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Makida S, Kametani K, Hosotani M, Takahashi N, Iwasaki T, Hasegawa Y, Takaya T, Ueda H, Watanabe T. Three-dimensional structural analysis of mitochondria composing each subtype of fast-twitch muscle fibers in chicken. J Vet Med Sci 2022; 84:809-816. [PMID: 35418525 PMCID: PMC9246695 DOI: 10.1292/jvms.22-0080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
Abstract
In a previous study, the three-dimensional structures of mitochondria in type I and type IIb muscle fibers of chicken were analyzed. The study reported differences in the shape of the mitochondria and the distribution of lipid droplets. In this study, we three-dimensionally analyzed mitochondria and lipid droplets of type II muscle fiber subtypes IIa, IIb, and IIc of chicken lateral iliotibial muscle in the same field of view using correlative light electron microscopy (CLEM) and array tomography methods. The reconstructed images showed that the mitochondria of type IIa muscle fiber were thick and aligned along the myofibrils, and many lipid droplets were embedded in the mitochondria. The mitochondria of type IIb muscle fibers were intermittent, aligned along the myofibrils, and showed contact between adjacent horizontal mitochondria. No lipid droplets were observed in type IIb muscle fiber. In type IIc muscle fiber, we observed irregularly shaped mitochondria with small diameters aligned along the myofibrils. Lipid droplets not only were embedded in the mitochondria but also existed independently in some cases. The combination of array tomography and CLEM methods enabled three-dimensional electron microscopic observation of mitochondria in different subtypes of type II muscle fibers. The subtypes of type II muscle fibers differed in mitochondrial occupancy and morphology and in lipid droplet distribution, and characteristics that had been demonstrated biochemically were also demonstrated ultrastructurally.
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- Sachi Makida
- Department of Veterinary Anatomy, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University
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- Department of Veterinary Anatomy, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University
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- Department of Veterinary Anatomy, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University
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- Department of Veterinary Anatomy, College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University
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- Department of Food Science and Human Wellness, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment Science, Rakuno Gakuen University
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- Department of Food Science and Human Wellness, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment Science, Rakuno Gakuen University
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- Department of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Shinshu University
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- Department of Veterinary Anatomy, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University
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- Department of Veterinary Anatomy, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University
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Furukawa K, Toyomizu M, Kikusato M. Possible role of corticosterone in proteolysis, glycolytic, and amino acid metabolism in primary cultured avian myotubes incubated at high-temperature conditions. Domest Anim Endocrinol 2021; 76:106608. [PMID: 33611161 DOI: 10.1016/j.domaniend.2021.106608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2020] [Revised: 12/05/2020] [Accepted: 01/19/2021] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Excess glucocorticoid secretion induces oxidative damage and muscle proteolysis and modulates glucose and lipid metabolism. It is known that the high-temperature (HT) treatment enhances corticosterone (CORT) secretion, muscle proteolysis, and mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (mtROS) generation in chickens. The present study investigated the co-effects of CORT on proteolysis and mtROS production, together with glucose, fatty acid, and amino acid metabolism in HT-treated cells. Myoblast cells were isolated from the major pectoralis muscle of five 0- or 1-day-old neonatal chicks and were precultured at 37°C/CO2 conditions for 48 h to reach subconfluent (80%-90%) conditions. Cells were then reseeded onto a 6- or 24-well microplate for the subsequent measurement, followed by the culture under a control temperature (37°C, control) or HT (41°C) conditions for 1 or 6 h. The HT-treated cells were cocultured with physiologically relevant concentrations of CORT (20 ng/mL in dimethyl sulfoxide). The HT treatment decreased cellular protein content (P < 0.05) and increased atrogin-1 mRNA levels and mtROS generation levels compared to the control group (P < 0.05), whereas HT/CORT co-treatment did not induce changes in either parameter. The mRNA level of glucose transporter-1 was decreased in HT-treated cells compared to that in normal cells (P < 0.05), and the decrease was increased in the CORT co-treatment (P < 0.05). While HT treatment did not alter pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase-4 mRNA level, the level was increased in the CORT co-treatment compared to the control and HT-treated cells (P < 0.05). Neither HT nor HT/CORT treatments altered the mRNA levels of fatty acid oxidation-related factors, carnitine palmitoyl transferase-1, and cluster of differentiation 36. The study conducted a metabolic analysis using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The results showed that HT/CORT-treated cells had decreased intracellular citrate and α-ketoglutarate levels (P < 0.05) and increased extracellular alanine and amino acid that have gluconeogenic properties, as well as increased aspartate, isoleucine, serine, methionine, and threonine levels (P < 0.05) compared to HT-treated cells. These results suggest that CORT may not affect proteolysis and mtROS production but can suppress pyruvate oxidation and promote alanine production in HT-treated chickens.
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- Kyohei Furukawa
- Animal Nutrition, Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, 468-1 Aramaki Aza-Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8572, Japan
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- Animal Nutrition, Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, 468-1 Aramaki Aza-Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8572, Japan
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- Animal Nutrition, Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, 468-1 Aramaki Aza-Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8572, Japan.
