PGC1a and Exercise Adaptations in Zebrafish
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ABSTRACT: Fish species display huge differences in physical activity ranging from lethargy to migration of thousands of miles, making them an interesting model for human exercise. Here, we show a remarkable plasticity of zebrafish in response to exercise and induction of PGC1α (encoded by PPARGC1A), a dominant regulator of mitochondrial biogenesis. Forced expression of human PPARGC1A induces mitochondrial biogenesis, an exercise-like gene expression signature, and physical fitness comparable to wild-type animals trained in counter-current swim tunnels. We quantify a stoichiometric induction of the electron transport chain (ETC) in response to exercise or PGC1α expression, identified by a proteomic SWATH-MS workflow. Exercise or PGC1α expression induce the re-organization of the ETC into respiratory supercomplexes, and we show that ndufa4/ndufa4l, previously assigned to complex I, associates to free and supramolecular complex IV in vivo. Thus, zebrafish is a useful and experimentally tractable vertebrate model to study exercise biology, including ETC expression and assembly.
ORGANISM(S): Danio rerio
PROVIDER: GSE115398 | GEO | 2019/01/06
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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