title: Perinatal protein malnutrition affects mitochondrial function in adult and results in a resistance to high fat diet-induced obesity.
abstract: Epidemiological findings indicate that transient environmental influences during perinatal life, especially nutrition, may have deleterious heritable health effects lasting for the entire life. Indeed, the fetal organism develops specific adaptations that permanently change its physiology/metabolism and that persist even in the absence of the stimulus that initiated them. This process is termed "nutritional programming". We previously demonstrated that mothers fed a Low-Protein-Diet (LPD) during gestation and lactation give birth to F1-LPD animals presenting metabolic consequences that are different from those observed when the nutritional stress is applied during gestation only. Compared to control mice, adult F1-LPD animals have a lower body weight and exhibit a higher food intake suggesting that maternal protein under-nutrition during gestation and lactation affects the energy metabolism of F1-LPD offspring. In this study, we investigated the origin of this apparent energy wasting process in F1-LPD and demonstrated that minimal energy expenditure is increased, due to both an increased mitochondrial function in skeletal muscle and an increased mitochondrial density in White Adipose Tissue. Importantly, F1-LPD mice are protected against high-fat-diet-induced obesity. Clearly, different paradigms of exposure to malnutrition may be associated with differences in energy expenditure, food intake, weight and different susceptibilities to various symptoms associated with metabolic syndrome. Taken together these results demonstrate that intra-uterine environment is a major contributor to the future of individuals and disturbance at a critical period of development may compromise their health. Consequently, understanding the molecular mechanisms may give access to useful knowledge regarding the onset of metabolic diseases.
authors.affiliation: UMR1019 Nutrition Humaine, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Université Clermont 1, Saint Genès Champanelle, France.
authors.forename: Céline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jousse
authors.affiliation: UMR1019 Nutrition Humaine, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Université Clermont 1, Saint Genès Champanelle, France.
authors.forename: Yuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Muranishi
authors.affiliation: UMR1019 Nutrition Humaine, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Université Clermont 1, Saint Genès Champanelle, France.
authors.forename: Laurent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Parry
authors.affiliation: UMR1019 Nutrition Humaine, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Université Clermont 1, Saint Genès Champanelle, France.
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Montaurier
authors.affiliation: Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), AgroParisTech, UMR914 Nutrition Physiology and Ingestive Behavior, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Even
authors.affiliation: Service de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire/Equipe Associée (EA) 3621, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Hôpital Lariboisière, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Jean-Marie
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Launay
authors.affiliation: UMR1019 Nutrition Humaine, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Université Clermont 1, Saint Genès Champanelle, France.
authors.forename: Valérie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Carraro
authors.affiliation: UMR1019 Nutrition Humaine, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Université Clermont 1, Saint Genès Champanelle, France.
authors.forename: Anne-Catherine
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Maurin
authors.affiliation: UMR1019 Nutrition Humaine, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Université Clermont 1, Saint Genès Champanelle, France.
authors.forename: Julien
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Averous
authors.affiliation: UMR1019 Nutrition Humaine, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Université Clermont 1, Saint Genès Champanelle, France.
authors.forename: Cédric
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chaveroux
authors.affiliation: UMR1019 Nutrition Humaine, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Université Clermont 1, Saint Genès Champanelle, France.
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bruhat
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire de la Neurotransmission et des Processus Neurodégénératifs, UMR7091, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) Paris Université/CNRS, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Jacques
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mallet
authors.affiliation: UMR1019 Nutrition Humaine, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Université Clermont 1, Saint Genès Champanelle, France.
authors.forename: Béatrice
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Morio
authors.affiliation: UMR1019 Nutrition Humaine, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Université Clermont 1, Saint Genès Champanelle, France.
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fafournoux
mesh_terms: D052436:Adipose Tissue, White / Q000378:metabolism; D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D015153:Blotting, Western; D001831:Body Temperature; D001835:Body Weight; D002153:Calorimetry, Indirect; D017931:DNA Primers / Q000235:genetics; D059305:Diet, High-Fat / Q000009:adverse effects; D004435:Eating; D004734:Energy Metabolism / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D007774:Lactation / Q000502:physiology*; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000502:physiology*; D009765:Obesity / Q000378:metabolism / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011297:Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011488:Protein Deficiency / Q000503:physiopathology*; D060888:Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers