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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Zolt Arany
PROVIDER: E-MEXP-939 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Arany Zoltan Z Lebrasseur Nathan N Morris Carl C Smith Eric E Yang Wenli W Ma Yanhong Y Chin Sherry S Spiegelman Bruce M BM
Cell metabolism 20070101 1
Skeletal muscle must perform different kinds of work, and distinct fiber types have evolved to accommodate these. Previous work had shown that the transcriptional coactivator PGC-1alpha drives the formation of type I and IIA muscle fibers, which are "slow-twitch" and highly oxidative. We show here that transgenic expression of PGC-1beta, a coactivator functionally similar to but distinct from PGC-1alpha, causes a marked induction of IIX fibers, which are oxidative but have "fast-twitch" biophysi ...[more]