Abstract
Current views show that an impaired balance partly explains the fat accumulation leading to obesity. Fetal malnutrition and early exposure to endocrine-disrupting compounds also contribute to obesity and impaired insulin secretion and/or sensitivity. The liver plays a major role in systemic glucose homeostasis through hepatokines secreted by hepatocytes. Hepatokines influence metabolism through autocrine, paracrine, and endocrine signaling and mediate the crosstalk between the liver, non-hepatic target tissues, and the brain. The liver also synthetizes bile acids (BAs) from cholesterol and secretes them into the bile. After food consumption, BAs mediate the digestion and absorption of fat-soluble vitamins and lipids in the duodenum. In recent studies, BAs act not simply as fat emulsifiers but represent endocrine molecules regulating key metabolic pathways. The liver is also the main site of the production of ketone bodies (KBs). In prolonged fasting, the brain utilizes KBs as an alternative to CHO. In the last few years, the ketogenic diet (KD) became a promising dietary intervention. Studies on subjects undergoing KD show that KBs are important mediators of inflammation and oxidative stress. The present review will focus on the role played by hepatokines, BAs, and KBs in obesity, and diabetes prevention and management and analyze the positive effects of BAs, KD, and hepatokine receptor analogs, which might justify their use as new therapeutic approaches for metabolic and aging-related diseases.
1 Introduction
In humans and other large mammals, energy homeostasis depends on several complex pathways that control the balance between energy intake and energy expenditure. For a long time, obesity was considered the effect of an imbalance between energy expenditure and intake, but actual data support a much more complex picture. The “dogma” of impaired balance explains only part of the mechanisms responsible for body fat excess. Growing evidence indicates that fetal malnutrition (, ), early exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDC) (–), and early exposure to EDC contribute to obesity, visceral fat accumulation (, –), and insulin resistance (, , ).
Involved mechanisms include gene-environment crosstalk (, , ) and epigenetic changes of DNA methylation (), histone acetylation/deacetylation, and non-coding mRNA (). The early and/or prolonged exposure to an “obesogenic” environment, together with environmental factors (, ) activates pathways that lead to inflammation and immune system dysfunction involved in chronic low-grade inflammation and insulin resistance (, ). Insulin resistance occurs when insulin binding to its receptor is not followed by () adequate glucose uptake into target tissues such as the skeletal muscle and adipose tissues (), suppression of glucose production by the hepatocytes, and/or () decreasing of adipose tissue lipolysis ().
In the present review, we will focus on possible roles played by the liver as a source of molecules playing endocrine function and regulating energy homeostasis.
2 The role of the liver in hepatokines, ketone bodies, bile acids synthesis, and metabolism
The liver plays a major role in systemic glucose homeostasis. It senses nutrient availability and increases or decreases glucose production and glycogen storage in the transition from fasting to the post-prandial phase. After an overnight fast, glucose supply to the brain and muscles is ensured by increased hepatic glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis (, ). By contrast, in the post-prandial phase, hepatic glucose production is reduced and hepatic glucose uptake is increased (enhanced glycogen-synthesis and the novo lipogenesis) because circulating levels of glucose are sufficient for the energy needs of non-hepatic organs (, ).
In humans and other mammalian species, the liver is also the main site of the production of bile acids (BAs), ketone bodies (KB), and lipids (Figures 1, 2). The liver supplies KB derived by lipids oxidation and very low-density lipoproteins (VLDL) to target tissues.
Figure 1
During short-term fasting, mammalian species produce and use KB as a surrogate fuel to compensate for the decrease in carbohydrate (CHO) availability and the increase in fatty acid availability (, ). In prolonged fasting, the brain utilizes KB as an alternative to CHO. In prolonged energy deprivation, either eukaryotes or archea and bacteria uses KB ().
Hepatokines are proteins secreted by the hepatocytes. They influence metabolism through autocrine, paracrine, and endocrine signaling and are the main mediators in the crosstalk between the liver, non-hepatic target tissues, and the brain. Hepatocytes secrete more than 500 hepatokines ().
