title: Uncoupling protein 3 expression and intramyocellular lipid accumulation by NMR following local burn trauma.
abstract: Burn trauma is a clinical condition accompanied by muscle wasting that severely impedes rehabilitation in burn survivors. Mitochondrial uncoupling protein 3 (UCP3) is uniformly expressed in myoskeletal mitochondria and its expression has been found to increase in other clinical syndromes that, like burn trauma, are associated with muscle wasting (e.g., starvation, fasting, cancer, sepsis). The aim of this study was to explore the effects of burn trauma on UCP3 expression, intramyocellular lipids, and plasma-free fatty acids. Mice were studied at 6 h, 1 d and 3 d after nonlethal hindlimb burn trauma. Intramyocellular lipids in hindlimb skeletal muscle samples collected from burned and normal mice were measured using 1H NMR spectroscopy on a Bruker 14.1 Tesla spectrometer at 4 degrees C. UCP3 mRNA and protein levels were also measured in these samples. Plasma-free fatty acids were measured in burned and normal mice. Local burn trauma was found to result in: 1) upregulation of UCP3 mRNA and protein expression in hindlimb myoskeletal mitochondria by 6 h postburn; 2) increased intramyocellular lipids; and 3) increased plasma-free fatty acids. Our findings show that the increase in UCP3 after burn trauma may be linked to burn-induced alterations in lipid metabolism. Such a link could reveal novel insights into how processes related to energy metabolism are controlled in burn and suggest that induction of UCP3 by burn in skeletal muscle is protective by either activating cellular redox signaling and/or mitochondrial uncoupling.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Shriners Burn Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
authors.forename: Qunhao
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Haihui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Loukas G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Astrakas
authors.forename: Dionyssios
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mintzopoulos
authors.forename: Michael N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Mindrinos
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schulz
authors.forename: Ronald G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Tompkins
authors.forename: Laurence G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Rahme
authors.forename: A Aria
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Tzika
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002056:Burns / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D003080:Cold Temperature; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism; D006614:Hindlimb / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D007473:Ion Channels / Q000378:metabolism*; D050356:Lipid Metabolism; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D024101:Mitochondrial Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D019906:Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism; D013997:Time Factors; D000071247:Uncoupling Protein 3
chemical_list: D005227:Fatty Acids; D007473:Ion Channels; D024101:Mitochondrial Proteins; D012333:RNA, Messenger; C000604393:Ucp3 protein, mouse; D000071247:Uncoupling Protein 3