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  • Title: IL-15 improves skeletal muscle oxidative metabolism and glucose uptake in association with increased respiratory chain supercomplex formation and AMPK pathway activation.
    Author: Nadeau L, Patten DA, Caron A, Garneau L, Pinault-Masson E, Foretz M, Haddad P, Anderson BG, Quinn LS, Jardine K, McBurney MW, Pistilli EE, Harper ME, Aguer C.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj; 2019 Feb; 1863(2):395-407. PubMed ID: 30448294.
    Abstract:
    BACKGROUND: IL-15 is believed to play a role in the beneficial impact of exercise on muscle energy metabolism. However, previous studies have generally used supraphysiological levels of IL-15 that do not represent contraction-induced IL-15 secretion. METHODS: L6 myotubes were treated acutely (3 h) and chronically (48 h) with concentrations of IL-15 mimicking circulating (1-10 pg/ml) and muscle interstitial (100 pg/ml -20 ng/ml) IL-15 levels with the aim to better understand its autocrine/paracrine role on muscle glucose uptake and mitochondrial function. RESULTS: Acute exposure to IL-15 levels representing muscle interstitial IL-15 increased basal glucose uptake without affecting insulin sensitivity. This was accompanied by increased mitochondrial oxidative functions in association with increased AMPK pathway and formation of complex III-containing supercomplexes. Conversely, chronic IL-15 exposure resulted in a biphasic effect on mitochondrial oxidative functions and ETC supercomplex formation was increased with low IL-15 levels but decreased with higher IL-15 concentrations. The AMPK pathway was activated only by high levels of chronic IL-15 treatment. Similar results were obtained in skeletal muscle from muscle-specific IL-15 overexpressing mice that show very high circulating IL-15 levels. CONCLUSIONS: Acute IL-15 treatment that mimics local IL-15 concentrations enhances muscle glucose uptake and mitochondrial oxidative functions. That mitochondria respond differently to different levels of IL-15 during chronic treatments indicates that IL-15 might activate two different pathways in muscle depending on IL-15 concentrations. GENERAL SIGNIFICANCE: Our results suggest that IL-15 may act in an autocrine/paracrine fashion and be, at least in part, involved in the positive effect of exercise on muscle energy metabolism.
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