PMID- 23523973 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20140311 LR - 20130902 IS - 1873-6815 (Electronic) IS - 0531-5565 (Linking) VI - 48 IP - 10 DP - 2013 Oct TI - Facts and controversies in our understanding of how caloric restriction impacts the mitochondrion. PG - 1075-84 LID - S0531-5565(13)00081-8 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.exger.2013.03.004 [doi] AB - Caloric restriction (CR) has pronounced benefits in promoting healthy aging. Amongst the most frequently implicated physiological mechanisms implicated in this benefit is altered mitochondrial function. Whereas a reduction in mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS) production is a widely consistent effect of CR, an increase in mitochondrial biogenesis, which is accepted by many as fact, is contradicted on several levels, most critically by a lack of increase in mitochondrial protein synthesis rate in vivo. Furthermore, an increase in PGC-1alpha protein and markers of mitochondrial content with CR is a highly variable observation between studies. On the other hand, deacetylation of several mitochondrial proteins by the sirtuin, Sirt3, is an increasingly reported observation and at least so far, this observation is consistent between studies. Notwithstanding this point, the controversies evident in the published literature underscore the significant questions that remain in our understanding of how CR impacts the mitochondrion and suggest we have yet to fully understand the complexities herein. CI - Copyright (c) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Gouspillou, Gilles AU - Gouspillou G AD - McGill University Health Center, Department of Kinesiology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. FAU - Hepple, Russell T AU - Hepple RT LA - eng GR - MOP119583/Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Canada GR - MOP57808/Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Canada PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Review DEP - 20130321 PL - England TA - Exp Gerontol JT - Experimental gerontology JID - 0047061 RN - 0 (Cardiolipins) RN - 0 (DNA, Mitochondrial) RN - 0 (Reactive Oxygen Species) RN - EC 3.5.1.- (Sirtuins) SB - IM MH - Aging/*physiology MH - Animals MH - *Caloric Restriction MH - Cardiolipins/physiology MH - DNA, Mitochondrial/physiology MH - Humans MH - Mitochondria/*metabolism/physiology MH - Mitochondrial Turnover/physiology MH - Rats MH - Reactive Oxygen Species/metabolism MH - Sirtuins/physiology OTO - NOTNLM OT - Aging OT - Caloric restriction OT - Mitochondria OT - PGC-1a OT - Sarcopenia OT - Sirtuin EDAT- 2013/03/26 06:00 MHDA- 2014/03/13 06:00 CRDT- 2013/03/26 06:00 PHST- 2012/11/30 00:00 [received] PHST- 2013/02/26 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2013/03/11 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2013/03/26 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/03/26 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/03/13 06:00 [medline] AID - S0531-5565(13)00081-8 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.exger.2013.03.004 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Exp Gerontol. 2013 Oct;48(10):1075-84. doi: 10.1016/j.exger.2013.03.004. Epub 2013 Mar 21.