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ArticleMarine biotechnology (New York, N.Y.)2016

Chitosan-Mediated shRNA Knockdown of Cytosolic Alanine Aminotransferase Improves Hepatic Carbohydrate Metabolism.

Juan D González, Jonás I Silva-Marrero, Isidoro Metón, Albert Caballero-Solares, Ivan Viegas, Felipe Fernández, Montserrat Miñarro, Anna Fàbregas, Josep R Ticó, John G Jones and 1 more

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Article in Marine biotechnology (New York, N.Y.), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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11 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Juan D González
Jonás I Silva-Marrero
Isidoro Metón
Albert Caballero-Solares
Ivan Viegas
Felipe Fernández
Montserrat Miñarro
Anna Fàbregas
Josep R Ticó
John G Jones
Isabel V Baanante
Universitat de Barcelona · ESUniversity of Coimbra · PT

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Abstract

Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) catalyses a transamination reaction that links carbohydrate and amino acid metabolism. In this study, we examined the effect of silencing cytosolic ALT (cALT) expression on the hepatic metabolism in Sparus aurata. A number of siRNA and shRNA designed to down-regulate cALT expression were validated in HEK-293 cells transfected with plasmids expressing S. aurata cALT or mitochondrial ALT (mALT) isoforms: ALT silencing significantly decreased the expression levels of S. aurata mRNA cALT1 to 62% (siRNA) and 48% (shRNA) of the values observed in control cells. The effect of cALT silencing was analysed in the liver of S. aurata 72 h after intraperitoneal injection of chitosan-tripolyphosphate (TPP) nanoparticles complexed with a plasmid encoding a shRNA to down-regulate cALT expression (pCpG-si1sh1). In fish fed diets with different ratio of protein to carbohydrate and treated with chitosan-TPP-pCpG-si1sh1, cALT1 and cALT2 mRNA levels significantly decreased irrespective of the diet. Consistently, ALT activity decreased in liver of treated animals. In the liver of S. aurata treated with chitosan-TPP-pCpG-si1sh1 nanoparticles, down-regulation of cALT expression increased the activity of key enzymes in glycolysis (6-phosphofructo-1-kinase and pyruvate kinase) and protein metabolism (glutamate dehydrogenase). Besides showing for the first time that administration of chitosan-TPP-pCpG-si1sh1 nanoparticles silences hepatic cALT expression in vivo, our data support that down-regulation of cALT could improve the use of dietary carbohydrates to obtain energy and spare protein catabolism.

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Alanine TransaminaseAnimalsCarbohydrate MetabolismChitosanCytosolGene Knockdown TechniquesHEK293 CellsHumansLiverNanocapsulesRNA, Small InterferingSea BreamAlanine TransaminaseChitosanNanocapsulesRNA, Small Interfering

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