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Emeritus ProfessorNancyCurtin

Faculty of Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute

Emeritus Professor of Muscle Physiology
 
 
 
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@article{Barclay:2009:10.1007/s00424-008-0552-z,
author = {Barclay, CJ and Woledge, RC and Curtin, NA},
doi = {10.1007/s00424-008-0552-z},
journal = {Pflugers Arch},
pages = {857--864},
title = {Effects of UCP3 genotype, temperature and muscle type on energy turnover of resting mouse skeletal muscle.},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00424-008-0552-z},
volume = {457},
year = {2009}
}
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AB  - Uncoupling protein 3 (UCP3) is a mitochondrial transporter protein which, when over-expressed in mice, is associated with increased metabolic rate, increased feeding and low body weight. This phenotype probably reflects the increased levels of UCP3 partially uncoupling mitochondrial respiration from cellular ATP demands. Consistent with that, mitochondria isolated from muscles of mice that over-express UCP3 are less tightly coupled than those from wild-type mice but the degree of uncoupling is not modulated by likely physiological regulatory factors. To determine whether this also applies to intact muscle fibres, we tested the hypothesis that UCP3 constitutively (i.e. in an unregulated fashion) uncouples mitochondria in muscles from mice that over-expressed human UCP3 (OE mice). The rate of heat production of resting muscles was measured in vitro using bundles of fibres from soleus and extensor digitorum longus muscles of OE, wild-type (WT) and UCP3 knock-out mice. At 20 degrees C, the only significant effect of genotype was that the rate of heat production of OE soleus (3.04+/-0.16 mW g(-1)) was greater than for WT soleus (2.31+/-0.05 mW g(-1)). At physiological temperature (35 degrees C), the rate of heat production was independent of genotype and equal to the expected in vivo rate for skeletal muscles of WT mice. We conclude that at 35 degrees C, the transgenic UCP3 was not constitutively active, but at 20 degrees C in slow-twitch muscle, it was partially activated by unknown factors. The physiological factor(s) that activate mitochondrial uncoupling by UCP3 in vivo was either not present or inactive in resting isolated muscles.
AU  - Barclay,CJ
AU  - Woledge,RC
AU  - Curtin,NA
DO  - 10.1007/s00424-008-0552-z
EP  - 864
PY  - 2009///
SN  - 0031-6768
SP  - 857
TI  - Effects of UCP3 genotype, temperature and muscle type on energy turnover of resting mouse skeletal muscle.
T2  - Pflugers Arch
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00424-008-0552-z
UR  - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18648851
VL  - 457
ER  -
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