Many hepatokines have been linked to the induction of metabolic dysfunction. Altogether, hepatokines represent the hepatocyte secretome, which is consistently modified in pathological conditions. In liver steatosis, increased intrahepatic depots of triglycerides are associated with changes in transcription and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) folding and the transport of some hepatokines and are ultimately causing the increase in secretion of some of them and the decrease in secretion of some others. This imbalance in hepatokines levels is associated with insulin resistance, glucose intolerance, ectopic lipid accumulation, inflammation, and impaired insulin secretion. Robust data indicate that Fetuin A, Fetuin B, Retinol-binding protein 4 (RBP4), and Selenoprotein P are key players in metabolic dysfunction (, ). The present review will focus on some of the hepatokines playing a role in obesity, diabetes, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) not only in animal models but also in humans.
3 Hepatokines
In this section, we will consider some of the hepatokines already studied in humans that are related to obesity, insulin resistance, and/or diabetes, and NAFLD. Angiopoietin-like proteins (ANGPTL) are eight subtypes of glycoproteins secreted by the liver. They share with the angiopoietin proteins the same C-terminal fibrinogen-like domain and the N-terminal coiled-coil domain (). ANGPTL3 is one of the most studied ANGPTLs in humans. The liver is the only site of ANGPTL3 synthesis. Cohorts of subjects with loss of function alleles for ANGPTL3 show reduced circulating levels of both triglycerides (TGL) and cholesterol (LDL and HDL) (, ). Similar findings exist in knockout mice for ANGPTL3 that exhibit reduced blood levels of TGL and free fatty acids because of the increased activity of LPL (, ). The interaction between ANGPTL3 and LPL induces the dissociations of LPL dimers to monomers. The transformation of the active to the inactive LPL accounts for the enhanced deposition of FFA derived by lipoproteins into white adipocytes (). Interestingly, the liver X receptor (LXR) upregulates ANGPTL3. By contrast insulin, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) beta and leptin downregulate it. Some recent studies indicate that thyroid hormones and statins are also negatively regulating ANGPTL3 and might explain its effects on lipid and CHO metabolism (, ).
Evinacumab is a synthetic ANGPTL3 agonist. In recent studies, combining Evinacumab with either statins or PCSK inhibitors, rodents showed a more significant improvement in hyperlipidemia compared with statins alone ().
ANGPTL3 is not only regulating lipid patterns but is also involved in glucose homeostasis. In insulin-resistant subjects, ANGPTL3 levels directly correlated with HOMA-IR as well as with glucose and insulin circulating levels (41).
ANGPTL6 is expressed in different tissues at very low levels but hepatocytes are the major source of its secretion. In animal models, overexpression of ANGPTL6 is associated with increased energy expenditure, protection of hepatic steatosis, resistance to high-fat diet-induced overweight, and increased insulin sensitivity compared with controls. By contrast, knockout mice for ANGPTL6 show an increased incidence of obesity, insulin resistance, and increased fat content in peripheral organs (especially the liver and skeletal muscle) (42). Another effect of ANGPTL6 on glucose metabolism is represented by the reduced expression in glucose-6 phosphatase and the following decrease in gluconeogenesis (43, 44). Most recent data in humans indicate that subjects with obesity and/or type 2 diabetes have higher blood levels of ANGPTL6 compared with controls (45).
In both humans and mice, fasting–induced adipose factor (FIAF) is another very important hepatokine. It is mainly expressed in adipocytes and hepatocytes, but it might also be detected in cardiomyocytes and skeletal muscle myocytes (46, 47). It is also known as ANGPTL4. Fasting was the first condition known to induce a robust increase in hepatic levels of mRNA for FIAF while refeeding was able to suppress FIAF expression (48). It stimulates adipose tissue lipolysis, inhibits LPL activity, and blocks the clearance of triglyceride–rich lipoproteins. These mechanisms account for the increase in plasma FFA and triglycerides (49, 50). During food deprivation, there is a decrease in LPL concentrations in adipose tissue capillaries and a prevailing triglyceride uptake in oxidative target tissues (myocytes of skeletal muscle) (51). Very recently, research has demonstrated that FIAF expression increases during exercise, and triglyceride uptake is shifted from the adipose tissue to the muscle with the same mechanism activated during fasting (52). Contrasting results exist on FIAF circulating levels in obesity and type 2 diabetes (53). In knockout mice for FIAF, a high–fat diet is associated with a higher increase in visceral fat compared with controls (54). The phenotype of mice with the overexpression of FIAF is interesting and characterized by liver steatosis but there is also a better insulin sensitivity in the liver and other major target tissues (55). FIAF is not only playing a role in energy homeostasis but is involved in angiogenesis and cancer cell infiltration.
