TY  - JOUR
A1  - Thierbach, Rene
A1  - Florian, Simone
A1  - Wolfrum, Katharina
A1  - Voigt, Anja
A1  - Drewes, Gunnar
A1  - Blume, Urte
A1  - Bannasch, Peter
A1  - Ristow, Michael
A1  - Steinberg, Pablo
T1  - Specific alterations of carbohydrate metabolism are associated with hepatocarcinogenesis in mitochondrially impaired mice
T2  - Human molecular genetics
N2  - Friedreich's ataxia is an inherited neurodegenerative disease caused by the reduced expression of the mitochondrially active protein frataxin. We have previously shown that mice with a hepatocyte-specific frataxin knockout (AlbFxn(-/-)) develop multiple hepatic tumors in later life. In the present study, hepatic carbohydrate metabolism in AlbFxn(-/-) mice at an early and late life stage was analyzed. In young (5-week-old) AlbFxn(-/-) mice hepatic ATP, glucose-6-phosphate and glycogen levels were found to be reduced by similar to 74, 80 and 88%, respectively, when compared with control animals. This pronounced ATP, G6P and glycogen depletion in the livers of young mice reverted in older animals: while half of the mice die before 30 weeks of age, the other half reaches 17 months of age and exhibits glycogen, G6P and ATP levels similar to those in age-matched controls. A key event in this respect seems to be the up-regulation of GLUT1, the predominant glucose transporter in fetal liver parenchyma, which became evident in AlbFxn(-/-) mice being 5-12 weeks of age. The most significant histological findings in animals being 17 or 22 months of age were the appearance of multiple clear cell, mixed cell and basophilic foci throughout the liver parenchyma as well as the development of hepatocellular adenomas and carcinomas. The hepatocarcinogenic process in AlbFxn 2/2 mice shows remarkable differences regarding carbohydrate metabolism alterations when compared with all other chemically and virally driven liver cancer models described up to now.
Y1  - 2012
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/36169
SN  - 0964-6906
VL  - 21
IS  - 3
SP  - 656
EP  - 663
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  -