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PLOS BIOLOGY
Volume 19, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001492
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- European Research Council [ERC-2017 CIRCOMMUNICATION 770869]
- Abisch Frenkel Foundation for the Promotion of Life Sciences, Adelis Foundation
- Susan and Michael Stern
- Azrieli Foundation
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This study revealed ultradian rhythms in liver gene expression and AKT phosphorylation in Per1,2(-/-) mice, indicating intrinsic mechanisms driving rhythmic AKT activation in the absence of environmental cues.
Rhythmicity of biological processes can be elicited either in response to environmental cycles or driven by endogenous oscillators. In mammals, the circadian clock drives about 24-hour rhythms of multitude metabolic and physiological processes in anticipation to environmental daily oscillations. Also at the intersection of environment and metabolism is the protein kinase-AKT. It conveys extracellular signals, primarily feeding-related signals, to regulate various key cellular functions. Previous studies in mice identified rhythmicity in AKT activation (pAKT) with elevated levels in the fed state. However, it is still unknown whether rhythmic AKT activation can be driven through intrinsic mechanisms. Here, we inspected temporal changes in pAKT levels both in cultured cells and animal models. In cultured cells, pAKT levels showed circadian oscillations similar to those observed in livers of wild-type mice under free-running conditions. Unexpectedly, in livers of Per1,2(-/-) but not of Bmal1(-/-) mice we detected ultradian (about 16 hours) oscillations of pAKT levels. Importantly, the liver transcriptome of Per1,2(-/-) mice also showed ultradian rhythms, corresponding to pAKT rhythmicity and consisting of AKT-related genes and regulators. Overall, our findings reveal ultradian rhythms in liver gene expression and AKT phosphorylation that emerge in the absence of environmental rhythms and Per1,2(-/-) genes.
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