Hypoxia inducible factor 1 links fast-patterned muscle activity and fast muscle phenotype in rats.
Exercise influences muscle phenotype by the specific pattern of action potentials delivered to the muscle, triggering intracellular signalling pathways. PO2 can be reduced by an order of magnitude in working muscle. In humans, carriers of a hyperactive polymorphism of the transcription factor hypoxia inducible factor 1α (HIF-1α) have 50% more fast fibres, and this polymorphism is prevalent among strength athletes. We have investigated the putative role of HIF-1α in mediating activity changes in muscle.When rat muscles were stimulated with short high frequency bursts of action potentials known to induce a fast muscle phenotype, HIF-1α increased by about 80%. In contrast, a pattern consisting of long low frequency trains known to make fast muscles slow reduced the HIF-1α level of the fast extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscle by 44%. Nuclear protein extracts from normal EDL contained 2.3-fold more HIF-1α and 4-fold more HIF-1β than the slow soleus muscle, while von-Hippel-Lindau protein was 4.8-fold higher in slow muscles. mRNA displayed a reciprocal pattern; thus FIH-1 mRNA was almost 2-fold higher in fast muscle, while the HIF-1α level was half, and consequently protein/mRNA ratio for HIF-1α was more than 4-fold higher in the fast muscle, suggesting that HIF-1α is strongly suppressed post-transcriptionally in slow muscles.When HIF-1α was overexpressed for 14 days after somatic gene transfer in adult rats, a slow-to-fast transformation was observed, encompassing an increase in fibre cross sectional area, oxidative enzyme activity and myosin heavy chain. The latter was shown to be regulated at the mRNA level in C2C12 myotubes.
Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Oslo, PO Box 1041, Blindern, N-0316 Oslo, Norway.
Ida G
IG
Lunde
Siobhan L
SL
Anton
Jo C
JC
Bruusgaard
Zaheer A
ZA
Rana
Stian
S
Ellefsen
Kristian
K
Gundersen
D000818:Animals; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D057809:HEK293 Cells; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000378:metabolism; D051795:Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D008297:Male; D018656:Muscle Fibers, Fast-Twitch / Q000378:metabolism*; D010641:Phenotype; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000096:biosynthesis; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar
C497444:Hif1a protein, rat; D051795:Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit; D012333:RNA, Messenger
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