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Exercising D. melanogaster Modulates the Mitochondrial Proteome and Physiology - The Effect on Lifespan Depends Upon Age and Sex

Version 1 : Received: 24 September 2021 / Approved: 28 September 2021 / Online: 28 September 2021 (11:23:15 CEST)

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Ebanks, B.; Wang, Y.; Katyal, G.; Sargent, C.; Ingram, T.L.; Bowman, A.; Moisoi, N.; Chakrabarti, L. Exercising D. melanogaster Modulates the Mitochondrial Proteome and Physiology. The Effect on Lifespan Depends upon Age and Sex. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2021, 22, 11606. Ebanks, B.; Wang, Y.; Katyal, G.; Sargent, C.; Ingram, T.L.; Bowman, A.; Moisoi, N.; Chakrabarti, L. Exercising D. melanogaster Modulates the Mitochondrial Proteome and Physiology. The Effect on Lifespan Depends upon Age and Sex. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2021, 22, 11606.

Abstract

Ageing is a major risk factor for many of the most prevalent diseases, including neurodegenerative disease, cancer and heart disease. As the global population continues to age, behavioural interventions that can promote healthy ageing will improve quality of life and relieve the socio-economic burden that comes with an aged society. Exercise is recognised as an effective intervention against many diseases of ageing, but we don’t know the stage in an individual’s lifetime in which exercise is most effective at promoting healthy ageing and whether it has a direct effect on lifespan. We exercised w1118 Drosophila melanogaster, interrogating effects of sex and group size, at different stages of their lifetime and recorded their lifespan. Climbing scores at 30 days were measured to record differences in fitness in response to exercise. We also assessed the mitochondrial proteome of w1118 Drosophila that had been exercised for one week, alongside mitochondrial respiration measured using High-Resolution Respirometry, to determine changes in mitochondrial physiology in response to exercise. We found that age-targeted exercise interventions improve lifespan in male and female Drosophila, and grouped males exercised in late life had improved climbing scores, when compared with those exercised throughout their entire lifespan. The proteins of the electron transport chain were significantly upregulated in expression after one week of exercise, and complex II linked respiration was significantly increased in exercised -Drosophila. Taken together our study provides a basis to test specific proteins and complex II of the respiratory chain as important effectors of exercise induced healthy ageing.

Keywords

ageing; exercise; drosophila; proteome; mitochondria

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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