Project description:Various intermittent fasting regimes are popularly being practiced but the scientific understanding for the mechanisms of intermittent fasting remains unclear. Observing the overall transcriptomic changes in specific organs, including heart, may contribute substantially in understanding the diverse effects of intermittent fasting. Our current study further investigate the differential transcriptomic changes in the heart among the different regimes of intermittent fasting as well.
Project description:Intermittent fasting is previously reported to exhibit neuroprotection against experimental ischemic stroke. However, the detailed understanding of protection mechanisms are lacking. By observing the overall transcriptomic changes in each timepoint of ischemic stroke would benefit the understanding of underlying active pathways and mechanisms. Here, we conduct experimental MCAO ischemic stroke on mice exposed to different daily intermittent fasting method to compare not only among the ischemic stroke timepoints but also the efficacy of different intermittent fasting interventions. Our current study presented the transcriptomic changes for the first time in specific timepoints of ischemic stroke as well as under the condition of intermittent fasting. A number of neuroprotective mechanisms-related genes were significantly affected by intermittent fasting conditions in differential manners.
Project description:Transcription factors may orchestrate the health benefits of intermittent fasting through directing the expression of genome. Here, we find intermittent fasting can spin the spatiotemporal profile of transcription factors, and provide an atlas of transcription factors in biological space, time and feeding regimen.
Project description:To better understand the hepatic metabolic response to intermittent fasting in chickens, Red Junglefowl chickens were raised on ad libitum (AL) feed until 14 days of age and then kept on AL feeding, switched to chronic feed restriction (CR) to around 70% or switched to an intermittent fasting (IF) regimen consisting of two fed days (150% of age-matched weight-specific AL intake offered daily) followed by a non-fed day. AL and CR were culled at 36 days of age, and IF birds either at 40 days of age (second consecutive feeding day) or 41 days of age (fasting day).
Project description:Intermittent fasting is one of the most effective dietary restriction regimens that extend life-span in C. elegans and mammals. Fasting-stimulus responses are key to the longevity response; however, the mechanisms that sense and transduce fasting-stimulus have remained largely unknown. Through a comprehensive transcriptome analysis in C. elegans, we have found that along with the FOXO transcription factor DAF-16, AP-1 (JUN-1/FOS-1) plays a central role in fasting-induced transcriptional changes. KGB-1, one of the C. elegans JNKs, acted as an activator of AP-1, and was activated in response to fasting. KGB-1 and AP-1 were involved in intermittent fasting-induced longevity. Fasting-induced upregulation of the components of the SCF E3 ubiquitin ligase complex via AP-1 and DAF-16 enhanced protein ubiquitination, and reduced protein carbonylation. Our results have thus identified a fasting-responsive KGB-1/AP-1 signaling pathway, which, together with DAF-16, causes transcriptional changes that mediate longevity partly through regulating proteostasis. We synchronized mek-1 and mlk-1 mutants and collected them at 2 day adult, and move them to the new plate with (Fed) or without food (Fasting). Two days later, we collected moved animals and extracted total RNA and subject them to microarray.
Project description:Intermittent fasting is one of the most effective dietary restriction regimens that extend life-span in C. elegans and mammals. Fasting-stimulus responses are key to the longevity response; however, the mechanisms that sense and transduce fasting-stimulus have remained largely unknown. Through a comprehensive transcriptome analysis in C. elegans, we have found that along with the FOXO transcription factor DAF-16, AP-1 (JUN-1/FOS-1) plays a central role in fasting-induced transcriptional changes. KGB-1, one of the C. elegans JNKs, acted as an activator of AP-1, and was activated in response to fasting. KGB-1 and AP-1 were involved in intermittent fasting-induced longevity. Fasting-induced upregulation of the components of the SCF E3 ubiquitin ligase complex via AP-1 and DAF-16 enhanced protein ubiquitination, and reduced protein carbonylation. Our results have thus identified a fasting-responsive KGB-1/AP-1 signaling pathway, which, together with DAF-16, causes transcriptional changes that mediate longevity partly through regulating proteostasis.
Project description:Caloric restriction and intermittent fasting prolong the lifespan and healthspan of model organisms and improve human health 1. The natural polyamine spermidine has been linked to autophagy regulation, geroprotection and reduced incidence of cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases across species borders 2. Here, we report that spermidine levels increase upon acute fasting in yeast, flies, mice and healthy humans. Genetic or pharmacological blockade of endogenous spermidine synthesis reduced fasting-induced autophagy in yeast, worms and human cells. Furthermore, perturbing the polyamine pathway in vivo abrogated the lifespan-extending, cardioprotective and antiarthritic effects of intermittent fasting. Mechanistically, spermidine mediated these effects via hypusination of the autophagy regulator eIF5A. In sum, the polyamine-hypusination axis thus emerges as a bona fide and phylogenetically conserved metabolic control hub for longevity and autophagy induction.
Project description:We reported a 16-week intermittent fasting intervention alleviated cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease. Here we present transcriptomics data of mice hippocampus to further investigate how intermittent fasting regulates vital biological processes and pathways. After mapping clean RNA-seq reads of all mice against the Mus musculus genome, we detected 56,412 genes (including 12,527 new predicted genes) with fragments per kilobase of transcripts per million mapped reads (FPKM) value. Gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) was used for pathway or functional analysis of RNA-seq data.