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Regulation of human metabolism by hypoxia-inducible factor
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Formenti, F and Constantin-Teodosiu, D and Emmanuel, Y and Cheeseman, J and Dorrington, KL and Edwards, LM and Humphreys, S and Lappin, TRJ and McMullin, MF and McNamara, CJ and Mills, W and Murphy, JA and O'Connor, DF and Percy, MJ and Ratcliffe, P and Smith, TG and Treacy, M and Frayn, K and Greenhaff, P and Karpe, F and Clarke, K and Robbins, PA, Regulation of human metabolism by hypoxia-inducible factor, National Academy of Sciences of The United States of America. Proceedings, 107, (28) pp. 12722-12727. ISSN 0027-8424 (2010) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1073/pnas.1002339107
Abstract
The hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) family of transcription factors directs a coordinated cellular response to hypoxia that includes the transcriptional regulation of a number of metabolic enzymes. Chuvash polycythemia (CP) is an autosomal recessive human disorder in which the regulatory degradation of HIF is impaired, resulting in elevated levels of HIF at normal oxygen tensions. Apart from the polycythemia, CP patients have marked abnormalities of cardiopulmonary function. No studies of integrated metabolic function have been reported. Here we describe the response of these patients to a series of metabolic stresses: exercise of a large muscle mass on a cycle ergometer, exercise of a small muscle mass (calf muscle) which allowed noninvasive in vivo assessments of muscle metabolism using 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and a standard meal tolerance test. During exercise, CP patients had early and marked phosphocreatine depletion and acidosis in skeletal muscle, greater accumulation of lactate in blood, and reduced maximum exercise capacities. Muscle biopsy specimens from CP patients showed elevated levels of transcript for pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase, phosphofructokinase, and muscle pyruvate kinase. In cell culture, a range of experimental manipulations have been used to study the effects of HIF on cellular metabolism. However, these approaches provide no potential to investigate integrated responses at the level of the whole organism. Although CP is relatively subtle disorder, our study now reveals a striking regulatory role for HIF on metabolism during exercise in humans. These findings have significant implications for the development of therapeutic approaches targeting the HIF pathway.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Research Division: | Biomedical and Clinical Sciences |
| Research Group: | Medical physiology |
| Research Field: | Systems physiology |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in the health sciences |
| UTAS Author: | Edwards, LM (Dr Lindsay Edwards) |
| ID Code: | 64364 |
| Year Published: | 2010 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 116 |
| Deposited By: | Medicine |
| Deposited On: | 2010-07-21 |
| Last Modified: | 2012-12-17 |
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