Abstract
This review proposes a mechanistic link between cellular metabolic status, transcriptional regulatory changes and sleep. Sleep loss is associated with changes in cellular metabolic status in the brain. Metabolic sensors responsive to cellular metabolic status regulate the circadian clock transcriptional network. Modifications of the transcriptional activity of circadian clock genes affect sleep/wake state changes. Changes in sleep state reverse sleep loss-induced changes in cellular metabolic status. It is thus proposed that the regulation of circadian clock genes by cellular metabolic sensors is a critical intermediate step in the link between cellular metabolic status and sleep. Studies of this regulatory relationship may offer insights into the function of sleep at the cellular level.
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Abbreviations
- NREMS:
-
Non-rapid eye movement sleep
- SWA:
-
Slow wave activity
- EEG:
-
Electroencephalographic/electroencephalogram
- ATP:
-
Adenosine triphosphate
- ADP:
-
Adenosine diphosphate
- AMP:
-
Adenosine monophosphate
- AMPK:
-
Adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase
- cry:
-
Cryptochrome
- per:
-
Period
- NAD:
-
Nicotine adenine dinucleotide
- HDAC:
-
Histone deacetylase
- PARP:
-
Poly ADP-ribose polymerase
- GSK3b:
-
Glycogen synthase kinase 3b
- PPARs:
-
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors
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Wisor, J.P. A metabolic–transcriptional network links sleep and cellular energetics in the brain. Pflugers Arch - Eur J Physiol 463, 15–22 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00424-011-1030-6
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