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Proteins modulation in human skeletal muscle in the early phase of adaptation to hypobaric hypoxia
Author(s) -
Viganò Agnese,
Ripamonti Marilena,
De Palma Sara,
Capitanio Daniele,
Vasso Michele,
Wait Robin,
Lundby Carsten,
Cerretelli Paolo,
Gelfi Cecilia
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
proteomics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.26
H-Index - 167
eISSN - 1615-9861
pISSN - 1615-9853
DOI - 10.1002/pmic.200800232
Subject(s) - hypoxia (environmental) , oxidative stress , biology , citric acid cycle , lipid peroxidation , oxidative phosphorylation , endocrinology , skeletal muscle , medicine , mitochondrion , biochemistry , chemistry , metabolism , oxygen , organic chemistry
High altitude hypoxia is a paraphysiological condition triggering redox status disturbances of cell organization leading, via oxidative stress, to proteins, lipids, and DNA damage. In man, skeletal muscle, after prolonged exposure to hypoxia, undergoes mass reduction and alterations at the cellular level featuring a reduction of mitochondrial volume density, accumulation of lipofuscin, a product of lipid peroxidation, and dysregulation of enzymes whose time course is unknown. The effects of 7–9 days exposure to 4559 m (Margherita Hut, Monte Rosa, Italy) on the muscle proteins pattern were investigated, pre‐ and post‐exposure, in ten young subjects, by 2‐D DIGE and MS. Ten milligram biopsies were obtained from the mid part of the vastus lateralis muscle at sea level (control) and at altitude, after 7–9 days hypoxia. Differential analysis indicates that proteins involved in iron transport, tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, oxidative phosphorylation, and oxidative stress responses were significantly ( p <0.05) decreased in hypoxia. Parenthetically, hypoxia markers such as hypoxia inducible factor 1 α (HIF‐1α) and pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase 1 (PDK1) were still at the pre‐hypoxia levels, whereas the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), a marker of protein synthesis, was reduced.