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?-Syntrophin is required for the hepatocyte growth factor-induced migration of cultured myoblasts.

ABSTRACT: Syntrophins are adaptor proteins that link intracellular signaling molecules to the dystrophin based scaffold. In this study, we investigated the function of syntrophins in cell migration, one of the early steps in myogenic differentiation and in regeneration of adult muscle. Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) stimulates migration and lamellipodia formation in cultured C2 myoblasts. In the migrating cells, syntrophin concentrated in the rear-lateral region of the cell, opposite of the lamellipodia, instead of being diffusely present throughout the cytoplasm of non-migrating cells. When the expression of ?-syntrophin, the major syntrophin isoform of skeletal muscle, was reduced by transfection with the ?-syntrophin-specific siRNA, HGF stimulation of lamellipodia formation was prevented. Likewise, migration of myoblasts from ?-syntrophin knockout mice could not be stimulated by HGF. However, HGF-induced migration was restored in myoblasts isolated from a transgenic mouse expressing ?-syntrophin only in muscle cells. Treatment of C2 myoblasts with inhibitors of PI3-kinase not only reduced the rate of cell migration, but also impaired the accumulation of syntrophins in the rear-lateral region of the migrating cells. Phosphorylation of Akt was reduced in the ?-syntrophin siRNA-treated C2 cells. These results suggest that ?-syntrophin is required for HGF-induced migration of myoblasts and for proper PI3-kinase/Akt signaling.

SUBMITTER: Kim MJ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3215915 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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α-Syntrophin is required for the hepatocyte growth factor-induced migration of cultured myoblasts.

Kim Min Jeong MJ Froehner Stanley C SC Adams Marvin E ME Kim Hye Sun HS

Experimental cell research 20111006 20

Syntrophins are adaptor proteins that link intracellular signaling molecules to the dystrophin based scaffold. In this study, we investigated the function of syntrophins in cell migration, one of the early steps in myogenic differentiation and in regeneration of adult muscle. Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) stimulates migration and lamellipodia formation in cultured C2 myoblasts. In the migrating cells, syntrophin concentrated in the rear-lateral region of the cell, opposite of the lamellipodia, ...[more]

PMID: 22001117

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