scholarly journals Activity-dependent and -independent nuclear fluxes of HDAC4 mediated by different kinases in adult skeletal muscle

2005 ◽  
Vol 168 (6) ◽  
pp. 887-897 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yewei Liu ◽  
William R. Randall ◽  
Martin F. Schneider

Class II histone deacetylases (HDACs) may decrease slow muscle fiber gene expression by repressing myogenic transcription factor myocyte enhancer factor 2 (MEF2). Here, we show that repetitive slow fiber type electrical stimulation, but not fast fiber type stimulation, caused HDAC4-GFP, but not HDAC5-GFP, to translocate from the nucleus to the cytoplasm in cultured adult skeletal muscle fibers. HDAC4-GFP translocation was blocked by calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (CaMK) inhibitor KN-62. Slow fiber type stimulation increased MEF2 transcriptional activity, nuclear Ca2+ concentration, and nuclear levels of activated CaMKII, but not total nuclear CaMKII or CaM-YFP. Thus, calcium transients for slow, but not fast, fiber stimulation patterns appear to provide sufficient Ca2+-dependent activation of nuclear CaMKII to result in net nuclear efflux of HDAC4. Nucleocytoplasmic shuttling of HDAC4-GFP in unstimulated resting fibers was not altered by KN-62, but was blocked by staurosporine, indicating that different kinases underlie nuclear efflux of HDAC4 in resting and stimulated muscle fibers.

2001 ◽  
Vol 155 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yewei Liu ◽  
Zoltán Cseresnyés ◽  
William R. Randall ◽  
Martin F. Schneider

TTranscription factor nuclear factor of activated T cells NFATc (NFATc1, NFAT2) may contribute to slow-twitch skeletal muscle fiber type–specific gene expression. Green fluorescence protein (GFP) or FLAG fusion proteins of either wild-type or constitutively active mutant NFATc [NFATc(S→A)] were expressed in cultured adult mouse skeletal muscle fibers from flexor digitorum brevis (predominantly fast-twitch). Unstimulated fibers expressing NFATc(S→A) exhibited a distinct intranuclear pattern of NFATc foci. In unstimulated fibers expressing NFATc–GFP, fluorescence was localized at the sarcomeric z-lines and absent from nuclei. Electrical stimulation using activity patterns typical of slow-twitch muscle, either continuously at 10 Hz or in 5-s trains at 10 Hz every 50 s, caused cyclosporin A–sensitive appearance of fluorescent foci of NFATc–GFP in all nuclei. Fluorescence of nuclear foci increased during the first hour of stimulation and then remained constant during a second hour of stimulation. Kinase inhibitors and ionomycin caused appearance of nuclear foci of NFATc–GFP without electrical stimulation. Nuclear translocation of NFATc–GFP did not occur with either continuous 1 Hz stimulation or with the fast-twitch fiber activity pattern of 0.1-s trains at 50 Hz every 50 s. The stimulation pattern–dependent nuclear translocation of NFATc demonstrated here could thus contribute to fast-twitch to slow-twitch fiber type transformation.


2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yewei Liu ◽  
Tiansheng Shen ◽  
William R. Randall ◽  
Martin F. Schneider

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiansheng Shen ◽  
Yewei Liu ◽  
Martin F. Schneider

The transcriptional coactivator peroxisome proliferator-activated receptorγcoactivator 1α(PGC-1α) regulates expression of genes for metabolism and muscle fiber type. Recently, a novel splice variant of PGC-1α(NT-PGC-1α, amino acids 1–270) was cloned and found to be expressed in muscle. Here we use Flag-tagged NT-PGC-1αto examine the subcellular localization and regulation of NT-PGC-1αin skeletal muscle fibers. Flag-NT-PGC-1αis located predominantly in the myoplasm. Nuclear NT-PGC-1αcan be increased by activation of protein kinase A. Activation of p38 MAPK by muscle activity or of AMPK had no effect on the subcellular distribution of NT-PGC-1α. Inhibition of CRM1-mediated export only caused relatively slow nuclear accumulation of NT-PGC-1α, indicating that nuclear export of NT-PGC-1αmay be mediated by both CRM1-dependent and -independent pathways. Together these results suggest that the regulation of NT-PGC-1αin muscle fibers may be very different from that of the full-length PGC-1α, which is exclusively nuclear.


