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Article

Dietary Erythrodiol Modifies Hepatic Transcriptome in Mice in a Sex and Dose-Dependent Way

by
Roubi Abuobeid
1,
Luis Herrera-Marcos
1,2,
María A. Navarro
1,2,3,
Carmen Arnal
2,3,4,
Roberto Martínez-Beamonte
2,3,5,
Joaquín Surra
2,3,5 and
Jesús Osada
1,2,3,*
1
Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Veterinaria, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Aragón-Universidad de Zaragoza, E-50013 Zaragoza, Spain
2
Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón, CITA-Universidad de Zaragoza, E-50013 Zaragoza, Spain
3
CIBER de Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, E-28029 Madrid, Spain
4
Departamento de Patología Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Aragón-Universidad de Zaragoza, E-50013 Zaragoza, Spain
5
Departamento de Producción Animal y Ciencia de los Alimentos, Escuela Politécnica de Huesca, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Aragón-Universidad de Zaragoza, E-22071 Huesca, Spain
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2020, 21(19), 7331; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21197331
Submission received: 4 August 2020 / Revised: 21 September 2020 / Accepted: 29 September 2020 / Published: 4 October 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nutrition Genomics)
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Abstract

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Erythrodiol is a terpenic compound found in a large number of plants. To test the hypotheses that its long-term administration may influence hepatic transcriptome and this could be influenced by the presence of APOA1-containing high-density lipoproteins (HDL), Western diets containing 0.01% of erythrodiol (10 mg/kg dose) were provided to Apoe- and Apoa1-deficient mice. Hepatic RNA-sequencing was carried out in male Apoe-deficient mice fed purified Western diets differing in the erythrodiol content. The administration of this compound significantly up- regulated 68 and down-regulated 124 genes at the level of 2-fold change. These genes belonged to detoxification processes, protein metabolism and nucleic acid related metabolites. Gene expression changes of 21 selected transcripts were verified by RT-qPCR. Ccl19-ps2, Cyp2b10, Rbm14-rbm4, Sec61g, Tmem81, Prtn3, Amy2a5, Cyp2b9 and Mup1 showed significant changes by erythrodiol administration. When Cyp2b10, Dmbt1, Cyp2b13, Prtn3 and Cyp2b9 were analyzed in female Apoe-deficient mice, no change was observed. Likewise, no significant variation was observed in Apoa1- or in Apoe-deficient mice receiving doses ranging from 0.5 to 5 mg/kg erythrodiol. Our results give evidence that erythrodiol exerts a hepatic transcriptional role, but this is selective in terms of sex and requires a threshold dose. Furthermore, it requires an APOA1-containing HDL.

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1. Introduction

A preeminent health-promoting traditional eating pattern commonly known as The Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) has occupied a wide framework of global research efforts for decades due to the very low-cardiovascular disease mortality rates regardless of lifestyle, poverty or any geographical differences between countries who have traditionally consumed as was evidenced by The Seven Countries study [1]. Further epidemiological studies revealed that this pattern was also associated with lower mortality rates and thus provided a healthy and extended life-span [2]. Recent evidence has proved that an intervention using this diet is able to reduce cardiovascular mortality [3]. A review of these aspects can be found in [4].
Virgin olive oil, directly extracted from fresh olive fruits, stands out as the major source of lipids in the MedDiet [5,6]. Pomace olive oil is a blend obtained from remainder of the olives, skin, and pits used organic solvents [7] and is also consumed in this geographical area. Both have similar fatty acid composition [5,8], but vary in phytosterols, waxes, tocopherols and triterpenes (uvaol, maslinic and erythrodiol) with higher content in pomace than in virgin olive oil [9]. Several recent studies have shown that continuous consumption of pomace olive oil protects against carcinogenic activities [10], hepatic steatosis [9], atherosclerosis [6], cardiovascular problems (CHD and stroke), inflammation and type 2 diabetes mellitus [5]. The latter was associated with positive antioxidant properties [11] or reduction in blood pressure [5].
Erythrodiol (18b-olean-12-ene-3b,28diol) [7], a 30-carbon atom pentacyclic triterpene (Figure 1) is biosynthesized by a cascade of cyclizations and rearrangements from oxidosqualene [10,12,13]. The alcohol is present in virgin olive oil at a concentration of 75 mg/kg [9,13], with more presence in the unsaponifiable fraction of this oil [14] at a concentration of 500 mg/kg [9]. Erythrodiol is also detected in olive leaves [10,15], leading to approximately 60% of their triterpenic content [13]. This alcohol is widely distributed through other plant species including leaves of Ficus mysorensis [12], Conyza canadensis [16], Celastrus kusanoi stems [17], stem bark of Erythrina indica [18], birch bark trees [19] and leaves of Maytenus ilicifolia [20].
Several studies have shown favorable properties of erythrodiol including diverse endogenous anti oxidative activities [11], antiproliferative, proapoptotic actions against colon adenocarcinoma HT-29 cells [10], histolytic lymphoma (U937) cells [21], breast cancer [21], gastric cancer [16] and astrocytoma [22]. The triterpenoid is also related to several antioxidant, antithrombotic and vasorelaxant benefits against cardiovascular problems [23,24], combined with the ability to reduce cardiac hypertrophy and block profibrotic effects of angiotensin II [24]. Other biological activities include anti-inflammatory, immunomodulatory and anti-edematous properties by reducing neutrophil infiltration [8,14,25] and its ability to protect from neuroinflammation [25]. Erythrodiol was found to induce wound healing by increasing the production of actin filopodia, lamellipodia and stress fibers through activating Rho GTPases [19] and has provided antiplatelet properties when inhibiting ADP-induced activation [15].
Significant modifications on hepatic gene expression were found after long-term administration of pomace olive oil fraction-enriched diets with erythrodiol among other compounds [9]. Since the changes were not observed by its single administration, a new experiment was required to single out its action. In this regard, the long-term effect of erythrodiol needed to be addressed in order to understand and assess molecular functions and pharmacogenetic pathways of this triterpene.

2. Results

2.1. Somatometric Parameters

A long-term administration of a 10 mg/kg erythrodiol-supplemented Western diet was carried out in two mouse models of both sexes: Apo1- and Apoe-deficient mice. In the former group, erythrodiol administration for 12 weeks significantly increased body weight gain in males (4.2 ± 1.6 vs. 5.9 ± 1.4 g, p < 0.01 for control and erythrodiol, respectively). In contrast, in the second model, the administration of the triterpene for 4 weeks caused a decrease in body weight gain (4.5 ± 5.0 vs. 3.1 ± 3.3 g, p < 0.05 for control and erythrodiol, respectively) with a marked decrease in liver mass (1.6 ± 0.6 vs. 1.3 ± 0.5 g, p < 0.05 for control and erythrodiol, respectively). No effect was observed in females of both genetic models.

