..Loss of [GGPDS] Alleviates Acute Obstructive Cholestatic Liver Injury by Regulating Hepatic Bile Acid Metabolism, 2020, Jia et al

Andy · Jan 7, 2020

Full title: Conditional Loss of Geranylgeranyl Diphosphate Synthase Alleviates Acute Obstructive Cholestatic Liver Injury by Regulating Hepatic Bile Acid Metabolism

In mice.

Previous studies have suggested that metabolites in the mevalonate pathway are involved in hepatic bile acid metabolism, yet the details of this relationship remain unknown.

In this study, we found that the hepatic farnesyl pyrophosphate (FPP) level and the ratio of FPP to geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate (GGPP) were increased in mice with acute obstructive cholestasis compared with mice that underwent a sham operation. In addition, the livers of the mice with acute obstructive cholestasis showed lower expression of geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase (GGPPS), which synthesizes GGPP from FPP. When Ggps1 was conditionally deleted in the liver, amelioration of liver injury, as shown by downregulation of the hepatic inflammatory response and decreased hepatocellular apoptosis, was found after ligation of the common bile duct and cholecystectomy (BDLC).

Subsequently, liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry analysis showed that knocking out Ggps1 decreased the levels of hepatic bile acids, including hydrophobic bile acids. Mechanistically, the disruption of Ggps1 increased the levels of hepatic FPP and its metabolite farnesol, thereby resulting in farnesoid X receptor (FXR) activation, which modulated hepatic bile acid metabolism and reduced hepatic bile acids. It was consistently indicated that digeranyl bisphosphonate, a specific inhibitor of GGPPS, and GW4064, an agonist of FXR, could also alleviate acute obstructive cholestatic liver injury in vivo.

In general, GGPPS is critical for modulating acute obstructive cholestatic liver injury, and the inhibition of GGPPS ameliorates acute obstructive cholestatic liver injury by decreasing hepatic bile acids, which is possibly achieved through the activation of FXR‐induced bile acid metabolism.
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Paywall, https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/febs.15204
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