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2. The role of satellite cells in muscle hypertrophy - class discussion of data presented in a recent paper [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21828094 - McCarthy et al. 2011]
2. The role of satellite cells in muscle hypertrophy - class discussion of data presented in a recent paper [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21828094 - McCarthy et al. 2011]
* Synergist Ablation (SA) surgery - removal of the muscles surrounding the plantaris in the lower hind limb to increase the work load.
* BRDU - Bromodeoxyuridine; can be used as a marker to identify cells that have recently undergone DNA replication for cell division.


3. Fibre type shift - conduct a qualitative and quantitative analysis of fibre type shift that has been induced by chronic low frequency stimulation [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16439424 - Martins et al. 2006]
3. Fibre type shift - conduct a qualitative and quantitative analysis of fibre type shift that has been induced by chronic low frequency stimulation [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16439424 - Martins et al. 2006]

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Muscle Development

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Introduction

This laboratory concerns the development and differentiation of skeletal muscle, muscle stem cells, hypertrophy, fibre type differentiation and plasticity. After an introductory tutorial on muscle development, students do exercises looking at experimental images of muscle undergoing hypertrophy and fibre type conversion. Students do some simple analysis of the images in their work groups and we discuss the results. Then we look at a series of images from a mouse that expresses a transgene that influences fibre type choice and we discuss what has happened using the same structure.

Objectives

  1. Understand the origin, differentiation and development of skeletal muscle tissue.
  2. Know what is meant by patterning, conversion and adult plasticity of muscle fibre type.
  3. Develop an understanding of research methods for studying skeletal muscle development and function.

Lab Tutorial

Today's laboratory will begin with a tutorial presentation on muscle development and research into muscle disorders. With any new concepts or terms, firstly use the terms list below or the glossary and feel free to ask questions about any concepts you may not still understand during or after the presentation.

Slides for tutorial: Muscle Development - Part 1


Sarcomere animation.gif



Skeletal Muscle Histology


Muscle Development - Part 2

Lab Exercises

The following exercises need to be completed in your group in today's lab and are not part of your assessment questions.

There are 4 exercises:

1. Maturation Hypertrophy - measure the size of mouse muscle fibres at birth and in the adult to estimate the degree of hypertrophy that occurs during fibre maturation. Hard copy images will be passed round with rulers; measure the mean fibre dimensions to estimate the degree of hypertrophy.

2. The role of satellite cells in muscle hypertrophy - class discussion of data presented in a recent paper - McCarthy et al. 2011

  • Synergist Ablation (SA) surgery - removal of the muscles surrounding the plantaris in the lower hind limb to increase the work load.
  • BRDU - Bromodeoxyuridine; can be used as a marker to identify cells that have recently undergone DNA replication for cell division.

3. Fibre type shift - conduct a qualitative and quantitative analysis of fibre type shift that has been induced by chronic low frequency stimulation - Martins et al. 2006

4. Molecular mechanism of fibre type differentiation and plasticity - Discuss a transgenic experiment designed to investigate fibre type differentiation and the control of fibre-specific gene expression. - Issa, Palmer et al. 2007




Exercise 4a

Lab7 muscle-1c.jpg Questions
  1. Identify the muscle types
  2. Describe what has happened to the muscle fibre types
  3. Propose a theory for what might have caused the observed effect. Is there more than one possibility?


Click the image or Exercise 4a to open full size image.

Transverse sections through the lower hind-limb of adult GTF2IRD1-transgenic and wild type mice – stained for MyHC type I/slow and MyHC2A.

Exercise 4b

Lab7 muscle-2c.jpg Questions
  1. Has embryonic fibre type patterning been affected by the expression of the transgene?
  2. What process would describe what is happening?
  3. Refine the theory concerning the effect of Gtf2ird1 on muscle development.
  4. How would you prove that Gtf2ird1 has an important role in fibre type differentiation?


Click the image or Exercise 4b to open full size image.

Transverse sections through the lower hind limb of transgenic and wild type mice from 2 days after birth to 6 weeks.

Lab 7 Assessment Questions

Answer the questions shown below on your own student page.