2.2. Histological Analyses

Mice lacking APOE are models of spontaneous hepatic steatosis as shown in Figure 2A. To explore the influence of erythrodiol administration on this parameter, histological analyses of livers were carried out. Male Apoe-deficient mice consuming a 10 mg/kg erythrodiol-enriched Western diet for 12 weeks showed decreased lipid droplets (Figure 2B). When the fat areas were quantified, the group receiving erythrodiol exhibited a non-significant (p < 0.06) trend to a lesser accumulation than control group, as shown in Figure 2C.

2.3. Hepatic Gene Expression of Apoe-Deficient Male Mice Fed for 12 Weeks on a 10 mg/kg Erythrodiol-Containing Western Diet

To determine the impact of erythrodiol intake on hepatic transcriptome, seven RNA pools from fifteen animals receiving the above diet and another seven from fourteen mice receiving the Western control diet were sequenced using next generation sequencing. From each library, clean reads sequences (46,765 × 103 ± 7189 × 103), filtered from contaminants, adaptors, low quality regions, and reads with unknown bases, were mapped onto reference genome, followed by gene prediction. In both groups, the mapping ratio was 74% for a transcript number of 31,369 ± 3051. Splicing patterns contributed to a variety of differentially splicing genes with a total of 14,920 novel transcripts, 13,439 coding and 1481 non-coding transcripts. Coding genes showed 11,605 previously unknown splicing events for known genes and 1834 coding transcripts previously unknown. Globally, the erythrodiol administration did not significantly modify single nucleotide polymorphisms. In this regard, transversions A–G were 3172 ± 1019 vs. 3835 ± 155 for control and erythrodiol groups, respectively, and those corresponding to C–T were 3113 ± 1024 vs. 3787 ± 133. No significant changes were observed for transversions either (A–C, 609 ± 209 vs. 743 ± 47; A-T 796 ± 335 vs. 988 ± 61; C–G, 576 ± 217 vs. 726 ± 23 and G-T, 578 ± 200 vs. 708 ± 28 for control and erythrodiol groups, respectively).
When alternative splicing events were screened, erythrodiol administration had no significant effect. Skipped exons were 6432 ± 1526 vs. 7178 ± 344 for control and erythrodiol groups; alternative 5′ splicing sites, 1568 ± 368 vs. 1789 ± 42; alternative 3′ splicing sites: 2181 ± 522 vs. 2503 ± 62; mutually exclusive exons, 696 ± 102 vs. 732 ± 48 and retained introns, 1504 ± 265 vs. 1688 ± 20 in control and erythrodiol groups, respectively.
Differentially expressed genes, shown in Figure 3A, were 554 in the control and 488 in the erythrodiol group. According to their gene ontology classification, Figure 3B, all kinds of biological processes were involved, being cellular processes the category that included the highest number of genes. Using more stringent criteria of 2-fold change and false discovery rate of p < 0.001, 68 up- regulated genes and 124 down-regulated as reflected in the volcano plot of Figure 4A. As reflected in Figure 4B–D, these genes were sorted into three main categories: detoxification processes, protein metabolism and nucleic acid related compounds. An example of genes modified at the level 2.9-fold change (log2 fold change 1.5 or −1.5) is reflected in Table 1 and Table 2. Twenty-nine transcripts were up-regulated (Table 1) and sixty-three were down-regulated according to this criterion (Table 2).
To confirm the RNAseq data carried out on seven hepatic RNA pools of each group, 21 transcripts were randomly chosen from Table 1 and Table 2 to design their RT-qPCR assays. The latter were carried out on individual hepatic RNA samples of each mouse. Selected transcripts were: H4c17, LOC100862456, Ccl19-ps2, Ctrb1, Cyp2b10, Zfp969, Zfp965, Ttn, Rbm14-rbm4, Sec61g, Rbm24, Tmem81, Rnase2a, Sult2a2, Ndufb4b, Dmbt1, Cyp2b13, Prtn3, Amy2a5, Cyp2b9 and Mup1. The expression of these transcripts normalized to the average of Ppib and Tbp reference genes is depicted in Table 3. Only 9 (Ccl19-ps2, Cyp2b10, Rbm14-rbm4, Sec61g, Tmem81, Prtn3, Amy2a5, Cyp2b9 and Mup1) out of 21 showed significant changes by the administration of erythrodiol. Association analyses of individual values obtained by RT-qPCR of these genes (Figure 4E) revealed a significant association between Cyp2b13 and Cyp2b9 and between Cyp2b13 and Prtn3, suggesting a certain co-regulation or overlapping in biological activities.
Using the log2 ratio of fold changes obtained by RNAseq and RT-qPCR for the twenty-one selected transcripts, a correlation analysis was carried out. As shown in Figure 5A, a non-significant low correlation coefficient of 0.3 was obtained. Indeed, as shown in Figure 5B, there were important discrepancies between both methods. To explore the reason of such lack of agreement, both methods were critically revised. When transcripts of RNAseq showing either zero counts or without counts in more than 60% of samples were excluded, a significant agreement (r = 0.9, p < 0.0008) between both methods was observed (Figure 5C) and all samples were properly categorized (Figure 5D). Only 9 out the 21 chosen genes tested by RT-qPCR show good correlation with the RNA seq data.

2.4. Hepatic Gene Expression in the Livers of Female Apoe-Deficient Mice Fed on a 10 mg/kg Erythrodiol-Containing Western Diet for 12 Weeks

To explore, a sex-related response, five transcripts (Cyp2b10, Dmbt1, Cyp2b13, Prtn3 and Cyp2b9) showing high expression changes in male Apoe-deficient mice were used as subrogated markers of erythrodiol administration and quantified their expression in the female livers. Results showed no significant changes (Table 4). This finding points out to a sex-specific hepatic gene expression in response to erythrodiol.

2.5. Influence of Erythrodiol Dose on Selected Hepatic Gene Expressions in Male Apoe-Deficient Mice Fed on Erythrodiol-Containing Western Diets for 12 Weeks

A putative dose–response relationship was examined in males for the five selected genes, Cyp2b10, Dmbt1, Amy2a5, Prtn3 and Cyp2b9. Several doses ranging from 0.5 to 5 mg/kg were tested in male Apoe-deficient mice. Interestingly, none showed a significant change in gene expression (Table 5). Genes such as Cyp2b10 at 0.5 mg/kg and Dmbt1 at 1 mg/kg showed no normal distributions with individual highly responders that skew the standard deviation and force the statistical analysis to a non-parametric approach. Despite the significant odd increases in Cyp2b9 at 0.5 mg/kg and Prtn3 at 1 mg/kg, no general trend of more pronounced changes was observed when a higher dose was used. These results suggest that 10 mg/kg is the lower effective dose contributing to inducing hepatic gene expression changes.

