Specialized organ systems compartmentalize core metabolic responses such as nutrient uptake, nutrient storage, feeding behavior, and locomotion in multicellular organisms. In order to link systemic metabolic status to appropriate physiological responses, information on local metabolic events within each of these organs must be integrated. Inter-organ communication factors play an important role in mediating this process of systemic metabolic integration. For instance, classical metabolic hormones such as insulin and glucagon released from the pancreas, as well as leptin released from the adipose tissue, can act on multiple peripheral and central nervous system targets. While insulin and glucagon define anabolic and catabolic states of an animal, leptin limits food intake in response to adequate energy stores in the adipose tissue (Ahima et al., 1996; Moore and Cooper, 1991; Schade et al., 1979; Tartaglia et al., 1995). In addition to these classical hormones, a number of peptides have been identified that can mediate inter-organ communication axes. For example, adiponectin, adipisin, and asprosin are molecules that are released from the adipose tissue that signal to distant tissues such as muscle/liver and pancreas (Lo et al., 2014; Romere et al., 2016; Yamauchi et al., 2014). IGF1, angiotensin, and IGFBPs are released from the liver and signal to multiple distant organs including adipose tissue, muscle, and kidney (Boucher et al., 2012; Clemmons, 2007; Droujinine and Perrimon, 2016). The role of the skeletal muscle as an endocrine organ has gained special interest lately, primarily due to the beneficial effects of having healthy active muscles toward ameliorating or preventing the pathophysiology of a number of disorders and diseases (Benatti and Pedersen, 2015; Boström et al., 2012; So et al., 2014). A number of skeletal muscle-derived signaling factors (‘myokines’), including Irisin, Myostatin, IL6, Myonectin, and FGF21, have recently been characterized and they signal both locally, and to distant tissues, to control processes as diverse as muscle growth and browning of fat (Boström et al., 2012; Fisher and Maratos-Flier, 2016; McPherron, 2010; Pedersen and Febbraio, 2012; Seldin et al., 2012). Nevertheless, conservative estimates, based on bioinformatic analysis of the skeletal muscle transcriptome and proteomics studies, indicate that skeletal muscles are capable of secreting more than 200 myokines and the vast majority of these proteins are yet to be characterized (Pedersen and Febbraio, 2012). The vertebrate PDGF/VEGF signaling ligands are also secreted from the skeletal muscles; however, the biological roles of muscle-derived PDGF/VEGF ligands remain unknown (Catoire et al., 2014; Henningsen et al., 2010; Raschke et al., 2013).

The PDGF/VEGF family of signaling ligands have co-evolved with multicellularity and are proposed to signal in the context of organisms with tissue-level organization (Holmes and Zachary, 2005). VEGF family ligands, including VEGF-A and VEGF-B, influence metabolic responses such as adiposity, insulin resistance and browning of fat (Elias et al., 2012; Hagberg et al., 2012; Lu et al., 2012; Robciuc et al., 2016; Sun et al., 2012; Sung et al., 2013; Wu et al., 2014). However, mechanisms by which these molecules regulate lipid metabolism are complex and multiple context dependent and confounding models of their action have been proposed (Elias et al., 2012; Hagberg et al., 2012; Lu et al., 2012; Robciuc et al., 2016; Sun et al., 2012; Sung et al., 2013; Wu et al., 2014). Nevertheless, in all these studies the effect of VEGFs on obesity and insulin resistance have been attributed to their roles in modulating tissue micro-vascularization and endothelial cell biology. Similarly, PDGF signaling ligands PDGF-BB and -CC have also been implicated in adipose tissue expansion, glucose metabolism, and thermogenesis in beige fat, by influencing remodeling of tissue vascularization (Onogi et al., 2017; Seki et al., 2016). VEGFs and PDGFs are well-known regulators of vascularization and endothelial cell biology, and tissue vascularization definitely plays an important role in adipose tissue health, inflammation, and ultimately insulin resistance. Nevertheless, signaling to non-endothelial cell types by PDGF/VEGF ligands could play equally important roles in regulating obesity and insulin resistance.

