Trbp Is Required for Differentiation of Myoblasts and Normal Regeneration of Skeletal Muscle

J, Ding, Nie M, Liu J, Hu X, Ma L, Deng ZL, and Wang DZ. 2016. “Trbp Is Required for Differentiation of Myoblasts and Normal Regeneration of Skeletal Muscle”. PLoS One. 2016; 11(5):E0155349. PMID:, 27159388.

Abstract

Global inactivation of Trbp, a regulator of miRNA pathways, resulted in developmental defects and postnatal lethality in mice. Recently, we showed that cardiac-specific deletion of Trbp caused heart failure. However, its functional role(s) in skeletal muscle has not been characterized. Using a conditional knockout model, we generated mice lacking Trbp in the skeletal muscle. Unexpectedly, skeletalmuscle specific Trbp mutant mice appear to be phenotypically normal under normal physiological conditions. However, these mice exhibited impaired muscle regeneration and increased fibrosis in response to cardiotoxin-induced muscle injury, suggesting that Trbpis required for muscle repair. Using cultured myoblast cells we further showed that inhibition of Trbp repressed myoblast differentiationin vitro. The impaired myogenesis is associated with reduced expression of muscle-specific miRNAs, miR-1a and miR-133a. Together, our study demonstrated that Trbp participates in the regulation of muscle differentiation and regeneration.
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