2.6. Influence of Apoa1-Deficiency on Selected Hepatic Gene Expressions on Mice Consuming the 10 mg/kg Erythrodiol-Containing Western Diet for Four Weeks

Absence of APOA1 is a genetic model of HDL deficiency. In mice lacking this protein from both sexes, the impact of an erythrodiol-containing Western diet on hepatic gene regulation was assessed by measuring the expressions of Cyp2b10, Dmbt1, Cyp2b13, Prtn3 and Cyp2b9 as subrogate genes. Results showed no significant change in any of the genes in either sex following erythrodiol administation (Table 6). These results may imply that APOA1-containing HDL may participate in delivering erythrodiol to the liver.

3. Discussion

The present nutrigenomic approach was carried out to determine the effect of erythrodiol on hepatic transcriptome in male Apoe-deficient mice as a hepatic steatosis-prone model. Using RNAseq, erythrodiol administration did not modify single nucleotide polymorphisms, nor created errors in transcription, nor influenced global alternative splicing events. Results indicate that this compound mainly modified hepatic expression of clusters of genes involved in xenobiotics, protein and nucleic acid metabolisms. These findings were accompanied by a trend to decrease accumulation of lipids in cytoplasmic lipid droplets and decreased hepatic mass. A comparison between RNAseq and RT-qPCR revealed that due to their different methodological approaches, special care should be applied in order to compare their outcomes. Nine randomly selected genes (Ccl19-ps2, Cyp2b10, Rbm14-rbm4, Sec61g, Tmem81, Prtn3, Amy2a5, Cyp2b9 and Mup1) showing good agreement between both methods were significantly modified in males by the administration of erythrodiol. An association of expressions among Cyp2b13, Cyp2b9 and Prtn3 was observed. When these gene expressions together with that of Cyp2b10 and Dmbt1 were tested in female mice receiving erythrodiol, a different sex-response was observed. Used to explore the minimal required dose, they evidenced a minimum 10 mg/kg, to observe male responses. Used as markers of erythrodiol delivery to the liver in absence of APOA1-HDL, no influence was observed in this setting. Overall, dietary erythrodiol administration is safe and induces hepatic gene changes that are sex-specific and dose-dependent and APOA1- containing HDL may participate in its delivery to the liver.
Due to the fact that the high-throughput sequencing technology for transcriptomic purposes provides huge amounts of data about differentially expressed genes and additional analyses including polymorphisms, alternative spliced variants, low-expressed genes, and novel transcripts, has been proposed as an attractive choice, superseding quantitative transcript profiling by microarray [26]. Using this approach, we have proved that erythrodiol administration induced differentially expressed genes without modifying single nucleotide polymorphisms, creating errors in transcription or influencing global alternative splicing events. This fact, the lack of dead mice receiving this agent at 10 mg/kg for 12 weeks, and the normal hepatic morphology indicate that erythrodiol administration is safe for males and females.
In our technical approach for RNA seq, a strategy of pooling was adopted. This may raise two drawbacks, bias and loss of biological variability, but it also has advantages in terms of cost and complexity of analysis [26,27]. Undoubtedly, this approach requires confirmation by an independent procedure, and RT-qPCR was selected and applied to 21-randomly chosen genes that were analyzed using individual samples. The initial correlation between RNAseq and RT-qPCR was rather poor (Figure 5A). A profound analysis of both methods considering primer design used in RT-qPCR that corresponded to most read exons, and establishing an unambiguous limit of detection in RNAseq showed a robust agreement between both procedures (r = 0.9, p < 0.0008) (Figure 5C). Thereby, pooling assays are a reliable screening approach that saves samples, is more economic and straightforward as it was for microarrays [9,28,29] and in this particular case it also facilitates the finding of targets of erythrodiol. RNAseq provides an unsurpassed overview of genome activity. Although preliminary, this finding also suggests that bioinformatic tools for analyzing RNAseq data should be refined to reinforce their specificity in displaying quantified transcripts and taking into consideration their limits of detection. One potential limitation of our approach is the search in the range of the highest changes where some control samples did not show any expression and did contribute to an increased erythrodiol/control ratio. For that reason, only 9 out 21 chosen genes show good correlation. Furthermore, it should also be taken into consideration that depending on the chosen primers, different transcripts are analyzed [30]. These caveats warrant more research in the future.
A cluster of genes involved in xenobiotics metabolism has been influenced by erythrodiol administration. In this regard, one gene with induced expression was Cyp2b10. It belongs to cytochrome P450 components of phase I response involved in NADPH-dependent electron transport. It oxidizes steroids, fatty acids, and xenobiotics, leading to the detoxification of approximately 10% of drugs [31]. Erythrodiol as an alcohol was able to induce it, as did ethanol [32]. However, other members of phase I response, Cyp2b9 and Cyp2b13, were found decreased by erythrodiol administration. This represents a unique pattern differing from the response to oleanolic acid-diet that also induced Cyp2b9 expression [28] and that of maslinic acid administration that induced the triad (Cyp2b9, Cyp2b10 and Cyp2b13) [29] or the lineal triterpene, squalene (Cyp2b10 and Cyp2c55) [33]. These facts clearly indicate different responses depending on the administered triterpene. This particular hepatic response to erythrodiol may escape of the consequences observed when these three Cyp genes were deleted, namely fatty liver disease progression [34]. Indeed, our results do not support an increased lipid droplet accumulation in the liver.
Regarding protein metabolism, particularly interesting are the findings of Prtn3 changes and their association with those of Cyp2b9 and Cyp2b13 (Figure 4E). Prtn3 encodes for a proteinase 3 with proteolytic activities and reactive oxygen species responses. Ptrn3 deficiency is strongly correlated with fewer incidences of liver steatosis and adipose tissue inflammation and thus reduced risk of NAFLD and obesity-related steatosis [35]. High PRTN3 levels are also correlated with poor survival rates in pancreatic cancer [36]. In this regard, Ptrn3 suppression by erythrodiol may be a potent hepatic therapy against steatosis. Mup1 is a member of the lipocalin family that regulates metabolic homeostasis by controlling the expression of gluconeogenic and lipogenic genes in the liver. Its down-regulation has been shown to induce hyperglycemia, impaired insulin secretion, glucose intolerance and hyperlipidemia [37,38]. Accordingly, erythrodiol could carry deleterious effects when repressing MUP1 gene. On the other hand, SEC61g over-expression is considered a parameter of bad glioblastoma prognosis [39]. TMEM81 is overexpressed in hepatocellular carcinoma [40]. In addition, a frameshift deletion mutation of RBM14-RBM4 chimera was screened in liver cancer, considering this mutation a putative marker for hepatic neoplasia [41]. The decreased expressions of these three genes by erythrodiol might contribute to explaining its antineoplastic properties [22].
When comparing gene expression patterns of our study with those observed using olive oil components, Dmbt1, an extracellular receptor, showed reduced expression in animals consuming a pomace olive diet [9]. This pattern was reproduced by erythrodiol but not by other terpenic compounds. Thus, the gene could be a unique marker for erythrodiol intake. Its significance on liver damage needs to be explored [42].
The sex-differences noted in gene expression changes observed by erythrodiol administration are particularly striking. Our results again reinforce the previously noted differences between sexes in the liver [43], particularly when a Western diet was administered [30]. Indeed, Cyp2b9 gene expressions have been particularly sensitive to sex differences [34,44,45], β-estradiol [46] and prolactin [47]. Thus, hepatic drugs should be specially tested for females. A threshold dose was also required to elicit male hepatic changes in gene expression confirming a dose-dependent pattern of other erythrodiol–related actions [10,25], and a potential cytotoxic effect at high doses [48]. APOA1 is the most abundant protein constituent of HDL produced by the liver and the intestine [49]. To test the hypothesis whether this type of HDL could be involved in delivering erythrodiol to the liver, mice lacking Apoa1 gene were used as models of HDL absence. As suspected, no notable changes were observed for tested genes. The same results were obtained with oleanolic acid administration [28], which is consistent with the fact that both triterpenes may be vehicled by APOA1-containing HDL on their route to the liver. Overall, the hepatic gene expression profile induced by erythrodiol is a multistep, complicated process of integrated factors, particularly dose and sex. To translate these results into humans, its bioavailability has to be proved, something that has only been observed in rats [50]. Based on the present work and the different metabolic rates of mice and humans a 1 mg/kg dose should be explored in the latter. Consuming a daily 50 mL of extra-virgin olive oil, a human would be exposed to a 53 μg/kg erythrodiol dose, but using the same amount of pomace olive oil [51] the exposure would be 500 μg/kg, close to the predicted active dose in humans. A potential sex-differential response should be tested in our species.