Fetuins are abundant fetal serum α–globulins that belong to the cystatin family of cysteine protease inhibitors (56). The α2–Heremans and Schmid glycoprotein (AHSG) are also known as Fetuin–A. Human Fetuin–B (382 amino acids) shares 22% sequence similarity with Fetuin–A. Fetuin–A is coded by the AHSG gene and Fetuin–B by the Fetub gene. Fetuin–A was first described because of its role in osteogenesis and the inhibition of vascular calcification and bone reabsorption (57, 58). Unexpectedly, Fetuin–A might also negatively regulate the activity of the insulin–receptor tyrosine kinase in the liver, adipose tissue, and skeletal muscles (59–61). Fetuin–B is also able to inhibit calcium phosphate precipitation, but since in humans its circulating levels are low, its role in osteogenesis and bone reabsorption seems limited. In wild–type mice, Fetuin–B inhibits the activity of ovastacin, a metalloproteinase, which is responsible for the hardening of the zona pellucida. By contrast, female Fetuin–B deficient mice are infertile because of the enhanced activity of ovastacin (62).
Recent studies show that Fetuin–B plays an additional role through its interaction with Farnesoid X Receptor (FXR or NR1H4). In studies utilizing microarray technology, Fetuin–B acts as an FXR agonist–regulated gene (Figure 1). FXR belongs to a nuclear receptor family, is mainly activated by bile acids (BAs), and is abundantly expressed in the adrenal gland, intestine, liver, and kidney (63, 64). Recent data support the role of Fetuin–B in insulin resistance. Adult subjects with liver steatosis and/or type 2 diabetes have increased levels of Fetuin–B. In cell cultures of hepatocytes and myocytes, Fetuin–B impairs insulin activity. In support of the insulin–resistant role of Fetuin–B, there are also animal studies showing that mice treated with Fetuin–B develop impaired glucose tolerance ().
Recent studies demonstrate that Fetuin–A and adiponectin have opposite effects on insulin sensitivity. Adiponectin is a cytokine playing a role in chronic low–grade inflammation and positively correlates with insulin sensitivity (65). By contrast, Fetuin–A positively correlates with insulin resistance. Fetuin–A inhibits adiponectin and vice versa, adiponectin is a negative regulator of Fetuin–A through the AMPK signaling cascade. In subjects diagnosed with metabolic syndrome, the increased circulating levels of Fetuin–A might be due to the decreased expression of adiponectin (66). Studies on type 2 diabetic patients show that Fetuin–A concentrations are decreased by pioglitazone, as well as three months of reduced caloric intake causing a reduction in intra–abdominal body fat, arterial blood pressure levels, and fasting glycemia, together with an improvement in lipid patterns (67, 68).
Hepatocytes are the major site of synthesis and secretion of another hepatokine and fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21). FGF21 is defined as a fasting hormone, and it is a key mediator of lipid metabolism during fasting ketosis (69) (Figure 2). It is regulated by the nuclear receptor peroxisome proliferator–activated receptor alpha (PPARα). In high–fat–fed Rhesus macaque monkeys, FGF21 administration reduced body weight without changing energy intake (70). In mouse models of insulin–resistance treatment, FGF21 increased energy expenditure, reduced plasma circulating levels of glucose, improved liver steatosis, and improved both leptin and insulin sensitivity (71, 72). FGF21 binds the co–receptor b–klotho (KLB) and facilitates the formation of the FGF receptor 1/KLB complex, which is involved in the phosphorylation of ER1/2 (73). Recently, research demonstrated that FGF21 controls the expression of some genes involved in cellular aging and energy homeostasis like acetyl–Coa carboxylase (ACC1) and adipose triglyceride lipase. AMPK is the downstream protein of FGF21 and promotes lipolysis. However, FGF21 also regulates the expression of ACC1 and SREBP1c, thus inhibiting lipid synthesis. The anti–aging effects of FGF21 might also account for AMPK activation which plays a key role in the regulation of mTORC1 gene and NF–kB genes involved in autophagy and inflammation, respectively (74). FGF21 is considered a mediator of the transition from the fasted to the refed state because it stimulates insulin–mediated glucose uptake (). In mice and humans, the maximal increase in plasma levels of FGF21 occurs after a high intake of simple CHO combined with low–protein intake (75). However, Schumann and co–workers demonstrated that FGF21 synthesis also increases after alcohol consumption (76). In subjects with obesity and/or type 2 diabetes and NAFLD, FGF21 circulating levels are higher than those measured in healthy age–matched subjects. The possibility exists that these metabolic conditions are characterized by FGF21–resistance and increased levels of FGF21 might be a compensatory mechanism (74). Some analogs of FGF21 already exist. Their administration to obese subjects with type 2 diabetes is associated with weight loss, a decrease in fasting insulin levels, and improvement in triglyceride circulating levels (74, 77). FGF21 analogs or FGF21 receptor agonists might represent an alternative treatment for NAFLD, obesity–associated type 2 diabetes, and other aging–associated metabolic diseases. FGF21 also plays an important role in the brain, involving potential effects in metabolic regulation, neuroprotection, and cognition (78).
