Abstract
Myc is a powerful transcription factor implicated in epigenetic reprogramming, cellular plasticity, and rapid growth as well as tumorigenesis. Cancer in skeletal muscle is extremely rare despite marked and sustained Myc induction during loading-induced hypertrophy. Here, we investigated global, actively transcribed, stable, and myonucleus-specific transcriptomes following an acute hypertrophic stimulus in mouse plantaris. With these datasets, we define global and Myc-specific dynamics at the onset of mechanical overload-induced muscle fiber growth. Data collation across analyses reveals an under-appreciated role for the muscle fiber in extracellular matrix remodeling during adaptation, along with the contribution of mRNA stability to epigenetic-related transcript levels in muscle. We also identify Runx1 and Ankrd1 (Marp1) as abundant myonucleus-enriched loading-induced genes. We observed that a strong induction of cell cycle regulators including Myc occurs with mechanical overload in myonuclei. Additionally, in vivo Myc-controlled gene expression in the plantaris was defined using a genetic muscle fiber-specific doxycycline-inducible Myc-overexpression model. We determined Myc is implicated in numerous aspects of gene expression during early-phase muscle fiber growth. Specifically, brief induction of Myc protein in muscle represses Reverbα, Reverbβ, and Myh2 while increasing Rpl3, recapitulating gene expression in myonuclei during acute overload. Experimental, comparative, and in silico analyses place Myc at the center of a stable and actively transcribed, loading-responsive, muscle fiber–localized regulatory hub. Collectively, our experiments are a roadmap for understanding global and Myc-mediated transcriptional networks that regulate rapid remodeling in postmitotic cells. We provide open webtools for exploring the five RNA-seq datasets as a resource to the field.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 102515 |
Journal | Journal of Biological Chemistry |
Volume | 298 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by NIH R00 AG063994 and startup funds from the University of Arkansas Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation to K. A. M., support from NIH P20GM104320-07 to I. J. V., and support from AFM-Telethon 23137 , SMDF , Åke Wiberg , Swedish Medical Association , and the Swedish Research Council for Sport Science to F. v. W., Z. L. was supported by the Chinese Scholarship Council . The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
Funding Information:
The TRE-Myc mouse was a generous gift from Dr Andrew McMahon at the University of Southern California. The authors thank Dr Christopher Sundberg of Marquette University for his thoughtful comments on our work, Dr Charlotte Peterson and the University Kentucky Center for Muscle Biology for resources and support, Dr C. Brooks Mobley for assistance with mouse colony management, and Dr Qian (Alvin) Qin of Harvard University for input on Lisa. Figures 1A and 5 were created using BioRender. K. A. M. I. J. V. and F. v. W. conceptualization; K. A. M. N. P. G. J. T. L. J. J. M. I. J. V. and F. v. W. funding acquisition; K. A. M. B. J. V. C. F. Y. W. S. K. S. L. F. M. d. S. I. J. V. and F. v. W. investigation; K. A. M. Z. L. B. J. V. C. F. Y. W. S. K. S. L. F. M. d. S. I. J. V. and F. v. W. formal analysis; K. A. M. N. P. G. J. T. L. J. J. M. I. J. V. and F. v. W. supervision; K. A. M. Z. L. B. J. V. C. F. Y. W. S. K. S. L. F. M. d. S. N. P. G. J. T. L. J. J. M. I. J. V. and F. v. W. writing–review and editing; Z. L. data curation; K. A. M. and Z. L. methodology; K. A. M. writing–original draft. This work was supported by NIH R00 AG063994 and startup funds from the University of Arkansas Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation to K. A. M. support from NIH P20GM104320-07 to I. J. V. and support from AFM-Telethon 23137, SMDF, Åke Wiberg, Swedish Medical Association, and the Swedish Research Council for Sport Science to F. v. W. Z. L. was supported by the Chinese Scholarship Council. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
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Keywords
- 5-Ethenyl uridine
- Ankrd1
- Rpl3
- Runx1
- Warburg effect
- gene transcription
- muscle hypertrophy
- myonuclei
- myosin
- transcriptomics
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biochemistry
- Molecular Biology
- Cell Biology