Lafyatis R, Lechleider R, Roberts A B, Sporn M B
Laboratory of Chemoprevention, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.
Mol Cell Biol. 1991 Jul;11(7):3795-803. doi: 10.1128/mcb.11.7.3795-3803.1991.
Transforming growth factor-beta 3 (TGF-beta 3) mRNA is differentially expressed in developing and mature mouse tissues, including high-level expression in developing and adult cardiac tissue. We show now that TGF-beta 3 mRNA is also expressed highly in skeletal muscle as well as in the mouse skeletal myoblast cell line C2C12. We also show that C2C12 cells secrete TGF-beta 3, and that this TGF-beta is able to inhibit C2C12 myoblast fusion after activation. In order to begin to understand how the TGF-beta 3 promoter is regulated in specific tissues during development, we therefore studied the regulation of TGF-beta 3 during myoblast fusion. After fusion of C2C12 cells into myotubes, TGF-beta 3 mRNA levels increased eightfold as a result of increased TGF-beta 3 transcription. TGF-beta 3 transcriptional regulation was studied in myoblasts and myotubes by transfection of chimeric TGF-beta 3/CAT promoter plasmids. Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) activity was stimulated in myoblasts by several upstream regions between -301 and -47 of the TGF-beta 3 promoter and by the TGF-beta 3 5' untranslated region. CAT activity directed by the TGF-beta 3 promoter in myotubes was stimulated by a distinct upstream region located between -499 and -221. Therefore, the high level of TGF-beta 3 mRNA expression in muscle cells appears to be dependent on multiple regulatory events during different stages of myogenesis.
转化生长因子-β3(TGF-β3)mRNA在发育中和成熟的小鼠组织中差异表达,包括在发育中的和成年心脏组织中的高水平表达。我们现在表明,TGF-β3 mRNA在骨骼肌以及小鼠骨骼肌成肌细胞系C2C12中也有高表达。我们还表明,C2C12细胞分泌TGF-β3,并且这种TGF-β在激活后能够抑制C2C12成肌细胞融合。为了开始了解在发育过程中TGF-β3启动子在特定组织中是如何被调控的,我们因此研究了成肌细胞融合过程中TGF-β3的调控。C2C12细胞融合成肌管后,由于TGF-β3转录增加,TGF-β3 mRNA水平增加了八倍。通过转染嵌合的TGF-β3/CAT启动子质粒,在成肌细胞和肌管中研究了TGF-β3的转录调控。氯霉素乙酰转移酶(CAT)活性在成肌细胞中受到TGF-β3启动子-301至-47之间的几个上游区域以及TGF-β3 5'非翻译区的刺激。在肌管中由TGF-β3启动子指导的CAT活性受到位于-499至-221之间的一个不同上游区域的刺激。因此,肌肉细胞中TGF-β3 mRNA的高水平表达似乎依赖于肌生成不同阶段的多种调控事件。