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RECEPTORS AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION

MEF2 activation in differentiated primary human skeletal muscle cultures requires coordinated involvement of parallel pathways

¹Department of Surgical Sciences and ²Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute, and ³Sports University, S-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden

Submitted 14 October 2003 ; accepted in final form 10 February 2004

The myocyte enhancer factor (MEF)2 transcription factor is important for development of differentiated skeletal muscle. We investigated the regulation of MEF2 DNA binding in differentiated primary human skeletal muscle cells and isolated rat skeletal muscle after exposure to various stimuli. MEF2 DNA binding activity in nonstimulated (basal) muscle cultures was almost undetectable. Exposure of cells for 20 min to 120 nM insulin, 0.1 and 1.0 mM hydrogen peroxide, osmotic stress (400 mM mannitol), or 1.0 mM 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide-1--D-ribofuranoside (AICAR) led to a profound increase in MEF2 DNA binding. To study signaling pathways mediating MEF2 activity, we preincubated human skeletal muscle cell cultures or isolated rat epitrochlearis muscles with inhibitors of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) (10 µM SB-203580), MEK1 (50 µM PD-98059), PKC (1 and 10 µM GF109203X), phosphatidylinositol (PI) 3-kinase (10 µM LY-294002), or AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK; 20 µM compound C). All stimuli resulted primarily in activation of MEF2D DNA binding. Exposure of cells to osmotic or oxidative stress increased MEF2 DNA binding via pathways that were completely blocked by MAPK inhibitors and partially blocked by inhibitors of PKC, PI 3-kinase, and AMPK. In epitrochlearis muscle, MAPK inhibitors blocked contraction but not AICAR-mediated MEF2 DNA binding. Thus activation of MEF2 in skeletal muscle is regulated via parallel intracellular signaling pathways in response to insulin, cellular stress, or activation of AMPK.

myocyte enhancer factor 2; insulin; phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase; adenosine 5'-monophosphate kinase; cell stress

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