PUBLICATION

Differential expression of two MyoD genes in fast and slow muscles of gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata)

Authors
Tan, X.G. and Du, S.J.
ID
ZDB-PUB-021018-4
Date
2002
Source
Development genes and evolution   212(5): 207-217 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Du, Shao Jun (Jim)
Keywords
seabream, MyoD1, MyoD2, muscle zebrafish
MeSH Terms
  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Animals
  • Colforsin/metabolism
  • Gene Expression Regulation
  • In Situ Hybridization
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Muscle Fibers, Fast-Twitch/metabolism*
  • Muscle Fibers, Slow-Twitch/metabolism*
  • MyoD Protein/genetics*
  • Organ Specificity
  • Phylogeny
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Promoter Regions, Genetic
  • Sea Bream/embryology
  • Sea Bream/genetics*
  • Sequence Alignment
  • Zebrafish/embryology
  • Zebrafish/genetics
PubMed
12070611 Full text @ Dev. Genes Evol.
Abstract
Members of the myogenic regulatory gene family, including MyoD, Myf5, Myogenin and MRF4, are specifically expressed in myoblast and skeletal muscle cells and play important roles in regulating skeletal muscle development and growth. They are capable of converting a variety of non-muscle cells into myoblasts and myotubes. To better understand their roles in the development of fish muscles, we have isolated the MyoD genomic genes from gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata), analyzed the genomic structures, patterns of expression and the regulation of muscle-specific expression. We have demonstrated that seabream contain two distinct nonallelic MyoD genes, MyoD1 and MyoD2. Sequence analysis revealed that these two MyoD genes shared a similar gene structure. Expression studies demonstrated that they exhibited overlapping but distinct patterns of expression in seabream embryos and adult slow and fast muscles. MyoD1 was expressed in adaxial cells that give rise to slow muscles, and lateral somitic cells that give rise to fast muscles. Similarly, MyoD2 was initially expressed in both slow and fast muscle precursors. However, MyoD2 expression gradually disappeared in the adaxial cells of 10- to 15-somite-stage embryos, whereas its expression in fast muscle precursor cells was maintained. In adult skeletal muscles, MyoD1 was expressed in both slow and fast muscles, whereas MyoD2 was specifically expressed in fast muscles. Treating seabream embryos with forskolin, a protein kinase A activator, inhibited MyoD1 expression in adaxial cells, while expression in fast muscle precursors was not affected. Promoter analysis demonstrated that both MyoD1 and MyoD2 promoters could drive green fluorescence protein expression in muscle cells of zebrafish embryos. Together, these data suggest that the two non-allelic MyoD genes are functional in seabream and their expression is regulated differently in fast and slow muscles. Hedgehog signaling is required for induction of MyoD expression in adaxial cells.
Genes / Markers
Figures
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Antibodies
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping