Project description:Skeletal muscle mass is an important determinant of whole-body glucose disposal. We here show that mice (M-PDK1KO mice) with skeletal muscle–specific deficiency of 3'-phosphoinositide–dependent kinase 1 (PDK1), a key component of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) signaling pathway, manifest a reduced skeletal muscle mass under the static condition as well as impairment of exercise load–induced muscle hypertrophy. Whereas exercise load-induced changes in gene expression were not affected, the phosphorylation of ribosomal protein S6 kinase (S6K) and S6 induced by exercise load was attenuated in skeletal muscle of M-PDK1KO mice, suggesting that PDK1 regulates muscle hypertrophy not through changes in gene expression but through stimulation of protein synthesis via the S6K-S6 axis.
Project description:Recreationally-trained college aged males underwent 10 weeks of moderate volume, high-load resistance exercise with PRE and POST vastus lateralis skeletal muscle biopsies. Protein isolation was performed on tissue samples and the sarcoplasmic protein fraction was analyzed to evaluate changes PRE to POST.
Project description:We sought to determine the skeletal muscle genome-wide DNA methylation and mRNA respons-es to one bout of lower-load (LL) versus higher-load (HL) resistance exercise. Trained col-lege-aged males (n=11, 23±4 years old, 4±3 years self-reported training) performed LL or HL bouts to failure separated by one week. The HL bout (i.e., 80 Fail) consisted of four sets of back squats and four sets of leg extensions to failure using 80% of participants estimated one-repetition maximum (i.e., est. 1-RM). The LL bout (i.e., 30 Fail) implemented the same paradigm with 30% of est. 1-RM. Vastus lateralis muscle biopsies were collected before, 3 hours, and 6 hours after each bout. Muscle DNA and RNA were batch-isolated and analyzed using the 850k Illumina Methyl-ationEPIC array and Clariom S mRNA microarray, respectively. Performed repetitions were sig-nificantly greater during the 30 Fail versus 80 Fail (p<0.001), although total training volume (sets x reps x load) was not significantly different between bouts (p=0.571). Regardless of bout, more CpG site methylation changes were observed at 3- versus 6-hours post exercise (239,951 versus 12,419, respectively; p<0.01), and nuclear global ten-eleven translocation (TET) activity, but not global DNA methyltransferase activity, increased 3- and 6-hours following exercise regardless of bout. The percentage of genes significantly altered at the mRNA level that demonstrated opposite DNA methylation patterns was greater 3- versus 6-hours following exercise (~75% versus ~15%, respectively). Moreover, high percentages of genes that were up- or downregulated 6 hours fol-lowing exercise also demonstrated significantly inversed DNA methylation patterns across one or more CpG sites 3 hours following exercise (65% and 82%, respectively). While 30 Fail de-creased DNA methylation across various promoter regions versus 80 Fail, transcriptome-wide mRNA and bioinformatics indicated that gene expression signatures were largely similar be-tween bouts. Bioinformatics overlay of DNA methylation and mRNA expression data indicated that genes related to “Focal adhesion”, “MAPK signaling”, and “PI3K-Akt signaling” were sig-nificantly affected at the 3- and 6-hour time points, and again this was regardless of bout. In con-clusion, extensive molecular profiling suggests that post-exercise alterations in the skeletal muscle DNA methylome and mRNA transcriptome elicited by LL and HL training bouts to failure are largely similar, and this could be related to equal volumes performed between bouts.
Project description:Previous evidence suggests that resistance training in combination with specific collagen peptides (CP) improves adaptive responses of the muscular apparatus. Although beneficial effects have been repeatedly demonstrated, the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. Therefore, the primary objective of the present randomized trial was to elucidate differences in gene expression pathways related to myofibrillar protein synthesis following acute high-load resistance exercise with and without CP intake. Recreationally active male participants (n=30) were equally randomized to high-load (80% one-repetition maximum) leg extension exercise in combination with 15g CP or placebo (PLA) supplementation. Muscle biopsies from the vastus lateralis muscle were obtained at baseline as well as 1h, 4h and 24h post exercise to investigate gene expression using next generation sequencing analysis. Several important anabolic pathways including PI3K-Akt and MAPK pathways were significantly upregulated at 1h and 4h post-exercise (p<0.05). Significant between-group differences for both pathways were identified at the 4h time point. Gene expression related to the mTOR pathway demonstrated a higher visual increase in the CP group compared to PLA with no statistically significant group differences. The current findings revealed a significantly higher upregulation of key anabolic pathways (PI3K-Akt, MAPK) in human skeletal muscle in response to acute resistance training combined with intake of 15 g collagen peptides compared to placebo. Further investigations are needed to examine potential long-term effects on anabolic pathways on the protein level.
Project description:Comparative analysis of mouse cardiac left ventricle gene expression: voluntary wheel exercise and pregnancy-induced cardiac hypertrophy We performed microarray analysis on RNA from left ventricles of mice in non-pregnant diestrus cycle, mid-pregnancy (MP), late-pregnancy (LP), and immediate post-partum (0PP). These were compared to 7days (7EX) and 21 days (21EX) of voluntary wheel running exercise.
Project description:We performed microarray analyses on RNA from mice with isoproterenol-induced cardiac hypertrophy and mice with exercise-induced physiological hypertrophy and identified 865 and 2,534 genes that were significantly altered in pathological and physiological cardiac hypertrophy models, respectively.
Project description:Exercise is an important strategy in the prevention and treatment of metabolic diseases, like diabetes and obesity. Alterations in the skeletal muscle proteome, including post-translational modifications, especially acetylation, regulate its metabolic adaptations to exercise. Here, we examined the effect of 6-week aerobic exercise and Scriptaid, a HDAC4/5 inhibitor, on the proteome and acetylome of skeletal muscle in mice. We find Scriptaid and exercise both induce acetylation modification changes of some proteins involved in metabolism, suggest that exercise improves metabolic health by regulating protein acetylation level.
Project description:The few investigations on exercise-induced global gene expression responses in human skeletal muscle haves typically focused at one specific mode of exercise and few such studies have implemented control measures. However, interpretation on distinct phenotype regulation necessitate comparison between essentially different modes of exercise and the ability to identify true exercise effects, necessitate implementation of independent non-exercise control subjects. Furthermore, muscle transkriptometranscriptome data made available through previous exercise studies can be difficult to extract and interpret by individuals that are inexperienced with bioinformatic procedures. In a comparative study, we; (1) investigated the human skeletal muscle transcriptome response to differentiated exercise and non-exercise control intervention, and; (2) aimed to develop a straightforward search tool to allow for easy extraction and interpretation of our data. We provide a simple spreadsheet containing transcriptome data allowing other investigators to see how mRNA of their interest behave in skeletal muscle following exercise, both endurance, strength and non-exercise. Our approach, allow investigators easy access to information on genuine transcriptome effects of differentiated exercise, to better aid hyporthesis-driven question in this particular field of research.