At the end of the mammalian intra-uterine foetal development, a rapid switch from glycolytic to oxidative metabolism must proceed. Using microarray techniques, qPCR, enzyme activities and coenzyme Q content measurements, we describe perinatal mitochondrial metabolism acceleration in rat liver and skeletal muscle during the perinatal period and correlate the results with those in humans. Out of 1546 mitochondrial genes, we found significant changes in expression in 1119 and 827 genes in rat liver and skeletal muscle, respectively. The most remarkable expression shift occurred in the rat liver at least two days before birth. Coenzyme Q-based evaluation in both the rat model and human tissues showed the same trend: the total CoQ content is low prenatally, significantly increasing after birth in both the liver and skeletal muscle. We propose that an important regulator of rat coenzyme Q biosynthesis might be COQ8A, an atypical kinase involved in the biosynthesis of coenzyme Q. Our microarray data, a total of 16,557 RefSeq (Entrez) genes, have been deposited in NCBI's Gene Expression Omnibus and are freely available to the broad scientific community. Our microarray data could serve as a suitable background for finding key factors regulating mitochondrial metabolism and the preparation of the foetus for the transition to extra-uterine conditions.

Department of Genetics of Model Diseases Institute of Physiology AS CR v v i Videnska 1083 142 20 Prague 4 Czech Republic

Laboratory for Study of Mitochondrial Disorders Department of Pediatrics and Inherited Metabolic Disorders 1st Faculty of Medicine General University Hospital Prague Charles University Ke Karlovu 2 128 08 Prague 2 Czech Republic

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