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FRONTIERS IN PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2018.00949
Keywords
adipokinetic hormone; aging; AKH signaling; lipid status; senescence; energy homeostasis
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- Czech Academy of Sciences [L200961701]
- Institute of Entomology, Biology Center, Czech Academy of Sciences [RVO 60077344]
- Czech Science Foundation [P501-12-G055]
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The impact of disruption of adipokinetic hormone (AKH) signaling was studied during aging in Drosophila in a sexually dimorphic manner. A mutant (Akh(1)) producing a non-functional AKH peptide was compared with isogenized wild-type controls (w(1118)), and Akh-rescue line where AKH was ectopically expressed in the mutant background (EE-Akh). Longevity, fecundity, and locomotor activity rhythms remained unaffected by lack of AKH signaling. While the strength of rhythms declined in general with age across all fly lines tested this was more so in case of Akh(1) flies. Negative geotaxis was significantly impaired in Akh(1) flies. Only young Akh(1) flies of both sexes and old Akh(1) females showed significantly higher body weight compared to age-matched iso-control flies (except in case of EE-Akh). Expression of genes involved in energy homeostasis and aging indicated that dTOR and Akt expression were elevated in Akh(1) flies compared to other genotypes, whereas AMPK and dFoxO expression levels were significantly reduced. Multivariate analysis of the distribution of lipid species revealed a significant accumulation of specific diglyceride (DG) and triglyceride (TG) lipid species, irrespective of sex, attributable in part due to lack of AKH. Moreover, irrespective of lack of AKH, older flies of all genotypes accumulated TGs. Taken together, the results strongly suggest that disruption of AKH has very subtle effects on physiology, behavior and lipid status during aging.
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