1  350 187 ALTERED DYNAMICS OF LIPID METABOLISM IN MUSCLE CELLS FROM PATIENTS WITH IDIOPATHIC INFLAMMATORY MYOPATHY IS AMELIORATED BY 6 MONTHS OF TRAINING. KEY POINTS: REGULAR EXERCISE IMPROVES MUSCLE FUNCTIONAL CAPACITY AND CLINICAL STATE OF PATIENTS WITH IDIOPATHIC INFLAMMATORY MYOPATHY (IIM). IN OUR STUDY, WE USED AN IN VITRO MODEL OF HUMAN PRIMARY MUSCLE CELL CULTURES, DERIVED FROM IIM PATIENTS BEFORE AND AFTER A 6-MONTH INTENSIVE SUPERVISED TRAINING INTERVENTION TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF DISEASE AND EXERCISE ON LIPID METABOLISM DYNAMICS. WE PROVIDE EVIDENCE THAT MUSCLE CELLS FROM IIM PATIENTS DISPLAY ALTERED DYNAMICS OF LIPID METABOLISM AND IMPAIRED ADAPTIVE RESPONSE TO SATURATED FATTY ACID LOAD COMPARED TO HEALTHY CONTROLS. A 6-MONTH INTENSIVE SUPERVISED EXERCISE TRAINING INTERVENTION IN PATIENTS WITH IIM MITIGATED DISEASE EFFECTS IN THEIR CULTURED MUSCLE CELLS, IMPROVING OR NORMALIZING THEIR CAPACITY TO HANDLE LIPIDS. THESE FINDINGS HIGHLIGHT THE PUTATIVE ROLE OF INTRINSIC METABOLIC DEFECTS OF SKELETAL MUSCLE IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF IIM AND THE POSITIVE IMPACT OF EXERCISE, MAINTAINED IN VITRO BY YET UNKNOWN EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS. ABSTRACT: EXERCISE IMPROVES SKELETAL MUSCLE FUNCTION, CLINICAL STATE AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN PATIENTS WITH IDIOPATHIC INFLAMMATORY MYOPATHY (IIM). OUR AIM WAS TO IDENTIFY DISEASE-RELATED METABOLIC PERTURBATIONS AND THE IMPACT OF EXERCISE IN SKELETAL MUSCLE CELLS OF IIM PATIENTS. PATIENTS UNDERWENT A 6-MONTH INTENSIVE SUPERVISED TRAINING INTERVENTION. MUSCLE FUNCTION, ANTHROPOMETRIC AND METABOLIC PARAMETERS WERE EXAMINED AND MUSCLE CELL CULTURES WERE ESTABLISHED (M. VASTUS LATERALIS; BERGSTROM NEEDLE BIOPSY) BEFORE AND AFTER TRAINING FROM PATIENTS AND SEDENTARY AGE/SEX/BODY MASS INDEX-MATCHED CONTROLS. [(14) C]PALMITATE WAS USED TO DETERMINE FAT OXIDATION AND LIPID SYNTHESIS (THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY). CELLS WERE EXPOSED TO A CHRONIC (3 DAYS) AND ACUTE (3 H) METABOLIC CHALLENGE (THE SATURATED FATTY ACID PALMITATE, 100 MUM). REDUCED OXIDATIVE (INTERMEDIATE METABOLITES, -49%, P = 0.034) AND NON-OXIDATIVE (DIGLYCERIDES, -38%, P = 0.013) LIPID METABOLISM WAS IDENTIFIED IN PALMITATE-TREATED MUSCLE CELLS FROM IIM PATIENTS COMPARED TO CONTROLS. THREE DAYS OF PALMITATE EXPOSURE ELICITED DISTINCT REGULATION OF OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION (OXPHOS) COMPLEX IV AND COMPLEX V/ATP SYNTHASE (P = 0.012/0.005) AND ADIPOSE TRIGLYCERIDE LIPASE IN PATIENTS COMPARED TO CONTROLS (P = 0.045) (IMMUNOBLOTTING). IMPORTANTLY, 6 MONTHS OF TRAINING IN IIM PATIENTS IMPROVED LIPID METABOLISM (CO(2) , P = 0.010; INTERMEDIATE METABOLITES, P = 0.041) AND ACTIVATION OF AMP KINASE (P = 0.007), AND NEARLY NORMALIZED PALMITATE-INDUCED CHANGES IN OXPHOS PROTEINS IN MYOTUBES FROM IIM PATIENTS, IN PARALLEL WITH IMPROVEMENTS OF PATIENTS' CLINICAL STATE. MYOTUBES FROM IIM PATIENTS DISPLAYED ALTERED DYNAMICS OF LIPID METABOLISM AND IMPAIRED RESPONSE TO METABOLIC CHALLENGE WITH SATURATED FATTY ACID. OUR OBSERVATIONS SUGGEST THAT METABOLIC DEFECTS INTRINSIC TO SKELETAL MUSCLE COULD REPRESENT NON-IMMUNE PATHOMECHANISMS, WHICH CAN CONTRIBUTE TO MUSCLE WEAKNESS IN IIM. A 6-MONTH TRAINING INTERVENTION MITIGATED DISEASE EFFECTS IN MUSCLE CELLS IN VITRO, INDICATING THE EXISTENCE OF EPIGENETIC REGULATORY MECHANISMS.	2021	

2 5305  49 PROTEOMICS ANALYSIS OF HUMAN OBESITY REVEALS THE EPIGENETIC FACTOR HDAC4 AS A POTENTIAL TARGET FOR OBESITY. SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE AND EXCESSIVE ENERGY INTAKE ARE PROMINENT CONTRIBUTORS TO OBESITY; A MAJOR RISK FACTORS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF INSULIN RESISTANCE, TYPE 2 DIABETES AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES. ELUCIDATING THE MOLECULAR MECHANISMS UNDERLYING THESE CHRONIC CONDITIONS IS OF RELEVANT IMPORTANCE AS IT MIGHT LEAD TO THE IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL ANTI-OBESITY TARGETS. THE PURPOSE OF THE CURRENT STUDY IS TO INVESTIGATE DIFFERENTIALLY EXPRESSED PROTEINS BETWEEN LEAN AND OBESE SUBJECTS THROUGH A SHOT-GUN QUANTITATIVE PROTEOMICS APPROACH USING PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELLS (PBMCS) EXTRACTS AS WELL AS POTENTIAL MODULATION OF THOSE PROTEINS BY PHYSICAL EXERCISE. USING THIS APPROACH, A TOTAL OF 47 PROTEINS SHOWED AT LEAST 1.5 FOLD CHANGE BETWEEN LEAN AND OBESE SUBJECTS. IN OBESE, THE PROTEOMIC PROFILING BEFORE AND AFTER 3 MONTHS OF PHYSICAL EXERCISE SHOWED DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION OF 38 PROTEINS. THROMBOSPONDIN 1 (TSP1) WAS AMONG THE PROTEINS THAT WERE UPREGULATED IN OBESE SUBJECTS AND THEN DECREASED BY PHYSICAL EXERCISE. CONVERSELY, THE HISTONE DEACETYLASE 4 (HDAC4) WAS DOWNREGULATED IN OBESE SUBJECTS AND THEN INDUCED BY PHYSICAL EXERCISE. THE PROTEOMIC DATA WAS FURTHER VALIDATED BY QRT-PCR, WESTERN BLOT AND IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY IN BOTH PBMCS AND ADIPOSE TISSUE. WE ALSO SHOWED THAT HDAC4 LEVELS CORRELATED POSITIVELY WITH MAXIMUM OXYGEN CONSUMPTION (VO2 MAX) BUT NEGATIVELY WITH BODY MASS INDEX, PERCENT BODY FAT, AND THE INFLAMMATORY CHEMOKINE RANTES. IN FUNCTIONAL ASSAYS, OUR DATA INDICATED THAT ECTOPIC EXPRESSION OF HDAC4 SIGNIFICANTLY IMPAIRED TNF-ALPHA-DEPENDENT ACTIVATION OF NF-KAPPAB, ESTABLISHING THUS A LINK BETWEEN HDAC4 AND REGULATION OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM. TOGETHER, THE EXPRESSION PATTERN OF HDAC4 IN OBESE SUBJECTS BEFORE AND AFTER PHYSICAL EXERCISE, ITS CORRELATION WITH VARIOUS PHYSICAL, CLINICAL AND METABOLIC PARAMETERS ALONG WITH ITS INHIBITORY EFFECT ON NF-KAPPAB ARE SUGGESTIVE OF A PROTECTIVE ROLE OF HDAC4 AGAINST OBESITY. HDAC4 COULD THEREFORE REPRESENT A POTENTIAL THERAPEUTIC TARGET FOR THE CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT OF OBESITY AND PRESUMABLY INSULIN RESISTANCE.	2013	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
