethanol in a Lieber-DeCarli diet daily for 1 and 3 months by discovery proteomics (two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and mass spectrometry) and non-parametric modeling (Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines). Hepatic fatty infiltration was significantly higher in ethanol-fed animals as compared to controls, and more pronounced at 3 months of ethanol feeding. Discovery proteomics identified changes in the expression of proteins involved in alcohol, lipid, and amino acid metabolism after ethanol feeding. At 1 and 3 months, 12 and 15 different proteins were differentially expressed. Of the identified proteins, down regulation of alcohol dehydrogenase (-1.6) at 1 month and up regulation of aldehyde dehydrogenase (2.1) at 3 months could be a protective/adaptive mechanism against ethanol toxicity. In addition, betaine-homocysteine S-methyltransferase 2 a protein responsible for methionine metabolism and previously implicated in fatty liver development was significantly up regulated (1.4) at ethanol-induced fatty liver stage (1 month) while peroxiredoxin-1 was down regulated (-1.5) at late fatty liver stage (3 months). Nonparametric analysis of the protein spots yielded fewer proteins and narrowed the list of possible markers and identified d-dopachrome tautomerase (-1.7, at 3 months) as a possible marker for ethanol-induced early steatohepatitis. The observed differential regulation of proteins have potential to serve as biomarker signature for the detection of steatosis and its progression to steatohepatitis once validated in plasma/serum.

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AnimalsDisease Models, AnimalElectrophoresis, Gel, Two-DimensionalEthanolFatty Liver, AlcoholicGene Expression RegulationMaleProteomicsRatsRats, Inbred F344Regression AnalysisSpectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-IonizationEthanol

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PMID23200777
PMCPMC3565568
OpenAlexW2088504528

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