Filipova, Dilyana (2018). From excitation-contraction coupling to gene expression: Roles of RYR1 and Cav1.1 in myogenesis. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
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Abstract
The main function of differentiated skeletal muscle is contraction, allowing for movement. However, contraction also has important developmental roles and thus is indispensable for proper muscle formation and organization. On a molecular level, the initiation of skeletal muscle contraction relies on the interplay of two mechanically coupled Ca2+ channels - the principal subunit of the 1,4 dihydropyridine receptor (Cav1.1) and the type 1 ryanodine receptor (RYR1), the key event in the process of excitation-contraction coupling (ECC). While multiple functional and structural studies over the last decades have led to a deeper understanding of the roles of Cav1.1 and RYR1 in ECC, their specific involvement in muscle development and in gene expression remains obscure. The present work analyzes the morphological and global transcriptomic changes occurring in limb skeletal muscle from RYR1- and Cav1.1-deficient (RYR1-/- and Cav1.1-/-, respectively) mice at the beginning (E14.5) and at the end (E18.5) of secondary myogenesis. In both models initial muscle structure alterations are already observable E14.5. At this stage, increased apoptosis is observed only in Cav1.1-/- limb skeletal muscle. Microarray analyses reveal discrete transcriptomic changes in both mutants at E14.5, with downregulation of genes primarily associated with innervation and neuron development in RYR1-/-, and with muscle contraction in Cav1.1-/- skeletal muscle. At E18.5, both RYR1-/- and Cav1.1-/- skeletal muscles are characterized by more severe structural malformation, fibrosis, and signs of developmental retardation. At this stage a high number of the detected differentially expressed genes (DEGs) overlap i RYR1 /- and Cav1.1-/-. Both mutants display a failure to upregulate the expression of many genes involved in the buildup of the contractile machinery and exhibit changes in the expression of global signaling pathways and multiple microRNAs. Mutant-specific transcriptomic changes point to changes in the composition of the extracellular matrix in RYR1-/- muscle and in the lipid metabolism in Cav1.1-/- muscle. Finally, the absence of RYR1 in RYR1-/- mice alters the ratio of Cav1.1 splice variants at E14.5, and the total Cav1.1 mRNA levels at E18.5. Taken together, the results of this work highlight the importance of Cav1.1 and RYR1 for the proper execution of the developmental gene expression program during secondary myogenesis in mouse limb skeletal muscle. Furthermore, it provides insights into mutual but also specific roles of each Ca2+ channel during skeletal muscle development.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD thesis) | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-85098 | ||||||||
Date: | 28 May 2018 | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine > Physiologie und Pathophysiologie > Institut für Vegetative Physiologie | ||||||||
Subjects: | Natural sciences and mathematics Life sciences Medical sciences Medicine |
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Date of oral exam: | 20 July 2018 | ||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/8509 |
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