Journal
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30120-1
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- Hartwell Foundation
- National Cancer Institute [R01CA245301, P30CA021765]
- National Institute on Aging [P30CA021765, R01AG055532, R56AG63806]
- Glenn/AFAR Postdoctoral Fellowship
- ALSAC
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Myofiber atrophy is a key feature of cancer-induced wasting, and the muscle-secreted factor Fibcd1 plays an important role in maintaining myofiber size and mitigating atrophy induced by cachexia.
Decline in skeletal muscle cell size (myofiber atrophy) is a key feature of cancer-induced wasting (cachexia). In particular, atrophy of the diaphragm, the major muscle responsible for breathing, is an important determinant of cancer-associated mortality. However, therapeutic options are limited. Here, we have used Drosophila transgenic screening to identify muscle-secreted factors (myokines) that act as paracrine regulators of myofiber growth. Subsequent testing in mouse myotubes revealed that mouse Fibcd1 is an evolutionary-conserved myokine that preserves myofiber size via ERK signaling. Local administration of recombinant Fibcd1 (rFibcd1) ameliorates cachexia-induced myofiber atrophy in the diaphragm of mice bearing patient-derived melanoma xenografts and LLC carcinomas. Moreover, rFibcd1 impedes cachexia-associated transcriptional changes in the diaphragm. Fibcd1-induced signaling appears to be muscle selective because rFibcd1 increases ERK activity in myotubes but not in several cancer cell lines tested. We propose that rFibcd1 may help reinstate myofiber size in the diaphragm of patients with cancer cachexia. Myofiber atrophy occurs in many diseases but the mechanisms responsible for myofiber size determination are incompletely understood. Here, the authors show that the muscle-secreted factor Fibcd1 is necessary to maintain myofiber size and mitigates myofiber atrophy induced by cancer cachexia
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