TY - JOUR
T1 - Blood cytokine patterns suggest a modest inflammation phenotype in subjects with long-chain fatty acid oxidation disorders
AU - McCoin, Colin S.
AU - Gillingham, Melanie B.
AU - Knotts, Trina A.
AU - Vockley, Jerry
AU - Ono-Moore, Kikumi D.
AU - Blackburn, Michael L.
AU - Norman, Jennifer E.
AU - Adams, Sean H.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Authors. Physiological Reports published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of The Physiological Society and the American Physiological Society.
PY - 2019/3
Y1 - 2019/3
N2 - Excessive cellular accumulation or exposure to lipids such as long-chain acylcarnitines (LCACs), ceramides, and others is implicated in cell stress and inflammation. Such a situation might manifest when there is a significant mismatch between long-chain fatty acid (LCFA) availability versus storage and oxidative utilization; for example, in cardiac ischemia, increased LCACs may contribute to tissue cell stress and infarct damage. Perturbed LCFAβ-oxidation is also seen in fatty acid oxidation disorders (FAODs). FAODs typically manifest with fasting- or stress-induced symptoms, and patients can manage many symptoms through control of diet and physical activity. However, episodic clinical events involving cardiac and skeletal muscle myopathies are common and can present without an obvious molecular trigger. We have speculated that systemic or tissue-specific lipotoxicity and activation of inflammation pathways contribute to long-chain FAOD pathophysiology. With this in mind, we characterized inflammatory phenotype (14 blood plasma cytokines) in resting, overnight-fasted (~10 h), or exercise-challenged subjects with clinically well-controlled long-chain FAODs (n = 12; 10 long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase [LCHAD]; 2 carnitine palmitoyltransferase 2 [CPT2]) compared to healthy controls (n = 12). Across experimental conditions, concentrations of three cytokines were modestly but significantly increased in FAOD (IFNγ, IL-8, and MDC), and plasma levels of IL-10 (considered an inflammation-dampening cytokine) were significantly decreased. These novel results indicate that while asymptomatic FAOD patients do not display gross body-wide inflammation even after moderate exercise, β-oxidation deficiencies might be associated with chronic and subtle activation of “sterile inflammation.” Further studies are warranted to determine if inflammation is more apparent in poorly controlled long-chain FAOD or when long-chain FAOD-associated symptoms are present.
AB - Excessive cellular accumulation or exposure to lipids such as long-chain acylcarnitines (LCACs), ceramides, and others is implicated in cell stress and inflammation. Such a situation might manifest when there is a significant mismatch between long-chain fatty acid (LCFA) availability versus storage and oxidative utilization; for example, in cardiac ischemia, increased LCACs may contribute to tissue cell stress and infarct damage. Perturbed LCFAβ-oxidation is also seen in fatty acid oxidation disorders (FAODs). FAODs typically manifest with fasting- or stress-induced symptoms, and patients can manage many symptoms through control of diet and physical activity. However, episodic clinical events involving cardiac and skeletal muscle myopathies are common and can present without an obvious molecular trigger. We have speculated that systemic or tissue-specific lipotoxicity and activation of inflammation pathways contribute to long-chain FAOD pathophysiology. With this in mind, we characterized inflammatory phenotype (14 blood plasma cytokines) in resting, overnight-fasted (~10 h), or exercise-challenged subjects with clinically well-controlled long-chain FAODs (n = 12; 10 long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase [LCHAD]; 2 carnitine palmitoyltransferase 2 [CPT2]) compared to healthy controls (n = 12). Across experimental conditions, concentrations of three cytokines were modestly but significantly increased in FAOD (IFNγ, IL-8, and MDC), and plasma levels of IL-10 (considered an inflammation-dampening cytokine) were significantly decreased. These novel results indicate that while asymptomatic FAOD patients do not display gross body-wide inflammation even after moderate exercise, β-oxidation deficiencies might be associated with chronic and subtle activation of “sterile inflammation.” Further studies are warranted to determine if inflammation is more apparent in poorly controlled long-chain FAOD or when long-chain FAOD-associated symptoms are present.
KW - Carnitine
KW - caspase-3
KW - immunometabolism
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U2 - 10.14814/phy2.14037
DO - 10.14814/phy2.14037
M3 - Article
C2 - 30912279
AN - SCOPUS:85063612960
SN - 2051-817X
VL - 7
JO - Physiological reports
JF - Physiological reports
IS - 6
M1 - e14037
ER -