3 2408  39 EPIGENETIC REWIRING OF SKELETAL MUSCLE ENHANCERS AFTER EXERCISE TRAINING SUPPORTS A ROLE IN WHOLE-BODY FUNCTION AND HUMAN HEALTH. OBJECTIVES: REGULAR PHYSICAL EXERCISE IMPROVES HEALTH BY REDUCING THE RISK OF A PLETHORA OF CHRONIC DISORDERS. WE HYPOTHESIZED THAT ENDURANCE EXERCISE TRAINING REMODELS THE ACTIVITY OF GENE ENHANCERS IN SKELETAL MUSCLE AND THAT THIS REMODELING CONTRIBUTES TO THE BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF EXERCISE ON HUMAN HEALTH. METHODS AND RESULTS: BY STUDYING CHANGES IN HISTONE MODIFICATIONS, WE MAPPED THE GENOME-WIDE POSITIONS AND ACTIVITIES OF ENHANCERS IN SKELETAL MUSCLE BIOPSIES COLLECTED FROM YOUNG SEDENTARY MEN BEFORE AND AFTER 6 WEEKS OF ENDURANCE EXERCISE. WE IDENTIFIED EXTENSIVE REMODELING OF ENHANCER ACTIVITIES AFTER EXERCISE TRAINING, WITH A LARGE SUBSET OF THE REMODELED ENHANCERS LOCATED IN THE PROXIMITY OF GENES TRANSCRIPTIONALLY REGULATED AFTER EXERCISE. BY OVERLAPPING THE POSITION OF ENHANCERS WITH GENETIC VARIANTS, WE IDENTIFIED AN ENRICHMENT OF DISEASE-ASSOCIATED GENETIC VARIANTS WITHIN THE EXERCISE-REMODELED ENHANCERS. CONCLUSION: OUR DATA PROVIDE EVIDENCE OF A FUNCTIONAL LINK BETWEEN EPIGENETIC REWIRING OF ENHANCERS TO CONTROL THEIR ACTIVITY AFTER EXERCISE TRAINING AND THE MODULATION OF DISEASE RISK IN HUMANS.	2021	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
4 5856  34 SUBSTRATE UTILISATION OF CULTURED SKELETAL MUSCLE CELLS IN PATIENTS WITH CFS. CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME (CFS) PATIENTS OFTEN SUFFER FROM SEVERE MUSCLE PAIN AND AN INABILITY TO EXERCISE DUE TO MUSCLE FATIGUE. IT HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN SHOWN THAT CFS SKELETAL MUSCLE CELLS HAVE LOWER LEVELS OF ATP AND HAVE AMP-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE DYSFUNCTION. THIS STUDY OUTLINES EXPERIMENTS LOOKING AT THE UTILISATION OF DIFFERENT SUBSTRATES BY SKELETAL MUSCLE CELLS FROM CFS PATIENTS (N = 9) AND HEALTHY CONTROLS (N = 11) USING EXTRACELLULAR FLUX ANALYSIS. RESULTS SHOW THAT CFS SKELETAL MUSCLE CELLS ARE UNABLE TO UTILISE GLUCOSE TO THE SAME EXTENT AS HEALTHY CONTROL CELLS. CFS SKELETAL MUSCLE CELLS WERE SHOWN TO OXIDISE GALACTOSE AND FATTY ACIDS NORMALLY, INDICATING THAT THE BIOENERGETIC DYSFUNCTION LIES UPSTREAM OF THE TCA CYCLE. THE DYSFUNCTION IN GLUCOSE OXIDATION IS SIMILAR TO WHAT HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN SHOWN IN BLOOD CELLS FROM CFS PATIENTS. THE CONSISTENCY OF CELLULAR BIOENERGETIC DYSFUNCTION IN DIFFERENT CELL TYPES SUPPORTS THE HYPOTHESIS THAT CFS IS A SYSTEMIC DISEASE. THE RETENTION OF BIOENERGETIC DEFECTS IN CULTURED CELLS INDICATES THAT THERE IS A GENETIC OR EPIGENETIC COMPONENT TO THE DISEASE. THIS IS THE FIRST STUDY TO USE CELLS DERIVED FROM SKELETAL MUSCLE BIOPSIES IN CFS PATIENTS AND HEALTHY CONTROLS TO LOOK AT CELLULAR BIOENERGETIC FUNCTION IN WHOLE CELLS.	2020	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
5 2711  28 EXERCISE TRAINING ALTERS THE GENOMIC RESPONSE TO ACUTE EXERCISE IN HUMAN ADIPOSE TISSUE. AIM: TO DETERMINE THE GENOMIC MECHANISMS BY WHICH ADIPOSE TISSUE RESPONDS TO ACUTE AND CHRONIC EXERCISE. METHODS: WE PROFILED THE TRANSCRIPTOMIC AND EPIGENETIC RESPONSE TO ACUTE EXERCISE IN HUMAN ADIPOSE TISSUE COLLECTED BEFORE AND AFTER ENDURANCE TRAINING. RESULTS: ALTHOUGH ACUTE EXERCISES WERE PERFORMED AT SAME RELATIVE INTENSITIES, THE MAGNITUDE OF TRANSCRIPTOMIC CHANGES AFTER ACUTE EXERCISE WAS REDUCED BY ENDURANCE TRAINING. DNA METHYLATION REMODELING INDUCED BY ACUTE EXERCISE WAS MORE PROMINENT IN TRAINED VERSUS UNTRAINED STATE. WE FOUND AN OVERLAP BETWEEN GENE EXPRESSION AND DNA METHYLATION CHANGES AFTER ACUTE EXERCISE FOR 32 GENES PRE-TRAINING AND SIX POST-TRAINING, NOTABLY AT ADIPOCYTE-SPECIFIC GENES. CONCLUSION: TRAINING STATUS DIFFERENTIALLY AFFECTS THE EPIGENETIC AND TRANSCRIPTOMIC RESPONSE TO ACUTE EXERCISE IN HUMAN ADIPOSE TISSUE.	2018	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
