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

Table IV.

Summary table indicating the mitochondrial manifestations and the molecular targets that are affected during fasting.

Fasting
Phenotype Tissue (host) Molecular target (Refs.)
Biogenesis/function C2C12 myοtubes ↥ PGC-1α protein
↥ SIRT1-dependent deacetylation
(88)
Biogenesis Liver
HNF4α floxxed mice
↥ PGC -1a protein (158)
Biogenesis Liver
C57BL/6 mice
↥ mRNA PPARGC1α (159)
Biogenesis Skeletal muscle male northern elephant seals ↥ mRNA AMPK, SIRT1
- mRNA expression PPARGC1a
(157)
Biogenesis Hippocampal neurons cultures from embryonic day 17 Sprague-Dawley rats ↥ PGC-1α (161)
Biogenesis Skeletal muscle of male northern elephant seals ↥ AMPK phosphorylation
↥ mRNA SIRT1
- PGC-1a protein
(157)
Biogenesis Hippocampal neurons cultures cells ↥ mRNA PPARGC1α (161)
Biogenesis/function Muscle, liver and blood C57BL/6J mice ↥ Skeletal muscle mRNA levels of NRF1, NRF2, TFAM
↥ Hepatic mRNA level of PGC-1α
↥ Plasmatic level of glucose-6-phosphate
(162)
Function Liver, cardiac and skeletal muscle Wistar rats ↥ Hexokinases activity in liver, cardiac and skeletal muscle
↥ FoF1 activity in skeletal muscle
(163)
Function Skeletal muscle OF-1 mice ↥ Lipid catabolism (164)
Function Liver
Ames dwarf mice
↥ Stable or liver OXPHOS
↧ Components
(165)
Function Adipose tissue ob/ob mice ↥ UCP1 protein (168)
Function Adipose tissue C57BL/6 mice ↥ UCP1 protein
↧ Mitochondrial content in brown adipose tissue
↧ UCP1 protein mRNA levels
(169)
Function Human skeletal muscle No difference on markers of mitochondrial metabolism (PGC-1a, SIRT3, MFN2)
↧ ROS production
(147)
Function Liver
male FVB mice
↥ Expression of enzymes of the tricarboxylic-acid (TCA) cycle and oxidative phosphorylation (172)
Function Skeletal muscle of ducklings ↧ Activity of succinate-cytochrome c reductase
↧ Oxidative phosphorylation activities
(171)
Function Liver and skeletal muscles of ducklings ↧ Oxidative phosphorylation activity
↥ Coupling efficiency
(170)
Function Human PBMCs ↥ mRNA of genes related to fatty acid β-oxidation (173)
Dynamics Human peripheral blood
mononuclear cells (PBMCs)
↥ Mitochondrial fission (electron microscopy images)
↧ Mitochondrial fusion (electron microscopy images)
(175)
Dynamics Liver
C57Bl6J mice
↥ Mitochondrial size before feeding
↧ Mitochondrial size after feediing
(176)
Dynamics Human adipose tissue ↧ Genes involved in mitochondrial regulation (MRPS35, MRPL33, MRPL51, TOMM7, TOMM22, NDUFA12, NDUFS5, ATP5F1E, ATP5PD) (174)
Mitophagy Cardiac muscle
C57BL/6 mice
↥ Mitophagy-related targets (178)
Mitophagy Liver
C57BL/6 mice
↥ BNIP3 protein (179)
Mitophagy Skeletal muscle
Human subjects
- LC3BI and BNIP3 protein
- LC3II:I ratio and p62/SQSTM1 protein
(180)

Upward arrows indicate an increase, and downward arrows indicate a decrease. PGC-1α, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma coactivator 1α; SIRT1, sirtuin 1; AMPK, AMP-activated protein kinase; NRF, nuclear respiratory factor; OXPHOS, oxidative phosphorylation; UCP1, uncoupling protein 1; MFN, mitofusin.