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ATGL-mediated triglyceride turnover and the regulation of mitochondrial capacity in skeletal muscle

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posted on 2015-06-01, 00:00 authored by R C Meex, A J Hoy, R M Mason, Sheree MartinSheree Martin, Sean McgeeSean Mcgee, Clinton BruceClinton Bruce, M J Watt
Emerging evidence indicates that skeletal muscle lipid droplets are an important control point for intracellular lipid homeostasis and that regulating fatty acid fluxes from lipid droplets might influence mitochondrial capacity. We used pharmacological blockers of the major triglyceride lipases, adipose triglyceride lipase (ATGL) and hormone-sensitive lipase, to show that a large proportion of the fatty acids that are transported into myotubes are trafficked through the intramyocellular triglyceride pool. We next tested whether increasing lipolysis from intramyocellular lipid droplets could activate transcriptional responses to enhance mitochondrial and fatty acid oxidative capacity. ATGL was overexpressed by adenoviral and adenoassociated viral infection in C2C12 myotubes and the tibialis anterior muscle of C57Bl/6 mice, respectively. ATGL overexpression in C2C12 myotubes increased lipolysis, which was associated with increased peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR)-∂ activity, transcriptional upregulation of some PPAR∂ target genes, and enhanced mitochondrial capacity. The transcriptional responses were specific to ATGL actions and not a generalized increase in fatty acid flux in the myotubes. Marked ATGL overexpression (20-fold) induced modest molecular changes in the skeletal muscle of mice, but these effects were not sufficient to alter fatty acid oxidation. Together, these data demonstrate the importance of lipid droplets for myocellular fatty acid trafficking and the capacity to modulate mitochondrial capacity by enhancing lipid droplet lipolysis in vitro; however, this adaptive program is of minor importance when superimposing the normal metabolic stresses encountered in free-moving animals.

History

Journal

AJP - Endocrinology and metabolism

Volume

308

Pagination

E960 - E970

Publisher

American Physiological Society

Location

Bethesda, MD

eISSN

1522-1555

Language

eng

Publication classification

C Journal article; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2015, American Physiological Society