2009年6月
Regulation of Desmin Expression in Adult-type Myogenesis and Muscle Maturation During Xenopus laevis Metamorphosis
ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE
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- 巻
- 26
- 号
- 6
- 開始ページ
- 389
- 終了ページ
- 397
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- DOI
- 10.2108/zsj.26.389
- 出版者・発行元
- ZOOLOGICAL SOC JAPAN
Isoforms of myosin heavy chain and tropomyosin convert during metamorphosis of Xenopus laevis with larval-to-adult remodeling of dorsal muscle (Nishikawa and Hayashi, 1994, Dev. Biol. 165: 86-94). In the present study, other markers for muscle remodeling during metamorphosis were determined by SDS-PAGE analysis. The amounts of twelve muscle proteins changed remarkably during metamorphosis. Among these, a 54-kDa molecule was found to be desmin, and the relative content/total proteins decreased dramatically through metamorphosis. In hindlimb muscle, desmin content increased fourfold during prometamorphosis, when myoblast proliferation and fusion occurred. With further myotube maturation, this content decreased by 1/2 while that of muscle actin continued to increase. Thus, desmin up- and down-regulation in hindlimbs mark early and late phases of myogenesis, respectively. In tail muscle, the desmin content decreased continuously to 1/8 before and during metamorphosis, due to tail muscle growth and maturation. In dorsal muscle, three desmin changes occurred: a pre-metamorphic decrease, a transient increase at prometamorphosis, and a rapid decrease at the climax stage. Immunohistochemical analysis showed desmin(+) cells to be present between young (adult-type) myotubes and replicating (PCNA(+)) cells in dorsal muscles, correlating the transient desmin upregulation in dorsal muscle with the initiation of adult-type myogenesis. After the upregulation, dorsal muscle desmin decreased to 1/8. This rapid downregulation was replicated by administration of triiodothyronine (T(3)) to tadpoles, suggesting a significant role for T(3) in dorsal muscle remodeling during metamorphosis. Collectively, these results show that analysis of desmin expression and PCNA-immunohistochemistry are good tools for determining the sites and timing of larval-to-adult muscle remodeling during Xenopus laevis metamorphosis.
- リンク情報
- ID情報
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- DOI : 10.2108/zsj.26.389
- ISSN : 0289-0003
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000268232100003