6 3292  41 HIGH FAT DIET AND EXERCISE LEAD TO A DISRUPTED AND PATHOGENIC DNA METHYLOME IN MOUSE LIVER. HIGH-FAT DIET CONSUMPTION AND SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE ELEVATES RISK FOR OBESITY, NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE, AND CANCER. EXERCISE TRAINING CONVEYS HEALTH BENEFITS IN POPULATIONS WITH OR WITHOUT THESE CHRONIC CONDITIONS. DIET AND EXERCISE REGULATE GENE EXPRESSION BY MEDIATING EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS IN MANY TISSUES; HOWEVER, SUCH EFFECTS ARE POORLY DOCUMENTED IN THE LIVER, A CENTRAL METABOLIC ORGAN. TO DISSECT THE CONSEQUENCES OF DIET AND EXERCISE ON THE LIVER EPIGENOME, WE MEASURED DNA METHYLATION, USING REDUCED REPRESENTATION BISULFITE SEQUENCING, AND TRANSCRIPTION, USING RNA-SEQ, IN MICE MAINTAINED ON A FAST FOOD DIET WITH SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE OR EXERCISE, COMPARED WITH CONTROL DIET WITH AND WITHOUT EXERCISE. OUR ANALYSES REVEAL THAT GENOME-WIDE DIFFERENTIAL DNA METHYLATION AND EXPRESSION OF GENE CLUSTERS ARE INDUCED BY DIET AND/OR EXERCISE. A COMBINATION OF FAST FOOD AND EXERCISE TRIGGERS EXTENSIVE GENE ALTERATIONS, WITH ENRICHMENT OF CARBOHYDRATE/LIPID METABOLIC PATHWAYS AND MUSCLE DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESSES. THROUGH EVALUATION OF PUTATIVE PROTECTIVE EFFECTS OF EXERCISE ON DIET-INDUCED DNA METHYLATION, WE SHOW THAT HYPERMETHYLATION IS EFFECTIVELY PREVENTED, ESPECIALLY AT PROMOTERS AND ENHANCERS, WHEREAS HYPOMETHYLATION IS ONLY PARTIALLY ATTENUATED. WE ASSESSED DIET-INDUCED DNA METHYLATION CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH LIVER CANCER-RELATED EPIGENETIC MODIFICATIONS AND IDENTIFIED SIGNIFICANT INCREASES AT LIVER-SPECIFIC ENHANCERS IN FAST FOOD GROUPS, SUGGESTING PARTIAL LOSS OF LIVER CELL IDENTITY. HYPERMETHYLATION AT A SUBSET OF GENE PROMOTERS WAS ASSOCIATED WITH INHIBITION OF TISSUE DEVELOPMENT AND PROMOTION OF CARCINOGENIC PROCESSES. OUR STUDY DEMONSTRATES EXTENSIVE REPROGRAMMING OF THE EPIGENOME BY DIET AND EXERCISE, EMPHASIZING THE FUNCTIONAL RELEVANCE OF EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS AS AN INTERFACE BETWEEN LIFESTYLE MODIFICATIONS AND PHENOTYPIC ALTERATIONS.	2017	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
7 5894  34 T CELL EPIGENETIC REMODELING AND ACCELERATED EPIGENETIC AGING ARE LINKED TO LONG-TERM IMMUNE ALTERATIONS IN CHILDHOOD CANCER SURVIVORS. BACKGROUND: CANCER TREATMENTS HAVE SUBSTANTIALLY IMPROVED CHILDHOOD CANCER SURVIVAL BUT ARE ACCOMPANIED BY LONG-TERM COMPLICATIONS, NOTABLY CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASES. WE HYPOTHESIZE THAT CANCER TREATMENTS COULD LEAD TO LONG-TERM EPIGENETIC CHANGES IN IMMUNE CELLS, RESULTING IN INCREASED PREVALENCE OF INFLAMMATORY DISEASES IN CANCER SURVIVORS. RESULTS: TO TEST THIS HYPOTHESIS, WE ESTABLISHED THE EPIGENETIC AND TRANSCRIPTOMIC PROFILES OF IMMUNE CELLS FROM 44 CHILDHOOD CANCER SURVIVORS (CCS, > 16 YEARS OLD) ON FULL REMISSION (> 5 YEARS) WHO HAD RECEIVED CHEMOTHERAPY ALONE OR IN COMBINATION WITH TOTAL BODY IRRADIATION (TBI) AND HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANT (HSCT). WE FOUND THAT MORE THAN 10 YEARS POST-TREATMENT, CCS TREATED WITH TBI/HSCT SHOWED AN ALTERED DNA METHYLATION SIGNATURE IN T CELL, PARTICULARLY AT GENES CONTROLLING IMMUNE AND INFLAMMATORY PROCESSES AND OXIDATIVE STRESS. DNA METHYLATION REMODELING IN T CELL WAS PARTIALLY ASSOCIATED WITH CHRONIC EXPRESSION CHANGES OF NEARBY GENES, INCREASED FREQUENCY OF TYPE 1 CYTOKINE-PRODUCING T CELL, ELEVATED SYSTEMIC LEVELS OF THESE CYTOKINES, AND OVER-ACTIVATION OF RELATED SIGNALING PATHWAYS. SURVIVORS EXPOSED TO TBI/HSCT WERE FURTHER CHARACTERIZED BY AN EPIGENETIC-AGING-SIGNATURE OF T CELL CONSISTENT WITH ACCELERATED EPIGENETIC AGING. TO INVESTIGATE THE POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTION OF IRRADIATION TO THESE CHANGES, WE ESTABLISHED TWO CELL CULTURE MODELS. WE IDENTIFIED THAT RADIATION PARTIALLY RECAPITULATED THE IMMUNE CHANGES OBSERVED IN SURVIVORS THROUGH A BYSTANDER EFFECT THAT COULD BE MEDIATED BY CIRCULATING FACTORS. CONCLUSION: CANCER TREATMENTS, IN PARTICULAR TBI/HSCT, ARE ASSOCIATED WITH LONG-TERM IMMUNE DISTURBANCES. WE PROPOSE THAT EPIGENETIC REMODELING OF IMMUNE CELLS FOLLOWING CANCER THERAPY AUGMENTS INFLAMMATORY- AND AGE-RELATED DISEASES, INCLUDING METABOLIC COMPLICATIONS, IN CHILDHOOD CANCER SURVIVORS.	2018	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
8 3836  37 IONIZING RADIATION POTENTIATES HIGH-FAT DIET-INDUCED INSULIN RESISTANCE AND REPROGRAMS SKELETAL MUSCLE AND ADIPOSE PROGENITOR CELLS. EXPOSURE TO IONIZING RADIATION INCREASES THE RISK OF CHRONIC METABOLIC DISORDERS SUCH AS INSULIN RESISTANCE AND TYPE 2 DIABETES LATER IN LIFE. WE HYPOTHESIZED THAT IRRADIATION REPROGRAMS THE EPIGENOME OF METABOLIC PROGENITOR CELLS, WHICH COULD ACCOUNT FOR IMPAIRED METABOLISM AFTER CANCER TREATMENT. C57BL/6 MICE WERE TREATED WITH A SINGLE DOSE OF IRRADIATION AND SUBJECTED TO HIGH-FAT DIET (HFD). RNA SEQUENCING AND REDUCED REPRESENTATION BISULFITE SEQUENCING WERE USED TO CREATE TRANSCRIPTOMIC AND EPIGENOMIC PROFILES OF PREADIPOCYTES AND SKELETAL MUSCLE SATELLITE CELLS COLLECTED FROM IRRADIATED MICE. MICE SUBJECTED TO TOTAL BODY IRRADIATION SHOWED ALTERATIONS IN GLUCOSE METABOLISM AND, WHEN CHALLENGED WITH HFD, MARKED HYPERINSULINEMIA. INSULIN SIGNALING WAS CHRONICALLY DISRUPTED IN SKELETAL MUSCLE AND ADIPOSE PROGENITOR CELLS COLLECTED FROM IRRADIATED MICE AND DIFFERENTIATED IN CULTURE. EPIGENOMIC PROFILING OF SKELETAL MUSCLE AND ADIPOSE PROGENITOR CELLS FROM IRRADIATED ANIMALS REVEALED SUBSTANTIAL DNA METHYLATION CHANGES, NOTABLY FOR GENES REGULATING THE CELL CYCLE, GLUCOSE/LIPID METABOLISM, AND EXPRESSION OF EPIGENETIC MODIFIERS. OUR RESULTS SHOW THAT TOTAL BODY IRRADIATION ALTERS INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING AND EPIGENETIC PATHWAYS REGULATING CELL PROLIFERATION AND DIFFERENTIATION OF SKELETAL MUSCLE AND ADIPOSE PROGENITOR CELLS AND PROVIDE A POSSIBLE MECHANISM BY WHICH IRRADIATION USED IN CANCER TREATMENT INCREASES THE RISK FOR METABOLIC DISEASE LATER IN LIFE.	2016	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
