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DIABETES
Volume 65, Issue 10, Pages 2849-2861Publisher
AMER DIABETES ASSOC
DOI: 10.2337/db15-1723
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- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung [BMBF]) [01GI0925]
- Leibniz Gemeinschaft [SAW-FBN-2013-3]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [GRK 1302-2]
- Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Alliance Imaging and Curing Environmental Metabolic Diseases (ICEMED)
- Helmholtz Portfolio Theme Metabolic Dysfunction and Common Disease
- Merck Sharp Dohme GmbH
- Deutsche Diabetes Gesellschaft
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A substantial number of people at risk of developing type 2 diabetes could not improve insulin sensitivity by physical training intervention. We studied the mechanisms of this impaired exercise response in 20 middle-aged individuals at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes who performed 8 weeks of controlled cycling and walking training at 80% individual VO2 peak. Participants identified as nonresponders in insulin sensitivity (based on the Matsuda index) did not differ in preintervention parameters compared with high responders. The failure to increase insulin sensitivity after training correlates with impaired upregulation of mitochondrial fuel oxidation genes in skeletal muscle, and with the suppression of the upstream regulators PGC1 alpha and AMPK alpha 2. The muscle transcriptomes of the nonresponders are further characterized by the activation of transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta and TGF-beta target genes, which is associated with increases in inflammatory and macrophage markers. TGF-beta 1 as inhibitor of mitochondrial regulators and insulin signaling is validated in human skeletal muscle cells. Activated TGF-beta 1 signaling downregulates the abundance of PGC1 alpha, AMPK alpha 2, the mitochondrial transcription factor TFAM, and mitochondrial enzymes. Thus, the data suggest that increased TGF-beta activity in skeletal muscle can attenuate the improvement of mitochondrial fuel oxidation after training and contribute to the failure to increase insulin sensitivity.
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