Basu Utpal, Gyrd-Hansen Mads, Baby Santhosh M, Lozynska Olga, Krag Thomas O B, Jensen Claus J, Frödin Morten, Khurana Tejvir S
Department of Physiology & Pennsylvania Muscle Institute, 3700 Hamilton Walk, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6085, USA.
FEBS Lett. 2007 Sep 4;581(22):4153-8. doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.07.021. Epub 2007 Jul 23.
Utrophin is the autosomal homolog of dystrophin, the product of the Duchenne's muscular dystrophy (DMD) locus. Utrophin is of therapeutic interest since its over-expression can compensate dystrophin's absence. Utrophin is enriched at neuromuscular junctions due to heregulin-mediated utrophin-A promoter activation. We demonstrate that heregulin activated MSK1/2 and phosphorylated histone H3 at serine 10 in cultured C2C12 muscle cells, in an ERK-dependent manner. MSK1/2 inhibition suppressed heregulin-mediated utrophin-A activation. MSK1 over-expression potentiated heregulin-mediated utrophin-A activation and chromatin remodeling at the utrophin-A promoter. These results identify MSK1/2 as key effectors modulating utrophin-A expression as well as identify novel targets for DMD therapy.
肌养蛋白是抗肌萎缩蛋白的常染色体同源物,抗肌萎缩蛋白是杜氏肌营养不良症(DMD)基因座的产物。肌养蛋白具有治疗意义,因为其过表达可以补偿抗肌萎缩蛋白的缺失。由于神经调节蛋白介导的肌养蛋白-A启动子激活,肌养蛋白在神经肌肉接头处富集。我们证明,在培养的C2C12肌肉细胞中,神经调节蛋白以ERK依赖的方式激活MSK1/2并使组蛋白H3的丝氨酸10磷酸化。MSK1/2抑制可抑制神经调节蛋白介导的肌养蛋白-A激活。MSK1的过表达增强了神经调节蛋白介导的肌养蛋白-A激活以及肌养蛋白-A启动子处的染色质重塑。这些结果确定MSK1/2是调节肌养蛋白-A表达的关键效应因子,并确定了DMD治疗的新靶点。