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- Title
White adipose tissue remodeling in Little Brown Myotis (Myotis lucifugus) with white-nose syndrome.
- Authors
Pannkuk, Evan L.; Moore, Marianne S.; Bansal, Shivani; Kumar, Kamendra; Suman, Shubhankar; Howell, Daryl; Kath, Joseph A.; Kurta, Allen; Reeder, DeeAnn M.; Field, Kenneth A.
- Abstract
White-nose syndrome (WNS) is a fungal wildlife disease of bats that has caused precipitous declines in certain Nearctic bat species. A key driver of mortality is premature exhaustion of fat reserves, primarily white adipose tissue (WAT), that bats rely on to meet their metabolic needs during winter. However, the pathophysiological and metabolic effects of WNS have remained ill-defined. To elucidate metabolic mechanisms associated with WNS mortality, we infected a WNS susceptible species, the Little Brown Myotis (Myotis lucifugus), with Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd) and collected WAT biopsies for histology and targeted lipidomics. These results were compared to the WNS-resistant Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus fuscus). A similar distribution in broad lipid class was observed in both species, with total WAT primarily consisting of triacylglycerides. Baseline differences in WAT chemical composition between species showed that higher glycerophospholipids (GPs) levels in E. fuscus were dominated by unsaturated or monounsaturated moieties and n-6 (18:2, 20:2, 20:3, 20:4) fatty acids. Conversely, higher GP levels in M. lucifugus WAT were primarily compounds containing n-3 (20:5 and 22:5) fatty acids. Following Pd-infection, we found that perturbation to WAT reserves occurs in M. lucifugus, but not in the resistant E. fuscus. A total of 66 GPs (primarily glycerophosphocholines and glycerophosphoethanolamines) were higher in Pd-infected M. lucifugus, indicating perturbation to the WAT structural component. In addition to changes in lipid chemistry, smaller adipocyte sizes and increased extracellular matrix deposition was observed in Pd-infected M. lucifugus. This is the first study to describe WAT GP composition of bats with different susceptibilities to WNS and highlights that recovery from WNS may require repair from adipose remodeling in addition to replenishing depot fat during spring emergence.
- Subjects
LIQUID chromatography-mass spectrometry; LITTLE brown bat; BAT diseases; WHITE adipose tissue; WHITE-nose syndrome
- Publication
Metabolomics, 2024, Vol 20, Issue 5, p1
- ISSN
1573-3882
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11306-024-02165-4