ArticleEMBO molecular medicine2025
Liver TET1 promotes metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease.
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- DNMT1 facilitates the progression of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease by impeding transcription mediated by HNF4α and PPARα.Clinical and molecular hepatology · 2026Article
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Abstract
Global hepatic DNA methylation change has been linked to human patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD). DNA demethylation is regulated by the TET family proteins, whose enzymatic activities require 2-oxoglutarate (2-OG) and iron that both are elevated in human MASLD patients. We aimed to investigate liver TET1 in MASLD progression. Depleting TET1 using two different strategies substantially alleviated MASLD progression. Knockout (KO) of TET1 slightly improved diet induced obesity and glucose homeostasis. Intriguingly, hepatic cholesterols, triglycerides, and CD36 were significantly decreased upon TET1 depletion. Consistently, liver specific TET1 KO led to improvement of MASLD progression. Mechanistically, TET1 promoted CD36 expression through transcriptional upregulation via DNA demethylation control. Overexpression of CD36 reversed the impacts of TET1 downregulation on fatty acid uptake in hepatocytes. More importantly, targeting TET1 with a small molecule inhibitor significantly suppressed MASLD progression. Conclusively, liver TET1 plays a deleterious role in MASLD, suggesting the potential of targeting TET1 in hepatocytes to suppress MASLD.
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