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Contractile activity-induced mitochondrial biogenesis and mTORC1

Journal

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-CELL PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 303, Issue 5, Pages C540-C547

Publisher

AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00156.2012

Keywords

skeletal muscle; peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma coactivator-1 alpha; Yin Yang 1; raptor; nuclear genes encoding mitochondrial proteins

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  1. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

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Carter HN, Hood DA. Contractile activity-induced mitochondrial biogenesis and mTORC1. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 303: C540-C547, 2012. First published June 13, 2012; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00156.2012.-In response to exercise training, or chronic contractile activity, mitochondrial content is known to be enriched within skeletal muscle. However, the molecular mechanisms that mediate this adaptation are incompletely defined. Recently, the protein complex, mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1), has been identified to facilitate the expression of nuclear genes encoding mitochondrial proteins (NUGEMPs) in resting muscle cells via the interaction of the mTORC1 components, mTOR and raptor, the transcription factor Yin Yang 1, and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma coactivator-1 alpha. It is currently unknown if this mechanism is operative during the increase in mitochondrial content that occurs within skeletal muscle with chronic contractile activity (CCA). Thus we employed a cell culture model of murine skeletal muscle and subjected the myotubes to CCA for 3 h per day for 4 consecutive days in the presence or absence of the mTORC1 inhibitor rapamycin. CCA produced increases in the mitochondrial markers cytochrome oxidase (COX) IV (2.5-fold), Tfam (1.5-fold), and COX activity (1.6-fold). Rapamycin-mediated inhibition of mTORC1 did not suppress these CCA-induced increases in mitochondrial proteins and organelle content. mTORC1 inhibition alone produced a selective upregulation of mitochondrial proteins (COX IV, Tfam), but diminished organelle state 3 respiration. CCA restored this impairment to normal. Our results suggest that mTORC1 activity is not integral for the increase in mitochondrial content elicited by CCA, but is required to maintain mitochondrial function and homeostasis in resting muscle.

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