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Service de Biochimie, INSERM CJF 94–02, Faculté de Médecine Paris-Ouest, Université René Descartes (Paris V) and Centre Hospitalier de Poissy 78 303 Cédex, France
Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: D. Lacasa, Centre Hospitalier, Service de Biochimie Medicale, 10, rue du Champ-Gaillard, Poissy Cedex, 78303 France.
In rats, castration induces a complete defective adipose conversion of preadipocytes from the epididymal fat depots (Lacasa, D., B. Agli, D. Noynarol, and Y. Giudicelli, 1995, Endocrine 3: 789–793). The aim of this study was to establish the eventual site-specificity of this effect as well as the mechanisms involved.
Therefore, the influence of androgenic status on the Fos protein induction and the Raf/mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase kinase (MEK)/MAP cascade, which are all required for adipose conversion of preadipocytes, was compared in proliferating and differentiated preadipocytes from femoral sc and deep intraabdominal (epididymal and perirenal) fat depots.
In epididymal and perirenal proliferating preadipocytes, increased proliferation due to castration is associated with increased MAP kinase activity. However, higher immunoreactive levels of the upstream activators of MAP kinase, Raf-1 and MEK, were observed only in epididymal cells. Moreover, in vivo testosterone treatment corrected the effects of castration on Raf-1 but not on MEK and MAP kinase.
MAP kinase activity was decreased during the course of adipogenesis. In differentiated cells, MAP kinase activity showed variations according to the anatomical origin of preadipocytes but not to the androgenic status. In contrast, MEK and Raf-1 immunoreactive levels were both sensitive to androgenic status but were differently affected depending on cell origin. Finally, the defective adipogenesis seen in epididymal preadipocytes from castrated rats was associated with reduced Fos protein induction in these cells, an alteration which was partly corrected by testosterone-treatment.
Taken together, these results suggest that androgenic status affects adipogenesis from deep intraabdominal preadipocytes through alterations of some components of the MAP kinase cascade/Fos signaling pathways.
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