Project description:To explore the effects of moderate intensity exercise on protein of lactylation in mouse muscle tissue metabolism. The healthy adult mice running for 6 weeks as exercise model and sedentary mice as control were used to perform transcriptomic, proteomic, lactylation-proteomics, and metabolomics analysis. In addition, correlation analysis between transcriptome and proteome, and proteome and metabolome was conducted as well.
Project description:Lifestyle induces long lasting effects on the brain and cognition, with some interventions like stress including transgenerational inheritance on the next generations mediated by epigenetic mechanisms. Physical exercise is one potent intervention driving robust improvements of cognition and brain health, also inducing intergenerational transmission to the litter. However, little is known about whether exercise effects may be transgenerationally transmitted. Here we analyzed the adult hippocampal neurogenesis (AHN) and the behavioral phenotype of sedentary adult male mice of the F2 generation of exercised grandfathers (F0, patrilineal design). Both F1 and F2 were sedentary, while F0 performed a moderate exercise training. We found that the F2 mice from exercised F0 acquired and recalled both spatial and non-spatial information better than F2 from sedentary F0. Contextual fear conditioning resulted not affected, together with no differences in the AHN markers. These results demonstrate that the transgenerational transmission of the effects of exercise on specific cognitive tasks persists after two generations, even though some of the cellular changes induced in F1 disappear in F2, and suggest that moderate exercise training has a longer-lasting effect than previously thought, and this aspect is worth taking into account in public health programs.
Project description:Regular exercise improves health and prevents many chronic disorders such as obesity, cardiovascular and neurological diseases. Here, we hypothesized that skeletal muscle gene enhancers undergo epigenetic remodeling after exercise training and overlap with known disease variants from genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Overlapping exercise-remodeled enhancers with GWAS and cis-expression Quantitative Trait Loci data revealed enrichment with traits related to platelet function, cognitive traits and cardiovascular disease. We identify FBXW4 and PLEKHO2 as candidate genes regulated by variant-containing, exercise-responsive enhancers, and that are potentially involved in the distal modulation of brain function. Our results identify a list of genes differentially regulated after exercise training in humans, and which may cooperatively control brain function through the cardiovascular system.
Project description:Regular exercise improves health and prevents many chronic disorders such as obesity, cardiovascular and neurological diseases. Here, we hypothesized that skeletal muscle gene enhancers undergo epigenetic remodeling after exercise training and overlap with known disease variants from genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Overlapping exercise-remodeled enhancers with GWAS and cis-expression Quantitative Trait Loci data revealed enrichment with traits related to platelet function, cognitive traits and cardiovascular disease. We identify FBXW4 and PLEKHO2 as candidate genes regulated by variant-containing, exercise-responsive enhancers, and that are potentially involved in the distal modulation of brain function. Our results identify a list of genes differentially regulated after exercise training in humans, and which may cooperatively control brain function through the cardiovascular system.
Project description:To explore the effects of moderate intensity exercise on protein of lactylation in mouse muscle tissue metabolism. The healthy adult mice running for 6 weeks as exercise model and sedentary mice as control were used to perform transcriptomic, proteomic, lactylation-proteomics, and metabolomics analysis. In addition, correlation analysis between transcriptome and proteome, and proteome and metabolome was conducted as well. In this study, 159 lactate sites of 78 proteins were identified to be differentically regulated by moderate intensity exercise. Enrichment analysis showed that lactated proteins Mtatp8, Atp5mg and Atp5po exhibited ATP hydrolysis activity. They are involved in biological processes such as mitochondrial transmembrane transport, and Mtatp8, Atp5mg and Atp5po participate in Oxidative phosphorylation and Thermogenesis pathways. The lactation levels of Mtatp8, Atp5mg and Atp5po proteins in exercise group were significantly decreased, while their protein levels were significantly increased. The combined analysis of proteomics and metabolomics showed that the Oxocarboxylic acid metabolism pathway and Sphingolipid signaling pathway had significant changes under the influence of moderate intensity exercise. Our results showed that moderate intensity exercise has a certain effect on the lactylation level of mice, possibly by reducing lactylation levels of Mtatp8, Atp5mg and Atp5po and increasing the expression of their protein levels, thereby regulating the Oxidative phosphorylation pathway and participating in energy metabolism. 2-Oxocarboxylic acid metabolism pathway and Sphingolipid signaling pathway need to be further explored.
Project description:Bulk polyA-RNAseq was performed on vastus lateralis muscle samples from older adults ≥65y at baseline and post-14 wk resistance exercise training (high-low-high intensity). The primary study used network biology algorithms to create gene networks of highly connected transcripts, and then linked these to change in muscle size induced by exercise training.
