Effect of Exercise on the Human Skeletal Muscle Phosphoproteome

NCT ID: NCT04263714

Last Updated: 2024-11-21

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 16 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2020-04-01
• Study Completion Date: 2024-05-01

Brief Summary

Generally, resistance exercise increases muscle mass and strength, and fatigue resistance. How resistance exercise achieves these adaptations remains understudied, but what is known is that skeletal muscle translates the physical and biochemical stresses of resistance exercise into morphological and metabolic adaptations. While resistance exercise activates signaling pathways (i.e., proteins) that increase the synthesis of specific proteins to cause adaptations, thousands of proteins are likely involved, and their interactions are complicated. The investigators aim to study these processes.

Detailed Description

Skeletal muscle is a highly plastic tissue, capable of adapting to changes in nutritional intake and contractile activity. For instance, resistance exercise results in a mild stimulation of rates of muscle protein breakdown (MPB) but a greater stimulation of the rates of muscle protein synthesis (MPS). When resistance exercise is performed prior to protein ingestion there is a synergistic combination of the two stimuli such that rates of MPS are stimulated over and above those of MPB. Thus, repeated bouts of resistance exercise, when coupled with protein ingestion, result in the accretion of skeletal muscle protein referred to as hypertrophy. Importantly, by changing the nature of the exercise stimulus, it is possible to redirect the focus of the type of skeletal muscle proteins that are being synthesized. For example, prolonged and repeated lower-load dynamic stimulation of skeletal muscle (i.e., endurance exercise training) results in an increase in the expression of mitochondrial genes, proteins, and ultimately enhanced mitochondrial content, leading to a shift towards an oxidative phenotype, and improved fatigue resistance. Resistance exercise training also stimulates the transcription of genes and accrual of new muscle proteins, but these genes and proteins are largely associated with the myofibrillar protein fraction, and regular resistance exercise leads to muscle hypertrophy and increased force-generating capacity. However, during the early stages of exercise training, particularly in training-naïve participants there is a significant increase in the expression of genes common to both modalities of exercise. It is only with sustained exercise training that there is a 'fine-tuning' of the transcriptome, the protein synthetic response, and then the proteome that gives rise to divergent hypertrophic and oxidative phenotypes.

Conditions

Skeletal Muscle Protein Synthesis

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: BASIC_SCIENCE
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Exercise

All subjects will perform both aerobic and resistance exercise

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Exercise

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Aerobic exercise and resistance exercise

Interventions

Exercise

Aerobic exercise and resistance exercise

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• between the ages of 18 and 30 years

Exclusion Criteria

• Smoker or user of tobacco products;
• High physical activity
• Have health problems such as: renal or gastrointestinal disorders, metabolic disease, heart disease, vascular disease, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, poor lung function, uncontrolled blood pressure, dizziness, thyroid problems, or any other health conditions for which you are being treated that might put you at risk for this study;
• Taking anti-diabetic, anti-inflammatory, platelet inhibitor, or anti-coagulant medications;
• Use of an investigational drug product within the last 30 days;
• Have participated in an infusion protocol in the last year; or
• Do not understand English or have a condition the PI believes would interfere with a participants' ability to provide informed consent, comply with the study protocol, or which might confound the interpretation of the study results or put someone at undue risk.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 30 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

McMaster University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Stuart Phillips

Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Stuart Phillips, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

McMaster University, Department of Kinesiology

Locations

Exercise Metabolism Research Laboratory, McMaster Univeristy

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Countries

Canada

Provided Documents

Document Type: Study Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan

View Document

Document Type: Informed Consent Form

View Document

Other Identifiers

2196

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id