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Kilbaugh 2015 PLoS One

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Kilbaugh TJ, Lvova M, Karlsson M, Zhang Z, Leipzig J, Wallace DC, Margulies SS (2015) Peripheral blood mitochondrial DNA as a biomarker of cerebral mitochondrial dysfunction following traumatic brain injury in a porcine model. PLoS One 10:e0130927.

ยป PMID: 26098565 Open Access

Kilbaugh TJ, Lvova M, Karlsson M, Zhang Z, Leipzig J, Wallace DC, Margulies SS (2015) PLoS One

Abstract: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been shown to activate the peripheral innate immune system and systemic inflammatory response, possibly through the central release of damage associated molecular patterns (DAMPs). Our main purpose was to gain an initial understanding of the peripheral mitochondrial response following TBI, and how this response could be utilized to determine cerebral mitochondrial bioenergetics. We hypothesized that TBI would increase peripheral whole blood relative mtDNA copy number, and that these alterations would be associated with cerebral mitochondrial bioenergetics triggered by TBI.

Blood samples were obtained before, 6 h after, and 25 h after focal (controlled cortical impact injury: CCI) and diffuse (rapid non-impact rotational injury: RNR) TBI. PCR primers, unique to mtDNA, were identified by aligning segments of nuclear DNA (nDNA) to mtDNA, normalizing values to nuclear 16S rRNA, for a relative mtDNA copy number. Three unique mtDNA regions were selected, and PCR primers were designed within those regions, limited to 25-30 base pairs to further ensure sequence specificity, and measured utilizing qRT-PCR.

Mean relative mtDNA copy numbers increased significantly at 6 and 25 hrs after following both focal and diffuse traumatic brain injury. Specifically, the mean relative mtDNA copy number from three mitochondrial-specific regions pre-injury was 0.84 ยฑ 0.05. At 6 and 25 h after diffuse non-impact TBI, mean mtDNA copy number was significantly higher: 2.07 ยฑ 0.19 (p < 0.0001) and 2.37 ยฑ 0.42 (p < 0.001), respectively. Following focal impact TBI, relative mtDNA copy number was also significantly higher, 1.35 ยฑ 0.12 (p < 0.0001) at 25 hours. Alterations in mitochondrial respiration in the hippocampus and cortex post-TBI correlated with changes in the relative mtDNA copy number measured in peripheral blood.

Alterations in peripheral blood relative mtDNA copy numbers may be a novel biosignature of cerebral mitochondrial bioenergetics with exciting translational potential for non-invasive diagnostic and interventional studies.


โ€ข O2k-Network Lab: US PA Philadelphia Wallace DC, SE Lund Elmer E, US PA Philadelphia Margulies S


Labels: MiParea: Respiration, mt-Biogenesis;mt-density, mtDNA;mt-genetics, nDNA;cell genetics  Pathology: Neurodegenerative, Other 

Organism: Pig  Tissue;cell: Nervous system  Preparation: Homogenate 


Coupling state: LEAK, OXPHOS  Pathway: N, S, NS  HRR: Oxygraph-2k