Figure 2
Lipasin is an angiopoietin–like protein (ANGPTL8 or betatrophin). In humans and mice, it is expressed in the liver and adipose tissue. Food intake–mediated insulin secretion, FFA, and thyroid hormones regulate the levels of the expression of lipasin (79). Lipasin plays an anorectic effect by regulating the activity of NPY in the dorso–medial hypothalamus (80). It seems to negatively regulate glucose and lipid metabolism. Lipasin forms a complex with ANGPTL3 which robustly inhibits LPL. When ANGPTL4 is bounded to lipasin, ANGPTL4 loses its ability to inactivate LPL.
Selenoproteins are glycoproteins that are also secreted by the hepatocyte. Selenium is essential in balanced nutrition in humans and animal models. It was originally studied because of its role in thyroid diseases. Very recently, it was also found to play a role in fat and CHO metabolism. In the blood, selenium is bound to cysteine (selenocysteine) or proteins (selenoproteins). Selenoprotein P carries and donates selenium to peripheral target organs (81). Circulating levels of selenoprotein are positively regulated by selenium and glucose intake. Adiponectin and insulin reduce the expression of selenoprotein P (82, 83). Animal models helped to understand the role of selenoprotein in insulin resistance. The treatment of wild–type mice with selenoprotein P was associated with the appearance of impaired insulin sensitivity and impaired glucose tolerance. This treatment improved both insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance in knockout mice for selenoprotein P (82). In patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, obesity or NAFLD serum levels of selenoproteins are higher compared with those measured in healthy subjects (83, 84). Prestigious studies show increased circulating levels of selenoprotein P associated with hypertriglyceridemia and insulin resistance (84).
4 Ketone bodies and ketogenic regimens
In mammals, several physiological conditions are characterized by the oxidation of ketone bodies to produce energy. In humans and other mammalian species, the liver is the major site of production of ketone bodies (KB). The liver diverts KB derived by lipids oxidation and very low–density lipoproteins (VLDL) to target tissues.
During short–term fasting, mammalian species might utilize KB as a surrogate supply to compensate for decreased CHO availability and increased fatty acid availability (, ). In prolonged fasting, the brain also utilizes KB as an alternative to CHO.
In healthy humans, the daily hepatic production of KB is around 300 grams. Prolonged starvation induces robust ketone body production and utilization, but KB production is also followed by intense exercise. In adults, normal circulating levels of KB range from 100 to 250 µM. After prolonged exercise or 24h food deprivation, KB increases 10 times (), and in pathological conditions such as ketoacidosis, they might increase 200 times ().
Studies in subjects undergoing ketogenic diets show that KBs are important mediators of inflammation and oxidative stress and might influence the post–translation re–arrangement of proteins (85, 86).
