ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2015
Enriched environment-induced maternal weight loss reprograms metabolic gene expression in mouse offspring.
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- Selective increases in inter-individual variability in response to environmental enrichment in female mice.eLife · 2018Article
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- Developmental Origins of Common Disease: Epigenetic Contributions to Obesity.Annual review of genomics and human genetics · 2016Review
- Transgenerational effects of environmental enrichment on repetitive motor behavior development.Behavioural brain research · 2016Article
- Expression of epigenetic machinery genes is sensitive to maternal obesity and weight loss in relation to fetal growth in mice.Clinical epigenetics · 2016Article
- Parturition dysfunction in obesity: time to target the pathobiology.Reproductive biology and endocrinology : RB&E · 2015Review
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Abstract
The global prevalence of weight loss is increasing, especially in young women. However, the extent and mechanisms by which maternal weight loss affects the offspring is still poorly understood. Here, using an enriched environment (EE)-induced weight loss model, we show that maternal weight loss improves general health and reprograms metabolic gene expression in mouse offspring, and the epigenetic alterations can be inherited for at least two generations. EE in mothers induced weight loss and its associated physiological and metabolic changes such as decreased adiposity and improved glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity. Relative to controls, their offspring exhibited improved general health such as reduced fat accumulation, decreased plasma and hepatic lipid levels, and improved glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity. Maternal weight loss altered gene expression patterns in the liver of offspring with coherent down-regulation of genes involved in lipid and cholesterol biosynthesis. Epigenomic profiling of offspring livers revealed numerous changes in cytosine methylation depending on maternal weight loss, including reproducible changes in promoter methylation over several key lipid biosynthesis genes, correlated with their expression patterns. Embryo transfer studies indicated that oocyte alteration in response to maternal metabolic conditions is a strong factor in determining metabolic and epigenetic changes in offspring. Several important lipid metabolism-related genes have been identified to partially inherit methylated alleles from oocytes. Our study reveals a molecular and mechanistic basis of how maternal lifestyle modification affects metabolic changes in the offspring.
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