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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023

Impaired age-associated mitochondrial translation is mitigated by exercise and PGC-1α.

Laura M de Smalen, Anastasiya Börsch, Aurel B Leuchtmann, Jonathan F Gill, Danilo Ritz, Mihaela Zavolan, Christoph Handschin

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Laura M de SmalenBiozentrum, University of Basel, Basel CH-4056, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-0923-030X
Anastasiya BörschBiozentrum, University of Basel, Basel CH-4056, Switzerland.
Aurel B LeuchtmannBiozentrum, University of Basel, Basel CH-4056, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-5800-005X
Jonathan F GillBiozentrum, University of Basel, Basel CH-4056, Switzerland.ORCID 0009-0004-6056-4470
Danilo RitzBiozentrum, University of Basel, Basel CH-4056, Switzerland.
Mihaela ZavolanBiozentrum, University of Basel, Basel CH-4056, Switzerland.
Christoph HandschinBiozentrum, University of Basel, Basel CH-4056, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-0603-1097
University of Basel · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sarcopenia, the age-related loss of skeletal muscle mass and function, can dramatically impinge on quality of life and mortality. While mitochondrial dysfunction and imbalanced proteostasis are recognized as hallmarks of sarcopenia, the regulatory and functional link between these processes is underappreciated and unresolved. We therefore investigated how mitochondrial proteostasis, a crucial process that coordinates the expression of nuclear- and mitochondrial-encoded mitochondrial proteins with supercomplex formation and respiratory activity, is affected in skeletal muscle aging. Intriguingly, a robust mitochondrial translation impairment was observed in sarcopenic muscle, which is regulated by the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ coactivator 1 α (PGC-1α) with the estrogen-related receptor α (ERRα). Exercise, a potent inducer of PGC-1α activity, rectifies age-related reduction in mitochondrial translation, in conjunction with quality control pathways. These results highlight the importance of mitochondrial proteostasis in muscle aging, and elucidate regulatory interactions that underlie the powerful benefits of physical activity in this context.

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Quality of LifeSarcopeniaExerciseHumansMitochondrial ProteinsMuscle, SkeletalMitochondrial Proteinsagingmitochondriaproteostasissarcopeniaskeletal muscle

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PMID37639610
PMCPMC10483666
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