Abstract
Hepatic autophagy plays an important role in lipid metabolism, especially in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. The relationship between Oleate acid and autophagy is not yet clear. In this work, using mouse epithelial cell hepa1c1c7, we investigated the role of Oleate acid on autophagy and explored its potential mechanisms. The exposure of hepatic cells to Oleate acid resulted in a significant reduction of LC3 accumulation together with enhancement of p62 protein expression and the mRNA levels of ATG7 and BECN1 were reduced as well. Mechanistically, the inhibitory effects of Oleate acid on rapamycin-induced autophagy were completely blocked by treatment with dominant negative p38α and p38 inhibitor SB203580. Furthermore, ATF-2, downstream of p38, was activated by Oleate treatment. Oleate treatment also inhibited the ULK1 promoter and decreased the ULK1 mRNA level. Our data therefore suggest that Oleate activated the ATF-2 via p38 kinase which inhibited the ULK1 via binding to ULK1 promoter, and eventually the rapamycin-induced autophagy was suppressed.
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