TY  - JOUR
A1  - Trujillo‐Viera, Jonathan
A1  - El‐Merahbi, Rabih
A1  - Schmidt, Vanessa
A1  - Karwen, Till
A1  - Loza‐Valdes, Angel
A1  - Strohmeyer, Akim
A1  - Reuter, Saskia
A1  - Noh, Minhee
A1  - Wit, Magdalena
A1  - Hawro, Izabela
A1  - Mocek, Sabine
A1  - Fey, Christina
A1  - Mayer, Alexander E.
A1  - Löffler, Mona C.
A1  - Wilhelmi, Ilka
A1  - Metzger, Marco
A1  - Ishikawa, Eri
A1  - Yamasaki, Sho
A1  - Rau, Monika
A1  - Geier, Andreas
A1  - Hankir, Mohammed
A1  - Seyfried, Florian
A1  - Klingenspor, Martin
A1  - Sumara, Grzegorz
T1  - Protein Kinase D2 drives chylomicron‐mediated lipid transport in the intestine and promotes obesity
JF  - EMBO Molecular Medicine
N2  - Lipids are the most energy‐dense components of the diet, and their overconsumption promotes obesity and diabetes. Dietary fat content has been linked to the lipid processing activity by the intestine and its overall capacity to absorb triglycerides (TG). However, the signaling cascades driving intestinal lipid absorption in response to elevated dietary fat are largely unknown. Here, we describe an unexpected role of the protein kinase D2 (PKD2) in lipid homeostasis. We demonstrate that PKD2 activity promotes chylomicron‐mediated TG transfer in enterocytes. PKD2 increases chylomicron size to enhance the TG secretion on the basolateral side of the mouse and human enterocytes, which is associated with decreased abundance of APOA4. PKD2 activation in intestine also correlates positively with circulating TG in obese human patients. Importantly, deletion, inactivation, or inhibition of PKD2 ameliorates high‐fat diet‐induced obesity and diabetes and improves gut microbiota profile in mice. Taken together, our findings suggest that PKD2 represents a key signaling node promoting dietary fat absorption and may serve as an attractive target for the treatment of obesity.
KW  - chylomicron
KW  - fat absorption
KW  - intestine
KW  - obesity
KW  - protein kinase D2/PKD2/PRKD2
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-239018
VL  - 13
IS  - 5
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Heydarian, Motaharehsadat
A1  - Schweinlin, Matthias
A1  - Schwarz, Thomas
A1  - Rawal, Ravisha
A1  - Walles, Heike
A1  - Metzger, Marco
A1  - Rudel, Thomas
A1  - Kozjak-Pavlovic, Vera
T1  - Triple co-culture and perfusion bioreactor for studying the interaction between Neisseria gonorrhoeae and neutrophils: A novel 3D tissue model for bacterial infection and immunity
JF  - Journal of Tissue Engineering
N2  - Gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted disease caused by the bacteria Neisseria gonorrhoeae, is characterized by a large number of neutrophils recruited to the site of infection. Therefore, proper modeling of the N. gonorrhoeae interaction with neutrophils is very important for investigating and understanding the mechanisms that gonococci use to evade the immune response. We have used a combination of a unique human 3D tissue model together with a dynamic culture system to study neutrophil transmigration to the site of N. gonorrhoeae infection. The triple co-culture model consisted of epithelial cells (T84 human colorectal carcinoma cells), human primary dermal fibroblasts, and human umbilical vein endothelial cells on a biological scaffold (SIS). After the infection of the tissue model with N. gonorrhoeae, we introduced primary human neutrophils to the endothelial side of the model using a perfusion-based bioreactor system. By this approach, we were able to demonstrate the activation and transmigration of neutrophils across the 3D tissue model and their recruitment to the site of infection. In summary, the triple co-culture model supplemented by neutrophils represents a promising tool for investigating N. gonorrhoeae and other bacterial infections and interactions with the innate immunity cells under conditions closely resembling the native tissue environment.
KW  - Triple co-culture
KW  - biomimetic 3D tissue model
KW  - Neisseria gonorrhoeae
KW  - perfusion-based bioreactor system
KW  - neutrophil transmigration
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-259032
VL  - 12
ER  -