4. Materials and Methods

4.1. Animal Models

The experimental animals used were two-month-old, homozygous Apoe-deficient mice of C57BL/6J genetic background, obtained from Charles River Laboratories (Barcelona, Spain) and Apoa1-deficient mice of C57BL/6J genetic background, generously provided by Dr. Nobuyo Maeda from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Both were bred at the Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Aragón. Blood samples obtained from the facial vein 4h after a fasting period were used to establish experimental groups with similar baseline plasma cholesterol. This was used as a quick additional quality control of mouse identification. In this sense, Apoe-deficient mice on C57BL/6J background are hypercholesterolemic and their plasma levels should be higher than 5 ± 1 mmol/L [52] compared to 2.9 ± 0.5 mmol/L for wild-type. Any mouse not showing these values was genotyped and if their identification was correct were excluded due to hepatic dysfuntionality. In the case of Apoa1-deficient mice and due to their hypocholesterolemia [53], they should show values of 0.8 ± 0.4 mmol/L [54]. As in the case of Apoe-deficient mice, any discrepant mouse is genotyped as described [55]. The lack of Apoe and Apoa1 hepatic expressions in their corresponding mice was also verified by analyzing their presence or absence by RT-PCR (Figure S1).
Mice were housed in sterile filter-top cages in rooms supplied with a monitored 12-h light/12-h dark cycle and had ad libitum access to food and water. The experiments were carried out in accordance with the EU Directive 2010/63 on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes and the study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee for Animal Research of the University of Zaragoza (PI43/15, October 9th 2015 and PI35/18, October 4th 2018).

4.2. Experimental Designs

4.2.1. Effect of Dietary 10 mg/kg Erythrodiol in a Western Diet on Apoe- and Apoa1-Deficient Mice

Four study groups were established: female (12) and male control (n = 14) groups received a purified Western diet containing 0.15% cholesterol and 20% refined palm oil (Gustav Heess, S.L., Barcelona, Spain), and the other two groups, female (13) and male (n = 15), were fed with the same diet containing 0.01% erythrodiol (Extrasynthese, Genay, France). Assuming a daily intake of 3 g for each mouse, this is equivalent to a dose of 10 mg/kg mouse. This dose was chosen based on that previously used of oleanolic acid [28] that did not modify body weight and elicited hepatic gene expressions. Fresh diets were prepared weekly, kept under N2 atmosphere at −20 °C and replaced daily. The animals were fed the experimental diets for 12 weeks and both were well tolerated.
A similar design was used for Apoa1-deficient mice; the groups were female (9) and male (14) controls, and female (9) and male (15) erythrodiol groups. In this case, the intervention lasted for 4 weeks.

4.2.2. Effect of Different Doses of Erythrodiol in Western Diets on Male Apoe-Deficient Mice

Four groups were established. The control group (17) received the Western diet and three groups receiving the same diet formulated to receive doses of 0.5 (n = 16), 1 (n = 17) and 5 mg/kg erythrodiol (n = 17). As mentioned above, and once corrected by mouse metabolic rate, these doses would represent the amount of erythrodiol received by humans consuming extra-virgin olive oil or pomace olive oil. The animals were fed the experimental diets for 12 weeks.

4.3. Somatometric Analyses

During the experiment, body weight and survival rate were monitored. At the end of the experiment, following a four-hour fast, mice were euthanized by CO2 inhalation, and the livers obtained and weighed. An aliquot was stored in neutral formaldehyde and the remaining organ frozen in liquid nitrogen.

4.4. Liver Histology Analyses

Sections (4 μm) of the livers stored in neutral formaldehyde were stained with hematoxylin and eosin and observed using a Nikon microscope. Hepatic fat content was evaluated by quantifying the area of lipid droplets in each section and expressed as percentage of total liver section [56].

4.5. RNA Isolation

Total RNA of each liver was isolated using Tri Reagent from Ambion® (Life Technologies, Carlsbad, CA, USA) following the manufacturer’s instructions. DNA contaminants were removed by TURBO DNAse treatment of 5 μg of total RNA using the DNA removal kit from Invitrogen (Cat.No:AM1907, Carlsbad, CA, USA). RNA was quantified by absorbance at A260/280 using Nanodrop Spectrophotometer and the ratio was greater than 1.75. The integrity of the 28S and 18S ribosomal RNAs was verified by 1% agarose gel electrophoresis followed by ethidium bromide staining and the 28S/18S ratio was greater than 2.

