Rapid muscle atrophy response to unloading: pretranslational processes involving MHC and actin
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, California Submitted 31 March 2009 ; accepted in final form 10 July 2009 Skeletal muscles, especially weight-bearing muscles, are very sensitive to changes in loading state. The aim of this paper was to characterize the dynam...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of applied physiology (1985) 2009-10, Vol.107 (4), p.1204-1212 |
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Submitted 31 March 2009
; accepted in final form 10 July 2009
Skeletal muscles, especially weight-bearing muscles, are very sensitive to changes in loading state. The aim of this paper was to characterize the dynamic changes in the unloaded soleus muscle in vivo following a short bout of hindlimb suspension (HS), testing the hypothesis that transcriptional events respond early to the atrophic stimulus. In fact, we observed that after only 1 day of HS, primary transcript levels of skeletal -actin and type I myosin heavy chain (MHC) genes were significantly reduced by more than 50% compared with ground control levels. The degree of the decline for the mRNA expression of actin and type I MHC lagged behind that of the pre-mRNA levels after 1 day of HS, but by 2 and 7 days of HS, large decreases were observed. Although the faster MHC isoforms, IIx and IIb, began to be expressed in soleus after 1 day of HS, a relatively significant shift in mRNA expression from the slow MHC isoform type I toward these fast MHC isoforms did not emerge until 7 days of HS. One day of HS was sufficient to show significant decreases in mRNA levels of putative signaling factors serum response factor (SRF), suppressor of cytokine signaling-3 (SOCS3), and striated muscle activator of Rho signaling (STARS), although transcription factors yin-yang-1 (YY1) and transcriptional enhancing factor-1 (TEF-1) were not significantly affected by HS. The protein levels of actin and type I MHC were significantly decreased after 2 days of HS, and SRF protein was significantly decreased after 7 days HS. Our results show that after only 1 day of unloading, pre-mRNA and mRNA expression of muscle proteins and muscle-specific signaling factors are significantly reduced, suggesting that the downregulation of the synthesis side of the protein balance equation that occurs in atrophying muscle is initiated rapidly.
myosin heavy chain; skeletal -actin; hindlimb suspension; soleus muscle; SOCS3; SRF; STARS
Address for reprint requests and other correspondence: J. M. Giger, Dept.of Physiology and Biophysics, Univ. of California, Irvine, D-346, Med. Sci. I, Irvine, CA 92697 (e-mail: jmeehan{at}uci.edu ). |
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ISSN: | 8750-7587 1522-1601 |
DOI: | 10.1152/japplphysiol.00344.2009 |