In the last 40 years, the ketogenic diet (KD) became a promising dietary intervention in some pathological conditions. The main outcome of this dietary strategy is to reach nutritional ketosis, but KD is usually assimilated to very low–carbohydrate diets where carbohydrates (CHO) are ranging from 5 to 10% of a 24h caloric intake independent of the total caloric intake (87, 88). It is not possible to establish a general cut–off level for CHO and kilocalories (Kcal) under which all individuals enter ketosis because this cut–off is subjective (89). In a high–fat ketogenic diet (HFKD), the daily CHO intake represents less than 50 g, but there are no limits for fat and caloric intake. HFKD was originally studied as a non–pharmacologic therapy in children and adolescents diagnosed with refractory epilepsy. Unfortunately, fatal cardiac arrhythmias (prolonged QT interval) and cardiomyopathy occurred in a few epileptic children treated with HFKD, supplying less than 800 kcal/day (VLCD) (90). More than 40 years ago, some retrospective studies concerning adult obese subjects assuming liquid–protein–modified fast diets poor in selenium reported some cases of sudden death associated with prolonged QT interval (91). Because of these sudden deaths, the European Food Safety Authority published precise guidelines stating that VLCKD should supply adequate selenium intake not less than 30 to 50 g/day of CHO but not more than 15 to 30% of fats for total kcal/day (92). In 2019, in a prospective cohort study, KD was associated with an increased risk of arrhythmia (atrial fibrillation). However, this KD was a high–fat/low–CHO diet (93).
A ketogenic diet with low CHO and high–fat content mimics the metabolic state of starvation. Recent trials considered a ketogenic diet as a therapeutic strategy in children with intractable epilepsy (94). Even if this therapeutic approach was successful in reducing epileptic crisis, it was also associated with thyroid dysfunction (95).
Most recent formulas of KD are represented by very low–calorie KD (VLCKD) supplying 400 to 800 kcal/day, but they are always supplying adequate selenium supplementation (96, 97). They are actually promising weight loss strategies for overweight/obese people. The majority of VLCKD is also known as protein–sparing modified fasting because they contain increased protein intake, mainly vegetable protein intake, which counterbalances the reduced CHO content (98).
The most intriguing observational studies analyzed the effects of ketone bodies on the myocardium. In mice, preliminary studies demonstrated that failing hearts consumed higher amounts of ketone bodies than healthy hearts (99). The same result was confirmed in humans (100–102). In experimental models of ischemia following reperfusion, KBs seem to be protective (103). Circulating levels of KBs were increased in subjects with heart failure, but the mechanisms involved are still unknown (104, 105).
Recently, the current treatment of type 2 diabetes with inhibitors of tubular sodium/glucose co–transporter–2 (GLT2i) highlighted other important roles played by KBs. In both mice and humans, the inhibition of sodium/glucose co–transporter–2 at the level of the proximal tubules of the kidney was associated with an increase in liver ketogenesis, which accounted for the increased blood levels of KB (106–108). The treatment of type 2 diabetes with the new GLT2i is associated with a reduction in cardiovascular mortality and risk of hospitalization for heart failure. Therefore, GLT2i–induced ketosis might represent one of the beneficial effects of these drugs, together with reduced plasma volume due to osmotic diuresis, decreased body weight, reduced arterial blood pressure levels, and improvement in sympathetic nervous system activity, glycemia, and hyperuricemia (109–111).
5 Bile acids are nutrient signaling and thermogenic hormones
Bile acids (BAs) are the major lipid components of bile. The liver synthetizes BAs from cholesterol and secretes them into bile (Figure 1). The gallbladder (GB) represents the physiologic storage compartment of BAs. After food consumption, the entero–hormone cholecystokinin (CCK) stimulates GB to release bile into the duodenum where the BAs–mediated digestion and absorption of fat–soluble vitamins and lipids occurs (112, 113). Cyclic changes in serum BAs concentrations accompany the fasting to fed transition. In healthy subjects, fasting serum BAs concentrations are 0.2 to 0.7 µM, and after meals, they reach 4 to 5 µM (114–116). One part of the BA is re–absorbed in the ileum and returned to the liver through the portal vein. The recycling of BAs is a negative feedback regulatory mechanism that inhibits further hepatic BAs synthesis. Another part of BA escapes from intestinal reabsorption, enters the colon, and gives rise to secondary BA by the resident gut microbiota ().
