TejJ114 (see Figure 1 for schematic outlining our original predictions). 0.1mM EGTA, 0.2% BSA (pH 7.4)), as set out in protocols previously described [58].
208The muscle was subsequently rinsed three times in 1ml of fresh isolation buffer, and
Results
318Mitochondrial oxygen consumption rates (OCR) within isolated liver 319 mitochondria under all conditions studied ( Fig. 2A) were unaffected by 10 months of 320 40% DR in strain TejJ89 relative to AL controls. A similar lack of a DR effect on 321 hepatic respiratory capacities was observed in strain TejJ48 (Fig. 2B). In contrast,
322DR in strain TejJ114 (Fig. 2C) under DR (Fig. S2H).
345Total hepatic protein levels of PGC-1α (Fig. 5A), a key transcriptional co-346 activator linked to mitochondrial metabolism and biogenesis, was unaltered by 347 treatment or strain, with both nuclear (Fig. 5B) and cytoplasmic (Fig. 5C) PGC-1α 348 levels likewise unaffected. Similarly, mitochondrial transcription factor A (TFAM), a 349 key activator of mitochondrial transcription, was unaffected by DR or strain (Fig. 5D).
350We then examined various OXPHOS complexes within liver, but again observed no we then went on to investigate whether DR induced mitonuclear protein imbalance and UPR mt by firstly calculating the ratio of nuclear encoded SDHB to mitochondrially 355 encoded MTCO1 as previously described [45]. We observed no effect of either 356 treatment or strain on mitochondrial nuclear imbalance ( Fig. 6A-C). No differences
357were observed between either treatment groups or strains in the mitochondrial 358 chaperone HSP60 (Fig. 6D), but a significant reduction in hepatic HSP90 (Fig. 6E)
359was observed in strain TejJ114 under DR (t=2.267, p=0.045) relative to AL controls.
360In order to determine whether mitochondrial dysfunction in strain TejJ114 was 361 specific to liver, we also examined a number of mitochondrial parameters in isolated 362 skeletal muscle from these same mice. No treatment or strain-specific differences in 363 mitochondrial OCR were observed ( Fig. 7A-E skeletal muscle were unaffected by treatment and strain (Figure S3D-F; Fig. 10A), as 373 was also the case in heart ( Fig. S3G-I; Fig. 10B).
Discussion
375The phenotypic plasticity of the mitochondria is crucial to allow energetic