%0 Journal Article %A Herrero-Aguayo, Vicente %A Saez-Martinez, Prudencio %A Lopez-Canovas, Juan L. %A Prados-Carmona, Juan J. %A Alcantara-Laguna, Maria D. %A Lopez, Fernando L. %A Molina-Puerta, Maria J. %A Calanas-Continente, Alfonso %A Membrives, Antonio %A Castilla, Juan %A Ruiz-Ravelo, Juan %A Alonso-Echague, Rosario %A Yubero-Serrano, Elena M. %A Castano, Justo P. %A Gahete, Manuel D. %A Galvez-Moreno, Maria A. %A Luque, Raul M. %A Herrera-Martinez, Aura D. %T Dysregulation of Components of the Inflammasome Machinery After Bariatric Surgery: Novel Targets for a Chronic Disease %D 2021 %@ 0021-972X %U https://hdl.handle.net/10668/25888 %X Background: Obesity is a metabolic chronic disease with important associated morbidities and mortality. Bariatric surgery is the most effective treatment for maintaining long-term weight loss in severe obesity and, consequently, for decreasing obesity-related complications, including chronic inflammation.Aim: To explore changes in components of the inflammasome machinery after bariatric surgery and their relation with clinical/biochemical parameters at baseline and 6 months after bariatric surgery.Patients and methods: Twenty-two patients with morbid-obesity that underwent bariatric surgery (sleeve gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass) were included. pidemiological/clinical/anthropometric/biochemical evaluation was performed at baseline and 6 months after bariatric surgery. Inflammasome components and inflammatory-associated factors [nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-like receptors (NLRs), inflammasome activation components, cytokines and inflammation/apoptosis-related components, and cell-cycle and DNA-damage regulators) were evaluated in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) at baseline and 6 months after bariatric surgery. Clinical molecular correlations/associations were analyzed. Functional parameters (lipid accumulation/viability/apoptosis) were analyzed in response to specific inflammasome components silencing in liver HepG2 cells).Results: A profound dysregulation of inflammasome components after bariatric surgery was found, especially in NLRs and cell-cycle and DNA damage regulators. Several components were associated with baseline metabolic comorbidities including type 2 diabetes (C-C motif chemokine ligand 2/C-X-C motif chemokine receptor 1/sirtuin 1), hypertension (absent in melanoma 2/ASC/purinergic receptor P2X 7), and dyslipidemia [C-X-C motif chemokine ligand 3 (CXCL3)/NLR family pyrin domain containing (NLRP) 7) and displayed changes in their molecular profile 6 months after bariatric surgery. The gene expression fingerprint of certain factors NLR family CARD domain containing 4 (NLRC4)/NLRP12/CXCL3)/C-C motif chemokine ligand 8/toll-like receptor 4) accurately differentiated pre- and postoperative PBMCs. Most changes were independent of the performed surgical technique. Silencing of NLRC4/NLRP12 resulted in altered lipid accumulation, apoptosis rate, and cell viability in HepG2 cells.Conclusion: Bariatric surgery induces a profound alteration in the gene expression pattern of components of the inflammasome machinery in PBMCs. Expression and changes of certain inflammasome components are associated to baseline metabolic comorbidities, including type 2 diabetes, and may be related to the improvement and reversion of some obesity-related comorbidities after bariatric surgery. %K obesity %K bariatric surgery %K inflammasome %K evolution %K comorbidities %K Subcutaneous adipose-tissue %K Fatty liver-disease %K Weight-loss %K Gut microbiota %K Obesity %K Mechanisms %K Expression %K Interleukin-6 %K Activation %K Biguanides %~