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₂-AMPK activity is not essential for an increase in fatty acid oxidation during low-intensity exercise

¹Nutritional Science Program and ²Clinical Nutrition Program, National Institute of Health and Nutrition; ³Department of Molecular Medicine and Metabolism, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan; ⁴Cellular and Molecular Metabolism Laboratory, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia; and ⁵Department of Metabolic Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Submitted 13 August 2008 ; accepted in final form 11 October 2008

A single bout of exercise increases glucose uptake and fatty acid oxidation in skeletal muscle, with a corresponding activation of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK). While the exercise-induced increase in glucose uptake is partly due to activation of AMPK, it is unclear whether the increase of fatty acid oxidation is dependent on activation of AMPK. To examine this, transgenic mice were produced expressing a dominant-negative (DN) mutant of ₁-AMPK (₁-AMPK-DN) in skeletal muscle and subjected to treadmill running. ₁-AMPK-DN mice exhibited a 50% reduction in ₁-AMPK activity and almost complete loss of ₂-AMPK activity in skeletal muscle compared with wild-type littermates (WT). The fasting-induced decrease in respiratory quotient (RQ) ratio and reduced body weight were similar in both groups. In contrast with WT mice, ₁-AMPK-DN mice could not perform high-intensity (30 m/min) treadmill exercise, although their response to low-intensity (10 m/min) treadmill exercise was not compromised. Changes in oxygen consumption and the RQ ratio during sedentary and low-intensity exercise were not different between ₁-AMPK-DN and WT. Importantly, at low-intensity exercise, increased fatty acid oxidation in response to exercise in soleus (type I, slow twitch muscle) or extensor digitorum longus muscle (type II, fast twitch muscle) was not impaired in ₁-AMPK-DN mice, indicating that ₁-AMPK-DN mice utilize fatty acid in the same manner as WT mice during low-intensity exercise. These findings suggest that an increased ₂-AMPK activity is not essential for increased skeletal muscle fatty acid oxidation during endurance exercise.

adenosine 5'-monophosphate-activated protein kinase; fasting; respiratory quotient ratio; fatty acid oxidation; mitochondria; 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide-1-β-D-ribofuranoside

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