Journal
BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 391, Issue 1, Pages 299-304Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.11.053
Keywords
Myogenesis; Nucleostemin; p53; Protein synthesis
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- Muscular Dystrophy Association, Korea Institute of Science and Technology
- Nash Foundation
- NIH [R01 GM068027]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [R01GM068027] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Nucleostemin (NS) is a nucleolar protein abundantly expressed in a variety of proliferating cells and undifferentiated cells Its known functions include cell cycle regulation and the control of pre-rRNA processing It also has been proposed that NS has an additional role in undifferentiated cells due to its downregulation during stem cell differentiation and its upregulation during tissue regeneration Here, however, we demonstrate that skeletal muscle cell differentiation has a unique expression profile of NS in that it is continuously expressed during differentiation NS was expressed at similar levels in non-proliferating muscle stem cells (satellite cells). rapidly proliferating precursor cells (myoblasts) and post-mitotic terminally differentiated cells (myotubes and myofibers) The sustained expression of NS during terminal differentiation is necessary to support increased protein synthesis during this process Downregulation of NS inhibited differentiation of myoblasts to myotubes, accompanied by striking downregulation of key myogenic transcription factors, such as myogenin and MyoD In contrast, Upregulation of NS inhibited proliferation and promoted muscle differentiation in a p53-dependent manner Our findings provide evidence that NS has an unexpected role in post-mitotic terminal differentiation Importantly, these findings also indicate that, contrary to suggestions in the literature, the expression of NS cannot always be used as a reliable indicator for undifferentiated cells or proliferating cells (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc All rights reserved
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