Project description:In order to invetigate the impact of CpG methylation on gene expression, transcriptomic profiling using microarray were conducted on the fast and slow type myofibers.
Project description:Fast and slow skeletal muscles show different characteristics and phenotypes. This data obtained from microarray includes the comparison of normal fast plantaris and slow soleus muscles of adult rats. Characters of slow muscle are strongly dependent on the level of muscular activity. Denervation silences the muscular activity. Therefore, we determined the effects of denervation on gene expression in slow soleus muscle of adult rats.
Project description:Fast and slow skeletal muscles show different characteristics and phenotypes. This data obtained from microarray includes the comparison of normal fast plantaris and slow soleus muscles of adult rats. Characters of slow muscle are strongly dependent on the level of muscular activity. Denervation silences the muscular activity. Therefore, we determined the effects of denervation on gene expression in slow soleus muscle of adult rats. Denervation was performed by transection (~5 mm) of left sciatic nerve at the gluteal level. No treatments were made in the normal control rats. Sampling of soleus and/or plantaris was performed in both normal and experimental groups 28 days after the surgery.
Project description:Skeletal muscle plays an important role in the health-promoting effects of exercise training, yet the underlying mechanisms are not fully elucidated. Proteomics of skeletal muscle is challenging due to presence of non-muscle tissues and existence of different fiber types confounding the results. This can be circumvented by analysis of pure fibers; however this requires isolation of fibers from fresh tissues. We developed a workflow enabling proteomics analysis of isolated muscle fibers from freeze-dried muscle biopsies and identified >4000 proteins. We investigated effects of exercise training on the pool of slow and fast muscle fibers. Exercise altered expression of >500 proteins irrespective of fiber type covering several metabolic processes, mainly related to mitochondria. Furthermore, exercise training altered proteins involved in regulation of post-translational modifications, transcription, Ca++ signaling, fat, and glucose metabolism in a fiber type-specific manner. Our data serves as a valuable resource for elucidating molecular mechanisms underlying muscle performance and health. Finally, our workflow offers methodological advancement allowing proteomic analyses of already stored freeze-dried human muscle biopsies.
Project description:We performed the first quantitative proteomics analysis of differences between striated (fast) and catch (slow) adductor muscle in Yesso scallop (Patinopecten yessoensis), with the goal to uncover muscle specific genes and proteins, as well as enzymes of metabolic pathways in fast and slow adductor muscle of scallops. The present findings highlight the functional roles of muscle contractile proteins, calcium signaling pathways, membrane and extracellular matrix proteins, and glycogen metabolism involved in the different contractile and metabolic properties between fast and slow muscles. The present findings will help better understand the molecular basis underlying muscle contraction and its physiological regulation in invertebrates.
Project description:Comparing the gene expression profiles of slow and fast skeletal muscle (soleus VS FDB) with either amplified RNA (cRNA probes) or original mRNA (cDNA probes). The fidelity of mRNA amplification method in identifying the gene expression profiles of our samples were validated. Keywords: cell type comparison
Project description:Background: skeletal muscle is a complex, versatile tissue composed of a variety of functionally diverse fiber types. Although the biochemical, structural and functional properties of myofibers have been the subject of intense investigation for the last decades, understanding molecular processes regulating fiber type diversity is still complicated by the heterogeneity of cell types present in the whole muscle organ. Methodology/Principal Findings: we have produced a first catalogue of genes expressed in mouse slow-oxidative (type 1) and fast-glycolytic (type 2B) fibers through transcriptome analysis at the single fiber level (microgenomics). Individual fibers were obtained from murine soleus and EDL muscles and initially classified by myosin heavy chain isoform content. Gene expression profiling on high density DNA oligonucleotide microarrays showed that both qualitative and quantitative improvements were achieved, compared to results with standard muscle homogenate. First, myofiber profiles were virtually free from non-muscle transcriptional activity. Second, thousands of muscle-specific genes were identified, leading to a better definition of gene signatures in the two fiber types as well as the detection of metabolic and signaling pathways that are differentially activated in specific fiber types. Several regulatory proteins showed preferential expression in slow myofibers. Discriminant analysis revealed novel genes that could be useful for fiber type functional classification. Conclusions/Significance: as gene expression analyses at the single fiber level significantly increased the resolution power, this innovative approach would allow a better understanding of the adaptive transcriptomic transitions occurring in myofibers under physiological and pathological conditions.
Project description:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a lethal motor neuron disease that progressively debilitates neuronal cells that control voluntary muscle activity. In a mouse model of ALS that expresses mutated human superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1-G93A) skeletal muscle is one of the tissues affected early by mutant SOD1 toxicity. Fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscles are differentially affected in ALS patients and in the SOD1-G93A model, fast-twitch muscles being more vulnerable. We used miRNA microarrays to investigate miRNA alterations in fast-twitch (EDL) and slow-twitch (soleus) skeletal muscles of symptomatic SOD1-G93A animals and their age-matched wild type littermates.
Project description:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a lethal motor neuron disease that progressively debilitates neuronal cells that control voluntary muscle activity. In a mouse model of ALS that expresses mutated human superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1-G93A) skeletal muscle is one of the tissues affected early by mutant SOD1 toxicity. Fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscles are differentially affected in ALS patients and in the SOD1-G93A model, fast-twitch muscles being more vulnerable. We used miRNA microarrays to investigate miRNA alterations in fast-twitch (EDL) and slow-twitch (soleus) skeletal muscles of symptomatic SOD1-G93A animals and their age-matched wild type littermates. At age of 90 days RNA was extracted from extensor digitorum longus (EDL) and soleus (SOL) muscles of male SOD1-G93A animals and their age-matched wild type male littermates. RNA was hybridized on Affymetrix Multispecies miRNA-2_0 Array.
Project description:Myosin-binding protein C (MyBP-C) is a thick filament regulatory protein found exclusively in the C-zone of the A band in the sarcomeres of vertebrate striated muscle. Cardiac, slow skeletal and fast skeletal MyBP-C (fMyBP-C) paralogs perform different functions. However, the functional role of fMyBP-C in fast skeletal muscle is completely unknown. Genetic mutations in human fMyBP-C lead to skeletal myopathies. All three isoforms share similar protein structures, but likely differ substantially in terms of expression and function, which may serve the distinct physiologies of fast and slow muscle fibers. In the present study, we developed a novel fMyBP-C global knockout (KO) mouse model (C2-/-) to investigate the structural, functional, molecular, cellular and physiological roles of fMyBP-C in skeletal muscle.