Project description:Myoblasts are supposed to participate in skeletal muscle fibrosis. In this dataset, myoblasts were treated with TGF-β and then miRNA sequencing was performed to identify potential targets.
Project description:To determine the circRNA expression profile in C2C12 myoblasts and myotubes, we used mouse circRNA microarray from Arraystar to examine the expression of circRNAs in C2C12 myoblasts and myotubes.
Project description:To determine the lncRNA expression profile in C2C12 myoblasts and myotubes, we used mouse lncRNA microarray from Arraystar to examine the expression of lncRNAs in C2C12 myoblasts and myotubes.
Project description:Background: Follistatin (FS) is an activin-binding glycoprotein, known for its antagonistic action on the TGF-β super-family of cytokines. It has ability to prevent muscle atrophy and to stimulate muscle growth through binding of myostatin (GDF8). FS does not cause these changes only by inhibition of GDF8 but this mechanism is still not well elucidated. In order to identify GDF8-dependent and GDF8-independent action of FS, we performed comprehensive transcriptomic analysis of differentiating C2C12 mouse myoblasts. Results: To evaluate influence of FS-288 (200ng/ml) on differentiating C2C12 myoblasts was used immunofluorescence analysis of MyHC protein expression in the culture and counting of the number and type of myotubes. Differentiating myoblasts treated with FS showed increase in number and size of myotubes. Microarray studies performed by us identified 30 genes oppositely regulated by FS and GDF8. Analyses of the transcriptomic profiles showed that FS has highly significant influence, associated with GDF8 binding, on the regulation of cell cycle, transport processes, cell communication, cell adhesion, cell motion, developmental processes and binding functions. The signalling pathways that may play a primary role in the myogenesis stimulation by FS are associated with TGF-β, Delta-Notch and Wnt signalling pathways, integrin and actin cytoskeleton signalling and adipogenesis regulation. Changes in expression of Hgf, Sort1, Trdn, Stmn2, Hdac1 genes, significantly involved in the process of myoblasts differentiation were validated with Real-Time PCR method. Conclusions: Our results implicate which aspects of transcriptional regulation of myogenesis process by FS could have significant and protective influence. We have shown that FS activity is associated not only with GDF8 binding but also with inhibited expression of genes involved in TGF-β signalling and by regulating of genes associated with vesicle transport apoptosis signalling pathway, inflammatory pathways and adipogenesis expression. Our analysis showed that follistatin GDF8-independent on differentiating myotubes involves regulation of localization processes, cell-matrix adhesion, mRNA processing, apoptosis, fatty acid metabolic processes, SNAP receptor activity functions and partial regulation of transcription processes. These results give a new and complete image of the follistatin role in the muscle cell differentiation and indicate target genes for FS which in the future may be a good therapeutic approach.
Project description:Maps of genomic regions in proximity to the nuclear lamina were determined in undifferentiated C2C12 myoblasts (MBs) and 6 day differentiated C2C12 myotubes (MTs) using DamID with a Dam-Lamin B1-encoding lentivirus.
Project description:We show the application of 5mC antibody-based methylated DNA immunoprecipitation followed sequencing technology for high-through profiling of DNA methylation in mouse C2C12 myoblasts and myotubes. By analyzing the methylation status of immunoprecipitated DNA fragments, we generated genome-wide DNA methyaltion maps in mouse C2C12 myoblasts and myotubes. We find that DNA methylation levels in myoblasts at rDNA promter and coding regions are higher than that in myotubes but not changed in intergenic regions.
Project description:Proteosome inhibitors such as bortezomib (BTZ) have been used to treat muscle wasting in animal models. However, direct effect of BTZ on skeletal muscle cells has not been reported. In the present study, our data showed that C2C12 cells exhibited a dose-dependent decrease in cell viability in response to increasing concentrations of BTZ. We used microarrays to detail the differentially expressed genes in c2c12 myoblasts with different culture conditions.
Project description:C2C12 myoblast is a model that has been used extensively to study the process of skeletal muscle differentiation. Proteomics has advanced our understanding of skeletal muscle biology and the process of myogenesis. However, there is still no deep coverage of C2C12 myoblast proteome, which is important for the understanding of key drivers for the differentiation of skeletal muscle cells. Here, we conducted a multi-dimensional proteome profiling with TiSH strategy to get a comprehensive analysis of proteome, phosphoproteome and N-linked sialylated glycoproteome of C2C12 myoblasts. A total of 8313 protein groups were identified in C2C12 myoblasts, including 7827 protein groups from non-modified peptides, 3803 phosphoproteins and 977 formerly N-linked sialylated glycoproteins.