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Brief intense interval exercise activates AMPK and p38 MAPK signaling and increases the expression of PGC-1 in human skeletal muscle

¹Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; ²Department of Physiology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria; and ³School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia

Submitted 8 July 2008 ; accepted in final form 20 December 2008

From a cell signaling perspective, short-duration intense muscular work is typically associated with resistance training and linked to pathways that stimulate growth. However, brief repeated sessions of sprint or high-intensity interval exercise induce rapid phenotypic changes that resemble traditional endurance training. We tested the hypothesis that an acute session of intense intermittent cycle exercise would activate signaling cascades linked to mitochondrial biogenesis in human skeletal muscle. Biopsies (vastus lateralis) were obtained from six young men who performed four 30-s "all out" exercise bouts interspersed with 4 min of rest (<80 kJ total work). Phosphorylation of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK; subunits 1 and 2) and the p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) was higher (P 0.05) immediately after bout 4 vs. preexercise. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor- coactivator-1 (PGC-1) mRNA was increased approximately twofold above rest after 3 h of recovery (P 0.05); however, PGC-1 protein content was unchanged. In contrast, phosphorylation of protein kinase B/Akt (Thr³⁰⁸ and Ser⁴⁷³) tended to decrease, and downstream targets linked to hypertrophy (p70 ribosomal S6 kinase and 4E binding protein 1) were unchanged after exercise and recovery. We conclude that signaling through AMPK and p38 MAPK to PGC-1 may explain in part the metabolic remodeling induced by low-volume intense interval exercise, including mitochondrial biogenesis and an increased capacity for glucose and fatty acid oxidation.

metabolism; mitochondrial biogenesis; signal transduction; peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor- coactivator-1

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