2004 ◽  
Vol 287 (2) ◽  
pp. C270-C280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Zebedin ◽  
Walter Sandtner ◽  
Stefan Galler ◽  
Julia Szendroedi ◽  
Herwig Just ◽  
...  

Each skeletal muscle of the body contains a unique composition of “fast” and “slow” muscle fibers, each of which is specialized for certain challenges. This composition is not static, and the muscle fibers are capable of adapting their molecular composition by altered gene expression (i.e., fiber type conversion). Whereas changes in the expression of contractile proteins and metabolic enzymes in the course of fiber type conversion are well described, little is known about possible adaptations in the electrophysiological properties of skeletal muscle cells. Such adaptations may involve changes in the expression and/or function of ion channels. In this study, we investigated the effects of fast-to-slow fiber type conversion on currents via voltage-gated Na+channels in the C2C12murine skeletal muscle cell line. Prolonged treatment of cells with 25 nM of the Ca2+ionophore A-23187 caused a significant shift in myosin heavy chain isoform expression from the fast toward the slow isoform, indicating fast-to-slow fiber type conversion. Moreover, Na+current inactivation was significantly altered. Slow inactivation less strongly inhibited the Na+currents of fast-to-slow fiber type-converted cells. Compared with control cells, the Na+currents of converted cells were more resistant to block by tetrodotoxin, suggesting enhanced relative expression of the cardiac Na+channel isoform Nav1.5 compared with the skeletal muscle isoform Nav1.4. These results imply that fast-to-slow fiber type conversion of skeletal muscle cells involves functional adaptation of their electrophysiological properties.


1984 ◽  
Vol 247 (1) ◽  
pp. E118-E125 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. C. DuBois ◽  
R. R. Almon

The glucocorticoid receptor population in skeletal muscle of the rat was examined. Data are included that address the following: tissue preparation, receptor stabilization, method of assay and analysis, cross-reactivity of a large variety of steroids, time to equilibrium, and the effect of adrenalectomy on the number of sites as well as the apparent binding affinity. In addition, we have observed the following: 1) an exponential decline in the concentration of sites from 27 to 160 days after birth; 2) a significantly higher concentration of sites in muscle from male animals as compared with female animals; and 3) a significantly higher concentration of sites in the slow-fiber soleus muscle as compared with the fast-fiber extensor digitorum longus muscle.


2002 ◽  
Vol 282 (1) ◽  
pp. C113-C124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia L. Hallauer ◽  
Kenneth E. M. Hastings

Little is known of the gene regulatory mechanisms that coordinate the contractile and metabolic specializations of skeletal muscle fibers. Here we report a novel connection between fast isoform contractile protein transgene and glycolytic enzyme expression. In quantitative histochemical studies of transgenic mouse muscle fibers, we found extensive coregulation of the glycolytic enzyme glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GPDH) and transgene constructs based on the fast skeletal muscle troponin I (TnIfast) gene. In addition to a common IIB > IIX > IIA fiber type pattern, TnIfast transgenes and GPDH showed correlated fiber-to-fiber variation within each fast fiber type, concerted emergence of high-level expression during early postnatal muscle maturation, and parallel responses to muscle under- or overloading. Regulatory information for GPDH-coregulated expression is carried by the TnIfast first-intron enhancer (IRE). These results identify an unexpected contractile/metabolic gene regulatory link that is amenable to further molecular characterization. They also raise the possibility that the equal expression in all fast fiber types observed for the endogenous TnIfast gene may be driven by different metabolically coordinated mechanisms in glycolytic (IIB) vs. oxidative (IIA) fast fibers.


2017 ◽  
Vol 313 (2) ◽  
pp. C154-C161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Val A. Fajardo ◽  
Bradley A. Rietze ◽  
Paige J. Chambers ◽  
Catherine Bellissimo ◽  
Eric Bombardier ◽  
...  

