MiR-495 reverses in the mechanical unloading, random rotating and aging induced muscle atrophy via targeting MyoD and inactivating the Myostatin/TGF-β/Smad3 axis

Chenyan Zhang, Yile Tian, Xinli Liu, Xuezhou Yang, Shanfeng Jiang, Ge Zhang, Changqing Yang, Wenjing Liu, Weihong Guo, Wenzhe Zhao, Dachuan Yin

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Abstract

Mechanical unloading can lead to homeostasis imbalance and severe muscle disease, in which muscle atrophy was one of the disused diseases. However, there were limited therapeutic targets for such diseases. In this study, miR-495 was found dramatically reduced in atrophic skeletal muscle induced by mechanical unloading models both in vitro and in vivo, including the random positioning model (RPM), tail-suspension (TS) model, and aged mice model. Enforced miR-495 expression by its mimic could enormously facilitate the differentiation and regeneration of both mouse myoblast C2C12 cells and muscle satellite cells. Furthermore, MyoD was proved as the directly interacted gene of miR-495, and their interaction was crucial for myotube formation. Enforced miR-495 expression could intensively strengthen the muscle mass, in situ muscular electrophysiological indexes, including peak tetanic tension (Po) and peak twitch tension (Pt), and the cross-sectional areas (CSA) of muscle fibers via targeting MyoD and inactivating the Myostatin/TGF-β/Smad3 signaling pathway, indicating that miR-495 can be proposed as an effective target for muscle atrophy treatment induced by in the mechanical unloading, random rotating and aging.

Original languageEnglish
Article number110273
JournalArchives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Volume764
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2025

Keywords

  • Aging-associated muscle atrophy
  • Mechanical unloading
  • MiR-495
  • MyoD
  • Myostatin/TGF-β/Smad3 axis

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