RNA sequencing of poly(A+) transcriptome of quadriceps muscles from wildtype and CaMK2gVV/CaMK2gVV mice under sedentary and post-acute exercise conditions
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ABSTRACT: Reactive oxygen species (ROS) contribute to health and disease. CaMKII is a widely expressed enzyme whose activation by oxidation of regulatory domain methionines (ox-CaMKII) contributes to cardiovascular disease, asthma, and cancer. Here we integrate comparative genomic and experimental data to show that CaMKII activation by ROS arose more than half-a-billion years ago on the vertebrate stem lineage where it constituted a bridge between ROS and increased intracellular Ca2+ release, exercise responsive gene transcription, and improved performance in skeletal muscle. These enhancements to fight-or-flight physiology were likely key in facilitating a well-evidenced shift in the behavioural ecology of our immediate chordate ancestors, and, in turn, the evolutionary success of vertebrates. Still, the ox-CaMKII innovation must be considered a critical evolutionary trade-off, as it rendered us more susceptible to common and often fatal diseases by providing ROS an expanded role in those processes. This poly(A+) transcriptome profiling study examined the actue transcriptional response of mouse skeletal muscles three hours after a single bout of submaximal exericse in wildtype and mutant mice whose CaMKIIg cannot be activated by reactive oxygen species.
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
PROVIDER: GSE132520 | GEO | 2021/05/01
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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