9 5734  44 SMALL NON-CODING RNAS ARE ALTERED BY SHORT-TERM SPRINT INTERVAL TRAINING IN MEN. SMALL NON-CODING RNAS (NCRNAS) ARE EMERGING AS IMPORTANT MOLECULES FOR NORMAL BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES AND ARE DEREGULATED IN DISEASE. EXERCISE TRAINING IS A POWERFUL THERAPEUTIC STRATEGY THAT PREVENTS CARDIOMETABOLIC DISEASE AND IMPROVES CARDIORESPIRATORY FITNESS AND PERFORMANCE. DESPITE THE KNOWN SYSTEMIC HEALTH BENEFITS OF EXERCISE TRAINING, THE UNDERLYING MOLECULAR MECHANISMS ARE INCOMPLETELY UNDERSTOOD. RECENT EVIDENCE SUGGESTS A ROLE FOR EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS, SUCH AS MICRORNAS, BUT WHETHER OTHER SMALL NCRNAS ARE MODULATED BY CHRONIC EXERCISE TRAINING IS UNKNOWN. HERE, WE USED SMALL RNA SEQUENCING TO EXPLORE WHETHER SPRINT INTERVAL TRAINING (SIT) CONTROLS THE ABUNDANCE OF CIRCULATING SMALL NCRNAS IN HUMAN WHOLE BLOOD SAMPLES. TEN HEALTHY MEN PERFORMED SIT THREE TIMES A WEEK FOR 6 WEEKS. AFTER TRAINING, SUBJECTS SHOWED MARKED IMPROVEMENTS IN MAXIMAL OXYGEN CONSUMPTION AND CYCLING PERFORMANCE WITH CONCURRENT CHANGES TO THE ABUNDANCE OF DIVERSE SPECIES OF CIRCULATING SMALL NCRNAS (N = 1266 SMALL NCRNAS, N = 13 MICRORNAS, Q < 0.05). TWELVE MICRORNAS ALTERED BY 6 WEEKS OF SIT WERE UBIQUITOUSLY EXPRESSED MICRORNAS AND TWO REGULATED IMPORTANT SIGNALING PATHWAYS, INCLUDING P53, THYROID HORMONE AND CELL CYCLE SIGNALING. MICRORNAS ALTERED BY 6 WEEKS OF SIT WERE UNCHANGED AFTER A SINGLE SESSION OF SIT (N = 24, ALL P > 0.05). RELATIVE TO OLDER INDIVIDUALS, YOUNGER SUBJECTS EXHIBITED AN INCREASED ACUTE SIT-INDUCED FOLD CHANGE IN MIR-1301-3P (P = 0.02) - A MICRORNA PREDICTED TO TARGET MRNAS INVOLVED IN ALTERNATIVE SPLICING, PHOSPHOPROTEIN AND CHROMOSOMAL REARRANGEMENT PROCESSES (ALL P < 0.001). OUR FINDINGS INDICATE MANY SPECIES OF CIRCULATING SMALL NCRNAS ARE MODULATED BY EXERCISE TRAINING AND THAT THEY COULD CONTROL SIGNALING PATHWAYS RESPONSIBLE FOR HEALTH BENEFITS ACHIEVED FROM EXERCISE.	2018	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
10 6564  35 TRANSIENT EXPOSURE TO ELEVATED GLUCOSE LEVELS CAUSES PERSISTENT CHANGES IN DERMAL MICROVASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELL RESPONSES TO INJURY. BACKGROUND: THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE WHETHER ELEVATED GLUCOSE CAN INDUCE A DERMAL MICROVASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELL METABOLIC MEMORY, THUS AFFECTING ANGIOGENESIS IN THE REPAIR PROCESS OF MAMMALIAN CUTANEOUS WOUND. WE HYPOTHESIZED THAT TRANSIENT ELEVATED GLUCOSE LEVELS CAUSE SUSTAINED ALTERATION OF ENDOTHELIAL CELL RESPONSES TO INJURY AND PERSISTENT EPIGENETIC CHANGES IN GENE EXPRESSION. METHODS: HUMAN DERMAL MICROVASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELLS WERE EXPOSED TO EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS WITH OR WITHOUT 30 MM D-GLUCOSE. THE CONTROL GROUP WAS MAINTAINED AT 5 MM D-GLUCOSE; WHILE IN THE TRANSIENT GLUCOSE GROUP, AFTER BEING EXPOSED TO 30 MM D-GLUCOSE FOR TWO DAYS, THEN BEING PUT UNDER THE CONTROL CONDITIONS DURING THE EXPERIMENT. BESIDES, IN THE WHOLE PROCESS OF THE EXPERIMENT, THE CHRONIC GLUCOSE GROUP WAS KEPT IN THE CONDITION WITH 30 MM D-GLUCOSE. PROLIFERATION, MIGRATION, TUBE FORMATION, GENE EXPRESSION AND HISTONE METHYLATION WERE ASSESSED FOR INDIVIDUAL CONDITIONS. RESULTS: TRANSIENT ELEVATED GLUCOSE CAUSED SUSTAINED EFFECTS ON ENDOTHELIAL CELL MIGRATION, TUBE FORMATION AND TIMP3 GENE EXPRESSION. THE EFFECTS ON TIMP3 EXPRESSION WERE ASSOCIATED WITH PERSISTENT CHANGES IN HISTONE MODIFICATION AT THE 5' END OF THE TIMP3 GENE, SUGGESTING AN EPIGENETIC EFFECT. CONCLUSIONS: HYPERGLYCEMIA INDUCED METABOLIC MEMORY COULD PROMOTE THE REGULATION OF TIMP3, AND IT CAN BE USED AS A POSSIBLE INNOVATIVE MOLECULAR TARGET FOR THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION IN THE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC NON-HEALING DIABETIC WOUNDS.	2021	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
11 1567  27 DNA METHYLATION OF THE KLF14 GENE REGION IN WHOLE BLOOD CELLS PROVIDES PREDICTION FOR THE CHRONIC INFLAMMATION IN THE ADIPOSE TISSUE. KRUPPEL-LIKE FACTOR 14 (KLF14) GENE, WHICH APPEARS TO BE A MASTER REGULATOR OF GENE EXPRESSION IN THE ADIPOSE TISSUE AND HAVE PREVIOUSLY BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH BMI AND TYPE 2 DIABETES (T2D) BY LARGE GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES. IN ORDER TO FIND PREDICTIVE BIOMARKERS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF T2D, IT IS NECESSARY TO TAKE EPIGENOMIC CHANGES AFFECTED BY ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS INTO ACCOUNT. THIS STUDY FOCUSES ON AGEING AND OBESITY, WHICH ARE T2D RISK FACTORS, AND EXAMINES EPIGENETIC CHANGES AND INFLAMMATORY CHANGES. WE INVESTIGATED DNA METHYLATION CHANGES IN THE KLF14 PROMOTER REGION IN DIFFERENT ORGANS OF MICE FOR COMPARING