4.6. RNAseq and Data Analyses

For RNA sequencing, 6 pools of control mice were prepared using equal amounts of hepatic total RNA of two mice and in the seventh the total RNA from three mice was used. Another 7 pools were prepared for erythrodiol-treated mice combining total RNA from two or three mice per pool. The resulting 14 samples were sent to the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI Genomics, Shenzhen, China) service. Their total RNA quality was tested using an Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer (Agilent RNA 6000 nano kit, Santa Clara, CA, USA), then library construction was initiated by purifying the poly-A containing mRNA molecules using oligo-dT attached to magnetic beads. The mRNA was fragmented, copied into cDNA, linked to an adapter, purified and amplified by PCR. PCR yield was quantified by Qubit, and pooled samples together to make a single strand DNA circle (ssDNA circle), which gave the final library. DNA nanoballs (DNBs) were generated with the ssDNA circle by rolling circle replication (RCR) to enlarge the fluorescent signals at the sequencing process, the DNBs were loaded into the patterned nanoarrays and pair-end reads of 100 bp were read through the BGISEQ-500 platform. Sequencing reads which contained low-quality, adaptor-polluted and high content of unknown base reads were removed before downstream analyses. After read filtering, genome mapping of clean reads to reference genome was performed using HISAT (Hierarchical Indexing for Spliced Alignment of Transcripts), generating a Bioinformatics flow of about 4.73 Gb per sample with an average genome mapping rate of 92.76%. After genome mapping, StringTie was used to reconstruct transcripts [57], with genome annotation information, novel transcripts were identified by using Cuffcompare (a tool of Cufflinks) [58] and the coding ability of those new transcripts was predicted using Coding Potential Calculator [59]. In total, 14,920 novel transcripts were identified. GATK (Broad Institute, Inc, Boston, MA, USA) was then used to call SNP and INDEL variants for each sample. RMATS [60] was used to detect differentially splicing genes between samples. After novel transcript detection, novel coding transcripts were merged with reference transcripts to obtain a complete reference, then clean reads were mapped to it using Bowtie2 [61]. Then, gene expression level for each sample were calculated with RSEM [62]. The complete datasets were deposited in the GEO database (Accession number GSE155163).

4.7. Quantification of mRNA

To verify the most striking observed changes by the administration of erythrodiol using RNAseq, represented by signal log2 ratio > or <1.5 and false discovery rate <0.001 for up-regulated and down-regulated, respectively, 21 genes fulfilling these criteria were chosen. Their gene structure was analyzed using Ensembl Genome Browser and primers representative of the main hepatic transcripts according to Mouse Genome Informatics were prepared. The reverse transcriptase quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) assays of these transcripts were optimized in terms of primer and input cDNA concentrations to obtain similar efficiencies and analyzed on individual samples. Basically, equal amounts of DNA-free RNA (500 ng) from each liver were reverse transcribed into cDNA using PrimeScript RT reagent Kit (Cat. No: RR037A, Takara, Kutsatsu, Shiga, Japan). The used primers were designed using NCBI and Primer 3 software [63] and checked by BLAST (NCBI) and KEGG to verify gene specificity and coverage of all variants for a specific gene. Table S1 depicts their characteristics. Quantitative real time was carried out according to manufacturer’s instructions (SYBR Green PCR Master Mix, Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA) on a Step One Real Time PCR System (Applied Biosystem). The relative amount of mRNA was calculated using the comparative 2−ΔΔCq method and normalized to the reference Ppib and Tbp expressions and reported as signal log2 ratio of erythrodiol/control.

4.8. Quality Control and Statistics

PCR duplicates for samples were carried out and their coefficient of variation obtained. Samples displaying values higher than 3% were discarded and assayed again. High and low extreme data were also confirmed. Statistical analyses were performed using GraphPad Prism (GraphPad Software, San Diego, CA, USA). Data were checked for normal distribution by Shapiro–Wilk test and homogeneity of variance by Bartlett F-test. When any of these failed, results were analyzed by Mann–Whitney U test. Differences between both groups were considered significant when p < 0.05. Correlation between gene expressions was analyzed using Spearman correlation coefficient.

5. Conclusions

Through transcriptomic profiling and selecting a procedure previously validated by our group, erythrodiol has been proven to act as a transcriptional modulator of hepatic gene expression dependent on sex. At 10 mg/kg, erythrodiol modulates expression of hepatic genes involved in detoxification and tumor processes, and shows a trend of decreasing the percentage of area occupied by lipid droplets. In this aspect, erythrodiol could be a potential candidate to halt the evolution of fatty liver into hepatocarcinoma.

Supplementary Materials

The following are available online at https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/21/19/7331/s1. Figure S1 and Table S1.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization, M.A.N., R.M.-B., J.S. and J.O.; methodology, R.A., L.H.-M., M.A.N., C.A., R.M.-B. and J.S.; software, R.A. and L.H.-M.; validation, R.A. and L.H.-M.; formal analysis, R.A. and L.H.-M.; investigation, R.A. and L.H.-M.; resources, J.O.; data curation, R.A., L.H.-M. and J.O.; writing—original draft preparation, R.A.; writing—review and editing, R.A., L.H.-M., M.A.N., C.A., R.M.-B., J.S., J.O.; visualization, R.A.; supervision, L.H.-M., M.A.N. and J.O.; project administration, J.O.; funding acquisition, J.O. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

This research was supported by grants (CIBEROBN, CB06/03/1012, January 1st 2008) from CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición as initiative of FEDER- ISCIII, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación-Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (SAF2016-75441-R, January 1st 2017 and PID2019-104915RB-I00, June 1st 2020) and Fondo Social Europeo-Gobierno de Aragón (B16_20R, March 26 2020). L.H.-M. was recipient of a Fondo Social Europeo-Gobierno de Aragón fellowship.

