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ArticleNutrients2022

Flazin as a Lipid Droplet Regulator against Lipid Disorders.

Xunzhi Wu, Zhen Chen, Yue Wu, Yifan Chen, Jiaping Jia, Nianqiu Shen, Hitoshi Chiba, Shu-Ping Hui

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Article in Nutrients, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Xunzhi WuFaculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-12, Nishi-5, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan.
Zhen ChenFaculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-12, Nishi-5, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-5339-2499
Yue WuFaculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-12, Nishi-5, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-6824-3090
Yifan ChenFaculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-12, Nishi-5, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan.
Jiaping JiaFaculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-12, Nishi-5, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan.
Nianqiu ShenFaculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-12, Nishi-5, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan.
Hitoshi ChibaDepartment of Nutrition, Sapporo University of Health Sciences, Nakanuma Nishi-4-2-1-15, Higashi-ku, Sapporo 007-0894, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-4640-7730
Shu-Ping HuiFaculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-12, Nishi-5, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan.
Hokkaido University · JPSapporo University · JP

Funding

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 19K07861
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lipid disorders are closely related to numerous metabolic diseases, and lipid droplets (LDs) have been considered as a new target for regulating lipid metabolism. Dietary intervention and nutraceuticals provide safe and long-term beneficial effects for treating metabolic diseases. Flazin is a diet-derived bioactive constituent mainly existing in fermented foods, of which the lipid metabolism improvement function has not been studied. In this study, the effect of flazin on lipid regulation at both cell level and organelle level was investigated. Lipidomic profiling showed that flazin significantly decreased cellular triglyceride (TG) by 12.0-22.4% compared with modeling groups and improved the TG and free fatty acid profile. LD staining revealed that flazin efficiently reduced both cellular neutral lipid content by 17.4-53.9% and LD size by 10.0-35.3%. Furthermore, nanoelectrospray ionization mass spectrometry analysis proved that flazin exhibited a preferential suppression of LD TG and regulated LD morphology, including a size decrease and surface property improvement. An evaluation of related gene expression suggested the mechanism to be lipolysis promotion and lipogenesis inhibition. These findings indicated that flazin might be an LD regulator for reversing lipid metabolism disturbance. Moreover, the strategy proposed in this study may contribute to developing other nutraceuticals for treating lipid disorder-related metabolic diseases.

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Lipid DropletsMetabolic DiseasesCarbolinesFuransHumansLipid MetabolismTriglyceridesCarbolinesflazinFuransTriglyceridesdiabetic nephropathyfunctional foodslipid metabolismlipidomicslipid-storage disordersmass spectrometrymetabolic diseasesnutraceuticalstriglyceride

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PMID35406114
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