Maternal diet-induced obesity during pregnancy alters lipid supply to mouse E18.5 fetuses and changes the cardiac tissue lipidome in a sex-dependent manner
- University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute, United Kingdom
Abstract
Maternal obesity during pregnancy has immediate and long-term detrimental effects on the offspring heart. In this study, we characterized the cardiac and circulatory lipid profiles in late gestation E18.5 fetuses of diet-induced obese pregnant mice and established the changes in lipid abundance and fetal cardiac transcriptomics. We used untargeted and targeted lipidomics and transcriptomics to define changes in the serum and cardiac lipid composition and fatty acid metabolism in male and female fetuses. From these analyses we observed: (1) maternal obesity affects the maternal and fetal serum lipidome distinctly; (2) female fetal heart lipidomes are more sensitive to maternal obesity than males; (3) changes in lipid supply might contribute to early expression of lipolytic genes in mouse hearts exposed to maternal obesity. These results highlight the existence of sexually dimorphic responses of the fetal heart to the same in utero obesogenic environment and identify lipids species that might mediate programming of cardiovascular health.
Data availability
Sequencing data have been deposited in GEO under accession code GSE162185 and a secure token for reviewers has been generated: cduxsaskdtkpxqb. All lipidomics data generated or analysed during this study are included in the manuscript and supporting files. Source data files have been provided for Figures 2, 3, 4 and 6.
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Author details
Denise S Fernandez-Twinn
Funding
British Heart Foundation (RG/17/12/33167)
- Susan E Ozanne
Medical Research Council (MRC_MC_UU_00014/4)
- Denise S Fernandez-Twinn
Wellcome Trust (208363/Z/17/Z)
- Susan E Ozanne
British Heart Foundation (FS/12/64/30001)
- Elena Loche
British Heart Foundation (FS/18/56/35177)
- Isabella Inzani
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/M027252/1)
- Samuel Furse
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Ethics
Animal experimentation: This research was regulated under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 Amendment Regulations 2012 following ethical review by the University of Cambridge Animal Welfare and Ethical Review Body (AWERB). The work carried out is approved under project licences number 80/2512 and P5FDF0206.
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© 2022, Pantaleao et al.
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Maternal diet-induced obesity during pregnancy alters lipid supply to mouse E18.5 fetuses and changes the cardiac tissue lipidome in a sex-dependent manner
eLife 11:e69078.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.69078
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