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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-CELL PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 312, Issue 3, Pages C233-C243Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00151.2016
Keywords
skeletal muscle fiber; myonucleus; injury; regeneration; histone modification
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI [23680065, 26560367, 16H01648, 16H03263]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [16H01648, 16H03263, 26560367, 23680065] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Multinucleated muscle fibers are formed by the fusion of myogenic progenitor cells during embryonic and fetal myogenesis. However, the role of prenatally incorporated myonuclei in the skeletal muscle fibers of adult animals is poorly understood. We demonstrated, using muscle-specific reporter mice, that the prenatal myonuclei remained in the adult soleus muscle, although cardiotoxin injection caused the loss of prenatal myonuclei. Overloading by the tendon transection of synergists failed to induce compensatory hypertrophy in regenerated soleus muscle fibers of adult rats, whereas unloading by tail suspension normally induced the fiber atrophy. Loss of hypertrophying function correlated with the lowered histone acetylation at the transcription start site of Igf1r gene, which was one of the genes that did not respond to the overloading. These parameters were improved by the transplantation of cells harvested from the juvenile soleus muscles of neonatal rats in association with enhanced histone acetylation of Igf1r gene. These results indicated that the presence of prenatal myonuclei was closely related to the status of histone acetylation, which could regulate the responsiveness of muscle fibers to physiological stimuli.
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