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“Hepatic Ubiquinone Imbalance Drives Reverse Elect...
Pharmacology & Chemical Biology Seminar Series
3/28/2024 - 12:00 PM-1:00 PM
“Hepatic Ubiquinone Imbalance Drives Reverse Electron Transport and Pathological mROS in Obesity”
Renata Goncalves, PhD
Research Associate
Harvard School of Public Health
Mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (mROS) are central to physiology. While excess mROS production has been associated with several disease states, its precise sources, regulation, and mechanism of generation
in vivo
remain unknown, limiting translational efforts. Here we show that in obesity, hepatic ubiquinone (Q) synthesis is impaired, which raises the QH
2
/Q ratio, driving excessive mROS production via reverse electron transport (RET) from site I
Q
in complex I. Using multiple complementary genetic and pharmacological models
in vivo
we demonstrated that RET is critical for metabolic health. In patients with steatosis, the hepatic Q biosynthetic program is also suppressed, and the QH
2
/Q ratio positively correlates with disease severity. Our data identify a highly selective mechanism for pathological mROS production in obesity, which can be targeted to protect metabolic homeostasis.
Thomas E. Starzl Biomedical Science Tower
1395 Conference Room
200 Lothrop St
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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Melanie Hoffner