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Lessard SJ, MacDonald TL, Pathak P, Han MS, Coffey VG, Edge J, Rivas DA, Hirshman MF, Davis RJ, Goodyear LJ. JNK regulates muscle remodeling via myostatin/SMAD inhibition. Nat Commun 2018; 9:3030. [PMID: 30072727 PMCID: PMC6072737 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05439-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2018] [Accepted: 07/06/2018] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
Abstract
Skeletal muscle has a remarkable plasticity to adapt and remodel in response to environmental cues, such as physical exercise. Endurance exercise stimulates improvements in muscle oxidative capacity, while resistance exercise induces muscle growth. Here we show that the c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) is a molecular switch that when active, stimulates muscle fibers to grow, resulting in increased muscle mass. Conversely, when muscle JNK activation is suppressed, an alternative remodeling program is initiated, resulting in smaller, more oxidative muscle fibers, and enhanced aerobic fitness. When muscle is exposed to mechanical stress, JNK initiates muscle growth via phosphorylation of the transcription factor, SMAD2, at specific linker region residues leading to inhibition of the growth suppressor, myostatin. In human skeletal muscle, this JNK/SMAD signaling axis is activated by resistance exercise, but not endurance exercise. We conclude that JNK acts as a key mediator of muscle remodeling during exercise via regulation of myostatin/SMAD signaling.
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Affiliation(s)
- Sarah J Lessard
- Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, 02215, MA, USA.
- Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, 02215, MA, USA.
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- Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, 02215, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, 02215, MA, USA
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- Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, 02215, MA, USA
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- Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, 01605, MA, USA
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- Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, 4226, QLD, Australia
- School of Medical Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
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- Massey University, Palmerston North, 4442, New Zealand
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- Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, 02111, MA, USA
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- Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, 01605, MA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, 01605, MA, USA
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- Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, 02215, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, 02215, MA, USA
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Chabi B, Pauly M, Carillon J, Carnac G, Favier FB, Fouret G, Bonafos B, Vanterpool F, Vernus B, Coudray C, Feillet-Coudray C, Bonnieu A, Lacan D, Koechlin-Ramonatxo C. Protective effect of myostatin gene deletion on aging-related muscle metabolic decline. Exp Gerontol 2016; 78:23-31. [PMID: 26944368 DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2016.01.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2015] [Revised: 01/21/2016] [Accepted: 01/28/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
While myostatin gene deletion is a promising therapy to fight muscle loss during aging, this approach induces also skeletal muscle metabolic changes such as mitochondrial deficits, redox alteration and increased fatigability. In the present study, we evaluated the effects of aging on these features in aged wild-type (WT) and mstn knockout (KO) mice. Moreover, to determine whether an enriched-antioxidant diet may be useful to prevent age-related disorders, we orally administered to the two genotypes a melon concentrate rich in superoxide dismutase for 12 weeks. We reported that mitochondrial functional abnormalities persisted (decreased state 3 and 4 of respiration; p<0.05) in skeletal muscle from aged KO mice; however, differences with WT mice were attenuated at old age in line with reduced difference on running endurance between the two genotypes. Interestingly, we showed an increase in glutathione levels, associated with lower lipid peroxidation levels in KO muscle. Enriched antioxidant diet reduced the aging-related negative effects on maximal aerobic velocity and running limit time (p<0.05) in both groups, with systemic adaptations on body weight. The redox status and the hypertrophic phenotype appeared to be beneficial to KO mice, mitigating the effect of aging on the skeletal muscle metabolic remodeling.