Recent studies unequivocally pointed out that bile is not simply a fat emulsifier. BAs indeed represent signaling molecules regulating different metabolic pathways involving the nuclear receptors farnesoid X receptor (FXR), pregnane X receptor (PXR), vitamin D receptor (VDR), G–protein coupled receptors (TGR5 or GPBAR1), c–Jun N–terminal kinase (JNK), and extracellular signal–regulated kinase (ERK). Through these interactions, BAs are able to affect energy, glucose, lipid, and lipoprotein metabolism (117).
FXR is mainly activated by BAs and is abundantly expressed in the adrenal gland, intestine, liver, and kidney (63, 64).
FXR is mainly involved in cholesterol and triglyceride metabolism. However, some reports emphasized FXR activity in glucose homeostasis (118). Knockout mice for the FXR gene show impaired insulin sensitivity (118, 119). FXR negatively regulates lipogenesis and glucose production in the liver (120, 121) (Figure 1). Bile acids (BAs) are not only the natural ligand of FXR but also the major ligand for GPBAR–1 (TGR5). FXR is usually interacting with DNA by forming a heterodimer with inverted repeat–1 (IR1) elements like Retinoid X receptor (RXR). FXR is the principal BA sensor in the liver and ileum (122, 123). FXR activation increases the expression of fibroblast growth factor 19 (FGF19) in the human intestine and that of fibroblast growth factor 15 (FGF15) in mice intestines. When the circulating FGF19 enters the portal vein and reaches the liver, it induces a reduction in the expression of hepatic cholesterol 7D–hydroxylase in BAs’ additional synthesis. (124).
BAs are also the natural ligands of GPBAR–1 largely expressed in brown adipocytes, Kupffer cells, entero–endocrine cells of the intestine, macrophages, monocytes, and skeletal muscle. The effects of the binding of BAs with GPBAR1 are site–specific (Figure 1). In ileal L–cells, the binding of BAs to GPBAR–1 increases the secretion of PYY, Glucagon–like peptide (GLP)–1, and GLP2 with anorexigenic effect (111). In macrophages and Kupffer cells, GPBAR–1 activation blocks LPS–induced cytokine production. In skeletal muscle and brown adipocytes, GPBAR–1 signaling results in paracrine local activation of type II iodothyronine deiodinase (DIO2) which catalyzes the transformation of thyroxine (T4) to the active triiodothyronine (T3) responsible for increased energy expenditure (125). Recent research has demonstrated additional roles of BAs beyond their digestive function (114). By considering these additional effects, BAs are unequivocal mediators of glucose/insulin homeostasis and might explain some positive effects of bariatric surgery which appear independently of body fat loss (65, 113, 125, 126). Bariatric surgery represents an interesting model to re–evaluate the function of BAs in the pathophysiology of weight loss following surgical procedures in obesity (127).
Several papers demonstrated that plasma BA levels increase after bariatric surgery and might induce GLP–1 secretion in the intestine (128). Nonetheless, BAs were demonstrated to activate thyroid hormones (126, 129–133). This view is mainly supported by animal studies. GPBAR–1 knockout mice fed with a high–fat diet show a higher amount of body fat mass compared with wild–type mice. Interestingly, by increasing GPBAR–1 expression with the GPBAR–1 agonist INT–777, HFD–induced obesity is blunted (128, 134, 135).
Unexpectedly, at the level of brown adipose tissue and skeletal muscle, BAs induce energy expenditure by locally activating the type II iodothyronine deiodinase (DIO2), which transforms the inactive thyroxine (T4) to active thyroid hormone (T3), a key regulator of metabolism and energy homeostasis (125, 126). BAs seem to be the mediator of diet–induced thermogenesis by activating the BA–GPBAR–1– cAMP–DIO2 (type II iodothyronine deiodinase) signaling pathway. Diet–induced thermogenesis is probably impaired in obesity. BAs stimulation of brown adipocytes and myocytes increases their oxygen consumption, but this thermogenic effect is lost in DIO2 knockout mice (125).
An interesting model of bariatric surgery is represented by ileal interposition with or without Vertical sleeve gastrectomy (VSG). After this surgical procedure, obese Zucker rats display increased levels of circulating BAs. The intestinal adaptation after bariatric surgery is associated with increased recycling of BAs, which plays a protective role against obesity–related comorbidities (129, 136).
