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Transient transcriptional events in human skeletal muscle at the outset of concentric resistance exercise training

Murton, Andrew J.; Billeter, R.; Stephens, Francis B.; Des Etages, S.G.; Graber, F.; Hill, R.J.; Marimuthu, Kanagaraj; Greenhaff, Paul L.

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Authors

Andrew J. Murton

R. Billeter

Francis B. Stephens

S.G. Des Etages

F. Graber

R.J. Hill

Kanagaraj Marimuthu

PAUL GREENHAFF PAUL.GREENHAFF@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Muscle Metabolism



Abstract

We sought to ascertain the time course of transcriptional events that occur in human skeletal muscle at the outset of resistance exercise (RE) training in RE naive individuals and determine whether the magnitude of response was associated with exercise-induced muscle damage. Sixteen RE naive men were recruited; eight underwent two sessions of 5 × 30 maximum isokinetic knee extensions (180°/s) separated by 48 h. Muscle biopsies of the vastus lateralis, obtained from different sites, were taken at baseline and 24 h after each exercise bout. Eight individuals acted as nonexercise controls with biopsies obtained at the same time intervals. Transcriptional changes were assessed by microarray and protein levels of heat shock protein (HSP) 27 and αB-crystallin in muscle cross sections by immunohistochemistry as a proxy measure of muscle damage. In control subjects, no probe sets were significantly altered (false discovery rate < 0.05), and HSP27 and αB-crystallin protein remained unchanged throughout the study. In exercised subjects, significant intersubject variability following the initial RE bout was observed in the muscle transcriptome, with greatest changes occurring in subjects with elevated HSP27 and αB-crystallin protein. Following the second bout, the transcriptome response was more consistent, revealing a cohort of probe sets associated with immune activation, the suppression of oxidative metabolism, and ubiquitination, as differentially regulated. The results reveal that the initial transcriptional response to RE is variable in RE naive volunteers, potentially associated with muscle damage and unlikely to reflect longer term adaptations to RE training. These results highlight the importance of considering multiple time points when determining the transcriptional response to RE and associated physiological adaptation.

Citation

Murton, A. J., Billeter, R., Stephens, F. B., Des Etages, S., Graber, F., Hill, R., …Greenhaff, P. L. (2014). Transient transcriptional events in human skeletal muscle at the outset of concentric resistance exercise training. Journal of Applied Physiology, 116(1), https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00426.2013

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Nov 1, 2013
Publication Date Jan 1, 2014
Deposit Date Jul 21, 2016
Publicly Available Date Jul 21, 2016
Journal Journal of Applied Physiology
Print ISSN 8750-7587
Electronic ISSN 1522-1601
Publisher American Physiological Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 116
Issue 1
DOI https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00426.2013
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/719999
Publisher URL http://jap.physiology.org/content/116/1/113
Related Public URLs http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24265280
Contract Date Jul 21, 2016