Overexpression of sarcolipin (SLN), a regulator of sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPases (SERCAs), stimulates calcineurin signaling to enhance skeletal muscle oxidative capacity. Some studies have shown that calcineurin may also control skeletal muscle mass and remodeling in response to functional overload and unload stimuli by increasing myofiber size and the proportion of slow fibers. To examine whether SLN might mediate these adaptive responses, we performed soleus and gastrocnemius tenotomy in wild-type (WT) and Sln-null ( Sln−/−) mice and examined the overloaded plantaris and unloaded/tenotomized soleus muscles. In the WT overloaded plantaris, we observed ectopic expression of SLN, myofiber hypertrophy, increased fiber number, and a fast-to-slow fiber type shift, which were associated with increased calcineurin signaling (NFAT dephosphorylation and increased stabilin-2 protein content) and reduced SERCA activity. In the WT tenotomized soleus, we observed a 14-fold increase in SLN protein, myofiber atrophy, decreased fiber number, and a slow-to-fast fiber type shift, which were also associated with increased calcineurin signaling and reduced SERCA activity. Genetic deletion of Sln altered these physiological outcomes, with the overloaded plantaris myofibers failing to grow in size and number, and transition towards the slow fiber type, while the unloaded soleus muscles exhibited greater reductions in fiber size and number, and an accelerated slow-to-fast fiber type shift. In both the Sln−/− overloaded and unloaded muscles, these findings were associated with elevated SERCA activity and blunted calcineurin signaling. Thus, SLN plays an important role in adaptive muscle remodeling potentially through calcineurin stimulation, which could have important implications for other muscle diseases and conditions.


2011 ◽  
Vol 301 (4) ◽  
pp. R916-R925 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krystyna Banas ◽  
Charlene Clow ◽  
Bernard J. Jasmin ◽  
Jean-Marc Renaud

It has long been suggested that in skeletal muscle, the ATP-sensitive K+ channel (KATP) channel is important in protecting energy levels and that abolishing its activity causes fiber damage and severely impairs function. The responses to a lack of KATP channel activity vary between muscles and fibers, with the severity of the impairment being the highest in the most glycolytic muscle fibers. Furthermore, glycolytic muscle fibers are also expected to face metabolic stress more often than oxidative ones. The objective of this study was to determine whether the t-tubular KATP channel content differs between muscles and fiber types. KATP channel content was estimated using a semiquantitative immunofluorescence approach by staining cross sections from soleus, extensor digitorum longus (EDL), and flexor digitorum brevis (FDB) muscles with anti-Kir6.2 antibody. Fiber types were determined using serial cross sections stained with specific antimyosin I, IIA, IIB, and IIX antibodies. Changes in Kir6.2 content were compared with changes in CaV1.1 content, as this Ca2+ channel is responsible for triggering Ca2+ release from sarcoplasmic reticulum. The Kir6.2 content was the lowest in the oxidative soleus and the highest in the glycolytic EDL and FDB. At the individual fiber level, the Kir6.2 content within a muscle was in the order of type IIB > IIX > IIA ≥ I. Interestingly, the Kir6.2 content for a given fiber type was significantly different between soleus, EDL, and FDB, and highest in FDB. Correlations of relative fluorescence intensities from the Kir6.2 and CaV1.1 antibodies were significant for all three muscles. However, the variability in content between the three muscles or individual fibers was much greater for Kir6.2 than for CaV1.1. It is suggested that the t-tubular KATP channel content increases as the glycolytic capacity increases and as the oxidative capacity decreases and that the expression of KATP channels may be linked to how often muscles/fibers face metabolic stress.


2002 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Pette

Mammalian skeletal muscle fibers display a great adaptive potential. This potential results from the ability of muscle fibers to adjust their molecular, functional, and metabolic properties in response to altered functional demands, such as changes in neuromuscular activity or mechanical loading. Adaptive changes in the expression of myofibrillar and other protein isoforms result in fiber type transitions. These transitions occur in a sequential order and encompass a spectrum of pure and hybrid fibers. Depending on the quality, intensity, and duration of the alterations in functional demand, muscle fibers may undergo functional transitions in the direction of slow or fast, as well as metabolic transitions in the direction of aerobic-oxidative or glycotytic. The maximum range of possible transitions in either direction depends on the fiber phenotype and is determined by its initial location in the fiber spectrum. Key words: Ca-sequestering proteins, energy metabolism, fiber type transition, myofibrillar protein isofonns, myosin, neuromuscular activity


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