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Journal Article
TGFβ signaling curbs cell fusion and muscle regeneration
2021
Overview
Muscle cell fusion is a multistep process involving cell migration, adhesion, membrane remodeling and actin-nucleation pathways to generate multinucleated myotubes. However, molecular brakes restraining cell–cell fusion events have remained elusive. Here we show that transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ) pathway is active in adult muscle cells throughout fusion. We find TGFβ signaling reduces cell fusion, regardless of the cells’ ability to move and establish cell-cell contacts. In contrast, inhibition of TGFβ signaling enhances cell fusion and promotes branching between myotubes in mouse and human. Exogenous addition of TGFβ protein in vivo during muscle regeneration results in a loss of muscle function while inhibition of TGFβR2 induces the formation of giant myofibers. Transcriptome analyses and functional assays reveal that TGFβ controls the expression of actin-related genes to reduce cell spreading. TGFβ signaling is therefore requisite to limit mammalian myoblast fusion, determining myonuclei numbers and myofiber size.
The fusion of muscle progenitor cells to form syncytial myofibers is required for skeletal muscle development and regeneration. Here, the authors describe a novel and specific molecular regulation of muscle cell fusion driven by transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ) signaling.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group,Nature Portfolio
Subject
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/ 13/51
/ 13/95
/ 14/63
/ 38/61
/ 59
/ 64
/ 64/60
/ 96
/ Actin
/ Adult
/ Animals
/ Fluorescent Antibody Technique
/ Humanities and Social Sciences
/ Humans
/ Male
/ Mice
/ Muscles
/ Myotubes
/ Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
/ Science
/ Transforming Growth Factor beta - genetics
/ Transforming Growth Factor beta - metabolism
