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AAV2-mediated follistatin overexpression induces ovine primary myoblasts proliferation

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Title
AAV2-mediated follistatin overexpression induces ovine primary myoblasts proliferation
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BMC Biotechnology, October 2014
DOI 10.1186/s12896-014-0087-7
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Mahmood Nazari, Fatemeh Salabi, Li Zhang, Fuping Zhao, Caihong Wei, Lixin Du

Abstract

BackgroundFollistatin (FST) has been shown to bind to some TGF-ß family members and can function as a potent myostatin (MSTN) antagonist. Recent studies have revealed that over-expression of FST by adeno-associated viruses increases muscle growth in mice, humans and nonhuman primates. In the present study, to determine the effect of FST on ovine primary myoblast (OPM) proliferation, FST was over-expressed using an adeno-associated virus serotype 2 (AAV 2) vector.ResultsWestern blot results showed that AAV induced the expression of FST protein in transduced OPM cells. Real-time quantitative PCR results indicated that over-expression of FST resulted in a dramatic increase in Akt I and CDK2 expression and a decrease in p21 expression. Moreover, cell cycle analysis confirmed that FST down-regulated p21, a CDK inhibitor, and increased the level of CDK2 expression in OPM cells. Hence, follistatin positively regulated the G1 to S progression. Our results showed that FST induced proliferation through a down-regulation of p21, as only the p21 expression level was down-regulated as a result of FST over-expression in myoblasts, whereas no change was observed in the level of p57 expression.ConclusionsThese results expanded our understanding of the regulation mechanism of FST in ovine primary myoblasts. Our results provide the first evidence that the AAV viral system can be used for gene transfer in ovine myoblast cells. Moreover, the results showed that an AAV vector can successfully induce the expression of FST in OPM cells in vitro. These findings demonstrated that FST over-expression induces proliferation through a down-regulation of the p21 gene under proliferating conditions.

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Unknown 14 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 3 21%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 14%
Researcher 2 14%
Other 1 7%
Other 1 7%
Unknown 3 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 43%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 14%
Neuroscience 2 14%
Unknown 4 29%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 October 2023.
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