1. Alternative splicing transitions associate with emerging atrophy phenotype during denervation-induced skeletal muscle atrophy.
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Qiu J, Wu L, Chang Y, Sun H, and Sun J
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- Animals, Cell Differentiation, Cell Line, Cell Proliferation, Disease Models, Animal, Gene Expression Profiling, Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors genetics, Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors metabolism, Male, Mice, Muscle Denervation, Muscle Proteins genetics, Muscle Proteins metabolism, Muscle, Skeletal innervation, Muscle, Skeletal pathology, Muscular Atrophy genetics, Muscular Atrophy pathology, RNA-Seq, Rats, Sprague-Dawley, Sciatic Nerve surgery, Time Factors, Rats, Alternative Splicing, Muscle, Skeletal metabolism, Muscular Atrophy metabolism, Transcriptome
- Abstract
Alternative splicing (AS) presents a key posttranscriptional regulatory mechanism associated with numerous physiological processes. However, little is known about its role in skeletal muscle atrophy. In this study, we used a rat model of denervated skeletal muscle atrophy and performed RNA-sequencing to analyze transcriptome profiling of tibialis anterior muscle at multiple time points following denervation. We found that AS is a novel mechanism involving muscle atrophy, which is independent changes at the transcript level. Bioinformatics analysis further revealed that AS transitions are associated with the appearance of the atrophic phenotype. Moreover, we found that the inclusion of multiple highly conserved exons of Obscn markedly increased at 3 days after denervation. In addition, we confirmed that this newly transcript inhibited C2C12 cell proliferation and exacerbated myotube atrophy. Finally, our study revealed that a large number of RNA-binding proteins were upregulated when the atrophy phenotype appeared. Our data emphasize the importance of AS in this process., (© 2020 Wiley Periodicals LLC.)
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- 2021
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