Acknowledgments

We thank Silvia Garcés and María Pilar Lierta for their help in maintaining the mice, and David Banks for his critical reading.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1. Erythrodiol chemical structure.
Figure 1. Erythrodiol chemical structure.
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Figure 2. Hepatic histological analyses in male Apoe-deficient mice fed the different diets. Representative liver micrographs at 400× magnification from consuming a Western diet (A) and consuming a 10 mg/kg erythrodiol-containing Western diet (B). Liver sections (4 μm) from each mouse were stained with hematoxylin and eosin and blind evaluated. Bars denote 20 μm. Morphometric changes of hepatic fat surface in mice consuming the different diets (C) where data are means ± SD for each group (n= 14 and n = 15, respectively for control and erythrodiol). Statistical analyses were done according to Mann–Whitney’s U-test.
Figure 2. Hepatic histological analyses in male Apoe-deficient mice fed the different diets. Representative liver micrographs at 400× magnification from consuming a Western diet (A) and consuming a 10 mg/kg erythrodiol-containing Western diet (B). Liver sections (4 μm) from each mouse were stained with hematoxylin and eosin and blind evaluated. Bars denote 20 μm. Morphometric changes of hepatic fat surface in mice consuming the different diets (C) where data are means ± SD for each group (n= 14 and n = 15, respectively for control and erythrodiol). Statistical analyses were done according to Mann–Whitney’s U-test.
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Figure 3. Differentially expressed genes. (A), Venn diagram analysis. Control expressed 17,064 genes, while erythrodiol expressed 16,998 genes. Functional enrichment analysis of differentially expressed genes. (B), Gene ontology (GO) classification of biological processes of liver transcriptome by erythrodiol administration. X axis represents GO term. Y axis represents the amount of up/down-regulated genes. DEGs, differentially expressed genes.
Figure 3. Differentially expressed genes. (A), Venn diagram analysis. Control expressed 17,064 genes, while erythrodiol expressed 16,998 genes. Functional enrichment analysis of differentially expressed genes. (B), Gene ontology (GO) classification of biological processes of liver transcriptome by erythrodiol administration. X axis represents GO term. Y axis represents the amount of up/down-regulated genes. DEGs, differentially expressed genes.
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Figure 4. Significant expression changes and major networks involved. (A), Volcano plot representing control vs. erythrodiol differentially expressed genes; 68 up regulated genes and 124 down-regulated with false discovery rate q < 0.001; 16.375 no change with 2 fold change. (B), network of genes involved in detoxification, (C), network of genes involved in protein metabolism and (D), network associated with DNA. Red color denotes up-regulation while blue corresponds to down-regulation. (E), significant association of genes expressions assayed with RT-qPCR.
Figure 4. Significant expression changes and major networks involved. (A), Volcano plot representing control vs. erythrodiol differentially expressed genes; 68 up regulated genes and 124 down-regulated with false discovery rate q < 0.001; 16.375 no change with 2 fold change. (B), network of genes involved in detoxification, (C), network of genes involved in protein metabolism and (D), network associated with DNA. Red color denotes up-regulation while blue corresponds to down-regulation. (E), significant association of genes expressions assayed with RT-qPCR.
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Figure 5. Concordance between used methods of RNA analysis. (A) Correlation analysis of 21 selected genes between RNAseq and RT-qPCR normalized to the invariant Pipb and Tbp genes. The mean values obtained for signal log2 ratio (SL2R) from individual analyses (Table 3) were plotted against the RNAseq which used partially pooled samples (Table 1 and Table 2). Poor agreement between the procedures was seen (r = 0.3, p < 0.18). (B) Changes in values of SL2R expression of both methods for the 21 selected genes. (C) SL2R correlation analysis between between RNAseq and RT-qPCR results normalized to the invariant Pipb and Tbp of 9 filtered genes after excluding those without counts in more than 60% of samples. Good agreement between the procedures was observed (r = 0.8, p < 0.0008). (D) Changes in values of SL2R expression of both methods for the 9 after removing those with low counts.
Figure 5. Concordance between used methods of RNA analysis. (A) Correlation analysis of 21 selected genes between RNAseq and RT-qPCR normalized to the invariant Pipb and Tbp genes. The mean values obtained for signal log2 ratio (SL2R) from individual analyses (Table 3) were plotted against the RNAseq which used partially pooled samples (Table 1 and Table 2). Poor agreement between the procedures was seen (r = 0.3, p < 0.18). (B) Changes in values of SL2R expression of both methods for the 21 selected genes. (C) SL2R correlation analysis between between RNAseq and RT-qPCR results normalized to the invariant Pipb and Tbp of 9 filtered genes after excluding those without counts in more than 60% of samples. Good agreement between the procedures was observed (r = 0.8, p < 0.0008). (D) Changes in values of SL2R expression of both methods for the 9 after removing those with low counts.
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Table
Table 1. Hepatic transcripts differentially up-regulated by the administration of erythrodiol at the level of signal log2 ratio (SL2R) > 1.5 and false discovery rate < 0.001 in male Apoe-deficient mice according to RNAseq.