Similar effects are observed in rats with diet–induced obesity (130). Data obtained from the Ussing chamber (an electro–physiologic experimental model) show that BAs bind GPBAR–1 located in the basolateral membrane of the GLP–1–secreting L–cells. However, the GLP–1 release might occur only after the initial BA absorption across the intestinal epithelium (133) and effective stimulation of GPBAR–1. A translational study performed on rats and patients demonstrates that endothelial dysfunction which is typically found in obesity is rapidly reversed by gastric bypass according to Roux (RYGBP), which is able to induce a GLP–1–mediated restoration of the endothelium–protective properties of HDL (137).
VSG is a surgical procedure that is associated with an increase in serum BAs and a decrease in gene expression of the GPBAR–1 receptor in the white adipose tissue, independent from dietetic variations (138). The effects of RYGBP on BAs were extensively studied in morbidly obese subjects. Total fasting BAs display a bimodal rise after RYGB: ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) and its glycine and taurine conjugate increase after 1 month (with insulin–sensitizing effects), while primary unconjugated BAs, as well as deoxycholic acid and its glycine conjugate increases after 24 months (139–141). According to Watanabe et al., the increase in the circulating BA levels after bariatric surgery might activate the thyroid hormone–stimulated pathway involving TGR5 (or GPBAR–1) and enhance thermogenesis and weight loss (126).
When BAs bind ileal GPBAR–1, peptide YY (PYY) circulating levels as well as GLP–1 and GLP–2 increase playing an anorexigenic effect (i.e., appetite reduction), as well as GLP–1 and GLP–2 (142). An additional mechanism is the activation of the BA–GPBAR–1–GLP–1 axis which is followed by the GLP–1–induced insulin release, the decrease in glucagon secretion from the liver, and the inhibition of gastrointestinal motility and food assumption (143). In the same line of evidence, Yu, et al. demonstrated that the levels of chenodeoxycholic acid (CDCA) in obese patients with type 2 diabetes undergoing RYGBP might be considered a prognostic marker of diabetes remission after this bariatric procedure (144). To explain these results, the additional BAs signaling involving FXR might be taken into account. Shen, et al. reported that CDCA is able to increase intracellular glucose transport in adipocyte cell lines by activating GLUT4 transcription via the FXR–FXR response element (FXRE) signaling (145). The same mechanisms might control GLUT4 transcription in hepatocytes and ileal cells where BAs also act as signaling agents of the nuclear receptor FXR. After bariatric surgery, BAs/FXR axis might also clarify several effects on glucose and lipid metabolism (146). Düfer and co–workers showed that BAs/FXR interaction might acutely increase β–cell function and insulin secretion (147).
The gut microbiota might also be involved in this crosstalk between BAs and glucose and lipid metabolism (140). In obese FXR knockout mice, the beneficial effects of VSG are not completely explained by the mechanical restriction of the stomach per se but are also due to both increased circulating levels of BAs and associated changes in gut microbiota. Furthermore, the surgery–induced reduction of body weight and the improvement in glucose tolerance is blunted after the silencing of FXR (146).
Gut microbiota is responsible for the deconjugation, oxidation, sulfation, and dihydroxylation of the primary BAs to the secondary BAs (Figure 1). The possibility exists that the modified gut microbiota following bariatric surgery may modify the BAs’ composition and kinetic and metabolic function. Several data demonstrate that it is possible to transfer the gut microbiota from mice with RYGBP to germ–free mice, inducing body weight loss in germ–free mice. This result and others support the view that gut microbiota composition plays an important role in the beneficial effects observed after RYGBP. The overall mechanisms responsible for the increase in plasma BA concentrations after bariatric surgery is not completely clarified. Moreover, not all studies on bariatric surgery are in favor of the beneficial effect of BAs on glucose homeostasis and energy metabolism.
Kohli, et al. (148) found that RYGBP is indeed associated with increased circulating BAs and GPBAR–1 signaling (i.e., the increased peak of GLP–1 after a meal and decreased serum TSH). BAs do not appear to be simultaneous to the early increment in GLP–1 and gut peptide secretion in obese subjects undergoing bariatric surgery (RYGBP or VSG). GLP–1 and PYY circulating levels increase significantly 1 week and 3 months after the surgery. By contrast, both basal and postprandial levels of BAs increase more slowly and progressively, reaching significant rises only one year after the surgery (149). Unexpectedly, changes in circulating levels of BAs do not correlate with meal–mediated insulin response, insulin sensitivity, or basal thermogenesis.
