Project description:Immortalized myoblasts obtained from healthy and Duchenne patients where induced to fuse into multi-nucleated myotubes and Bru-seq was performed
Project description:hTERT/cdk4 immortalized myogenic human cell lines represent an important tool for skeletal muscle research, being used as therapeutically-pertinent models of various neuromuscular disorders and in numerous fundamental studies of muscle cell function. However, the cell cycle is linked to other cellular processes such as integrin regulation, the PI3K/Akt pathway, and microtubule stability, raising the question as to whether transgenic modification of the cell cycle results in secondary effects that could undermine the validity of these cell models. Here we subjected healthy and disease lines to intensive transcriptomic analysis, comparing immortalized lines with their parent primary populations in both differentiated and undifferentiated states, and testing their myogenic character by comparison with non-myogenic (CD56-negative) cells. We found that immortalization has no measurable effect on the myogenic cascade or on any other cellular processes, and that it was protective against the systems level effects of senescence that are observed at higher division counts of primary cells. This dataset includes gene expression profiles for 94 samples comprising primary myoblasts and their corresponding immortalized clones in both differentiated and undifferentiated states (average of 4 cell culture replicates each) from 5 human subjects (2 healthy and 3 Duchenne muscular dystropy - DMD), together with primary populations of non-myogenic (CD56-ve) cells from the muscles of 8 other human subjects. Total RNA was extracted from, myoblasts, myotubes (after 9 days of differentiation), or CD56-ve cells by dissolving cell pellets in TRIzol then using PureLink RNA Mini Kit.
Project description:BrU incorporation into nascent RNA followed by immunoprecipitation with a BrU specific antibody. The nascent RNA was subsequently eluted with BrU competition.
Project description:Using the 10x Genomics platform, we conducted single-cell RNA sequencing to profile our newly immortalized alveolar type 2 (AT2) cell lines. Since primary human AT2 cells are notoriously difficult to propagate long-term, passage repeatedly, and modify genetically, we developed several stable, immortalized lines derived from healthy AT2 cells.
Project description:Despite the discovery of many genetic risk factors, the cause of the motor neuron death that drives terminal pathology in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) remains unknown. We report that the skeletal muscle of ALS patients secretes exosomal vesicles that are specifically toxic to motor neurons. This could not be attributed to a trivial down-stream consequence of muscle denervation. In a study of muscle biopsies and biopsy-derived denervation-naïve differentiated muscle stem cells (myotubes) from 67 human subjects, including healthy and disease controls, ALS myotubes had a consistent signature of disrupted exosome biogenesis and RNA-processing, and their exosomes induced shortened, less branched, neurites, greater death, and disrupted localization of RNA and RNA-processing proteins in motor neurons. Toxicity was dependent on presence of the FUS protein, which is highly expressed in recipient motor neurons. As part of this work, we carried out gene expression analysis of myotubes (differentiated myoblasts) comparing ALS against two other motor neuron disorders as disease controls (SBMA, Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy; and Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 4, SMA-IV) and healthy controls.
Project description:BrU incorporation into nascent RNA followed by immunoprecipitation with a BrU specific antibody. The nascent RNA was subsequently eluted with BrU competition.
Project description:Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is an incurable muscle-wasting disorder characterized by chronic membrane damage, inflammation, and progressive fibrosis. Fibrosis in DMD is driven by sustained TGF signaling, which promotes extracellular matrix (ECM) accumulation. We previously showed that SETDB1 sustains the TGF-induced fibrotic response in DMD myotubes. Here, we further show that SETDB1 modulates the TGF-induced secretome, particularly by regulating ECM-related proteins. Comparison of the basal secretome from DMD patient-derived myotubes and healthy controls revealed a distinct disease-specific profile. Integrating both secretome analyses, we identified EMILIN1, an ECM glycoprotein not previously studied in skeletal muscle, as a robust shared candidate; EMILIN1 is enriched in the DMD secretome, further upregulated by TGF and downregulated upon SETDB1 depletion. We confirmed EMILIN1 overexpression in DMD patient muscle biopsies, validating its pathological relevance. Functionally, EMILIN1 depletion modulated myogenic differentiation and reduced expression of the fibrotic marker SERPINE1. These findings establish EMILIN1 as a novel secreted regulator of myogenesis and fibrosis, and implicate SETDB1 in shaping the TGF-dependent secretome in DMD. Our integrative proteomic approach provides new insights into the molecular drivers of impaired regeneration in DMD and highlights potential therapeutic targets.
Project description:Expression data from 22 human myotubes (7 healthy controls, 4 Dysferlinopathy (DYSF), 4 Caveolinopathy 3 (CAV3), 4 Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy(FSHD) and 3 Four and a half LIM 1 protein deficiency FHL1).cDNA microarray data showed that cyclin A1 levels are specifically elevated in FSHD vs. other muscular disorders such as CAV3, DYSF, FHL1 and healthy control. Data could be confirmed with RT-PCR and Western blot analysis showing up-regulated levels of cyclin A1 also on the protein level. Comparison of gene expression among 4 different muscular dystrophies and helathy controls. Looking for genes expression specifically changed (down/upregulated) in FSHD. In these data sheet we include expression data obtained for human cells lines derived from human V.lateralis muscle, shown as mean value. From 59 different expressed genes, Cyclin A1 was selected as a highly overexpressed (28 fold) gene in FSHD if compared to DYSF, CAV3, FHL1 and healyhy controls. Expression data from 22 human myotubes (7 healthy controls, 4 Dysferlinopathy (DYSF), 4 Caveolinopathy 3 (CAV3), 4 Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy(FSHD) and 3 Four and a half LIM 1 protein deficiency FHL1)