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ArticleCommunications biology2025

Functional compartmentalization of hepatic mitochondrial subpopulations during MASH progression.

Noble Kumar Talari, Ushodaya Mattam, Afra P Rahman, Brook K Hemmelgarn, Michael A Wyder, Pamela B Sylvestre, Kenneth D Greis, Karthickeyan Chella Krishnan

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Article in Communications biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Noble Kumar Talari *Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Neurobiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Ushodaya Mattam *Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Neurobiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Afra P RahmanMedical Sciences Baccalaureate Program, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0009-2192-3676
Brook K HemmelgarnDepartment of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Neurobiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Michael A WyderDepartment of Cancer Biology, Proteomics Laboratory, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Pamela B SylvestreDivision of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0004-3278-7546
Kenneth D GreisDepartment of Cancer Biology, Proteomics Laboratory, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5316-3351
Karthickeyan Chella KrishnanDepartment of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Neurobiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA. chellakn@ucmail.uc.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4895-2495

Funding

Stem Cell/Organoid and Genome Editing CoreP30DK078392 · NIDDK · CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSP MED CTR · PI Alexander Miethke · 2007 to 2026
$24.4M
Sex-Specific Roles of L-PK in Cholesterol Metabolism and AtherosclerosisR01HL167670 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI · PI Karthickeyan Chella Krishnan · 2024 to 2026
$1.9M
An Orbitrap Mass Spectrometry System for the University of Cincinnati Proteomics LaboratoryS10OD026717 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI · PI GREIS, KENNETH DONALD · 2019 to 2019
$816k
Investigating the sex-specific roles of PKLR and CHCHD6 in insulin resistance and NAFLDR00DK120875 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI · PI CHELLA KRISHNAN, KARTHICKEYAN · 2021 to 2023
$737k
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL167670NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK078392NIDDK NIH HHS R00 DK120875NIH HHS S10 OD026717U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) R01HL167670U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases) P30DK078392U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases) R00DK120875
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The role of peridroplet mitochondria (PDM) in diseased liver, such as during the progression of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), remains unknown. We isolated hepatic cytoplasmic mitochondria (CM) and PDM from a mouse model of diet-induced MASLD/MASH to characterize their functions from simple steatosis to advanced MASH, using chow-fed mice as controls. Our findings show an inverse relationship between hepatic CM and PDM levels from healthy to steatosis to advanced MASH. Proteomics analysis revealed these two mitochondrial populations are compositionally and functionally distinct. We found that hepatic PDM are more bioenergetically active than CM, with higher pyruvate oxidation capacity in both healthy and diseased liver. Higher respiration capacity of PDM was associated with elevated OXPHOS protein complexes and increased TCA cycle flux. In contrast, CM showed higher fatty acid oxidation capacity with MASH progression. Transmission electron microscopy revealed larger and elongated mitochondria during healthy and early steatosis, which appeared small and fragmented during MASH progression. These changes coincided with higher MFN2 protein levels in hepatic PDM and higher DRP1 protein levels in hepatic CM. These findings highlight the distinct roles of hepatic CM and PDM in MASLD progression towards MASH.

Indexed as

Fatty LiverMitochondria, LiverNon-alcoholic Fatty Liver DiseaseAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalDisease ProgressionLiverMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BL

Identifiers

PMID39966593
PMCPMC11836293

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