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Role of skeletal muscle mitophagy in healthy aging

骨骼肌线粒体自噬在健康衰老中的作用

基本信息

批准号：
9761948
负责人：
Josh C Drake
金额：
$ 10.33万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2018-08-15 至 2019-12-24
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9761948
关键词：
Age Aging Animals Autophagocytosis Biosensor Confocal Microscopy Development Disease Elderly Electric Stimulation Excision Exercise Fostering Foundations Functional disorder Gastrocnemius Muscle Geroscience Holoenzymes Human Immunohistochemistry Impairment In Vitro Intervention Knock-out Knockout Mice Learning Longevity Maintenance Mediating Mentors Metabolic Microscopy Mitochondria Mitochondrial Proteins Mus Muscle Muscle Fibers Muscle Mitochondria Phase Phosphorylation Phosphotransferases Photosensitization Plantaris muscle Preparation Proteins Proteomics Quality Control RNA interference screen Regulation Reporting Research Resolution Reticulum Role Sarcolemma Signal Transduction Skeletal Muscle Somatic Gene Therapy Stains Stress Testing Tissues Training Wild Type Mouse Work age related career development confocal imaging effective intervention flexor digitorum brevis healthy aging imaging approach improved in vivo insight irradiation mimetics muscle aging novel programs recruit response skills tibialis anterior muscle two photon microscopy two-photon

项目摘要

Project Summary Mitochondrial quality in skeletal muscle progressively declines with advancing age, leading to tissue dysfunction and disease. Several lines of evidence suggest poor mitochondrial quality in skeletal muscle of old animals and humans is due in large part to an impaired or insufficient capacity to degrade damaged/dysfunctional mitochondria via mitophagy. Exercise promotes mitochondrial quality leading to healthy aging but the underlying mechanisms and how they differ with age is not well defined, particularly in regards to mitophagy, restraining development of effective interventions. Building upon my previous work demonstrating that exercise does indeed promote mitophagy in skeletal muscle but only of a small fraction of the total mitochondrial reticulum, I show here evidence of an Ampk-dependent mechanism that may distinguish damaged vs. healthy regions of the mitochondrial reticulum that is lost with age. Additionally, I show that key downstream mitophagy-related factors that are recruited to mitochondria in skeletal muscle with exercise are required for mitochondrial quality and healthy aging in d. melanogaster. The proposed research tests the hypothesis that recognition of damaged regions of the mitochondrial reticulum in response to exercise is impaired in skeletal muscle of old mice, blunting local recruitment of key mitophagy proteins, leading to poor mitochondrial quality. These studies will provide insight into novel regulation of skeletal muscle mitophagy in response to exercise and lay a foundation for the development of targeted interventions to promote mitochondrial quality in skeletal muscle for improved tissue function and healthy aging. During the mentored phase, I will employ state-of-the-art two-photon microscopy to perform intravital and ex vivo fluorescent lifetime microscopy of Ampk activity on mitochondria in skeletal muscle of young and old mice to determine the age-dependent, localized response of Ampk to sustained contraction and mitochondrial damage. Also, I will continue my professional and scientific development in preparation for the independent phase with continuous guidance from my mentoring committee. During the independent phase, I will employ co-somatic gene transfer in skeletal muscle of young and old wild-type mice as well as skeletal muscle-specific, conditional Ulk1 knock-out mice to determine the age-dependent regulation for the recruitment of downstream mitophagy-related factors to mitochondria in skeletal muscle in response to exercise. Also, I will develop novel phospho-mimetic constructs to constitutively activate or inhibit mitophagy-related factors Atg9 and Atg2 in young and old mouse skeletal muscle and investigate their necessity and sufficiency for the breakdown of mitochondrial proteins and maintenance of mitochondrial quality, via state-of-the-art high resolution proteomic and confocal imaging approaches. Collectively, these studies and career development activities will foster my continued scientific and professional training, leading to a successful independent, academic research program.

项目总结