Ham, Daniel J. and Börsch, Anastasiya and Chojnowska, Kathrin and Lin, Shuo and Leuchtmann, Aurel B. and Ham, Alexander S. and Thürkauf, Marco and Delezie, Julien and Furrer, Regula and Burri, Dominik and Sinnreich, Michael and Handschin, Christoph and Tintignac, Lionel A. and Zavolan, Mihaela and Mittal, Nitish and Rüegg, Markus A.. (2022) Distinct and additive effects of calorie restriction and rapamycin in aging skeletal muscle. Nature Communications, 13. p. 2025.
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Abstract
Preserving skeletal muscle function is essential to maintain life quality at high age. Calorie restriction (CR) potently extends health and lifespan, but is largely unachievable in humans, making "CR mimetics" of great interest. CR targets nutrient-sensing pathways centering on mTORC1. The mTORC1 inhibitor, rapamycin, is considered a potential CR mimetic and is proven to counteract age-related muscle loss. Therefore, we tested whether rapamycin acts via similar mechanisms as CR to slow muscle aging. Here we show that long-term CR and rapamycin unexpectedly display distinct gene expression profiles in geriatric mouse skeletal muscle, despite both benefiting aging muscles. Furthermore, CR improves muscle integrity in mice with nutrient-insensitive, sustained muscle mTORC1 activity and rapamycin provides additive benefits to CR in naturally aging mouse muscles. We conclude that rapamycin and CR exert distinct, compounding effects in aging skeletal muscle, thus opening the possibility of parallel interventions to counteract muscle aging.
Faculties and Departments: | 03 Faculty of Medicine > Departement Biomedizin > Associated Research Groups > Pharmakologie (Handschin) 05 Faculty of Science > Departement Biozentrum > Computational & Systems Biology > Bioinformatics (Zavolan) 05 Faculty of Science > Departement Biozentrum > Growth & Development > Growth & Development (Handschin) 05 Faculty of Science > Departement Biozentrum > Neurobiology > Pharmacology/Neurobiology (Rüegg) |
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UniBasel Contributors: | Handschin, Christoph and Zavolan, Mihaela and Börsch, Anastasiya and Mittal, Nitish and Burri, Dominik and Rüegg, Markus A. |
Item Type: | Article, refereed |
Article Subtype: | Research Article |
Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group |
e-ISSN: | 2041-1723 |
Note: | Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Last Modified: | 24 Aug 2023 11:44 |
Deposited On: | 22 Apr 2022 13:23 |
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