Fat body phospholipid state dictates hunger-driven feeding behavior

  1. Kevin P Kelly
  2. Mroj Alassaf
  3. Camille E Sullivan
  4. Ava E Brent
  5. Zachary H Goldberg
  6. Michelle E Poling
  7. Julien Dubrulle
  8. Akhila Rajan  Is a corresponding author
  1. Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutch, United States
  2. Cellular Imaging Core, Shared Resources, Fred Hutch, United States
11 figures and 1 additional file

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Figure 1 with 2 supplements
High-sugar diet (HSD) causes progressive loss in hunger-driven feeding (HDF).

(A) HDF behavior in flies was tested using the schematic in (A). After aging flies for 7 days on normal lab food, flies we subject to a normal diet or an HSD (30% more sugar in food) for a duration …

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w1118 hunger-driven feeding responses related to Figure 1B–D.

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Change in w1118 triacylglyceride (TAG) levels after 16 hr of starvation related to Figure 1E–G.

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w1118 hunger-driven feeding responses on high-sugar diet (HSD) related to Figure 1H.

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Triacylglyceride (TAG) levels of 14-day high-sugar diet (HSD)-fed w1118 flies related to Figure 1I.

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Normalized triacylglyceride (TAG) levels of 14-day high-sugar diet (HSD)-fed w1118 flies related to Figure 1J.

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Figure 1—figure supplement 1
Flies on high-sugar diet (HSD) show a progressive loss in hunger-driven feeding (HDF).

(left) Average feeding events over time for normal food (NF) flies that were either fed or starved with 0% sucrose agar (stv) for 16 hr prior to measurement. Note that HDF is maintained throughout …

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w1118 hunger-driven feeding responses on normal food (NF) and high-sugar diet (HSD) related to Figure 1—figure supplement 1A.

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Figure 1—figure supplement 2
Normal food (NF) and high-sugar diet (HSD) flies show similar rates of triacylglyceride (TAG) breakdown following a starvation challenge.

Average TAG/fly levels in NF (black line) and HSD (blue line) groups over time. N = 9/group. Two-way ANOVA with Sidak post-test correction. Asterisks indicate significant changes with p-value<0.05, …

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Triacylglyceride (TAG) levels of normal food (NF) and high-sugar diet (HSD)-fed w1118 flies over time at baseline.

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Figure 2 with 2 supplements
Drosophila insulin-like peptide 5 (DILP5)/forkhead box O (FOXO) accumulation and lipid droplet morphology altered under high-sugar diet (HSD) exposure.

(A, left) Representative confocal images of Dilp5 accumulation in insulin-producing cells (IPCs) of normal food (NF) flies (top panel) and HSD-fed flies on day 14 (bottom panel). (A, right) Mean …

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Drosophila insulin-like peptide 5 (Dilp5) accumulation in insulin-producing cell (IPC) after 14 days on normal food (NF)/high-sugar diet (HSD).

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Forkhead box O (FOXO) accumulation in w1118 (14 days after diet treatment).

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Figure 2—figure supplement 1
Chronic high-sugar diet (HSD) treatment does not affect Drosophila insulin-like peptides (Dilps) 2 and 5 transcript levels.

Mean fold change in Dilp 2 and Dilp 5 expression in w1118 flies fed either a normal food (NF) or an HSD for 14 days. N = 3 technical replicates of cDNA collected from 30 flies/treatment. t-test with …

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Drosophila insulin-like peptide (Dilp) 2 and 5 mRNA expression levels in w1118.

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Figure 2—figure supplement 2
Acute high-sugar diet (HSD) exposure does not affect forkhead box O (FOXO) nuclear localization.

Representative confocal images of nuclear FOXO accumulation in the fat bodies of normal food (NF) (top panel) and HSD-fed flies for 6 hr (bottom panel). The nuclei are marked with anti-lamin …

Figure 2—figure supplement 2—source data 1

Forkhead box O (FOXO) accumulation in w1118 (6 hr after diet treatment).

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Figure 3 with 1 supplement
Phospholipids are elevated in whole fly during extended high-sugar diet (HSD) feeding.

Average concentrations of phosphatidylcholine (PC), phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC), and lysophosphatidylethanolamine (LPE) in flies subjected to normal food (NF) …

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Lipidomics data for lipid classes of normal food (NF) and high-sugar diet (HSD)-fed flies on day 7 presented in Figure 3 and Figure 3—figure supplement 1.

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Lipidomics data for lipid classes of normal food (NF) and high-sugar diet (HSD)-fed flies on day 14 presented in Figure 3 and Figure 3—figure supplement 1.

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Figure 3—figure supplement 1
High-sugar diet (HSD) alters the lipidome and increases the concentration of phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) and phosphatidylcholine (PC) double bond species.