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- B Chabi
- INRA, UMR866 Dynamique Musculaire et Métabolisme, Université Montpellier, F-34060, Montpellier, France
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- INRA, UMR866 Dynamique Musculaire et Métabolisme, Université Montpellier, F-34060, Montpellier, France
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- Inserm U1046, Université ́ Montpellier, 34295 Montpellier, France
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- INRA, UMR866 Dynamique Musculaire et Métabolisme, Université Montpellier, F-34060, Montpellier, France
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- INRA, UMR866 Dynamique Musculaire et Métabolisme, Université Montpellier, F-34060, Montpellier, France
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- INRA, UMR866 Dynamique Musculaire et Métabolisme, Université Montpellier, F-34060, Montpellier, France
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- INRA, UMR866 Dynamique Musculaire et Métabolisme, Université Montpellier, F-34060, Montpellier, France
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- INRA, UMR866 Dynamique Musculaire et Métabolisme, Université Montpellier, F-34060, Montpellier, France
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- INRA, UMR866 Dynamique Musculaire et Métabolisme, Université Montpellier, F-34060, Montpellier, France
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- INRA, UMR866 Dynamique Musculaire et Métabolisme, Université Montpellier, F-34060, Montpellier, France
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- INRA, UMR866 Dynamique Musculaire et Métabolisme, Université Montpellier, F-34060, Montpellier, France
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- Bionov Sarl, Avignon, France
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- INRA, UMR866 Dynamique Musculaire et Métabolisme, Université Montpellier, F-34060, Montpellier, France.
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Pauly M, Chabi B, Favier FB, Vanterpool F, Matecki S, Fouret G, Bonafos B, Vernus B, Feillet-Coudray C, Coudray C, Bonnieu A, Ramonatxo C. Combined Strategies for Maintaining Skeletal Muscle Mass and Function in Aging: Myostatin Inactivation and AICAR-Associated Oxidative Metabolism Induction. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2014; 70:1077-87. [PMID: 25227129 DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glu147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2014] [Accepted: 07/21/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Myostatin (mstn) blockade, resulting in muscle hypertrophy, is a promising therapy to counteract age-related muscle loss. However, oxidative and mitochondrial deficit observed in young mice with myostatin inhibition could be detrimental with aging. The aim of this study was (a) to bring original data on metabolic and mitochondrial consequences of mstn inhibition in old mice, and (b) to examine whether 4-weeks of AICAR treatment, a pharmacological compound known to upregulate oxidative metabolism, may be useful to improve exercise capacity and mitochondrial deficit of 20-months mstn KO versus wild-type (WT) mice. Our results show that despite the enlarged muscle mass, the oxidative and mitochondrial deficit associated with reduced endurance running capacity is maintained in old mstn KO mice but not worsened by aging. Importantly, AICAR treatment induced a significant beneficial effect on running limit time only in old mstn KO mice, with a marked increase in PGC-1α expression and slight beneficial effects on mitochondrial function. We showed that AICAR effects were autophagy-independent. This study underlines the relevance of aged muscle remodelling by complementary approaches that impact both muscle mass and function, and suggest that mstn inhibition and aerobic metabolism activators should be co-developed for delaying age-related deficits in skeletal muscle.
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- Marion Pauly
- INRA, UMR866 Dynamique Musculaire et Métabolisme, Université Montpellier 1, F-34060, Montpellier, France INSERM U1046, Physiology and Experimental Medicine Heart-Muscle Unit, Université Montpellier 1, Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France
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- INRA, UMR866 Dynamique Musculaire et Métabolisme, Université Montpellier 1, F-34060, Montpellier, France
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- INRA, UMR866 Dynamique Musculaire et Métabolisme, Université Montpellier 1, F-34060, Montpellier, France
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- INRA, UMR866 Dynamique Musculaire et Métabolisme, Université Montpellier 1, F-34060, Montpellier, France
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- INSERM U1046, Physiology and Experimental Medicine Heart-Muscle Unit, Université Montpellier 1, Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France
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- INRA, UMR866 Dynamique Musculaire et Métabolisme, Université Montpellier 1, F-34060, Montpellier, France
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- INRA, UMR866 Dynamique Musculaire et Métabolisme, Université Montpellier 1, F-34060, Montpellier, France
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- INRA, UMR866 Dynamique Musculaire et Métabolisme, Université Montpellier 1, F-34060, Montpellier, France
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- INRA, UMR866 Dynamique Musculaire et Métabolisme, Université Montpellier 1, F-34060, Montpellier, France
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- INRA, UMR866 Dynamique Musculaire et Métabolisme, Université Montpellier 1, F-34060, Montpellier, France
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- INRA, UMR866 Dynamique Musculaire et Métabolisme, Université Montpellier 1, F-34060, Montpellier, France
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- INRA, UMR866 Dynamique Musculaire et Métabolisme, Université Montpellier 1, F-34060, Montpellier, France
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