Peter L.M. Jansen, Ahmed Ghallab, Nachiket Vartak, Raymond Reif, Frank G. Schaap, Jochen Hampe, Jan G. Hengstler – 16 December 2016 – In this review we develop the argument that cholestatic liver diseases, particularly primary biliary cholangitis and primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), evolve over time with anatomically an ascending course of the disease process. The first and early lesions are in “downstream” bile ducts. This eventually leads to cholestasis, and this causes bile salt (BS)–mediated toxic injury of the “upstream” liver parenchyma. BS are toxic in high concentration.

Lucille Morzyglod, Michèle Caüzac, Lucie Popineau, Pierre‐Damien Denechaud, Lluis Fajas, Bruno Ragazzon, Véronique Fauveau, Julien Planchais, Mireille Vasseur‐Cognet, Laetitia Fartoux, Olivier Scatton, Olivier Rosmorduc, Sandra Guilmeau, Catherine Postic, Chantal Desdouets, Christèle Desbois‐Mouthon, Anne‐Françoise Burnol – 16 December 2016 – Metabolic diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes are recognized as independent risk factors for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Hyperinsulinemia, a hallmark of these pathologies, is suspected to be involved in HCC development.

Feng‐Juan Yan, Xiao‐Jing Zhang, Wen‐Xin Wang, Yan‐Xiao Ji, Pi‐Xiao Wang, Yang Yang, Jun Gong, Li‐Jun Shen, Xue‐Yong Zhu, Zan Huang, Hongliang Li – 16 December 2016 – Tripartite motif 8 (TRIM8), an E3 ligase ubiquitously expressed in various cells, is closely involved in innate immunity. However, its role in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis is largely unknown. Here, we report evidence that TRIM8 is a robust enhancer of steatohepatitis and its complications induced by a high‐fat diet or a genetic deficiency (ob/ob).

Alberto Rubio‐Tapia, Isabel A. Hujoel, Thomas C. Smyrk, John J. Poterucha – 16 December 2016

Clara Jana‐Lui Busch, Tim Hendrikx, David Weismann, Sven Jäckel, Sofie M.A. Walenbergh, André F. Rendeiro, Juliane Weißer, Florian Puhm, Anastasiya Hladik, Laura Göderle, Nikolina Papac‐Milicevic, Gerald Haas, Vincent Millischer, Saravanan Subramaniam, Sylvia Knapp, Keiryn L. Bennett, Christoph Bock, Christoph Reinhardt, Ronit Shiri‐Sverdlov, Christoph J. Binder – 16 December 2016 – Diet‐related health issues such as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and cardiovascular disorders are known to have a major inflammatory component.

Alberto Rubio‐Tapia, Isabel A. Hujoel, Thomas C. Smyrk, John J. Poterucha – 16 December 2016

16 December 2016

Wei Fan, Heping Yang, Ting Liu, Jiaohong Wang, Tony W.H. Li, Nirmala Mavila, Yuanyuan Tang, JinWon Yang, Hui Peng, Jian Tu, Alagappan Annamalai, Mazen Noureddin, Anuradha Krishnan, Gregory J. Gores, Maria L. Martínez‐Chantar, José M. Mato, Shelly C. Lu – 16 December 2016 – Prohibitin 1 (PHB1) is best known as a mitochondrial chaperone, and its role in cancer is conflicting. Mice lacking methionine adenosyltransferase α1 (MATα1) have lower PHB1 expression, and we reported that c‐MYC interacts directly with both proteins.

Silvia Martini, Mauro Salizzoni, Ezio David, Francesco Tandoi, Paolo Fonio, Luisa Delsedime, Silvia Strona, Dominic Dell Olio, Giorgio Maria Saracco, Renato Romagnoli – 16 December 2016

Junyan Tao, Rong Zhang, Sucha Singh, Minakshi Poddar, Emily Xu, Michael Oertel, Xin Chen, Shanthi Ganesh, Marc Abrams, Satdarshan P. Monga – 16 December 2016 – Recently, we have shown that coexpression of hMet and mutant‐β‐catenin using sleeping beauty transposon/transposase leads to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in mice that corresponds to around 10% of human HCC. In the current study, we investigate whether Ras activation, which can occur downstream of Met signaling, is sufficient to cause HCC in association with mutant‐β‐catenin.