In Drosophila, the PDGF/VEGF pathway ligands are encoded by three genes, pvf1, pvf2, and pvf3 (Cho et al., 2002; Duchek et al., 2001). Similar to vertebrate PDGFs/VEGFs, these molecules signal through a receptor-tyrosine Kkinase (RTK) encoded by pvr. Once bound to the receptor, Pvfs are known to primarily activate the Ras/Raf/ERK intracellular cascade (Duchek et al., 2001; Heino et al., 2001). Phylogenetic analysis of the Pvfs show that Pvf1 is closely related to both VEGFs and PDGFs and most likely plays the dual role of representing both these divergent signaling pathways in the fly (Holmes and Zachary, 2005). Pvf2 and Pvf3 are more ancestral forms of the protein and are phylogenetically distinct with Pvf2 lacking the conserved cysteine necessary for forming the cysteine knot structure characteristic of this family of ligands (Holmes and Zachary, 2005; Kasap, 2006).

Core metabolic organs and signaling mechanisms that regulate metabolic homeostasis are also highly conserved between Drosophila and vertebrates (Droujinine and Perrimon, 2016). Metabolic organ systems that are functionally and structurally analogous to the vertebrate adipose tissue, muscle, intestine, and liver exist in Drosophila (Gutierrez et al., 2007; Leopold and Perrimon, 2007). The Drosophila adipose tissue (also called the fat body) functions as the primary site for lipid storage. The adipose tissue is also the key site for sensing the nutrient status of the animal and coupling it to systemic growth, metabolism, and feeding behavior (Colombani et al., 2003; Grönke et al., 2007). The roles of the liver are shared between the adipose tissue and specialized hepatocyte-like cells called the oenocytes, with the adipose tissue being the primary site of glycogen storage and the oenocytes playing the roles of lipid mobilization and synthesis of specialized lipid molecules (Gutierrez et al., 2007; Makki et al., 2014; Storelli et al., 2019). However, much remains to be learned about the biological roles of the specialized organ systems in Drosophila and how they relate to organ systems in vertebrates.

A number of hormonal signals emanating from the Drosophila adipose tissue, gut, and muscle have been characterized and shown to play roles as diverse as regulation of insulin and glucagon (AKH in Drosophila) release, nutrient uptake in the gut, and mitochondrial metabolism (Chng et al., 2014; Droujinine and Perrimon, 2016; Ghosh and O'Connor, 2014; Rajan and Perrimon, 2012; Song et al., 2017). Components of core metabolic pathways such as the TOR signaling pathway are also highly conserved in the fly and much has been learned about the fundamental principles of the regulation of TOR and its roles in growth and aging from studies in Drosophila (Antikainen et al., 2017; Colombani et al., 2003; Kim et al., 2008; Piper and Partridge, 2018). Drosophila Pvfs have been primarily studied in the context of their roles in embryonic development, cell motility, and specification of immune cells (Duchek et al., 2001; Ishimaru et al., 2004; Rosin et al., 2004). However, the role of these signaling peptides in metabolism remains less explored.

Here, we identify the Drosophila PDGF/VEGF ortholog, Pvf1, as a tubular muscle derived signaling factor (myokine) that regulates systemic lipid stores by inhibiting lipid synthesis. Additionally, by subjecting the metabolically active organ systems that reside in Drosophila abdomen (muscle, oenocytes, and adipose tissue) to single-nuclei RNA sequencing (snRNA-Seq), we identify the adult oenocytes to be one of the primary targets of Pvf signaling. We provide further evidence that muscle-derived Pvf1 signals to the oenocytes where it activates the PvR/Pi3K/Akt1/TOR signaling pathway that in turn inhibits lipid synthesis in the organism. We also find that muscle-derived pvf1 plays an important role in regulating the build up of adult adipose tissue lipid stores in newly eclosed flies. Flies eclose from their pupal case with limited adult adipose tissue lipid stores. Post eclosion they enter a developmental stage that is marked by increased lipid synthesis needed for accumulation of the adipose tissue lipid stores. pvf1 expression in the muscle increases rapidly during this stage and premature expression of pvf1 in the muscle interferes with the process of lipid accumulation. Taken together our study indicates that muscle-Pvf1 serves as an inhibitory signal for suppressing de-novo lipid synthesis once the adult adipose tissue has accumulated sufficient lipid stores at the end of the adipose tissue lipid build-up phase. Our snRNA-seq data of the adult abdominal region that includes adipose tissue, oenocytes, and abdominal muscles will also serve as an invaluable resource to further understand the biology of these organs. To facilitate visualization of this rich resource of gene expression profiles, we have created a searchable webtool where users can mine and explore the data (https://www.flyrnai.org/scRNA/abdomen/).

