Transcription of muscle-specific genes is repressed by reactivation of pp60v-src in postmitotic quail myotubes.
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Falcone, G
RESUMO
Quail myogenic cells infected with temperature sensitive (ts) mutants of Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) exhibit a temperature-dependent transformation and block of differentiation. When the cells are allowed to differentiate at the restrictive temperature (41 degrees C) and then shifted back to the permissive temperature (35 degrees C), a sharp reduction in the accumulation of muscle-specific mRNAs is observed, following reactivation of the transforming protein pp60v-src. A kinetic analysis of this down-regulation reveals that the reduction in the accumulation of muscle-specific transcripts occurs fairly rapidly within 6 to 20 h after the shift back, depending on the mRNA analyzed. Studies on transcription of endogenous muscle-specific genes and a transfected chloramphenicol acetyltransferase reporter gene under the control of muscle-specific promoters, at the different temperatures, suggest that the oncogene exerts its control mainly at the transcriptional level. On the contrary, transcription of the CMD1 gene, the avian homolog of the mouse muscle regulatory MyoD gene, is not significantly affected by the oncogene both in proliferating myoblasts and in myotubes shifted back to 35 degrees C. These findings are consistent with the conclusion that v-src blocks myogenesis by controlling transcription of muscle-specific genes independently of cell proliferation. Furthermore, they suggest the existence of an alternative pathway, not requiring the silencing of CMD1 transcription, through which the oncogene exerts its effect.
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