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A family of microRNAs encoded by myosin genes governs myosin expression and muscle performance.


ABSTRACT: Myosin is the primary regulator of muscle strength and contractility. Here we show that three myosin genes, Myh6, Myh7, and Myh7b, encode related intronic microRNAs (miRNAs), which, in turn, control muscle myosin content, myofiber identity, and muscle performance. Within the adult heart, the Myh6 gene, encoding a fast myosin, coexpresses miR-208a, which regulates the expression of two slow myosins and their intronic miRNAs, Myh7/miR-208b and Myh7b/miR-499, respectively. miR-208b and miR-499 play redundant roles in the specification of muscle fiber identity by activating slow and repressing fast myofiber gene programs. The actions of these miRNAs are mediated in part by a collection of transcriptional repressors of slow myofiber genes. These findings reveal that myosin genes not only encode the major contractile proteins of muscle, but act more broadly to influence muscle function by encoding a network of intronic miRNAs that control muscle gene expression and performance.

SUBMITTER: van Rooij E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2796371 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A family of microRNAs encoded by myosin genes governs myosin expression and muscle performance.

van Rooij Eva E   Quiat Daniel D   Johnson Brett A BA   Sutherland Lillian B LB   Qi Xiaoxia X   Richardson James A JA   Kelm Robert J RJ   Olson Eric N EN  

Developmental cell 20091101 5


Myosin is the primary regulator of muscle strength and contractility. Here we show that three myosin genes, Myh6, Myh7, and Myh7b, encode related intronic microRNAs (miRNAs), which, in turn, control muscle myosin content, myofiber identity, and muscle performance. Within the adult heart, the Myh6 gene, encoding a fast myosin, coexpresses miR-208a, which regulates the expression of two slow myosins and their intronic miRNAs, Myh7/miR-208b and Myh7b/miR-499, respectively. miR-208b and miR-499 play  ...[more]

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