Fig. 5. The effect of supplementation of methionine or choline on gene/protein expression in the WAT of MCD-treated mice.
Epididymal WAT isolated from mice shown in Fig. 4 was subjected to qPCR and immunoblot analyses.
(A) qPCR analysis of the indicated genes. The mRNA levels were normalized to those of 18S ribosomal mRNA and subsequently normalized to those of MCS-treated mice. Statistical analysis was performed using the one-way ANOVA test with Bonferroni’s correction. *, P<0.05; **, P<0.01; ***, P<0.001.
(B) Immunoblot analysis of p-HSL, t-HSL, and ATGL. Cytosolic extracts of WAT (30 μg of protein) were loaded in each well. The band of β-actin was used as a loading control. Met, methionine; Chol, choline.