Table 1. Hepatic transcripts differentially up-regulated by the administration of erythrodiol at the level of signal log2 ratio (SL2R) > 1.5 and false discovery rate < 0.001 in male Apoe-deficient mice according to RNAseq.
Biological ProcessGenBankNameGene SymbolSL2Rp-Value
Nucleosome assemblyNM_001195421.1H4 clustered histone 17H4c17/Hist1h4m4.80.0001
Transcription factorXM_006537451.3DNA-directed RNA polymerases I, II, and III subunit RPABC4LOC1008624564.50.001
Immune responseXM_006536385.3Chemokine (C-C motif) ligand 19, pseudogeneCcl19-ps24.40.001
Ion transportNM_011644.3Xndc1-transient receptor potential cation channel, subfamily C, member 2Xntrpc4.00.000
Cell differentiation, signaling activityNM_183282.2Actin-like 9Actl93.10.0003
ProteolysisNM_025350.4Pancreatic carboxypeptidase A1Cpa12.90.001
NAXM_017321851.2Extensin-like isoform X2Gm403652.70.000
Chromosomal stabilityNM_178212.3H2A clustered histone 19H2ac19/Hist2h2aa22.60.000
Aminopeptidase activityNM_029008.1LaeverinLvrn2.50.001
G protein-coupled receptor signalingNM_146337.1Olfactory receptor 1396Olfr13962.50.001
ProteolysisNM_025583.2Chymotrypsinogen B1Ctrb12.40.000
NAXM_017313070.1Predicted gene/ coiled-coil domain containing 168Gm8251/Ccdc1682.20.000
Ion transmembrane transportNM_001099298.3Sodium channel, voltage-gated, type II, alphaScn2a2.20.000
Cell adhesionNM_001033364.3Cadherin-related family member 2Cdhr22.00.000
Short-term neuronal synaptic plasticityNM_172737.4Shisa family member7Shisa72.00.0003
Regulation of immune responseNM_178786.4Selection and upkeep of intraepithelial T cells 4Skint41.90.001
Chromatin organizationNM_139218.1Developmental pluripotency-associated 3Dppa32.00.001
Transcription factorNM_001029933.3Zinc finger protein 114Zfp1141.90.001
Ubiquitin-protein transferase activityNM_027708.1F-box protein 24Fbxo241.80.0002
Protein glycosylation and carbohydrate metabolismNM_008051.6Fucosyltransferase 1Fut11.80.000
G protein-coupled receptorNM_001011852.2Olfactory receptor 1029Olfr10291.70.001
NANAPredicted gene, 40600Gm406001.70.0001
Cell adhesionNM_178685.5Protocadherin 20Pcdh201.70.000
Metal ion bindingNM_001220499.3Ring finger 223Rnf2231.70.001
NANM_029608.1Family with sequence similarity 209Fam2091.60.0003
P450 pathways NM_009999.4Cytochrome P450, family 2, subfamily b, polypeptide 10Cyp2b101.60.000
NANM_027511.1Histidine rich carboxyl terminus 1Hrct11.60.001
Cell adhesionNM_033585.2Protocadherin gamma subfamily A, 2Pcdhga21.50.000
Retinoic acid bindingNM_029958.1Lipocalin 12Lcn121.50.0001
NA, not available.
Table
Table 2. Hepatic transcripts differentially down-regulated by the administration of erythrodiol at the level of signal log2 ratio < 1.5 and false discovery rate < 0.001 in male Apoe-deficient mice according to RNAseq.
Table 2. Hepatic transcripts differentially down-regulated by the administration of erythrodiol at the level of signal log2 ratio < 1.5 and false discovery rate < 0.001 in male Apoe-deficient mice according to RNAseq.
Biological ProcessGenBankNameGene SymbolSL2Rp-Value
Transcription factorXM_017319408.2Zinc finger protein 969Zfp969−6.70.0000
Transcription factorNM_001242944.1Zinc finger protein 965Zfp965−6.50.0000
Muscle structure NM_011652.3Titin Ttn−5.80.0000
Transcription factorNM_001290127.1RNA binding motif protein 14(Rbma4) and RNA binding motif protein 4 (Rbm4)Rbm14-rbm4−5.20.0000
Protein transmembrane transporter activityNM_011343.3Translocase Sec61 gamma subunitSec61g−5.10.0000
Cell differentiationNM_001081425RNA binding motif protein 24Rbm24−4.90.0001
NANM_029025.3Transmembrane protein 81Tmem81−4.70.0002
NANANuclear body protein SP140-likeLOC105247075−4.50.001
Metal ion binding, nucleic acid bindingNM_053113.2Ribonuclease, RNase A family, 2A (liver, eosinophil-derived neurotoxin)Rnase2a−4.50.001
Sulfotransferase activityNM_009286.2Sulfotransferase family 2A, member 2Sult2a2−4.4 0.001
Response to oxidative stressXM_001478443.6Predicted NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase subunit B4BNdufb4b−4.30.0000
Sulfation of steroids and bile acidsNM_001111296.2Sulfotransferase family 2A, member 1Sult2a1−4.00.0000
Hydrogen peroxide catabolic process and oxygen transportNM_001278161.1Hemoglobin, beta adult major chainHbb-b1−4.00.0000
NANASmall nuclear ribonucleoprotein FGm13092−4.00.0000
Ion transportXM_006509537.4Predicted solute carrier family 5 (sodium iodide symporter)Slc5a5−3.90.0002
Cell differentiation and protein transportNM_001347632.2Deleted in malignant brain tumors 1Dmbt1−3.90.0000
P450 pathwayNM_007813.2Cytochrome P450, family 2, subfamily b, polypeptide 13Cyp2b13−3.70.0000
G protein-coupled receptor signaling pathwayNM_010999.3Olfactory receptor 56pOlfr56−3.30.0000
Cation transportNM_172583.3Transmembrane protein 63cTmem63c−3.20.0000
Regulation of GTPase activityNM_011178.2Proteinase 3Prtn3−3.20.0000
Ions and reactive oxygen species responsesNM_134066.3Aldo-keto reductase family 1, member C18Akr1c18−3.00.0000
NANACircumsporozoite protein-likeLOC108167857−2.70.0007
Cell adhesion and blood coagulationNM_001001999.1Glycoprotein Ib, beta polypeptideGp1bb−2.70.0001
NANM_001013773.3Neurexophilin and PC-esterase domain family, member 5Nxpe5−2.60.0005
Signaling pathwayNM_001101656.2CD300 molecule like family member D4Cd300ld4−2.60.0000
Regulation of transcription NG_065348.1Coiled-coil-helix-coiled-coil-helix domain containing 2, pseudogene on chromosome 4Chchd2-ps−2.60.0000
Carbohydrate catabolismNM_001042711.2Amylase 2a5Amy2a5−2.50.0000
Cell-matrix adhesionNM_080457.3Mucin 4Muc4−2.30.0006
TranscriptionNM_001346707Predicted gene 3055Gm3055−2.30.001
G-protein coupled receptor signaling pathwayNM_013564.7Insulin-like 3Insl3−2.20.0000
Immune responseNM_011280.2Tripartite motif-containing 10Trim10−2.20.0001