The presence in vertebrates of multiple PDGF/VEGF signaling ligands and cognate receptors makes it difficult to assess their roles in inter-organ communication. Additionally, understanding the tissue-specific roles of these molecules, while circumventing the critical role they play in regulating tissue vascularization, is equally challenging in vertebrate models. Here, we investigated the tissue-specific roles of the ancestral PDGF/VEGF-like factors and the single PDGF/VEGF-receptor in Drosophila in lipid homeostasis. Our results demonstrate that in adult flies the PDGF/VEGF like factor, Pvf1, is a muscle-derived signaling molecule (myokine) that suppresses systemic lipid synthesis by signaling to the Drosophila hepatocyte-like cells/oenocytes.

The Drosophila larval and adult adipose tissues have distinct developmental origins. The larval adipose tissue undergo drastic morphological changes during metamorphosis and dissociate into individual large spherical cells (Nelliot et al., 2006). These free-floating adipose cells persist to the young adult stage where they play a crucial role in protecting the animal from starvation and desiccation (Aguila et al., 2007; Storelli et al., 2019). These larval adipose tissue cells are ultimately removed via cell death (Aguila et al., 2007). Adult-specific adipose tissue cells develop during the pupal stage from yet unknown progenitor cells and have very little lipid stores in newly eclosed flies (Figure 6—figure supplement 1). Over the period of next 3–5 days the adult adipose tissue builds up its lipid reserves through feeding and de-novo lipid synthesis. However, at the end of the lipid build-up phase, the rate of lipid synthesis must be suppressed to avoid over-loading of the adipose tissue and prevent lipid toxicity. Our data suggests that muscle Pvf1 signaling suppresses lipid synthesis at the end of the adult adipose tissue lipid build-up phase. Pvf1 production in the adult muscles peaks around the time when adult adipose tissue lipid stores reach steady state capacity. In turn, muscle-derived Pvf1 suppresses lipid synthesis and lipid incorporation by activating TOR signaling in the oenocytes.

A unique role of oenocyte-specific TOR signaling in lipid synthesis

We observed that oenocyte-specific loss of the components of the Pi3K/Akt1/TOR signaling pathway leads to increased lipid synthesis. The increased rate of lipid synthesis in flies lacking TOR signaling in the oenocytes is paradoxical to our current knowledge of how TOR signaling affects expression of lipid synthesis genes. In both vertebrates and flies, TOR signaling is known to facilitate lipid synthesis by inducing the expression of key lipid synthesis genes such as acetyl CoA-carboxylase and fatty acid synthase via activation of SREBP-1 proteins (Han and Wang, 2018; Heier and Kühnlein, 2018; Porstmann et al., 2008). We therefore checked how oenocyte-specific loss of TOR signaling affects expression of oenocyte-specific fatty acid synthases (fasn2 and fasn3) and oenocyte non-specific fatty acid synthesis genes (fasn1 and acc). We observed that oenocyte-specific loss of TOR strongly down-regulates only fasn2 and fasn3, while the expression of adipose tissue specific fasn1 and acc did not change, indicating that TOR signaling is required for the expression of lipogenic genes in the oenocytes. An increase in lipid synthesis in response to loss of TOR in the oenocytes is quite intriguing and the mechanism remains to be addressed. We do not think the increase in lipid synthesis happens in the oenocytes since loss of TOR signaling rather reduces expression of lipogenic genes in the oenocytes. The increase in lipid synthesis could happen either as a result of compensatory upregulation of lipid synthesis in the adipose tissue or due to disruption of an as yet unknown role of the oenocytes in lipid synthesis that hinges on TOR signaling. The fact that the expression levels of fasn1 and acc does not change significantly in animals lacking TOR signaling in the oenocytes indicates that compensatory upregulation of lipid synthesis, if present, does not happen through transcriptional upregulation of lipid synthesis genes in the adipose tissue. It is still possible, however, that the increase in lipid synthesis is caused by post-translational modifications of the enzymes. Alternatively, loss of TOR in the oenocyte could affect tissue distribution of lipids or impair clearing of dietary lipids via formation of cuticular hydrocarbons. Understanding the tissue specific alterations in gene expression and changes in the phosphorylation states of key lipogenic proteins in the adipose tissue of animals lacking TOR signaling in oenocytes could shed more light on the mechanisms involved.

