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@ARTICLE{Huang:280788,
author = {Huang, Hao and Balzer, Nora and Seep, Lea and Splichalova,
Iva and Blank-Stein, Nelli and Viola, Maria Francesca and
Franco Taveras, Eliana and Acil, Kerim and Fink, Diana and
Petrovic, Franzisca and Makdissi, Nikola and Bayar, Seyhmus
and Mauel, Katharina and Radwaniak, Carolin and Zurkovic,
Jelena and Kayvanjoo, Amir H and Wunderling, Klaus and
Jessen, Malin and Yaghmour, Mohamed H and Kenner, Lukas and
Ulas, Thomas and Grein, Stephan and Schultze, Joachim L and
Scott, Charlotte L and Guilliams, Martin and Liu, Zhaoyuan
and Ginhoux, Florent and Beyer, Marc D and Thiele, Christoph
and Meissner, Felix and Hasenauer, Jan and Wachten, Dagmar
and Mass, Elvira},
title = {{K}upffer cell programming by maternal obesity triggers
fatty liver disease.},
journal = {Nature},
volume = {644},
number = {8077},
issn = {0028-0836},
address = {London [u.a.]},
publisher = {Nature Publ. Group},
reportid = {DZNE-2025-00972},
pages = {790 - 798},
year = {2025},
abstract = {Kupffer cells (KCs) are tissue-resident macrophages that
colonize the liver early during embryogenesis1. Upon liver
colonization, KCs rapidly acquire a tissue-specific
transcriptional signature, mature alongside the developing
liver and adapt to its functions1-3. Throughout development
and adulthood, KCs perform distinct core functions that are
essential for liver and organismal homeostasis, including
supporting fetal erythropoiesis, postnatal erythrocyte
recycling and liver metabolism4. However, whether
perturbations of macrophage core functions during
development contribute to or cause disease at postnatal
stages is poorly understood. Here, we utilize a mouse model
of maternal obesity to perturb KC functions during
gestation. We show that offspring exposed to maternal
obesity develop fatty liver disease, driven by aberrant
developmental programming of KCs that persists into
adulthood. Programmed KCs promote lipid uptake by
hepatocytes through apolipoprotein secretion. KC depletion
in neonate mice born to obese mothers, followed by
replenishment with naive monocytes, rescues fatty liver
disease. Furthermore, genetic ablation of the gene encoding
hypoxia-inducible factor-α (HIF1α) in macrophages during
gestation prevents the metabolic programming of KCs from
oxidative phosphorylation to glycolysis, thereby averting
the development of fatty liver disease. These results
establish developmental perturbation of KC functions as a
causal factor in fatty liver disease in adulthood and
position fetal-derived macrophages as critical
intergenerational messengers within the concept of
developmental origins of health and diseases5.},
keywords = {Animals / Kupffer Cells: metabolism / Kupffer Cells:
pathology / Kupffer Cells: cytology / Female / Mice /
Pregnancy / Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit:
genetics / Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit:
metabolism / Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit:
deficiency / Pregnancy in Obesity: pathology / Pregnancy in
Obesity: metabolism / Fatty Liver: pathology / Fatty Liver:
etiology / Fatty Liver: metabolism / Male / Liver:
metabolism / Liver: pathology / Liver: embryology / Liver:
cytology / Glycolysis / Hepatocytes: metabolism / Animals,
Newborn / Disease Models, Animal / Oxidative Phosphorylation
/ Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects: pathology / Mice,
Inbred C57BL / Macrophages: metabolism / Obesity:
complications / Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit
(NLM Chemicals) / Hif1a protein, mouse (NLM Chemicals)},
cin = {AG Schultze / AG Beyer / PRECISE},
ddc = {500},
cid = {I:(DE-2719)1013038 / I:(DE-2719)1013035 /
I:(DE-2719)1013031},
pnm = {354 - Disease Prevention and Healthy Aging (POF4-354) / 351
- Brain Function (POF4-351) / 352 - Disease Mechanisms
(POF4-352)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-354 / G:(DE-HGF)POF4-351 /
G:(DE-HGF)POF4-352},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-2719)PRECISE-20190321},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:40533564},
pmc = {pmc:PMC12367551},
doi = {10.1038/s41586-025-09190-w},
url = {https://pub.dzne.de/record/280788},
}