Fatiguing exercise reduces DNA binding activity of NF-kappaB in skeletal muscle nuclei. |
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Authors: | William J Durham Yi-Ping Li Eric Gerken Mehran Farid Sandrine Arbogast Robert R Wolfe Michael B Reid |
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Affiliation: | Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Section, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. |
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Abstract: | This study tested the hypothesis that skeletal muscle contraction activates nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB), a putative regulator of muscle protein breakdown. Muscle biopsies were obtained from the vastus lateralis of healthy humans before, immediately after, and 1 h after fatiguing resistance exercise of the lower limbs. Biopsies were analyzed for nuclear NF-kappaB DNA binding activity by using electrophoretic mobility shift assay. NF-kappaB activity, measured immediately after exercise, was less than preexercise activity; after 1-h recovery, activity returned to preexercise levels. In follow-up studies in adult mice, basal NF-kappaB activity varied among individual muscles. NF-kappaB activity in diaphragm fiber bundles was decreased after a 10-min bout of fatiguing tetanic contractions in vitro. NF-kappaB activity in soleus was increased by 12 days of unloading by hindlimb suspension; this increase was reversed by 10 min of fatiguing exercise. These data provide no support for our original hypothesis. Instead, acute fatiguing exercise appears to decrease NF-kappaB activity in muscle under a variety of conditions. |
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