AJP - Cell Physiology, Vol 271, Issue 2 C690-C699, Copyright © 1996 by American Physiological Society

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Induction of beta-MHC transgene in overloaded skeletal muscle is not eliminated by mutation of conserved elements

G. L. Tsika, J. L. Wiedenman, L. Gao, J. J. McCarthy, K. Sheriff-Carter, I. D. Rivera-Rivera and R. W. Tsika
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 61801, USA.

Mechanical overload leads to hypertrophy, increased type I fiber composition, and beta-myosin heavy chain (beta-MHC) induction in the fast-twitch plantaris muscle. To better understand the mechanism(s) involved in beta-MHC induction, we have examined inducible expression of transgenes carrying the simultaneous mutation of three DNA regulatory subregions [muscle CAT (MCAT), C-rich, and beta e3] in the context of either 5,600-base pair (bp; beta 5.6mut3) or 600-bp (beta 0.6mut3) beta-MHC promoter in overloaded plantaris muscles of transgenic mice. Protein extract from mechanically overloaded plantaris muscle of mice, harboring either mutant transgene beta 5.6mut3 or beta 0.6mut3, showed an unexpected 2.8- to 4.5-fold increase in chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) specific activity relative to their respective controls. Similar results were obtained with wild-type (wt) beta-MHC transgenes (beta 5.6wt, beta 0.6wt). Histochemical staining for both myofibrillar ATPase and CAT activity and CAT immunohistochemistry revealed a striking increase in type I fibers and that CAT expression was restricted to these fibers in overloaded plantaris muscle of beta 5.6mut3 transgenic mice. Our transgenic data suggest that beta-MHC transgenes, and perhaps the endogenous beta-MHC gene, are induced by mechanical overload via a mechanism(s) that does not exclusively require the MCAT, C-rich, or beta e3 subregions.

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