(A) Changes in triacylglyceride (TAG), diacylglyceride (DAG), free fatty acid (FFA), Cholesterol Ester (CE), and Sphingomyelin (SM) concentration after 7 and 14 days of normal food (NF) and HSD …

Figure 4 with 1 supplement
High-sugar diet (HSD) and knockdown of Pect lead to decreased ApoII levels in the brain.

(A–C, left) Representative confocal images of ApoII (red) levels in the insulin-producing cells (IPCs) (blue) of (A) normal food (NF) and HSD-fed flies on day 14, (B) flies with a fat-specific …

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ApoII accumulation in the insulin-producing cells (IPCs) of normal food (NF) and high-sugar diet (HSD)-fed w1118 flies.

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ApoII accumulation in the insulin-producing cells (IPCs) of phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) knockdown flies.

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ApoII accumulation in the insulin-producing cells (IPCs) of Pect overexpression flies.

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Figure 4—figure supplement 1
Validation of ApoII antibody.

Representative confocal images of LppGal4>UAS-HA-Apolpp-myc fly fat body stained for ApoII antibody (green), HA antibody (red), and a merge of the two images. Note colocalization of HA and ApoII.

Pect knockdown in fly fat alters forkhead box O (FOXO) nuclear accumulation and lipid droplet morphology.

(A, left) Representative confocal images of Lpp-Gal4>UAS-Luc-RNAi and Lpp-Gal4>UAS-Pect-RNAi fly fat immunostained with anti-FOXO antibody (blue to green, intensity-based) and lamin (pink) on day …

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Nuclear forkhead box O (FOXO) accumulation in LppGal4>Pect-RNAi fat.

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Figure 6 with 4 supplements
Manipulating Pect levels in the fat body alters phospholipid profile.

(A) Average concentrations of phosphatidylcholine (PC), phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC), and lysophosphatidylethanolamine (LPE) lipid classes in LppGal4>UAS-Pect-RNAi …

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Lipidomics for fat-specific Pect knockdown and Pect overexpression on normal food.

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Figure 6—figure supplement 1
Pect mRNA expression.

(A) Mean fold change in Pect mRNA levels in the fat-specific (left) Pect knockdown flies and (right) Pect overexpression flies. Unpaired t-test with Welch’s correction. (B) Mean fold change in Pect …

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Pect expression in RNAi and OE lines related to Figure 6—figure supplement 1A.

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Figure 6—figure supplement 1—source data 2

Pect expression in RNAi and OE lines related to Figure 6—figure supplement 1B.

Pect expression in w1118 at different normal food (NF) and high-sugar diet (HSD) timepoints related to Figure 6—figure supplement 1B.

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Figure 6—figure supplement 2
Fourteen days of high-sugar diet (HSD) cause an increase in Pect-associated phospholipid classes.

Percent lipid composition for all (A) phosphatidylcholine (PC) and (B) phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) classes in normal food (NF)-fed flies overtime. Note that the overall composition does not change …

Figure 6—figure supplement 3
Additional lipid class responses to fat body Pect knockdown.

Average concentrations of triacylglyceride (TAG), CE, diacyl glyceride (DAG), SM, and free fatty acid (FFA) lipid classes in LppGal4>UAS-Pect-RNAi flies compared to control under 7-day normal food …

Figure 6—figure supplement 4
Lipidomic profile of fat body Pect overexpression flies.

Average concentrations of phosphatidylcholine (PC), phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), CE, lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC), lysophosphatidylethanolamine (LPE), SM, triacylglyceride (TAG), diacylglyceride …

Manipulating Pect levels in the fat body alters hunger-driven feeding behavior.

(A) A simplified schematic of the phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) and phosphatidylcholine (PC) biosynthesis pathway. eas and Pect are enzymes in the PE biosynthesis pathway, whereas PCYT2 is an enzyme …

Figure 7—source data 1

Day 14 feeding behavior in phosphatidylethanolamine (PE)/phosphatidylcholine (PC) biosynthesis enzymes fat-specific knockdown flies relevant to Figure 7A.

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Figure 7—source data 2

Pect fat-specific overexpression of hunger-driven feeding behavior (normal food [NF] and high-sugar diet [HSD]) relevant to Figure 7B.

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Pect function in adult fly adipocytes regulates hunger response.

We identify that fat-specific knockdown of the rate-limiting phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) synthesis enzyme, Pect, even on normal diet, phenocopies the metabolic effects of subjecting flies to …

Author response image 1

(A) Feeding events of 14-day HSD-fed flies at various starvation times. (B) TAG stores of 14-day HSD-fed flies at various starvation times. (C) Normalized TAG of 14-day HSD-fed flies at various …

Author response image 2
Starvation survival on 1% sucrose agar of 14-day NF vs. HSD fed flies.
Author response image 3
PECT-KD in fat tissue on normal diets does not alter TAG stores.

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