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ArticleAmerican journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism2016

Adult expression of PGC-1α and -1β in skeletal muscle is not required for endurance exercise-induced enhancement of exercise capacity.

Christopher Ballmann, Yawen Tang, Zachary Bush, Glenn C Rowe

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Article in American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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22citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Christopher BallmannDivision of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; and.
Yawen TangDivision of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; and.
Zachary BushDivision of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; and.
Glenn C RoweDivision of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; and gcrowe@uab.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-8195-9605
University of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

University of Alabama at Birmingham's Diabetes Research CenterP30DK079626 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI BARBARA A GOWER · 2013 to 2026
$19.5M
UAB Neuroscience Core CenterP30NS047466 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI STANDAERT, DAVID G. · 2005 to 2019
$8.5M
Regulation of Mitochondria by Exercise and PGC-1 Coactivators in Skeletal MuscleK01AR062128 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI ROWE, GLENN CAMERON · 2012 to 2016
$621k
NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK079626
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Exercise has been shown to be the best intervention in the treatment of many diseases. Many of the benefits of exercise are mediated by adaptions induced in skeletal muscle. The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator-1 (PGC-1) family of transcriptional coactivators has emerged as being key mediators of the exercise response and is considered to be essential for many of the adaptions seen in skeletal muscle. However, the contribution of the PGC-1s in skeletal muscle has been evaluated by the use of either whole body or congenital skeletal muscle-specific deletion. In these models, PGC-1s were never present, thereby opening the possibility to developmental compensation. Therefore, we generated an inducible muscle-specific deletion of PGC-1α and -1β (iMyo-PGC-1DKO), in which both PGC-1α and -β can be deleted specifically in adult skeletal muscle. These iMyo-PGC-1DKO animals were used to assess the role of both PGC-1α and -1β in adult skeletal muscle and their contribution to the exercise training response. Untrained iMyo-PGC-1DKO animals exhibited a time-dependent decrease in exercise performance 8 wk postdeletion, similar to what was observed in the congenital muscle-specific PGC-1DKOs. However, after 4 wk of voluntary training, the iMyo-PGC-1DKOs exhibited an increase in exercise performance with a similar adaptive response compared with control animals. This increase was associated with an increase in electron transport complex (ETC) expression and activity in the absence of PGC-1α and -1β expression. Taken together these data suggest that PGC-1α and -1β expression are not required for training-induced exercise performance, highlighting the contribution of PGC-1-independent mechanisms.

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Physical Conditioning, AnimalAnimalsBlotting, WesternElectron Transport Chain Complex ProteinsExercise ToleranceFemaleMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMicroscopy, Electron, TransmissionMuscle, SkeletalNuclear ProteinsPeroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Gamma Coactivator 1-alphaPhysical EnduranceQuadriceps MuscleReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionElectron Transport Chain Complex ProteinsNuclear ProteinsPeroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Gamma Coactivator 1-alphaPpargc1a protein, mousePpargc1b protein, mouseTranscription Factorselectron transport chainexercisePGC-1skeletal muscle

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PMID27780821
PMCPMC5183883
OpenAlexW2534894586

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