Interestingly, our data suggests that the Drosophila InR does not play a role in activating TOR signaling in the oenocytes. While loss of TOR signaling in the oenocytes leads to obesity, loss of InR signaling does not. Additionally, loss of oenocyte specific InR signaling did not have any effect on p4EBP levels in oenocytes. Moreover, InR signaling and TOR signaling also diverge in their roles in regulating the size of oenocytes. While loss of InR signaling leads to a significant reduction in the size of oenocytes, loss of TOR does not. Further suggesting that TOR does not act downstream of InR in oenocytes. Rather, our data suggests that in wildtype well-fed flies TOR signaling in oenocytes is activated by the Pvf receptor. Interestingly, insulin dependent activation of TOR is not universal. For instance, in the specialized cells of non-obese mouse liver, InR does not play any role in activation of TOR and downstream activation of SREBP-1c (Haas et al., 2012).

Drosophila larval oenocytes are known to accumulate lipids in response to starvation (Gutierrez et al., 2007). Chatterjee et al. also showed that starving adult females for 36 hr is capable of inducing lipid accumulation in the oenocytes and that this response is dependent of InR signaling (Chatterjee et al., 2014). Since TOR signaling is a known metabolic regulator, one alternate hypothesis that could explain some of our data is that loss of PvR/TOR signaling leads to a starvation like response specifically in the oenocyte leading to InR-dependent accumulation of lipid droplets. To address this possibility, we performed single nuclei sequencing of the adult male abdominal cuticle (and the tissues residing within) derived from oeno^ts>tsc1,tsc2 flies. The animals were raised under identical experimental conditions as control animals reported in Figure 2. We then re-analyzed the two snRNA-seq data sets after correcting for batch effects using harmony. The resulting UMAP plots for both genotypes look similar to our original UMAP plot for the control flies and identifies all the clusters reported in Figure 2 (Figure 7A, B). The percentage of nuclei that constitute each of our major clusters remained similar in both genotypes and the top marker genes for each of the clusters did not change (Figure 7C, D). We subsequently converted the oenocyte-specific gene expression profiles from both data sets to pseudobulk expression for the genes that were detected. This allowed us to compare the expression profiles of the oenocytes from control animals and animals lacking TOR signaling in oenocytes (Figure 7E). We specifically looked at the effect of losing TOR on the expression of the 47 genes that Chatterjee et al. had reported to be up-regulated in oenocytes in response to starvation. Thirty-six of these genes were detected by our single nuclei sequencing analysis, however, none of them changed significantly (we used a cutoff of 1.5-fold change) (Figure 7E, Supplementary file 4). Based on this observation, we conclude that loss of TOR signaling most likely does not mount a starvation like response in the oenocytes.

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Since Pi3K, Akt, and TOR signaling also control cellular growth, there is a possibility that manipulating these genes lead to changes in oenocyte size that in turn leads to the lipid accumulation phenotypes we observe. Indeed, we saw changes in oenocyte size when we disrupted some of these pathways. Since all our studies involved conditional knockdown or over-expression in post-developmental adult animals, the effect on size is most likely caused by changes in the size of individual oenocytes. Consistently, we find that genotypes that lead to smaller oenocytes tend to have more densely packed nuclei. We therefore used nuclei density as a readout to quantify the effect of losing PvR, TOR, Akt1, or InR signaling on oenocyte size. Loss of PvR signaling did not have any effect on oenocyte size (Figure 4—figure supplement 2C, D) and loss of TOR signaling leads to a small but not significant increase in oenocyte size. Whereas loss of InR signaling or akt1 leads to significant decrease in oenocyte size. However, we did not observe any clear correlation between oenocyte size and the obesity phenotype (Figure 4—figure supplement 2C, D). Thus, while oenocyte size could potentially affect lipid metabolism, at least in our study, the size of the oenocytes was not the driving force for the phenotypes observed.