Project description:Low aerobic exercise capacity is a risk factor for diabetes and strong predictor of mortality; yet some individuals are exercise resistant, and unable to improve exercise capacity through exercise training. To test the hypothesis that resistance to aerobic exercise training underlies metabolic disease-risk, we used selective breeding for 15 generation to develop rat models of low- and high-aerobic response to training. Before exercise training, rats selected as low- and high-responders had similar exercise capacities. However, after 8-wks of treadmill training low-responders failed to improve their exercise capacity, while high-responders improved by 54%. Remarkably, low-responders to aerobic training exhibited pronounced metabolic dysfunction characterized by insulin resistance and increased adiposity, demonstrating that the exercise resistant phenotype segregates with disease risk. Low-responders had impaired exercise-induced angiogenes0is in muscle; however, mitochondrial capacity was intact and increased normally with exercise training, demonstrating that mitochondria are not limiting for aerobic adaptation or responsible for metabolic dysfunction in low-responders. Low-responders had increased stress/inflammatory signaling and altered TGFβ signaling, characterized by hyperphosphorylation of a novel exercise-regulated phosphorylation site on SMAD2. Using this powerful biological model system we have discovered key pathways for low exercise training response that may represent novel targets for the treatment of metabolic disease.
Project description:The overall objective of the heritage project is to study the role of the genotype in cardiovascular,metabolic and hormonal responses to aerobic exercise training and the contribution of regular exercise to changes in several cardiovascular disease and diabetes risk factors. The study cohort in this analysis consists of 473 Caucasian subjects (230 male and 243 female) from 99 nuclear families who completed M-bM-^IM-%58 of the prescribed 60 exercise-training sessions.The phenotypic expression of each individualM-bM-^@M-^Ys genotype is assessed under two well-defined environmental conditions, the pre- and post-training conditions. Here we have made the pre-training data available as used in the article Phillips BE, Williams JP, Gustafsson T, Bouchard C, Rankinen T, et al. (2013) Molecular Networks of Human Muscle Adaptation to Exercise and Age. PLoS Genet 9(3): e1003389. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003389 52 U133+2 profiles (17M-bM-^@M-^S63 yr) generated from pre-exercise muscle biopsy samples from the HERITAGE Family Study. Heritage_pre dataset.
Project description:The aging global population is experiencing an increased prevalence of cerebrovascular diseases, such as stroke and dementia. This highlights a need for understanding the pathophysiological mechanisms of age-related cerebrovascular alterations, alongside benefits of interventions such as physical activity. Therefore, our aims were to 1) examine the impact of aging and exercise training on cerebrovascular function, and 2) to characterize age- and exercise training-related changes in the hippocampus transcriptome. Methods: Young and old male rats were randomized to a sedentary condition or exercise training for 10 weeks. In the first protocol, cerebral arteries were isolated to test vasomotor reactivity, quantify gene/protein expression, and to assess nitric oxide production. In the second protocol, anhedonia was assessed and hippocampal tissue collected for RNA-sequencing. Bioinformatic analyses (i.e., protein-protein interaction mapping) were performed. Results: Aging impaired endothelium-dependent vasoreactivity in the posterior communicating artery (PCoA), with a shift from endothelial NOS- to neuronal NOS-mediated vasorelaxation, and alterations in oxidative stress production. In support, PCoA superoxide-mediated vasoreactivity and nNOS-mediated production of NO increased with age. Exercise enhanced vasodilation in young rats, but results suggested reduced cerebrovascular plasticity in older animals. In the second protocol, exercise training attenuated the age-related increase in anhedonia behavior. Hippocampal RNA-sequencing revealed altered inflammatory and oxidative stress pathways with aging that were mitigated by exercise training. Conclusions: Our findings underscore the complex interplay between vascular/neuronal factors in the aging brain. Furthermore, these findings highlight the therapeutic potential of exercise in mitigating the adverse effects of aging on cerebral health
Project description:Low aerobic exercise capacity is a risk factor for diabetes and strong predictor of mortality; yet some individuals are exercise resistant, and unable to improve exercise capacity through exercise training. To test the hypothesis that resistance to aerobic exercise training underlies metabolic disease-risk, we used selective breeding for 15 generation to develop rat models of low- and high-aerobic response to training. Before exercise training, rats selected as low- and high-responders had similar exercise capacities. However, after 8-wks of treadmill training low-responders failed to improve their exercise capacity, while high-responders improved by 54%. Remarkably, low-responders to aerobic training exhibited pronounced metabolic dysfunction characterized by insulin resistance and increased adiposity, demonstrating that the exercise resistant phenotype segregates with disease risk. Low-responders had impaired exercise-induced angiogenes0is in muscle; however, mitochondrial capacity was intact and increased normally with exercise training, demonstrating that mitochondria are not limiting for aerobic adaptation or responsible for metabolic dysfunction in low-responders. Low-responders had increased stress/inflammatory signaling and altered TGFM-NM-2 signaling, characterized by hyperphosphorylation of a novel exercise-regulated phosphorylation site on SMAD2. Using this powerful biological model system we have discovered key pathways for low exercise training response that may represent novel targets for the treatment of metabolic disease. Cardiac and skeletal muscle from 3 high and 3 low responder rats were examined for differential miRNA expression using Exiqon microarrays