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Physiological Mitochondrial Fragmentation Is a Normal Cardiac Adaptation to Increased Energy Demand.

ABSTRACT: RATIONALE:Mitochondria play a dual role in the heart, responsible for meeting energetic demands and regulating cell death. Paradigms have held that mitochondrial fission and fragmentation are the result of pathological stresses, such as ischemia, are an indicator of poor mitochondrial health, and lead to mitophagy and cell death. However, recent studies demonstrate that inhibiting fission also results in decreased mitochondrial function and cardiac impairment, suggesting that fission is important for maintaining cardiac and mitochondrial bioenergetic homeostasis. OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study is to determine whether mitochondrial fission and fragmentation can be an adaptive mechanism used by the heart to augment mitochondrial and cardiac function during a normal physiological stress, such as exercise. METHODS AND RESULTS:We demonstrate a novel role for cardiac mitochondrial fission as a normal adaptation to increased energetic demand. During submaximal exercise, physiological mitochondrial fragmentation results in enhanced, rather than impaired, mitochondrial function and is mediated, in part, by ?1-adrenergic receptor signaling. Similar to pathological fragmentation, physiological fragmentation is induced by activation of dynamin-related protein 1; however, unlike pathological fragmentation, membrane potential is maintained and regulators of mitophagy are downregulated. Inhibition of fission with P110, Mdivi-1 (mitochondrial division inhibitor), or in mice with cardiac-specific dynamin-related protein 1 ablation significantly decreases exercise capacity. CONCLUSIONS:These findings demonstrate the requirement for physiological mitochondrial fragmentation to meet the energetic demands of exercise, as well as providing additional support for the evolving conceptual framework, where mitochondrial fission and fragmentation play a role in the balance between mitochondrial maintenance of normal physiology and response to disease.

SUBMITTER: Coronado M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5775047 | biostudies-other | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Physiological Mitochondrial Fragmentation Is a Normal Cardiac Adaptation to Increased Energy Demand.

Coronado Michael M Fajardo Giovanni G Nguyen Kim K Zhao Mingming M Kooiker Kristina K Jung Gwanghyun G Hu Dong-Qing DQ Reddy Sushma S Sandoval Erik E Stotland Aleksandr A Gottlieb Roberta A RA Bernstein Daniel D

Circulation research 20171212 2

<h4>Rationale</h4>Mitochondria play a dual role in the heart, responsible for meeting energetic demands and regulating cell death. Paradigms have held that mitochondrial fission and fragmentation are the result of pathological stresses, such as ischemia, are an indicator of poor mitochondrial health, and lead to mitophagy and cell death. However, recent studies demonstrate that inhibiting fission also results in decreased mitochondrial function and cardiac impairment, suggesting that fission is ...[more]

PMID: 29233845

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Physiological Mitochondrial Fragmentation Is a Normal Cardiac Adaptation to Increased Energy Demand.

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Physiological Mitochondrial Fragmentation Is a Normal Cardiac Adaptation to Increased Energy Demand.

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