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. 2022 Sep 16;50(5):135. doi: 10.3892/ijmm.2022.5191

Table I.

Summary table indicating the mitochondrial manifestations and the molecular targets that are affected by the high-fat diet.

High-fat diet
Phenotype Tissue (host) Molecular target (Refs.)
Biogenesis Skeletal muscle
C57BL/6J mice
↧PPARGC1a mRNA and protein levels (63)
Biogenesis Cardiac muscle
Sprague-Dawley rats
↧mtDNA copy number (64)
Biogenesis Cardiac muscle
Wistar rats
↧PGC-1a mRNA and protein levels (65)
Biogenesis Skeletal muscle
Wistar rats
↥PGC-1α and TFAM protein levels (60)
Biogenesis Skeletal muscle
C57BL/6J mice and Wistar rats
↥PGC-1α protein (66)
Biogenesis Skeletal muscle
Wistar rats
↥PGC-1α protein
↥PPRAGC1a mRNA levels
(67)
Function C57Bl/6 mice ↧ OXPHOS-related mRNA transcripts
↧ cytochrome c protein levels
(63)
Function Cardiomyocytes
Sprague-Dawley rats
↧ mitochondrial respiration
↧ citrate synthase activities
↧ ATP
↥ AMP/ATP ratio
(58)
Function Skeletal muscle
C57BL/6 mice
↥ protein expression of all subunits from the respiratory chain (66)
Function Skeletal muscle
Wistar rats
↥COX1, COX4, UCP3 and Cyt b protein levels (67)
Function Myocardium
Wistar rats
↧ mRNA expression levels of the OXPHOS genes
↧ protein expression of NDUFB5
(65)
Dynamics Myocardium
Sprague-Dawley rats
↥ FIS1 protein (64)
Dynamics Diaphragm
C57BL/6 mice
↧ MFN2 protein
↥ DRP1protein
(70)
Dynamics Skeletal muscle
Sprague-Dawley rats
- MFN2 protein
↥ DRP1 and FIS1proteins
(71)
Dynamics Skeletal muscle
C57BL/6 mice
- MFN1 protein
↥ MFN2 and OPA1 protein
(72)
Mitophagy Skeletal muscle
non-obese sedentary male subjects
and endurance-trained male runners
- PINK1 (73)
Mitophagy Cardiomyocytes
Tg-Mito-Keima transgenic mice
↥ acidity (mitochondria come into contact with the acidic milieu of lysosomes during mitophagy) (74)
Mitophagy Cardiac muscle
C57BL/6 mice
↧ PARKIN protein
- PARKIN mRNA
(75)

Upward arrows indicate an increase, and downward arrows indicate a decrease. mtDNA, mitochondrial DNA; GC-1α, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma coactivator 1α; TFAM, mitochondrial transcription factor A; OXPHOS, oxidative phosphorylation; AMP, adenosine monophosphate; ATP, adenosine triphosphate; COX, cytochrome c oxidase; FIS1, mitochondrial fission 1; MFN, mitofusin; DRP1, dynamin-related protein 1; OPA1, optic atrophy 1; PINK1, PTEN-induced kinase 1.