Diabetes 52:657-662, 2003
© 2003 by the American Diabetes Association, Inc.
Effect of Short-Term Fasting and Refeeding on Transcriptional Regulation of Metabolic Genes in Human Skeletal Muscle
Henriette Pilegaard1,2,
Bengt Saltin1,3, and
P. Darrell Neufer4
1 Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark
2 The August Krogh Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
3 Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
4 The John B. Pierce Laboratory, Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
During short-term fasting, substrate utilization in skeletal muscle shifts from predominantly carbohydrate to fat as a means of conserving glucose. To examine the potential influence of short-term fasting and refeeding on transcriptional regulation in skeletal muscle, muscle biopsies were obtained from nine male subjects at rest, after 20 h of fasting, and 1 h after consuming either a high-carbohydrate (CHO trial) or a low-carbohydrate (FAT trial) meal. Fasting induced an increase in transcription of the pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase 4 (PDK4) (10-fold), lipoprotein lipase (LPL) ( 2-fold), uncoupling protein 3 (UCP3) ( 5-fold), and carnitine palmitoyltransferase I (CPT I) ( 2.5-fold) genes. Surprisingly, transcription of PDK4 and LPL increased further in response to refeeding (both trials) to more than 50-fold and 6- to 10-fold, respectively, over prefasting levels. However, responses varied among subjects with two subjects in particular displaying far greater activation of PDK4 (>100-fold) and LPL (>20-fold) than the other subjects (mean 8-fold and 2-fold, respectively). Transcription of UCP3 decreased to basal levels after the CHO meal but remained elevated after the FAT meal, whereas CPT I remained elevated after both refeeding meals. The present findings demonstrate that short-term fasting/refeeding in humans alters the transcription of several genes in skeletal muscle related to lipid metabolism. Marked heterogeneity in the transcriptional response to the fasting/refeeding protocol suggests that individual differences in genetic profile may play an important role in adaptive molecular responses to metabolic challenges.

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