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APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
Volume 10, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app10062028
Keywords
microgravity; mechanosensor; cystein-rich proteins; sirtuins; cellular and molecular rehabilitation; muscle LIM protein
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- Italian Space Agency (ASI) [2015-009-R.0]
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Gravity is a constitutive force that influences life on Earth. It is sensed and translated into biochemical stimuli through the so called mechanosensors, proteins able to change their molecular conformation in order to amplify external cues causing several intracellular responses. Mechanosensors are widely represented in the human body with important structures such as otholiths in hair cells of vestibular system and statoliths in plants. Moreover, they are also present in the bone, where mechanical cues can cause bone resorption or formation and in muscle in which mechanical stimuli can increase the sensibility for mechanical stretch. In this review, we discuss the role of mechanosensors in two different conditions: normogravity and microgravity, emphasizing their emerging role in microgravity. Microgravity is a singular condition in which many molecular changes occur, strictly connected with the modified gravity force and free fall of bodies. Here, we first summarize the most important mechanosensors involved in normogravity and microgravity. Subsequently, we propose muscle LIM protein (MLP) and sirtuins as new actors in mechanosensing and signaling transduction under microgravity.
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