Signaling pathway NM_010014.3Disabled 1Dab1−2.10.0000
Cell growth and differentiationNM_010052.5Delta like non-canonical Notch ligand 1Dlk1−2.10.0002
Regulation of cell adhesionNM_001351947.1Olfactomedin 4Olfm4−2.10.0000
Ion transportNM_172469.3Chloride intracellular channel 6Clic6−2.10.0000
Oxidoreductase activityNM_021509.5Monooxygenase, DBH-like 1Moxd1−2.00.0000
P450 pathwayNM_010000.2Cytochrome P450, family 2, subfamily b, polypeptide 9Cyp2b9−2.00.0000
Ion bindingNM_009789.2S100 calcium binding protein GS100g−2.00.0000
Immune responseNM_001013832.2G protein-coupled receptor 31, D17Leh66b regionGpr31b−2.00.0003
ProteolysisNM_010810.5Matrix metallopeptidase 7Mmp7−2.00.0000
Oxidation processNM_019545.4Hydroxyacid oxidase 2Hao2−1.90.0000
Visual perception.NM_021352.3Crystallin, beta B3Crybb3−1.90.0000
Iron-bindingNM_008522.3LactotransferrinLtf−1.90.0000
Glycolytic processNM_001025388.2Enolase 1BEno1b−1.90.0000
Chromatin organizationNM_178187.4H2A clustered histone 8Hist1h2ae−1.70.0000
Signaling pathway and hydrogen peroxide catabolismNM_001362755.1Dual oxidase 2Duox2−1.70.0000
mRNA splicingNM_183024.1Ribonucleoprotein, PTB-binding 2Raver2−1.70.0000
Cytoplasmic translationNM_026517.3Ribosomal protein L22 like 1Rpl22l1−1.70.00000
KeratinizationNM_009264.2Small proline-rich protein 1ASprr1a−1.60.0000
Carbohydrate and MHC class I protein bindingNM_133203.5Killer cell lectin-like receptor, subfamily A, member 17Klra17−1.60.001
Modulation of synaptic transmissionNM_023716.2Tubulin, beta 2B class IIBTubb2b−1.60.0000
Ion transmembrane transportNM_146017.3Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) A receptor, piGabrp−1.60.0002
G protein-coupled receptor activityNM_001104614.1Vomeronasal 2, receptor 3 Vmn2r3−1.60.0000
Sulfotransferase activityNM_001184981.2Sulfotransferase family 2A, member 7Sult2a7−1.60.0000
Interferon responseNM_011579.3T cell specific GTPase 1Tgtp1−1.50.0000
Transcription factorNM_001033123.3Predicted gene 14288Gm14288−1.50.0000
Binding monosaccharidesNM_001134644.1Major urinary protein 13Mup13−1.50.0000
Regulation of gene expression, protein kinase B signalingNM_001163011.1Major urinary protein 1Mup1−1.50.0000
NA, not available.
Table
Table 3. Changes in selected hepatic gene expressions of male Apoe-deficient mice receiving 10 mg/kg erythrodiol according to RT-qPCR assay.
Table 3. Changes in selected hepatic gene expressions of male Apoe-deficient mice receiving 10 mg/kg erythrodiol according to RT-qPCR assay.
Gene SymbolControl
(n = 14)		Erythrodiol
(n = 15)		Fold ChangeSL2R
H4c171.1 ± 0.51.0 ± 0.30.85−0.23
LOC1008624561.0 ± 0.31.1 ± 0.91.10.13
Ccl19-ps21.0 ± 0.20.7 ± 0.3 *0.67−0.58
Ctrb12.5 ± 3.4100 ± 341405.32
Cyp2b101.5 ± 1.42.3 ± 5.4 *1.460.55
Zfp9691.9 ± 2.02.5 ± 1.31.340.42
Zfp9651.2 ± 0.61.5 ± 0.71.550.63
Ttn1.3 ± 0.81.1 ± 0.70.90−0.16
Rbm14-rbm41.0 ± 0.20.8 ± 0.3 *0.77−0.37
Sec61g4.6 ± 9.40.1 ± 0.01 *0.01−6.54
Rbm241.9 ± 3.40.8 ± 0.70.44−1.19
Tmem811.1 ± 0.50.6 ± 0.2 *0.49−1.02
Rnase2a1.8 ± 2.21.4 ± 1.50.79−0.34
Sult2a24.6 ± 132.1 ± 3.90.45−1.15
Ndufb4b1.1 ± 0.61.1 ± 0.50.97−0.04
Dmbt11.4 ± 2.00.01 ± 0.010.01−6.81
Cyp2b1346 ± 1056.2 ± 190.14−2.89
Prtn37.4 ± 170.3 ± 0.2 *0.04−4.79
Amy2a51.1 ± 0.40.4 ± 0.1 *0.41−1.28
Cyp2b921 ± 311.0 ± 1.9 *0.05−4.36
Mup11.4 ± 0.80.6 ± 0.5 *0.44−1.19
Results are expressed as means and standard deviations normalized to the average of Ppib and Tbp as reference genes. Statistical analysis was carried out according to Mann–Whitney U-test and *, p < 0.05.
Table
Table 4. Hepatic changes in selected gene expressions of female. Apoe-deficient mice receiving 10 mg/kg erythrodiol.
Table 4. Hepatic changes in selected gene expressions of female. Apoe-deficient mice receiving 10 mg/kg erythrodiol.
Gene SymbolControl
(n = 12)		Erythrodiol
(n = 13)
Cyp2b101.6 ± 1.41.4 ± 1.5
Dmbt11.9 ± 2.86.5 ± 9.6
Cyp2b1319 ± 1817 ± 17
Prtn31.4 ± 1.41.5 ± 1.0
Cyp2b95.7 ± 4.15.2 ± 4.3
Results as arbitrary units according to RT-qPCR assay normalized to Ppib and Tbp are expressed as means and standard deviations. Statistical analysis was carried out according to Mann–Whitney U-test.
Table
Table 5. Hepatic changes in selected gene expressions of male Apoe-deficient mice receiving different doses of erythrodiol.
Table 5. Hepatic changes in selected gene expressions of male Apoe-deficient mice receiving different doses of erythrodiol.
Gene SymbolControl
(n = 17)		0.5 mg/kg Erythrodiol
(n = 16)		1 mg/kg Erythrodiol
(n = 17)		5 mg/kg Erythrodiol
(n = 17)
Cyp2b101.2 ± 0.711.1 ± 41.31.6 ± 1.11.7 ± 1.8
Dmbt14.5 ± 152.5 ± 4.38.5 ± 27.01.7 ± 2.5
Amy2a51.0 ± 0.21.3 ± 0.21.1 ± 0.21.1 ± 0.4
Prtn31.9 ± 2.91.1 ± 1.23.2 ± 7.8 *1.2 ± 1.0
Cyp2b91.6 ± 1.33.0 ± 2.6 *2.2 ± 1.92.1 ± 1.7
Results are expressed as means and standard deviations according to RT-qPCR assay normalized to Ppib and Tbp. Statistical analysis was carried out according to One-way ANOVA and Mann–Whitney’s U-test for pair wise comparisons. *, p < 0.05 vs. control.
Table
Table 6. Effect of 10 mg/kg erythrodiol on selected gene expressions in Apoa1-deficient mice according to sex.
Table 6. Effect of 10 mg/kg erythrodiol on selected gene expressions in Apoa1-deficient mice according to sex.
Gene SymbolMalesFemales
Control
(n = 14)		Erythrodiol
(n = 15)		Control
(n = 9)		Erythrodiol
(n = 9)
Cyp2b1030 ± 1101.2 ± 1.87.2 ± 190.9 ± 0.9
Dmbt15.0 ± 10.87.3 ± 199.8 ± 2187 ± 156
Cyp2b134.2 ± 6.34.5 ± 9.81.3 ± 0.91.9 ± 1.1
Prtn31.2 ± 0.81.1 ± 0.81.2 ± 0.95.3 ± 8.1
Cyp2b92.4 ± 3.81.6 ± 1.91.1 ± 0.51.2 ± 0.7
Results are expressed as means and standard deviations according to RT-qPCR assay normalized to Ppib and Tbp. Statistical analysis was carried out according to one-way ANOVA and Mann–Whitney’s U-test for pair-wise comparisons.

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