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GROWTH, DIFFERENTIATION, AND APOPTOSIS

Gene silencing of myostatin in differentiation of chicken embryonic myoblasts by small interfering RNA

Laboratory of Reproductive Physiology and Biotechnology, Department of Animal and Marine Bioresource Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Graduate School Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan

Submitted 25 October 2005 ; accepted in final form 24 March 2006

Myostatin (GDF-8) is known to negatively regulate skeletal muscle mass in myogenesis, but few studies have been conducted on the function of endogenous GDF-8 in primary myoblasts. The present study was performed to assess the function of GDF-8 by RNA interference using primary culture of chicken embryonic myoblasts in which myoblasts were differentiated into myotubes. An active form of small interfering RNA (siRNA-1) targeting GDF-8 mRNA was introduced into myoblasts, and an inactive form of siRNA (siRNA-2) was used as a negative control. GDF-8 transcript level was significantly reduced 24 h after the introduction of siRNA-1 to 25% of the control, whereas a 52-kDa GDF-8 precursor was reduced to 45% of the control at 48 h. However, siRNA-2 did not decrease GDF-8 transcript level. When GDF-8-mediated promoter activity was measured chronologically by means of a pGL(CAGA)₁₀-constructed luciferase reporter assay, a concomitant change in activity was initiated after 24 h. The activity rapidly decreased 30 h after siRNA-1 introduction, whereas high activity was maintained at 30–42 h in the control and siRNA-2-treated myoblasts. Myogenic factors such as MyoD and p21, but not myogenin, were altered after 72 h. Cell fusion of the multinucleated myotubes was delayed by the siRNA-1 introduction, and myotubes with aggregated nuclei were shorter and wider. These results strongly suggest that deficiency of GDF-8 delays cell differentiation and causes great alterations in the cellular morphology of chicken embryonic myotubes.

GDF-8; GDF-8-mediated promoter activity; multinucleated myotubes

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