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Slow and fast fiber isoform gene expression is systematically altered in skeletal muscle of the Sox6 mutant, p 100H
Author(s) -
Hagiwara Nobuko,
Ma Betty,
Ly Alice
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
developmental dynamics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.634
H-Index - 141
eISSN - 1097-0177
pISSN - 1058-8388
DOI - 10.1002/dvdy.20535
Subject(s) - biology , skeletal muscle , gene isoform , mutant , gene expression , wild type , cardiac muscle , gene , myocyte , microbiology and biotechnology , endocrinology , medicine , genetics
We have previously demonstrated that p 100H mutant mice, which lack a functional Sox6 gene, exhibit skeletal and cardiac muscle degeneration and develop cardiac conduction abnormalities soon after birth. To understand the role of Sox6 in skeletal muscle development, we identified muscle‐specific genes differentially expressed between wild‐type and p 100H mutant skeletal muscles and investigated their temporal expression in the mutant muscle. We found that, in the mutant skeletal muscle, slow fiber and cardiac isoform genes are expressed at significantly higher levels, whereas fast fiber isoform genes are expressed at significantly lower levels than wild‐type. Onset of this aberrant fiber type‐specific gene expression in the mutant coincides with the beginning of the secondary myotube formation, at embryonic day 15–16 in mice. Together with our earlier report, demonstrating early postnatal muscle defects in the Sox6 null‐ p 100H mutant, the present results suggest that Sox6 likely plays an important role in muscle development. Developmental Dynamics 234:301–311, 2005. © 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.