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Fast skeletal myosin binding protein-C regulates fast skeletal muscle contraction

ABSTRACT: Fast skeletal myosin binding protein-C (fMyBP-C) is one of three MyBP-C paralogs and is predominantly expressed in fast skeletal muscle. Mutations in the gene that encodes fMyBP-C, MYBPC2, is associated with distal arthrogryposis, while fMyBP-C protein is reduced in diseased muscle. However, the functional and structural roles of fMyBP-C in skeletal muscle remain unclear. To address this gap, we generated a homozygous fMyBP-C knockout mouse (C2-/-) and characterized it, both in vivo and in vitro. Ablation of fMyBP-C was benign in terms of muscle weight, fiber type, cross-sectional area, and sarcomere ultrastructure. However, grip strength and plantar-flexor muscle strength were significantly decreased in C2-/- compared to WT. Peak isometric tetanic force (Po) and isotonic speed of contraction were significantly reduced in isolated extensor digitorum longus (EDL) from C2-/- mice. In EDL muscles of C2-/- mice, small-angle X-ray diffraction revealed significant increase in equatorial intensity ratio (I1.1/I1.0) during contraction, indicating a greater degree of myosin head shift towards actin while MLL4 layer-line intensity was decreased at rest, indicating less ordered myosin heads at rest. Interfilament lattice spacing was also significantly increased in C2-/- EDL muscle compared to WT. Consistent with these findings, we observed a significant reduction of steady-state isometric force during Ca2+ activations, myofilament calcium sensitivity, sinusoidal stiffness in skinned EDL muscle fibers from C2-/- mice. Finally, C2-/- muscles displayed disruption of inflammatory and regenerative genes and increased muscle damage upon mechanical overload. Together, our data suggest that fMyBP-C is essential for maximal speed and force of contraction, sarcomere integrity, and calcium sensitivity in fast twitch muscle.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE160827 | GEO | 2020/11/30

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Stimulation of the mouse hindlimb via the sciatic nerve was used to induce contractions for 4 hours to investigate acute muscle gene activation in a model of muscle phenotype conversion. Initial force production (1.6 + 0.1 g/g body weight) declined 45% within 10 min and was maintained for the remainder of the experiment. Force returned to initial levels upon completion of the study. An immediate-early growth response was present in the EDL (FOS, JUN, ATF3, MAFK) with a similar but attenuated pattern in the soleus. Transcript profiles showed decreased fast fiber specific mRNA (myosin heavy chains 2A, 2B; troponins T3, I; -tropomyosin, m-creatine kinase) and increased slow transcripts (myosin heavy chain slow/1, troponin C, tropomyosin 3) in the EDL. Histological analysis of the EDL revealed glycogen depletion without inflammatory cell infiltration or myofiber damage in stimulated vs. control muscles. Several fiber type specific transcription factors (EYA1, TEAD1, NFATc1 and c4, PPARG, PPARGC1 and β, BHLHB2) increased in the EDL along with transcription factors characteristic of embryogenesis (KLF4, SOX17, TCF15, PKNOX1, ELAV). No established in vivo satellite cell markers or the genes activated during our parallel studies of satellite cell proliferation in vitro (CYCLINS A2, B2, C, E1, MyoD) increased in the stimulated muscles. These data indicated that onset of fast to slow phenotype conversion occurred in the EDL within 4 hours of stimulation without satellite cell recruitment or muscle injury but was driven by phenotype specific transcription factors from resident fiber myonuclei including activation of nascent developmental transcriptional programs. Adult male Swiss Webster mice (30-35 g) were anesthetized, a bipolar electrode was implanted adjacent to the sciatic nerve and the hindlimb immobilized. The voltage-force relation was determined to establish supramaximal stimulation conditions and the length-tension relation was determined to set the resting length for maximum twitch tension. Contractions were induced by sciatic nerve stimulation (0.5 msec duration, 2-5 volts). The muscles were allowed to rest 15 minutes for full metabolic recovery at physiologic temperatures. Supramaximal stimulation was applied at a rate of 10 Hz for 4 hours. At the end of each experiment the soleus muscles were carefully dissected and flash frozen in liquid nitrogen for analysis of mRNA expression via microarray analysis. The contralateral, unstimulated Soleus provided a genetically matched, paired control for each specimen.

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Fast skeletal myosin binding protein-C regulates fast skeletal muscle contraction

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