AGING AND WEIGHT. WE FOUND THAT METHYLATION LEVELS OF THESE SITES WERE INCREASED WITH AGING AND WEIGHT IN THE SPLEEN, THE ADIPOSE TISSUE, THE KIDNEY, THE LUNG, THE COLON AND THE WHOLE BLOOD CELLS. IN ADDITION, IN THE SPLEEN, THE ADIPOSE TISSUE AND THE WHOLE BLOOD, THESE EPIGENETIC CHANGES WERE ALSO SIGNIFICANTLY ASSOCIATED WITH INFLAMMATORY LEVELS. MOREOVER, NOT ONLY KLF14, BUT ALSO EXPRESSION LEVELS OF SOME DOWNSTREAM GENES WERE DECREASED WITH METHYLATION IN THE SPLEEN, THE ADIPOSE TISSUE AND THE WHOLE BLOOD CELLS. TAKEN TOGETHER, OUR RESULTS SUGGEST THAT METHYLATION CHANGES OF KLF14 IN THOSE TISSUES MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH CHANGES IN GENE EXPRESSION AND INFLAMMATION ON THE ADIPOSE TISSUE OF OBESITY AND T2D. IN ADDITION, THE METHYLATION CHANGES IN THE WHOLE BLOOD CELLS MAY SERVE AS A PREDICTIVE EPIGENETIC BIOMARKER FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF T2D.	2018	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
12 2170  33 EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS IN RESPIRATORY MUSCLE DYSFUNCTION OF PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE. EPIGENETIC EVENTS ARE DIFFERENTIALLY EXPRESSED IN THE LUNGS AND AIRWAYS OF PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD). MOREOVER, EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS ARE INVOLVED IN THE SKELETAL (PERIPHERAL) MUSCLE DYSFUNCTION OF COPD PATIENTS. WHETHER EPIGENETIC EVENTS MAY ALSO REGULATE RESPIRATORY MUSCLE DYSFUNCTION IN COPD REMAINS UNKNOWN. WE HYPOTHESIZED THAT EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS WOULD BE DIFFERENTIALLY EXPRESSED IN THE MAIN INSPIRATORY MUSCLE (DIAPHRAGM) OF PATIENTS WITH COPD OF A WIDE RANGE OF DISEASE SEVERITY COMPARED TO HEALTHY CONTROLS. IN DIAPHRAGM MUSCLE SPECIMENS (THORACOTOMY DUE TO LUNG LOCALIZED NEOPLASMS) OF SEDENTARY PATIENTS WITH MILD-TO-MODERATE AND SEVERE COPD, WITH PRESERVED BODY COMPOSITION, AND SEDENTARY HEALTHY CONTROLS, EXPRESSION OF MUSCLE-ENRICHED MICRORNAS, HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES (HATS) AND DEACETYLASES (HDACS), TOTAL DNA METHYLATION AND PROTEIN ACETYLATION, SMALL UBIQUITIN-RELATED MODIFIER (SUMO) LIGASES, MUSCLE-SPECIFIC TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS, AND MUSCLE STRUCTURE WERE EXPLORED. ALL SUBJECTS WERE ALSO CLINICALLY EVALUATED: LUNG AND MUSCLE FUNCTIONS AND EXERCISE CAPACITY. COMPARED TO HEALTHY CONTROLS, PATIENTS EXHIBITED MODERATE AIRFLOW LIMITATION AND DIFFUSION CAPACITY, AND REDUCED EXERCISE TOLERANCE AND TRANSDIAPHRAGMATIC STRENGTH. MOREOVER, IN THE DIAPHRAGM OF THE COPD PATIENTS, MUSCLE-SPECIFIC MICRORNA EXPRESSION WAS DOWNREGULATED, WHILE HDAC4 AND MYOCYTE ENHANCER FACTOR (MEF)2C PROTEIN LEVELS WERE HIGHER, AND DNA METHYLATION LEVELS, MUSCLE FIBER TYPES AND SIZES DID NOT DIFFER BETWEEN PATIENTS AND CONTROLS. IN THE MAIN RESPIRATORY MUSCLE OF COPD PATIENTS WITH A WIDE RANGE OF DISEASE SEVERITY AND NORMAL BODY COMPOSITION, MUSCLE-SPECIFIC MICRORNAS WERE DOWNREGULATED, WHILE HDAC4 AND MEF2C LEVELS WERE UPREGULATED. IT IS LIKELY THAT THESE EPIGENETIC EVENTS ACT AS BIOLOGICAL ADAPTIVE MECHANISMS TO BETTER OVERCOME THE CONTINUOUS INSPIRATORY LOADS OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM IN COPD. THESE FINDINGS MAY OFFER NOVEL THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES TO SPECIFICALLY TARGET RESPIRATORY MUSCLE DYSFUNCTION IN PATIENTS WITH COPD.	2014	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
13 3857  41 ISCHEMIA- REPERFUSION INJURY AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE EPIGENETIC MODIFICATION OF THE DONOR KIDNEY GENOME. BACKGROUND: IN CLINICAL TRANSPLANTATION, ISCHEMIA-REPERFUSION INJURY (I/RI) CAUSES DAMAGE TO DNA. WE HYPOTHESIZE THAT ONE FORM OF DAMAGE IS THE DEMETHYLATION OF METHYLATED CYTOSINES IN THE DONOR GENOME CAUSED BY THE OXIDATIVE ENVIRONMENT CREATED FIRST BY ISCHEMIA, AND SUBSEQUENTLY BY REPERFUSION ON TRANSPLANTATION. THIS STUDY CONTRIBUTES TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THE SHORT-LIVED AND TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC INSULT MAY INFLUENCE CHRONIC PATHOLOGICAL CHANGES THAT OCCUR IN CLINICAL TRANSPLANTATION IN THE LONG TERM. METHODS: A MODEL OF I/RI AND CHRONIC REJECTION; FISHER TO FISHER KIDNEY TRANSPLANT RENDERED COLD-ISCHEMIC FOR 4 HR BEFORE TRANSPLANTATION, TO INDUCE ANTIGEN-INDEPENDENT CHRONIC NEPHROPATHY OVER A 6-MONTH PERIOD, WAS USED. TISSUE WAS ASSESSED BY HISTOPATHOLOGY AND METHYLATION BY PYROSEQUENCING ANALYSIS. RESULTS: AN EPIGENETIC MAP OF THE RAT RENAL C3 PROMOTER WAS PRODUCED, WHICH IDENTIFIED METHYLATED CYTOSINE PHOSPHO GUANINE (CPG) SITES COINCIDENT TO CYTOKINE RESPONSE ELEMENTS AND NUCLEAR FACTOR KAPPA-LIGHT-CHAIN-ENHANCER OF ACTIVATED B CELLS (NF-KAPPAB) BINDING SITES. PYROSEQUENCING ANALYSIS SHOWED THAT THE TISSUE THAT HAD UNDERGONE 4 HR ISCHEMIA AND REPERFUSION DEVELOPED ABERRANT DEMETHYLATION OF CYTOSINES IN PUTATIVE REGULATORY SITES WITHIN THE C3 PROMOTER. CONCLUSION: THESE FINDINGS MAY DESCRIBE A NEWLY RECOGNIZED PHENOMENA IN THE FIELD OF TRANSPLANTATION. ABERRANT DEMETHYLATION HAS LONG BEEN LINKED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF TUMORS, AND OUR DATA SUGGEST A SIMILAR MECHANISM OF GENE DYSREGULATION THAT MAY BE INITIATED BY I/RI WITH ACUTE AND CHRONIC EFFECTS. THESE DATA MAY CONTRIBUTE TO A FURTHER UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THE SHORT LIVED AND TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC INSULT INFLUENCES CHRONIC PATHOLOGICAL CHANGES THAT OCCUR EVEN IN THE ABSENCE OF MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX DISPARITY IN TRANSPLANTATION.	2008	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
