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Since KB metabolism intersects with multiple metabolic pathways, and skeletal muscle KB catabolism rises during exercise, we tested the hypothesis that liver-specific HMGCS2 knockouts (KO) would have reduced energy expenditure (EE) and changes in the mitochondrial proteome of skeletal muscle with chronic exercise through voluntary wheel running (VWR), time-restricted feeding (TRF), or both combined to boost hepatic KB production and utilization. Control (CON) and HMGCS2 knockout (KO) mice (n=6-8 per group) underwent sedentary ad libitum feeding (SED+AL), SED+TRF, VWR+AL, and VWR+TRF for 16 weeks, with whole-body EE measured using indirect calorimetry. In CON mice, VWR increased total EE by 19.5% and non-resting EE by 50% under AL conditions, and total EE by 16% and non-resting EE by 47.9% under TRF conditions. However, the EE increases seen with VWR did not occur in KO mice. Proteomic analysis revealed that the loss of liver HMGCS2 significantly impacted proteins involved in metabolic processes within skeletal muscle, including reduced oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) protein expression in SED KO mice compared to sedentary CON. Notably, VWR restored OXPHOS protein expression in the muscle of the liver HMGCS2 KO but did not alter it in the CON. Furthermore, muscle from liver HMGCS2 KO mice had elevated expression glycolytic pathways in sedentary and VWR conditions. 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