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Nematbakhsh S, Pei Pei C, Selamat J, Nordin N, Idris LH, Abdull Razis AF. Molecular Regulation of Lipogenesis, Adipogenesis and Fat Deposition in Chicken. Genes (Basel) 2021; 12:genes12030414. [PMID: 33805667 PMCID: PMC8002044 DOI: 10.3390/genes12030414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2021] [Revised: 03/10/2021] [Accepted: 03/11/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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In the poultry industry, excessive fat deposition is considered an undesirable factor, affecting feed efficiency, meat production cost, meat quality, and consumer’s health. Efforts to reduce fat deposition in economically important animals, such as chicken, can be made through different strategies; including genetic selection, feeding strategies, housing, and environmental strategies, as well as hormone supplementation. Recent investigations at the molecular level have revealed the significant role of the transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulatory networks and their interaction on modulating fat metabolism in chickens. At the transcriptional level, different transcription factors are known to regulate the expression of lipogenic and adipogenic genes through various signaling pathways, affecting chicken fat metabolism. Alternatively, at the post-transcriptional level, the regulatory mechanism of microRNAs (miRNAs) on lipid metabolism and deposition has added a promising dimension to understand the structural and functional regulatory mechanism of lipid metabolism in chicken. Therefore, this review focuses on the progress made in unraveling the molecular function of genes, transcription factors, and more notably significant miRNAs responsible for regulating adipogenesis, lipogenesis, and fat deposition in chicken. Moreover, a better understanding of the molecular regulation of lipid metabolism will give researchers novel insights to use functional molecular markers, such as miRNAs, for selection against excessive fat deposition to improve chicken production efficiency and meat quality.
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- Sara Nematbakhsh
- Laboratory of Food Safety and Food Integrity, Institute of Tropical Agriculture and Food Security, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang 43400, Selangor, Malaysia; (S.N.); (J.S.); (N.N.)
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- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, School of Biosciences, Taylor’s University, Subang Jaya 47500, Selangor, Malaysia;
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- Laboratory of Food Safety and Food Integrity, Institute of Tropical Agriculture and Food Security, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang 43400, Selangor, Malaysia; (S.N.); (J.S.); (N.N.)
- Department of Food Science, Faculty of Food Science and Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang 43400, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Laboratory of Food Safety and Food Integrity, Institute of Tropical Agriculture and Food Security, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang 43400, Selangor, Malaysia; (S.N.); (J.S.); (N.N.)
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- Department of Veterinary Preclinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang 43400, Selangor, Malaysia;
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- Laboratory of Food Safety and Food Integrity, Institute of Tropical Agriculture and Food Security, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang 43400, Selangor, Malaysia; (S.N.); (J.S.); (N.N.)
- Department of Food Science, Faculty of Food Science and Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang 43400, Selangor, Malaysia
- Natural Medicines and Products Research Laboratory, Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang 43400, Selangor, Malaysia
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Saneyasu T, Nakano Y, Tsuchii N, Kitashiro A, Tsuchihashi T, Kimura S, Honda K, Kamisoyama H. Differential regulation of protein synthesis by skeletal muscle type in chickens. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2019; 284:113246. [PMID: 31415729 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2019.113246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2019] [Revised: 07/16/2019] [Accepted: 08/10/2019] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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In mammalian skeletal muscles, protein synthesis rates vary according to fiber types. We herein demonstrated differences in the regulatory mechanism underlying the protein synthesis in the pectoralis major (a glycolytic twitch muscle), adductor superficialis (an oxidative twitch muscle), and adductor profound (a tonic muscle) muscles of 14-day-old chickens. Under ad libitum feeding conditions, protein synthesis is significantly higher in the adductor superficialis muscle than in the pectoralis major muscle, suggesting that protein synthesis is upregulated in oxidative muscles in chickens, similar to that in mammals. In the pectoralis major muscle, fasting significantly inhibited the Akt/S6 pathway and protein synthesis with a corresponding decrease in plasma insulin concentration. Conversely, the insulin like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) mRNA levels significantly increased. These findings suggest that the insulin/Akt/S6 pathway plays an important role in the regulation of protein synthesis in the pectoralis major muscle. Interestingly, protein synthesis in the adductor superficialis muscle appears to be regulated in an Akt-independent manner, because fasting significantly decreased S6 phosphorylation and protein synthesis without affecting Akt phosphorylation. In the adductor profound muscle, IGF-1 expression, phosphorylation of Akt and S6, and protein synthesis were decreased by fasting, suggesting that insulin and/or skeletal IGF-1 appear contribute to protein synthesis via the Akt/S6 pathway. These findings revealed the differential regulation of protein synthesis depending on skeletal muscle types in chickens.
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- Takaoki Saneyasu
- Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
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- Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
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- Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
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- Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
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- Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
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Genome-wide DNA methylation profiles reveal novel candidate genes associated with meat quality at different age stages in hens. Sci Rep 2017; 7:45564. [PMID: 28378745 PMCID: PMC5381223 DOI: 10.1038/srep45564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2016] [Accepted: 02/27/2017] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Poultry meat quality is associated with breed, age, tissue and other factors. Many previous studies have focused on distinct breeds; however, little is known regarding the epigenetic regulatory mechanisms in different age stages, such as DNA methylation. Here, we compared the global DNA methylation profiles between juvenile (20 weeks old) and later laying-period (55 weeks old) hens and identified candidate genes related to the development and meat quality of breast muscle using whole-genome bisulfite sequencing. The results showed that the later laying-period hens, which had a higher intramuscular fat (IMF) deposition capacity and water holding capacity (WHC) and less tenderness, exhibited higher global DNA methylation levels than the juvenile hens. A total of 2,714 differentially methylated regions were identified in the present study, which corresponded to 378 differentially methylated genes, mainly affecting muscle development, lipid metabolism, and the ageing process. Hypermethylation of the promoters of the genes ABCA1, COL6A1 and GSTT1L and the resulting transcriptional down-regulation in the later laying-period hens may be the reason for the significant difference in the meat quality between the juvenile and later laying-period hens. These findings contribute to a better understanding of epigenetic regulation in the skeletal muscle development and meat quality of chicken.
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