14 5638  33 SERUM METABOLOMICS REVEALS PATHWAYS AND BIOMARKERS ASSOCIATED WITH ASTHMA PATHOGENESIS. BACKGROUND: ASTHMA IS A CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE CAUSED BY COMPLEX INTERACTIONS OF GENETIC, EPIGENETIC, AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS. FOR THIS REASON, NEW APPROACHES ARE REQUIRED TO CLARIFY THE PATHOGENESIS OF ASTHMA BY SYSTEMIC REVIEW. OBJECTIVE: WE APPLIED A (1)H-NMR METABOLOMICS APPROACH TO INVESTIGATE THE ALTERED METABOLIC PATTERN IN SERA FROM PATIENTS WITH ASTHMA AND SOUGHT TO IDENTIFY THE MECHANISM UNDERLYING ASTHMA AND POTENTIAL BIOMARKERS. METHOD: A GLOBAL PROFILE OF SERA FROM PATIENTS WITH ASTHMA (N = 39) AND CONTROLS (N = 26) WAS GENERATED USING (1)H-NMR SPECTROSCOPY COUPLED WITH MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS. ENDOGENOUS METABOLITES IN SERUM WERE RAPIDLY MEASURED USING THE TARGET-PROFILING PROCEDURE. RESULTS: MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS SHOWED A CLEAR DISTINCTION BETWEEN PATIENTS WITH ASTHMA AND HEALTHY SUBJECTS. SERA OF ASTHMA PATIENTS WERE CHARACTERIZED BY INCREASED LEVELS OF METHIONINE, GLUTAMINE, AND HISTIDINE AND BY DECREASED LEVELS OF FORMATE, METHANOL, ACETATE, CHOLINE, O-PHOSPHOCHOLINE, ARGININE, AND GLUCOSE. THE METABOLITES DETECTED IN THE SERA OF PATIENTS WITH ASTHMA ARE INVOLVED IN HYPERMETHYLATION, RESPONSE TO HYPOXIA, AND IMMUNE REACTION. FURTHERMORE, THE LEVELS OF SERUM METABOLITES FROM PATIENTS WITH ASTHMA CORRELATED WITH ASTHMA SEVERITY; IN PARTICULAR, LIPID METABOLISM WAS ALTERED IN PATIENTS WITH LOWER FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME IN 1 S PERCENTAGE (FEV(1)%) PREDICTED VALUES. IN ADDITION, POTENTIAL BIOMARKERS SHOWED STRONG PREDICTIVE POWER IN ROC ANALYSIS, AND THE PRESENCE OF ASTHMA IN EXTERNAL VALIDATION MODELS WAS PREDICTED WITH HIGH ACCURACY (90.9% FOR ASTHMA AND 100% FOR CONTROL SUBJECTS). CONCLUSION & CLINICAL RELEVANCE: THESE DATA SHOWED THAT (1)H-NMR-BASED METABOLITE PROFILING OF SERUM MAY BE USEFUL FOR THE EFFECTIVE DIAGNOSIS OF ASTHMA AND A FURTHER UNDERSTANDING OF ITS PATHOGENESIS.	2013	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
15 1841  39 EFFECTS OF SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID PRODUCING BACTERIA ON EPIGENETIC REGULATION OF FFAR3 IN TYPE 2 DIABETES AND OBESITY. THE HUMAN GUT MICROBIOTA AND MICROBIAL INFLUENCES ON LIPID AND GLUCOSE METABOLISM, SATIETY, AND CHRONIC LOW-GRADE INFLAMMATION ARE KNOWN TO BE INVOLVED IN METABOLIC SYNDROME. FERMENTATION END PRODUCTS, ESPECIALLY SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACIDS, ARE BELIEVED TO ENGAGE THE EPIGENETIC REGULATION OF INFLAMMATORY REACTIONS VIA FFARS (FREE FATTY ACID RECEPTOR) AND OTHER SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID RECEPTORS. WE STUDIED A POTENTIAL INTERACTION OF THE MICROBIOTA WITH EPIGENETIC REGULATION IN OBESE AND TYPE 2 DIABETES PATIENTS COMPARED TO A LEAN CONTROL GROUP OVER A FOUR MONTH INTERVENTION PERIOD. INTERVENTION COMPRISED A GLP-1 AGONIST (GLUCAGON-LIKE PEPTIDE 1) FOR TYPE 2 DIABETICS AND NUTRITIONAL COUNSELING FOR BOTH INTERVENTION GROUPS. MICROBIOTA WAS ANALYZED FOR ABUNDANCE, BUTYRYL-COA:ACETATE COA-TRANSFERASE GENE AND FOR DIVERSITY BY POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION AND 454 HIGH-THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING. EPIGENETIC METHYLATION OF THE PROMOTER REGION OF FFAR3 AND LINE1 (LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEAR ELEMENT 1) WAS ANALYZED USING BISULFITE CONVERSION AND PYROSEQUENCING. THE DIVERSITY OF THE MICROBIOTA AS WELL AS THE ABUNDANCE OF FAECALIBACTERIUM PRAUSNITZII WERE SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER IN OBESE AND TYPE 2 DIABETIC PATIENTS COMPARED TO LEAN INDIVIDUALS. RESULTS FROM CLOSTRIDIUM CLUSTER IV AND CLOSTRIDIUM CLUSTER XIVA SHOWED A DECREASING TREND IN TYPE 2 DIABETICS IN COMPARISON TO THE BUTYRYL-COA:ACETATE COA-TRANSFERASE GENE AND ACCORDING TO MELT CURVE ANALYSIS. DURING INTERVENTION NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES WERE OBSERVED IN EITHER INTERVENTION GROUP. THE ANALYSIS OF FIVE CPGS IN THE PROMOTER REGION OF FFAR3 SHOWED A SIGNIFICANT LOWER METHYLATION IN OBESE AND TYPE 2 DIABETICS WITH AN INCREASE IN OBESE PATIENTS OVER THE INTERVENTION PERIOD. THESE RESULTS DISCLOSED A SIGNIFICANT CORRELATION BETWEEN A HIGHER BODY MASS INDEX AND LOWER METHYLATION OF FFAR3. LINE-1, A MARKER OF GLOBAL METHYLATION, INDICATED NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE THREE GROUPS OR THE TIME POINTS, ALTHOUGH METHYLATION OF TYPE 2 DIABETICS TENDED TO INCREASE OVER TIME. OUR RESULTS PROVIDE EVIDENCE THAT A DIFFERENT COMPOSITION OF GUT MICROBIOTA IN OBESITY AND TYPE 2 DIABETES AFFECT THE EPIGENETIC REGULATION OF GENES. INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE MICROBIOTA AND EPIGENETIC REGULATION MAY INVOLVE NOT ONLY SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACIDS BINDING TO FFARS. THEREFORE DIETARY INTERVENTIONS INFLUENCING MICROBIAL COMPOSITION MAY BE CONSIDERED AS AN OPTION IN THE ENGAGEMENT AGAINST METABOLIC SYNDROME.	2014	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
