Metabolic and transcriptional adaptations improve physical performance of zebrafish
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Project description:Background: Obesity is a worldwide public health problem with increasing prevalence and affects 80% of diabetes mellitus type 2 cases. Zebrafish (Danio rerio) are an established model organism for studying obesity and diabetes including diabetic microvascular complications. We aimed to determine whether physical activity is an appropriate tool to examine training effects in zebrafish and to analyse metabolic and transcriptional processes in trained zebrafish. Methods: A 2- and 8-weeks experimental training phase protocol with adult zebrafish in a swim tunnel system was established. We examined zebrafish basic characteristics before and after training such as body weight, body length and maximum speed and considered overfeeding as an additional parameter in the 8-weeks training protocol. Ultimately, the effects of training and overfeeding on blood glucose, muscle core metabolism and liver gene expression using RNA-Seq were investigated. Results: Zebrafish maximum speed was correlated with body length and was significantly increased after 2 weeks of training. Maximum swim speed further increased after 8 weeks of training in both the normalfed and the overfed groups, but training was found not to be sufficient in preventing weight gain in overfed fish. Metabolome and transcriptome profiling in trained fish exhibited increased blood glucose levels in the short-term and upregulated energy supply pathways in the long-term. Conclusion: Swim training is a valuable tool to study effects of physical activity in zebrafish, which is accompanied by metabolic and transcriptional adaptations.
2021-12-06 | GSE183023 | GEO
Project description:Cancer cachexia is a disorder characterized by both involuntary weight loss and impaired physical performance. Decline in physical performance of patients with cachexia is associated with poor quality of life, and currently there are no effective pharmacological interventions that restore physical performance. Here we examined the effect of GDF15 neutralization in a mouse model of cancer-induced cachexia (TOV21G) that manifested weight loss and muscle function impairments. With comprehensive assessments, our results demonstrated that cachectic mice treated with the anti-GDF15 antibody mAB2 exhibited body weight gain with near-complete restoration of muscle mass and markedly improved muscle function and physical performance. Mechanistically, the improvements induced by GDF15 neutralization were primarily attributed to increased caloric intake, while altered gene expressions in cachectic muscles were restored in both caloric intake-dependent and -independent manners. The findings implicate the potential of GDF15 neutralization as an effective therapy to enhance physical performance of patients with cachexia.
2023-01-11 | GSE214603 | GEO
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Project description:Cannabinoid 1 receptor (CB1R) plays a critical role in the regulation of whole-body energy metabolism because of its involvement in controlling food intake thorough a central mechanism, and controlling distribution of fuel and utilization in the periphery, particularly in fat and liver. Additionally, inhibition of CB1R improves insulin secretion from pancreatic beta cells and insulin sensitivity in both pancreatic beta cells and hepatocytes. We now developed a skeletal muscle-specific CB1R-knockout (Skm-CB1R-/-) mouse to study the specific role of CB1R in muscle. Muscle-CB1R ablation prevented diet-induced and age-induced insulin resistance by increasing insulin receptor signaling. Ablation of CB1R in muscle also led to IL-6 secretion and reduced myostatin expression, and enhanced AKT and MAPKs signaling. These changes in myokines induced the expression of myogenic genes, increasing muscle mass and whole-body lean/fat ratio in both obesity and aging, with no change in total body weight. Skm-CB1R-/- mice had increased energy expenditure and their muscle had improved mitochondrial performance, which led to improved physical endurance. These results collectively show that muscle-CB1R is involved in regulating whole-body insulin sensitivity and physical performance.
2020-01-22 | GSE109741 | GEO
Project description:PGC1a and Exercise Adaptations in Zebrafish
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Project description:Aging is an important risk factor for disease and is accompanied by the decline of many physiological characteristics, including physical performance. One of the most powerful tests of physical ability in elderly humans is the short physical performance battery (SPPB) (Guralnik et al., 1994), an assessment of the maximum exercise capacity of lower extremities over a short period of time. A similar metric of maximum velocity (MV) in a short period (30 s) is proposed as an equally informative measurement in C. elegans (Hahm et al., 2015). MV declines with age, correlates well with longevity, accurately reports movement ability, and importantly, is predictive of future longevity (Hahm et al., 2015). Here, we characterized the differences in gene expression between high MV group and low MV group of the same age in C. elegans. The genes related to nucleosomes and involved in regulatory processes, including transcriptional regulation (chromatin assembly, regulation of RNA metabolic process and regulation of transcription), and neuronal signaling (neurogenesis, axon guidance, and regulation of neurotransmitter levels) were up-regulated in low MV group compared to high MV group. In contrast, genes belonged to metabolic processes and mitochondria were down-regulated in low MV group compared to high MV group.
2018-05-17 | GSE99020 | GEO
Project description:Fish species display huge differences in physical activity ranging from lethargy to migration of thousands of miles, making them an interesting model for human exercise. Here, we show a remarkable plasticity of zebrafish in response to exercise and induction of PGC1α (encoded by PPARGC1A), a dominant regulator of mitochondrial biogenesis. Forced expression of human PPARGC1A induces mitochondrial biogenesis, an exercise-like gene expression signature, and physical fitness comparable to wild-type animals trained in counter-current swim tunnels. We quantify a stoichiometric induction of the electron transport chain (ETC) in response to exercise or PGC1α expression, identified by a proteomic SWATH-MS workflow. Exercise or PGC1α expression induce the re-organization of the ETC into respiratory supercomplexes, and we show that ndufa4/ndufa4l, previously assigned to complex I, associates to free and supramolecular complex IV in vivo. Thus, zebrafish is a useful and experimentally tractable vertebrate model to study exercise biology, including ETC expression and assembly.
2019-01-06 | GSE115398 | GEO
Project description:Background: Variation in locomotor capacity among animals often reflects adaptations to different environments. Despite evidence that physical performance is heritable, the molecular basis of locomotor performance and performance trade-offs remains poorly understood. In this study we identify the genes, signaling pathways, and regulatory processes responsible for the trade-off between burst performance and endurance observed in Xenopus allofraseri, using a transcriptomic approach. Results: We obtained a total of about 121 million paired-end reads from Illumina RNA sequencing and analyzed 218,541 transcripts obtained from a de novo assembly. We identified 109 transcripts with a significant differential expression between endurant and burst performant individuals (FDR ≤ 0.05 and logFC ≥ 2), and blast searches resulted in 103 protein-coding genes. We found major differences between endurant and burst-performant individuals in the expression of genes involved in the polymerization of actin filaments, cellular trafficking, proteoglycans and extracellular proteins secreted, lipid metabolism, mitochondrial activity and regulators of signaling cascade. Remarkably, we revealed transcripts isoforms of key genes with function in metabolism, apoptosis, nuclear export and as transcriptional corepressor, expressed in either burst-performant or endurant individuals. Lastly, we find two up-regulated transcripts in burst-performant individuals that correspond to the expression of myosin-binding protein C fast-type (mybpc2). This suggests the presence of mybpc2 homoeologs and may have been favored by selection to permit fast and powerful locomotion. Conclusion: Locomotor performance trade-off in Xenopus allofraseri can be attributed to the differential expression of genes belonging to the different pathways of calcium signaling, endoplasmic reticulum stress response and striated muscle contraction, but also attributed to the use of alternative splicing and regulatory processes. Ultimately, our transcriptomic analysis offers new perspectives for future analyses of the role of single nucleotide variants, homoeology and alternative splicing in the evolution of locomotor performance trade-offs.
2021-01-31 | GSE157915 | GEO