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Injury-mediated stiffening persistently activates muscle stem cells through YAP and TAZ mechanotransduction

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SCIENCE ADVANCES
Volume 7, Issue 11, Pages -

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AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abe4501

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  1. NIH [DE016523, DK120921, AR049446, AR070360]

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Elevated muscle stiffness enhances migration and proliferation of MuSCs by localizing YAP and TAZ to the nucleus. Ablating YAP and TAZ induces MuSC quiescence after injury and prevents myofiber hypertrophy.
The skeletal muscle microenvironment transiently remodels and stiffens after exercise and injury, as muscle ages, and in myopathic muscle; however, how these changes in stiffness affect resident muscle stem cells (MuSCs) remains understudied. Following muscle injury, muscle stiffness remained elevated after morphological regeneration was complete, accompanied by activated and proliferative MuSCs. To isolate the role of stiffness on MuSC behavior and determine the underlying mechanotransduction pathways, we cultured MuSCs on strain-promoted azide-alkyne cycloaddition hydrogels capable of in situ stiffening by secondary photocrosslinking of excess cyclooctynes. Using pre- to post-injury stiffness hydrogels, we found that elevated stiffness enhances migration and MuSC proliferation by localizing yes-associated protein 1 (YAP) and WW domain-containing transcription regulator 1 (WWTR1; TAZ) to the nucleus. Ablating YAP and TAZ in vivo promotes MuSC quiescence in postinjury muscle and prevents myofiber hypertrophy, demonstrating that persistent exposure to elevated stiffness activates mechano-transduction signaling maintaining activated and proliferating MuSCs.

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