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    The molecular basis of aerobic metabolic remodeling in threespine stickleback in response to cold acclimation

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    Orczewska, Julieanna Inez
    Keyword
    sticklebacks
    metabolism
    climatic factors
    temperature
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11122/11368
    Abstract
    Increases in mitochondrial density during cold acclimation have been documented in many fish species, however the mechanism regulating this process is not understood. The present study sought to characterize metabolic changes in response to cold acclimation and identify how these changes are regulated in oxidative muscle, glycolytic muscle and liver tissue of threespine stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus. Fish were warm (20°C) or cold (8°C) acclimated for 9 weeks and harvested during acclimation. Mitochondrial volume density was quantified using transmission electron microscopy and aerobic metabolic capacity assessed by measuring the maximal activity of citrate synthase and cytochrome c oxidase. The molecular mechanism mediating changes in aerobic metabolic capacity were assessed by quantifying transcript levels of aerobic metabolic genes and known regulators of mammalian mitochondrial biogenesis using quantitative real-time PCR. Our results indicate that while the maximal activity of aerobic metabolic enzymes increased in all tissues, mitochondrial biogenesis only occurred in oxidative muscle. Our results also suggest that the time course of metabolic remodeling is tissue specific. Lastly, we identified differences in the magnitude and timing of transcriptional and co-transcriptional activators driving metabolic remodeling between each tissue. These results suggest aerobic metabolic remodeling may be triggered by different stimuli in different tissues.
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    Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2011
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    1. Introduction -- 2. Materials and methods -- 2.1. Animals -- 2.2. Measurements of cell size and ultrastructural characteristics -- 2.3. Enzyme activity -- 2.4. RNA isolation -- 2.5. Gene expression -- 2.6. Analysis of housekeeping genes -- 2.7. Mitochondrial DNA copy number -- 2.8. Statistical analyses -- 2.9. Glycolytic muscle -- 3. Results -- 3.1. Physical characteristics -- 3.2. Changes in cell architecture in response to cold acclimation -- 3.3. Time course for metabolic remodeling in response to cold acclimation -- 3.4. Identification of a stable housekeeping gene -- 3.5. Changes in the expression of aerobic metabolic genes in response to cold acclimation -- 3.6. Changes in the expression of genes involved in regulating mitochondrial biogenesis in response to cold acclimation -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1. Metabolic remodeling in response to cold acclimation -- 4.2. The molecular basis of metabolic remodeling -- 4.3. Regulation of aerobic metabolic remodeling -- 5. Perspectives and significance -- 6. Acknowledgements -- 7. Grants -- 8. Disclosures -- 9. References -- 10. Appendices.
    Date
    2011-05
    Type
    Thesis
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    Chemistry and Biochemistry

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