Serum levels of VEGF-A is high in obese individuals and drops rapidly in response to bariatric surgery, suggesting a role for VEGF-A in obesity (García de la Torre et al., 2008; Loebig et al., 2010; Silha et al., 2005). However, evidence on whether VEGF-A or other VEGFs are deleterious vs beneficial in the context of the pathophysiology of obesity is unclear. Adipose tissue-specific over-expression of both VEGF-B and VEGF-A has been shown to improve adipose tissue vascularization, reduce hypoxia, induce browning of fat, increase thermogenesis, and protect against obesity (Elias et al., 2012; Robciuc et al., 2016; Sun et al., 2012; Sung et al., 2013). At the same time, blocking VEGF-A signaling in the adipose tissue of genetically obese mice leads to reduction of body weight gain, improvement in insulin sensitivity, and a decrease in adipose tissue inflammation (Sun et al., 2012). Moreover, systemic inhibition of VEGF-A or VEGF-B signaling by injecting neutralizing monoclonal antibodies have also shown remarkable effects in improving insulin sensitivity in the muscle, adipose tissue, and the liver of high-fat diet-induced mouse models of obesity and diabetes (Hagberg et al., 2012; Wu et al., 2014). Although the evidence on the roles of VEGF/PDGF signaling ligands in obesity and insulin resistance is well established, the mechanisms clearly are quite complex and are often context dependent. Consequently, a wider look at various tissue specific roles of PDGF/VEGF signaling will be necessary to comprehensively understand the roles of PDGF/VEGF signaling in lipid metabolism. Our work demonstrates an evolutionarily conserved role for PDGF/VEGF signaling in lipid metabolism and a non-endothelial cell dependent role of the signaling pathway in lipid synthesis. Additionally, our findings suggest an atypical tissue-specific role of TOR signaling in suppressing lipid synthesis at the level of the whole organism. Further studies will be required to determine whether vertebrate VEGF/PDGF and TOR signaling exerts similar roles either in the vertebrate liver or in other specialized organ.

Sequencing data have been deposited in GEO under the accession number GSE147601. Elsewhere, data can be visualized at: www.flyrnai.org/scRNA/abdomen/. Data code can accessed at: https://github.com/liuyifang/Drosophila-PDGF-VEGF-signaling-from-muscles-to-hepatocyte-like-cells-protects-against-obesity (copy archived at https://archive.softwareheritage.org/swh:1:rev:f1ad799015c901dad378f6e488dc38f4a19fd703/).

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1. Arpan C Ghosh

   Department of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States

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   Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Funding acquisition, Validation, Investigation, Visualization, Methodology, Writing - original draft, Project administration

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   arpan_ghosh@hms.harvard.edu

   Competing interests

   No competing interests declared

   "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0001-6553-938X

2. Sudhir Gopal Tattikota

   Department of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States

   Contribution

   Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review and editing

   Contributed equally with

   Yifang Liu

   Competing interests

   No competing interests declared

   "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0003-0318-5533

3. Yifang Liu

   Department of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States

   Contribution

   Data curation, Software, Formal analysis, Visualization, Methodology, Writing - review and editing

   Contributed equally with

   Sudhir Gopal Tattikota

   Competing interests

   No competing interests declared

4. Aram Comjean

   Department of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States

   Contribution

   Data curation, Software, Visualization

   Competing interests

   No competing interests declared

5. Yanhui Hu

   Department of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States

   Contribution

   Data curation, Software, Visualization, Writing - review and editing

   Competing interests

   No competing interests declared

6. Victor Barrera

   Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, United States

   Contribution

   Software, Writing - review and editing

   Competing interests

   No competing interests declared

   "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0003-0590-4634

7. Shannan J Ho Sui

   Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, United States

   Contribution

   Software, Writing - review and editing

   Competing interests

   No competing interests declared

8. Norbert Perrimon

   1. Department of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
   2. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, United States

   Contribution

   Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing - review and editing

   For correspondence

   perrimon@genetics.med.harvard.edu

   Competing interests

   No competing interests declared

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