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Conserved and muscle-group-specific gene expression patterns shape postnatal development of the novel extraocular muscle phenotype.

Abstract：

:Current models in skeletal muscle biology do not fully account for the breadth, causes, and consequences of phenotypic variation among skeletal muscle groups. The muscle allotype concept arose to explain frank differences between limb, masticatory, and extraocular (EOM) muscles, but there is little understanding of the developmental regulation of the skeletal muscle phenotypic range. Here, we used morphological and DNA microarray analyses to generate a comprehensive temporal profile for rat EOM development. Based upon coordinate regulation of morphologic/gene expression traits with key events in visual, vestibular, and oculomotor system development, we propose a model that the EOM phenotype is a consequence of extrinsic factors that are unique to its local environment and sensory-motor control system, acting upon a novel myoblast lineage. We identified a broad spectrum of differences between the postnatal transcriptional patterns of EOM and limb muscle allotypes, including numerous transcripts not traditionally associated with muscle fiber/group differences. Several transcription factors were differentially regulated and may be responsible for signaling muscle allotype specificity. Significant differences in cellular energetic mechanisms defined the EOM and limb allotypes. The allotypes were divergent in many other functional transcript classes that remain to be further explored. Taken together, we suggest that the EOM allotype is the consequence of tissue-specific mechanisms that direct expression of a limited number of EOM-specific transcripts and broader, incremental differences in transcripts that are conserved by the two allotypes. This represents an important first step in dissecting allotype-specific regulatory mechanisms that may, in turn, explain differential muscle group sensitivity to a variety of metabolic and neuromuscular diseases.

journal_name

Physiol Genomics

journal_title

Physiological genomics

authors

Cheng G,Merriam AP,Gong B,Leahy P,Khanna S,Porter JD

doi

10.1152/physiolgenomics.00222.2003

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2004-07-08 00:00:00

pages

184-95

issue

eissn

1094-8341

issn

1531-2267

pii

00222.2003

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Conserved and muscle-group-specific gene expression patterns shape postnatal development of the novel extraocular muscle phenotype.