16 4391  45 MODERATE EXERCISE INDUCES TRAINED IMMUNITY IN MACROPHAGES. DESPITE ITS IMPORTANCE IN PROTECTING THE HOST FROM INFECTIONS AND INJURY, EXCESSIVE INFLAMMATION MAY LEAD TO SERIOUS HUMAN DISEASES INCLUDING AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS, CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES, DIABETES, AND CANCER. EXERCISE IS A KNOWN IMMUNOMODULATOR; HOWEVER, WHETHER EXERCISE CAUSES LONG-TERM CHANGES IN INFLAMMATORY RESPONSES AND HOW THESE CHANGES OCCUR ARE LACKING. HERE, WE SHOW THAT CHRONIC MODERATE-INTENSITY TRAINING OF MICE LEADS TO PERSISTENT METABOLIC REWIRING AND CHANGES TO CHROMATIN ACCESSIBILITY IN BONE MARROW-DERIVED MACROPHAGES (BMDMS), WHICH, IN TURN, TEMPERS THEIR INFLAMMATORY RESPONSES. WE SHOW THAT BMDMS FROM EXERCISED MICE EXHIBITED A DECREASE IN LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE (LPS)-INDUCED NF-KAPPAB ACTIVATION AND PROINFLAMMATORY GENE EXPRESSION ALONG WITH AN INCREASE IN M2-LIKE-ASSOCIATED GENES WHEN COMPARED WITH BMDMS FROM SEDENTARY MICE. THIS WAS ASSOCIATED WITH IMPROVED MITOCHONDRIAL QUALITY AND INCREASED RELIANCE ON OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION ACCOMPANIED WITH REDUCED MITOCHONDRIAL REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES (ROS) PRODUCTION. MECHANISTICALLY, ASSAY FOR TRANSPOSASE-ACCESSIBLE CHROMATIN (ATAC)-SEQ ANALYSIS SHOWED CHANGES IN CHROMATIN ACCESSIBILITY OF GENES ASSOCIATED WITH INFLAMMATORY AND METABOLIC PATHWAYS. OVERALL, OUR DATA SUGGEST THAT CHRONIC MODERATE EXERCISE CAN INFLUENCE THE INFLAMMATORY RESPONSES OF MACROPHAGES BY REPROGRAMMING THEIR METABOLIC AND EPIGENETIC LANDSCAPE.NEW & NOTEWORTHY IN THIS STUDY, WE EXPLAIN HOW LONG-TERM MODERATE EXERCISE TRAINING CAN REDUCE INFLAMMATION IN MOUSE MACROPHAGES BY REPROGRAMMING THE WAY THEY SENSE AND RESPOND TO THE PRESENCE OF PATHOGENS. WE COMPLETED A THOROUGH ANALYSIS AND SHOWED THAT THESE CHANGES PERSIST IN MACROPHAGES BECAUSE EXERCISE IMPROVES THE ABILITY OF CELLS TO UTILIZE OXYGEN WITHOUT PRODUCING DAMAGING COMPOUNDS, AND CHANGES THE WAY THEY ACCESS THEIR DNA.	2023	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
17  457  41 APPLYING A MULTISCALE SYSTEMS BIOLOGY APPROACH TO STUDY THE EFFECT OF CHRONIC LOW-DOSE EXPOSURE TO URANIUM IN RAT KIDNEYS. PURPOSE: TO EXAMINE THE EFFECTS OF LOW-DOSE EXPOSURE TO URANIUM WITH A SYSTEMS BIOLOGY APPROACH, A MULTISCALE HIGH-THROUGHPUT MULTI-OMICS ANALYSIS WAS APPLIED WITH A PROTOCOL FOR CHRONIC EXPOSURE TO THE RAT KIDNEY. METHODS: MALE AND FEMALE RATS WERE CONTAMINATED FOR NINE MONTHS THROUGH THEIR DRINKING WATER WITH A NONTOXIC SOLUTION OF URANYL NITRATE. A MULTISCALE APPROACH ENABLED CLINICAL MONITORING ASSOCIATED WITH METABOLOMIC AND TRANSCRIPTOMIC (MRNA AND MICRORNA) ANALYSES. RESULTS: A SEX-INTERACTION EFFECT WAS OBSERVED IN THE KIDNEY, URINE, AND PLASMA METABOLOMES OF CONTAMINATED RATS. MOREOVER, URINE AND KIDNEY METABOLIC PROFILES CORRELATED AND CONFIRMED THAT THE PRIMARY DYSREGULATED METABOLISMS ARE THOSE OF NICOTINATE-NICOTINAMIDE AND OF UNSATURATED FATTY ACID BIOSYNTHESIS. UPSTREAM OF THE METABOLIC PATHWAYS, TRANSCRIPTOMIC PROFILES OF THE KIDNEY REVEAL GENE ACTIVITY FOCUSED ON GENE REGULATION MECHANISMS, CELL SIGNALING, CELL STRUCTURE, DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESSES, AND CELL PROLIFERATION. EXAMINATION OF EPIGENETIC POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE REGULATION PROCESSES SHOWED SIGNIFICANT DYSREGULATION OF 70 MICRO-RNAS. THE MULTI-OMICS APPROACH HIGHLIGHTED THE ACTIVITIES OF THE CELLS' BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES ON MULTIPLE SCALES THROUGH ANALYSIS OF GENE EXPRESSION, CONFIRMED BY CHANGES OBSERVED IN THE METABOLOME. CONCLUSION: OUR RESULTS SHOWED CHANGES IN MULTI-OMIC PROFILES OF RATS EXPOSED TO LOW DOSES OF URANIUM CONTAMINATION, COMPARED WITH CONTROLS. THESE CHANGES INVOLVED GENE EXPRESSION AS WELL AS MODIFICATIONS IN THE TRANSCRIPTOME AND THE METABOLOME. THE METABOLOMIC PROFILE CONFIRMED THAT THE MAIN MOLECULAR TARGETS OF URANIUM IN KIDNEY CELLS ARE THE METABOLISM OF NICOTINATE-NICOTINAMIDE AND THE BIOSYNTHESIS OF UNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS. ADDITIONALLY, GENE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS SHOWED THAT THE METABOLISM OF FATTY ACIDS IS TARGETED BY PROCESSES ASSOCIATED WITH CELL FUNCTION. THESE RESULTS DEMONSTRATE THAT MULTISCALE SYSTEMS BIOLOGY IS USEFUL IN ELUCIDATING THE MOST DISCRIMINATIVE PATHWAYS FROM GENOMIC TO METABOLOMIC LEVELS FOR ASSESSING THE BIOLOGICAL IMPACT OF THIS LOW-LEVEL ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE, I.E. THE EXPOSOME.	2019	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