Robust data show that the beneficial metabolic effects on glucose tolerance might occur by ileal interposition without intestinal resection (150–155). In this procedure, a part of the terminal ileum is interposed into the proximal jejunum. This puts nutrients prematurely in contact with the ileal mucosa and stimulates the L cells to produce GLP–1 and PYY. The increased delivery of BAs to the distal L cells and the altered GPBAR–1 receptor activation, however, do not seem to play a master role in the early increases in the intestinal secretion of GLP–1 and PYY, as seen after other procedures of bariatric surgery (156–163).
A list of the most studied hepatokines is reported in Table 1. Recent studies show that Fetuin–B plays additional roles through its interaction with Farnesoid X Receptor (FXR or NR1H4) (Figure 1). In studies utilizing microarray technology, Fetuin–B acts as an FXR agonist–regulated gene. The interaction between BAs and Fetuin–B needs further studies in humans, especially in models of ketogenic diets, because they activate the same nuclear receptor pathway. However, from the present data, it seems that the connecting point between hepatokines, BAs, and KBs is represented by the liver itself but in the contest of the microbiota–gut–brain system.
Table 1
| Name | Target organs | Role | Circulating levels | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANGPTL3 | Liver, Ads, SkM, Brain, Heart | increases InsR inhibits LPL inactives LPL |  | (164–169) |
| ANGPTL6 | Several | regulates InsS regulates glucose and lipid metabolism | | (42–44, 170, 171) |
| FIAF (ANGPTL4) | Liver, Ads, SkM, Brain | increases glucose production |  | (49–51, 54, 172–174) |
| Fetuin A Fetuin B | Liver, Ads, SkM Liver, SkM, | inhibits insulin receptor phosphorylation increases InsR increases AdT inflammation inhibits insulin receptor phosphorylation interacts with FXR | | (, , 63–65) |
| FGF21 | Ads, Brain | increases EE increases InsS decreases sugar intake decreases circulating TGL | | (72, 175–177) |
| Lipasin (ANGPTL8) | Liver, Ads, SkM, Brain, Heart | increases InsR inhibits LPL binds ANGPTL3 downregulates FIAF | | (, 178, 179) |
| Selenoprotein P | Several | increases glucose utilization impairs Insulin signaling | | (180, 181) |
List of some of the hepatokines expressed in humans.
Ads, adipocytes; ANGPTL, Angiopoietin–like proteins; BW, Body weight; EE, Energy expenditure; InsR, Insulin resistance; InsS, Insulin sensitivity; SkM, Skeletal muscles. Increased 
decreased contrasting results.
Conclusions
The liver has recently acquired the dignity of an endocrine organ, especially for its ability to express hepatokines. Some hepatokines are promising markers of metabolic abnormalities. The liver is also involved in KBs and BAs’ production. Both KBs and BAs are involved in endocrine, paracrine, and autocrine effects already confirmed in humans. Analogs for some hepatokine receptors are gradually being valued and could become new therapeutic approaches for metabolic diseases. BAs might probably be considered with major attention in the context of obesity prevention, treatment, and management because they play an important role in modulating the microbiota–brain interaction as suggested by studies performed in animal models of bariatric surgery and humans undergoing bariatric metabolic surgery. The current treatment of type 2 diabetes with inhibitors of tubular sodium/glucose co–transporter–2 (GLT2i) highlighted additional important therapeutic roles played by KBs.
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Summary
Keywords
bile acids, fasting, GPBAR1, hepatokines, ketogenic diet
Citation
Garruti G, Baj J, Cignarelli A, Perrini S and Giorgino F (2023) Hepatokines, bile acids and ketone bodies are novel Hormones regulating energy homeostasis. Front. Endocrinol. 14:1154561. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2023.1154561
Received
30 January 2023
Accepted
07 April 2023
Published
19 May 2023
Volume
14 - 2023
Edited by
Mikiko Watanabe, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Reviewed by
Jessica Ferrell, Northeast Ohio Medical University, United States
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*Correspondence: Gabriella Garruti, gabriella.garruti@uniba.it
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