Human urinary metabolomic profile of PPARalpha induced fatty acid beta-oxidation

Patterson, Andrew D; Slanar, Ondrej; Krausz, Kristopher W; Li, Fei; Höfer, Constance C; Perlík, Frantisek; Gonzalez, Frank J; Idle, Jeffrey R (2009). Human urinary metabolomic profile of PPARalpha induced fatty acid beta-oxidation. Journal of proteome research, 8(9), pp. 4293-300. Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society 10.1021/pr9004103

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Activation of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPARalpha) is associated with increased fatty acid catabolism and is commonly targeted for the treatment of hyperlipidemia. To identify latent, endogenous biomarkers of PPARalpha activation and hence increased fatty acid beta-oxidation, healthy human volunteers were given fenofibrate orally for 2 weeks and their urine was profiled by UPLC-QTOFMS. Biomarkers identified by the machine learning algorithm random forests included significant depletion by day 14 of both pantothenic acid (>5-fold) and acetylcarnitine (>20-fold), observations that are consistent with known targets of PPARalpha including pantothenate kinase and genes encoding proteins involved in the transport and synthesis of acylcarnitines. It was also concluded that serum cholesterol (-12.7%), triglycerides (-25.6%), uric acid (-34.7%), together with urinary propylcarnitine (>10-fold), isobutyrylcarnitine (>2.5-fold), (S)-(+)-2-methylbutyrylcarnitine (5-fold), and isovalerylcarnitine (>5-fold) were all reduced by day 14. Specificity of these biomarkers as indicators of PPARalpha activation was demonstrated using the Ppara-null mouse. Urinary pantothenic acid and acylcarnitines may prove useful indicators of PPARalpha-induced fatty acid beta-oxidation in humans. This study illustrates the utility of a pharmacometabolomic approach to understand drug effects on lipid metabolism in both human populations and in inbred mouse models.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

ISSN:

1535-3893

Publisher:

American Chemical Society

Language:

English

Submitter:

Factscience Import

Date Deposited:

04 Oct 2013 15:10

Last Modified:

04 May 2014 23:22

Publisher DOI:

10.1021/pr9004103

PubMed ID:

19569716

Web of Science ID:

000269439400013

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/30844 (FactScience: 195179)

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