Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2022, Vol. 53 ›› Issue (9): 3221-3230.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2022.09.036

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The Mechanism of Sodium Butyrate through AMPK Pathway to Regulate Lipid Metabolism Disorder Caused by LPS in Bovine Mammary Epithelial Cells

LI Lin1, CAO Meng1, GONG Binbin1, ZHAO Mei2, WANG Jie1, ZHANG Xiaohui3*   

  1. 1. School of Biological Science and Engineering, Xingtai University, Xingtai 054001, China;
    2. Department of Pathology, Xingtai People's Hospital, Hebei Medical University Affiliated Hospital, Xingtai 054000, China;
    3. College of Animal Science and Technology, Hainan University, Haikou 570100, China
  • Received:2022-01-05 Online:2022-09-23 Published:2022-09-23

Abstract: This study aimed to investigate the regulation mechanism of (2, 8, 16 μmol·L-1) sodium butyrate to the LPS-induced lipid metabolism disorder model of bovine mammary epithelial cell line (MAC-T), explore its regulation mechanism on cell lipid metabolism and repair inflammation damage effect. After stimulating MAC-T cells with 1 000 ng·mL-1 LPS for 9 h, the lipid droplet area and the cell triglyceride (TG) content were measured respectively. After stimulating MAC-T cells with different concentrations of sodium butyrate for 12 h. MAC-T cells were added with different concentrations of sodium butyrate, and the apoptosis rate was detected by flow cytometry. Subsequently, the experiment was divided into 5 groups:control group, LPS treatment group, 2 μmol·L-1 sodium butyrate + LPS treatment group, 8 μmol·L-1 sodium butyrate +LPS treatment group and 16 μmol·L-1 sodium butyrate+LPS treatment group. Cell TG content, AMPK signaling pathway protein, key genes of lipid metabolism and related inflammatory factors were detected. Results:LPS will cause a significant decrease in the total lipid droplet area of MAC-T cells (P<0.05), and extremely significant decrease in TG content (P<0.01). Different concentrations of sodium butyrate had no effect on the apoptosis rate of MAC-T cells. Compared to the control group, LPS treatment group significantly decreased the content of TG (P<0.01), significantly increased the expression level of P-AMPK (P<0.05), lipid anabolism related genes ACC, SCD-1 and FAS mRNA expression levels were significantly (P<0.05) or extremely significantly decreased (P<0.01), lipid catabolism-related genes CPT-1, CPT-2 and ACO mRNA expression levels of were significantly increased (P<0.05), and contents of inflammatory factors TNF-α and IL-6 were significantly increased (P<0.05). Compared with LPS treatment groups, (2, 8, 16 μmol·L-1) sodium butyrate +LPS treatment groups increased TG content, decreased P-AMPK expression level, increased lipid anabolism related gene expression level, decreased lipid catabolism related gene expression level, and decreased inflammatory factors TNF-α and IL-6 content. This study shows that sodium butyrate activates lipid anabolism through the AMPK pathway, regulates TG synthesis, and alleviates the inflammatory damage in MAC-T cells.

Key words: lipopolysaccharide, sodium butyrate, bovine mammary epithelial cell line (MAC-T), lipid metabolism disorder

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