18 2297  27 EPIGENETIC REGULATION OF ACUTE INFLAMMATORY PAIN. ACUTE PAIN IS ASSOCIATED WITH TISSUE DAMAGE, WHICH RESULTS IN THE RELEASE OF INFLAMMATORY MEDIATORS. RECENT STUDIES POINT TO THE INVOLVEMENT OF EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS (DNA METHYLATION) IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PAIN. WE HAVE FOUND THAT DURING ACUTE INFLAMMATORY PAIN INDUCED BY THE APPLICATION OF 10% MUSTARD OIL ON THE TONGUES OF RATS, LEVELS OF DNMT3A AND 3B WERE ELEVATED MARKEDLY (36 AND 42 % RESPECTIVELY), WHEREAS THE LEVEL OF DNMT1 WAS NOT CHANGED SIGNIFICANTLY. PREVIOUS INJECTION OF XEFOCAM WITH 0,4 MG/KG DOSE DECREASED LEVELS OF DNMT3A AND 3B (25 AND 24% RESPECTIVELY). THE LEVEL OF DNMT1 WAS NOT CHANGED SIGNIFICANTLY COMPARED TO THE CONTROL GROUP. THE FINDINGS SUPPORT THE IDEA THAT INHIBITORS OF DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASES COULD BE USEFUL FOR PAIN MANAGEMENT. OUR DATA SUGGEST THAT NSAIDS (ALONE OR IN COMBINATION WITH DNMT INHIBITORS) MAY BE PROPOSED AS POSSIBLE EPIGENETIC REGULATORY AGENTS, WHICH MAY PLAY A ROLE IN EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS INDIRECTLY THROUGH ALTERING THE ACTIVITY OF INFLAMMATORY MEDIATORS INVOLVED IN PAIN DEVELOPMENT.	2014	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
19 5847  26 SUBCLINICAL ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND ACCELERATED EPIGENETIC AGE MEDIATED BY INFLAMMATION: A MULTI-OMICS STUDY. AIMS: EPIGENETIC AGE IS EMERGING AS A PERSONALIZED AND ACCURATE PREDICTOR OF BIOLOGICAL AGE. THE AIM OF THIS ARTICLE IS TO ASSESS THE ASSOCIATION OF SUBCLINICAL ATHEROSCLEROSIS WITH ACCELERATED EPIGENETIC AGE AND TO INVESTIGATE THE UNDERLYING MECHANISMS MEDIATING THIS ASSOCIATION. METHODS AND RESULTS: WHOLE BLOOD METHYLOMICS, TRANSCRIPTOMICS, AND PLASMA PROTEOMICS WERE OBTAINED FOR 391 PARTICIPANTS OF THE PROGRESSION OF EARLY SUBCLINICAL ATHEROSCLEROSIS STUDY. EPIGENETIC AGE WAS CALCULATED FROM METHYLOMICS DATA FOR EACH PARTICIPANT. ITS DIVERGENCE FROM CHRONOLOGICAL AGE IS TERMED EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION. SUBCLINICAL ATHEROSCLEROSIS BURDEN WAS ESTIMATED BY MULTI-TERRITORY 2D/3D VASCULAR ULTRASOUND AND BY CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION. IN HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS, THE PRESENCE, EXTENSION, AND PROGRESSION OF SUBCLINICAL ATHEROSCLEROSIS WERE ASSOCIATED WITH A SIGNIFICANT ACCELERATION OF THE GRIM EPIGENETIC AGE, A PREDICTOR OF HEALTH AND LIFESPAN, REGARDLESS OF TRADITIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS. INDIVIDUALS WITH AN ACCELERATED GRIM EPIGENETIC AGE WERE CHARACTERIZED BY AN INCREASED SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION AND ASSOCIATED WITH A SCORE OF LOW-GRADE, CHRONIC INFLAMMATION. MEDIATION ANALYSIS USING TRANSCRIPTOMICS AND PROTEOMICS DATA REVEALED KEY PRO-INFLAMMATORY PATHWAYS (IL6, INFLAMMASOME, AND IL10) AND GENES (IL1B, OSM, TLR5, AND CD14) MEDIATING THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SUBCLINICAL ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION. CONCLUSION: THE PRESENCE, EXTENSION, AND PROGRESSION OF SUBCLINICAL ATHEROSCLEROSIS IN MIDDLE-AGED ASYMPTOMATIC INDIVIDUALS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH AN ACCELERATION IN THE GRIM EPIGENETIC AGE. MEDIATION ANALYSIS USING TRANSCRIPTOMICS AND PROTEOMICS DATA SUGGESTS A KEY ROLE OF SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION IN THIS ASSOCIATION, REINFORCING THE RELEVANCE OF INTERVENTIONS ON INFLAMMATION TO PREVENT CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE.	2023	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
20 1503  27 DNA METHYLATION AND GENE EXPRESSION DIFFERENCES IN CHILDREN CONCEIVED IN VITRO OR IN VIVO. EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA INDICATE THAT CHILDREN CONCEIVED IN VITRO HAVE A GREATER RELATIVE RISK OF LOW BIRTH-WEIGHT, MAJOR AND MINOR BIRTH DEFECTS, AND RARE DISORDERS INVOLVING IMPRINTED GENES, SUGGESTING THAT EPIGENETIC CHANGES MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH ASSISTED REPRODUCTION. WE EXAMINED DNA METHYLATION AT MORE THAN 700 GENES (1536 CPG SITES) IN PLACENTA AND CORD BLOOD AND MEASURED GENE EXPRESSION LEVELS OF A SUBSET OF GENES THAT DIFFERED IN METHYLATION LEVELS BETWEEN CHILDREN CONCEIVED IN VITRO VERSUS IN VIVO. OUR RESULTS SUGGEST THAT IN VITRO CONCEPTION IS ASSOCIATED WITH LOWER MEAN METHYLATION AT CPG SITES IN PLACENTA AND HIGHER MEAN METHYLATION AT CPG SITES IN CORD BLOOD. WE ALSO FIND THAT IN VITRO CONCEPTION-ASSOCIATED DNA METHYLATION DIFFERENCES ARE ASSOCIATED WITH GENE EXPRESSION DIFFERENCES AT BOTH IMPRINTED AND NON-IMPRINTED GENES. THE RANGE OF INTER-INDIVIDUAL VARIATION IN GENE EXPRESSION OF THE IN VITRO AND IN VIVO GROUPS OVERLAPS SUBSTANTIALLY BUT SOME INDIVIDUALS FROM THE IN VITRO GROUP DIFFER FROM THE IN VIVO GROUP MEAN BY MORE THAN TWO STANDARD DEVIATIONS. SEVERAL OF THE GENES WHOSE EXPRESSION DIFFERS BETWEEN THE TWO GROUPS HAVE BEEN IMPLICATED IN CHRONIC METABOLIC DISORDERS, SUCH AS OBESITY AND TYPE II DIABETES. THESE FINDINGS SUGGEST THAT THERE MAY BE EPIGENETIC DIFFERENCES IN THE GAMETES OR EARLY EMBRYOS DERIVED FROM COUPLES UNDERGOING TREATMENT FOR INFERTILITY. ALTERNATIVELY, ASSISTED REPRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY MAY HAVE AN EFFECT ON GLOBAL PATTERNS OF DNA METHYLATION AND GENE EXPRESSION. IN EITHER CASE, THESE DIFFERENCES OR CHANGES MAY AFFECT LONG-TERM PATTERNS OF GENE EXPRESSION.	2009