1. Are satellite cells (a) necessary for muscle hypertrophy and (b) generally involved in hypertrophy?

2. Why does chronic low frequency stimulation cause a fast to slow fibre type shift?


Questions are also shown listed on the Students Page Lab 7 Assessment

Terms

anterior tibialis - (tibialis anterior) skeletal muscle situated on the lateral side of the tibia and is a direct flexor of the foot at the ankle-joint.

cis-acting elements - DNA sequences that through transcription factors or other trans-acting elements or factors, regulate the expression of genes on the same chromosome.

enhancer - A cis-regulatory sequence that can regulate levels of transcription from an adjacent promoter. Many tissue-specific enhancers can determine spatial patterns of gene expression in higher eukaryotes. Enhancers can act on promoters over many tens of kilobases of DNA and can be 5' or 3' to the promoter they regulate.

extensor digitorum longus - (EDL) skeletal muscle situated at the lateral part of the front of the leg and extend the phalanges of the toes, and, continuing their action, flex the foot upon the leg.

Gtf2ird1 - General Transcription Factor 2 -I Repeat domain-containing protein 1. OMIM: Gtf2ird1

MusTRD1 - muscle TFII-I repeat domain-containing protein 1.

MyHC - acronym for myosin heavy chain.

myoblast - the undifferentiated mononucleated muscle cell progenitor, which in skeletal muscle fuses to form a myotube, that in turn expresses contractile proteins to form a muscle fibre.

myosin heavy chain - protein forming the thick filament of the sarcomere and the motor for actin-myosin contraction. There are 17 different myosin classes.

myotube - the initial multinucleated cell formed by fusion of myoblasts during skeletal muscle development.

promoter - A regulatory region a short distance upstream from the 5' end of a transcription start site that acts as the binding site for RNA polymerase II. A region of DNA to which RNA polymerase IIbinds in order to initiate transcription.

regulatory sequence - (regulatory region, regulatory area) is a segment of DNA where regulatory proteins such as transcription factors bind preferentially.

soleus - skeletal muscle situated immediately in front of the gastrocnemius and when standing taking its fixed point from below, steadies the leg upon the foot and prevents the body from falling forward.

Troponin - striated muscle contraction is regulated by the calcium-ion-sensitive, multiprotein complex troponin and the fibrous protein tropomyosin. Troponin has 3 subunits (TnC, TnI, TnT) and is located on the actin filament. OMIM: Troponin I slow

visuospatial deficiency - performing the Delis hierarchical processing task, subjects are asked to copy a large global figure made of smaller local forms. Both Down syndrome (DS) and William-Beuren syndrome (WBS) groups fail but in different ways. WBS individuals produce the local elements and DS individuals produce only the global forms. PMID: 12952863 Hum Mol Genet.

William-Beuren syndrome - (WBS) rare developmental disorder (1/20,000–1/50,000 live births). A contiguous gene deletion syndrome resulting from the hemizygous deletion of several genes on chromosome 7q11.23. The syndrome has associated craniofacial abnormalities, hypersociability and visuospatial defects. OMIM: William-Beuren syndrome

References - Dr Palmer

  • Negative autoregulation of GTF2IRD1 in Williams-Beuren syndrome via a novel DNA binding mechanism. Palmer SJ, Santucci N, Widagdo J, Bontempo SJ, Taylor KM, Tay ES, Hook J, Lemckert F, Gunning PW, Hardeman EC. J Biol Chem. 2010 Feb12;285(7):4715-24. PMID: 20007321
  • Expression of Gtf2ird1, the Williams syndrome-associated gene, during mouse development. Palmer SJ, Tay ES, Santucci N, Cuc Bach TT, Hook J, Lemckert FA, Jamieson RV, Gunnning PW, Hardeman EC. Gene Expr Patterns. 2007 Feb;7(4):396-404. PMID: 17239664
  • Sex determination and gonadal development in mammals. Wilhelm D, Palmer S, Koopman P. Physiol Rev. 2007 Jan;87(1):1-28. Review. PMID: 17237341
  • MusTRD can regulate postnatal fiber-spec fic expression. Issa LL, Palmer SJ, Guven KL, Santucci N, Hodgson VR, Popovic K, Joya JE, Hardeman EC. Dev Biol. 2006 May 1;293(1):104-15. PMID: 16494860
  • hMusTRD1alpha1 represses MEF2 activation of the troponin I slow enhancer. Polly P, Haddadi LM, Issa LL, Subramaniam N, Palmer SJ, Tay ES, Hardeman EC. J Biol Chem. 2003 Sep 19;278(38):36603-10. PMID: 12857748


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