scholarly journals In Vivo Regulation of Human Skeletal Muscle Gene Expression by Thyroid Hormone

2002 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Clement
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Thyroid Hormone ◽  
Human Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Muscle Gene Expression ◽  
Muscle Gene

scholarly journals MuscleAtlasExplorer: a web service for studying gene expression in human skeletal muscle

Database ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olof Asplund ◽  
Johan Rung ◽  
Leif Groop ◽  
Rashmi Prasad B ◽  
Ola Hansson
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Human Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Sample Selection ◽  
Disease Status ◽  
Expression Data ◽  
Muscle Gene Expression ◽  
Phenotype Data ◽  
Muscle Gene

Abstract MuscleAtlasExplorer is a freely available web application that allows for the exploration of gene expression data from human skeletal muscle. It draws from an extensive publicly available dataset of 1654 skeletal muscle expression microarray samples. Detailed, manually curated, patient phenotype data, with information such as age, sex, BMI and disease status, are combined with skeletal muscle gene expression to provide insights into gene function in skeletal muscle. It aims to facilitate easy exploration of the data using powerful data visualization functions, while allowing for sample selection, in-depth inspection and further analysis using external tools. Availability: MuscleAtlasExplorer is available at https://mae.crc.med.lu.se/mae2 (username ‘muscle’ and password ‘explorer’ pre-publication).

Epigenetic effects induced by the ectopic expression of Pax7 in 3T3-L1

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alaa Elgaabari ◽  
Atsuko Miyawaki-Kuwakado ◽  
Kosuke Tomimatsu ◽  
Qianmei Wu ◽  
Kosuke Tokunaga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Ectopic Expression ◽  
Histone Mark ◽  
Differentiation Potential ◽  
Muscle Gene Expression ◽  
Repressive Histone Mark ◽  
Myogenic Factor ◽  
Muscle Gene

Abstract Although skeletal muscle cells and adipocytes are derived from the same mesoderm, they do not transdifferentiate in vivo and are strictly distinct at the level of gene expression. To elucidate some of the regulatory mechanisms underlying this strict distinction, Pax7, a myogenic factor, was ectopically expressed in 3T3-L1 adipose progenitor cells to perturb their adipocyte differentiation potential. Transcriptome analysis showed that ectopic expression of Pax7 repressed the expression of some adipocyte genes and induced expression of some skeletal muscle cell genes. We next profiled the epigenomic state altered by Pax7 expression using H3K27ac, an activating histone mark, and H3K27me3, a repressive histone mark, as indicators. Our results show that ectopic expression of Pax7 did not result in the formation of H3K27ac at loci of skeletal muscle-related genes, but instead resulted in the formation of H3K27me3 at adipocyte-related gene loci. These findings suggest that the primary function of ectopic Pax7 expression is the formation of H3K27me3, and muscle gene expression results from secondary regulation.

scholarly journals Myogenin is required for assembly of the transcription machinery on muscle genes during skeletal muscle differentiation

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. e0245618
Author(s):  
Abhinav Adhikari ◽  
William Kim ◽  
Judith Davie
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Gene Activation ◽  
Gene Promoters ◽  
Muscle Gene Expression ◽  
Transcription Machinery ◽  
Muscle Genes ◽  
Muscle Gene

Skeletal muscle gene expression is governed by the myogenic regulatory family (MRF) which includes MyoD (MYOD1) and myogenin (MYOG). MYOD1 and MYOG are known to regulate an overlapping set of muscle genes, but MYOD1 cannot compensate for the absence of MYOG in vivo. In vitro, late muscle genes have been shown to be bound by both factors, but require MYOG for activation. The molecular basis for this requirement was unclear. We show here that MYOG is required for the recruitment of TBP and RNAPII to muscle gene promoters, indicating that MYOG is essential in assembling the transcription machinery. Genes regulated by MYOD1 and MYOG include genes required for muscle fusion, myomaker and myomerger, and we show that myomaker is fully dependent on activation by MYOG. We also sought to determine the role of MYOD1 in MYOG dependent gene activation and unexpectedly found that MYOG is required to maintain Myod1 expression. However, we also found that exogenous MYOD1 was unable to compensate for the loss of Myog and activate muscle gene expression. Thus, our results show that MYOD1 and MYOG act in a feed forward loop to maintain each other’s expression and also show that it is MYOG, and not MYOD1, that is required to load TBP and activate gene expression on late muscle gene promoters bound by both factors.

Skeletal muscle gene expression in space‐flown rats

2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 522-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takeshi Nikawa ◽  
Kazumi Ishidoh ◽  
Katsuya Hirasaka ◽  
Ibuki Ishihara ◽  
Madoka Ikemoto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Muscle Gene Expression ◽  
Muscle Gene

Stable incorporation of a bacterial gene into adult rat skeletal muscle in vivo

1990 ◽  
Vol 258 (3) ◽  
pp. C578-C581 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. B. Thomason ◽  
F. W. Booth
Keyword(s):  
Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Leukemia Virus ◽  
Rat Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Bacterial Gene ◽  
Muscle Gene Expression ◽  
Adult Rat ◽  
Foreign Genes ◽  
Muscle Gene ◽  
Beta Galactosidase

We have developed a novel technique to incorporate and stably express foreign genes in adult rat skeletal muscle in vivo. Endogeneous satellite cells in skeletal muscle regenerating from bupivacaine damage were infected with an injected retrovirus containing the Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase gene under the promoter control of the Moloney murine leukemia virus long-terminal repeat. Constitutive and stable expression of beta-galactosidase activity was observed in muscle fibers after 6 days and 1 mo of muscle regeneration. Two patterns of expression were observed, diffuse expression within fibers and focal expression associated with the sarcolemma. This technique will allow future experiments with muscle-specific genes and promoters to study the physiological regulation of skeletal muscle gene expression in the intact adult mammal. Furthermore, the technique of stimulating stem cell proliferation to allow retroviral-mediated gene transfer may be generally applicable to other tissues.

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