Myogenesis of normal and dystrophic chick embryonic skeletal muscle cells in vitro: biosynthesis of plasma membrane proteins

1980 ◽  
Vol 58 (10) ◽  
pp. 1156-1164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul C. Holland ◽  
George A. Cates ◽  
Byron S. Wenger ◽  
Barbara L. Raney

Plasma membranes were prepared from primary cell cultures of normal and genetically dystrophic chick embryonic pectoral muscle. These membranes were analyzed both by one-dimensional sodium dodecyl sulphate – polyacrylamide slab gel electrophoresis and by two-dimensional electrophoresis using isoelectric focusing in the first dimension. No marked and reproducible abnormalities could be detected in the synthesis, or accumulation, of plasma membrane proteins of dystrophic muscle cells maintained in culture for periods of up to 6 days. Analysis of the relative rates of protein turnover, analysis of fucose incorporation into plasma membrane proteins, and comparison of iodinated cell surface proteins also failed to reveal distinct abnormalities in plasma membranes derived from cultured dystrophic muscle cells. Although the results obtained do not rule out an early defect in plasma membrane protein biosynthesis during the development of dystrophic skeletal muscle in vivo, they do demonstrate that the synthesis and assembly of at least the major plasma membrane proteins occur normally during the initial phases of terminal differentiation of isolated dystrophic skeletal muscle cells in tissue culture.

1978 ◽  
Vol 174 (3) ◽  
pp. 873-881 ◽  
Author(s):  
G A Cates ◽  
P C Holland

1. Surface labelling of plasma-membrane proteins with 125I, catalysed by lactoperoxidase, and radioactive l-fucose incorporation into glycoprotein were used as plasma-membrane markers for skeletal-muscle cells in culture. 2. Plasma membranes were prepared at various stages of myogenesis in vitro and rates of synthesis and accumulation of proteins in the membranes were compared. 3. Increased synthesis and accumulation of a protein of apparent mol.wt. 70000 occurred in the plasma-membrane fraction concomitant with the onset of myoblast fusion. 4. In cultures in which fusion of myoblasts was inhibited by 5′-bromo-2-deoxyuridine, synthesis and accumulation of the protein of apparent mol.wt. 70000 was selectively inhibited. 5. It is suggested the protein of apparent mol.wt. 70000 may be involved in the process of myoblast fusion.


2019 ◽  
Vol 317 (6) ◽  
pp. E957-E972
Author(s):  
Brent A. Fujimoto ◽  
Madison Young ◽  
Lamar Carter ◽  
Alina P. S. Pang ◽  
Michael J. Corley ◽  
...  

Skeletal muscle handles ~80–90% of the insulin-induced glucose uptake. In skeletal muscle, insulin binding to its cell surface receptor triggers redistribution of intracellular glucose transporter GLUT4 protein to the cell surface, enabling facilitated glucose uptake. In adipocytes, the eight-protein exocyst complex is an indispensable constituent in insulin-induced glucose uptake, as it is responsible for the targeted trafficking and plasma membrane-delivery of GLUT4. However, the role of the exocyst in skeletal muscle glucose uptake has never been investigated. Here we demonstrate that the exocyst is a necessary factor in insulin-induced glucose uptake in skeletal muscle cells as well. The exocyst complex colocalizes with GLUT4 storage vesicles in L6-GLUT4myc myoblasts at a basal state and associates with these vesicles during their translocation to the plasma membrane after insulin signaling. Moreover, we show that the exocyst inhibitor endosidin-2 and a heterozygous knockout of Exoc5 in skeletal myoblast cells both lead to impaired GLUT4 trafficking to the plasma membrane and hinder glucose uptake in response to an insulin stimulus. Our research is the first to establish that the exocyst complex regulates insulin-induced GLUT4 exocytosis and glucose metabolism in muscle cells. A deeper knowledge of the role of the exocyst complex in skeletal muscle tissue may help our understanding of insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes.


1980 ◽  
Vol 186 (1) ◽  
pp. 211-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
G A Cates ◽  
P C Holland

1. Two distinct classes of protein were detected at the surface of chick-embryo skeletal-muscle cells after iodination of the cells in monolayer culture. 2. The two classes of iodinated proteins differed in their ability to co-purify with a vesicular plasma-membrane fraction prepared from surface-labelled cells. 3. One class consisted of predominantly high-molecular-weight glycoproteins that co-purified with the plasma-membrane fraction, but showed no significant qualitative or quantitative alterations in labelling with 125I and lactoperoxidase during myogenesis. 4. A second class of predominantly lower-molecular-weight proteins showed reproducible quantitative alterations in 125I-labelling during myogenesis but failed to co-purify with the plasma-membrane fraction. 5. This second class of proteins may represent matrix proteins involved in intercellular adhesion or adhesion of cells to the substratum. They are unlikely to be directly required for the process of plasma-membrane fusion during myogenesis, since they do not copurify with a vesicular plasma-membrane fraction known to be capable of Ca2+-dependent fusion in vitro.


1988 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon G. Church ◽  
Shobha Ghosh ◽  
Basil D. Roufogalis ◽  
Antonio Villalobo

Plasma-membrane-bound kinases of AS-30D ascites from transplantable rat hepatocarcinoma were shown to extensively catalyze the phosphorylation of plasma membrane proteins and membrane lipids, using [γ-32P]ATP or [γ-32P]GTP as a phosphate donor. In contrast, plasma membranes from normal adult rat liver or fast-growing regenerating liver (24 h after partial hepatectomy) produce significantly less activity for protein phosphorylation and little phosphorylation of the lipids. However, neonatal (24 h old) rat liver plasma membrane preparations show levels of phosphorylation of proteins and lipids intermediate between those in the tumor cell line and normal adult plasma membrane preparations. Phosphatidic acid was identified as one of the 32P-labelled lipids in the tumor plasma membrane chloroform–methanol (2:1, v/v) extract. Phosphorylation of protein was not affected by cAMP or cGMP. However, calcium ion (in the presence or absence of calmodulin) significantly modifies the 32P labelling of a series of proteins in normal tissue but has little effect with the neoplastic preparations. Some plasma membrane proteins were capable of nucleotide binding, instead or in addition to being phosphorylated. Finally, the presence of membrane-bound phosphoprotein phosphatase(s) was also demonstrated in all the preparations examined by means of chase experiments with nonlabelled ATP or GTP, and (or) by the use of the phosphoprotein phosphatase inhibitor, orthovanadate.


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