Untargeted metabolomics analysis of ischemia-reperfusion injured hearts ex vivo from sedentary and exercise trained rats.
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ABSTRACT: The effects of exercise on the heart and its resistance to disease are well-documented. Recent studies have identified exercise-induced resistance to arrhythmia is due to the preservation of mitochondrial membrane potential. To identify novel metabolic changes that occurred parallel to these mitochondrial alterations, we performed non-targeted metabolomics analysis on hearts from sedentary (Sed) and exercise- trained (Ex) rats challenged with isolated heart ischemia-reperfusion injury (I/R). Eight weeks old Sprague- Dawley rats were treadmill trained five days/week for six weeks (exercise duration and intensity progressively increased to 1 hour at 30 m/min up to 10.5% incline, 75-80% VO2mx). The recovery of pre-ischemic function for sedentary rat hearts was 28.8+/-5.4% (N=12) compared to exercise trained hearts which recovered 51.9%+/-5.7 (N=14)(p<0.001). Non-targeted GC-MS metabolomics analysis of 1) Sedentary rat hearts; 2) Exercise-trained rat hearts; 3) Sedentary rat hearts challenged with global ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury; and 4) Exercise-trained rat hearts challeged with global I/R (10/group) revealed 20 statistically significant metabolites between groups by ANOVA using Metaboanalyst (p<0.001). Enrichment analysis of these metabolites for pathway-associated metabolic sets indicated a >10 fold enrichment for ammonia recycling and protein biosynthesis (L-Glutamic acid; L-Proline; L-Histidine; L-Serine; L-Aspartic acid; L-Glutamine)(p<=4.05E-05, FDR=0.0024). Subsequent comparison of the sedentary hearts post-I/R and exercise-trained hearts post-I/R further identified significant differences in metabolites related to Aminoacyl-tRNA biosynthesis and nitrogen metabolism (4) (p<=1.24E-05, FDR<=5.07E-4). These studies shed light on novel mechanisms in which exercise-induced cardioprotection occurs in I/R which complement both the mitochondrial stabilization and antioxidant mechanisms recently described. These findings also link protein synthesis and protein degradation (protein quality control mechanisms) with exercise-linked cardioprotection and mitochondrial susceptibility for the first time in cardiac I/R.
ORGANISM(S): Rat Rattus Norvegicus
TISSUE(S): Muscle
DISEASE(S): Heart Injury
SUBMITTER: Monte Willis
PROVIDER: ST000897 | MetabolomicsWorkbench | Sat May 20 00:00:00 BST 2017
REPOSITORIES: MetabolomicsWorkbench
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