Myoglobin expression: early induction and subsequent modulation of myoglobin and myoglobin mRNA during myogenesis.

AUTOR(ES)

Weller, P A

RESUMO

We showed that myoglobin gene transcription and the appearance of myoglobin occur very early in myogenesis, in both humans and mice. In contrast to the contractile protein genes, there is a subsequent increase of 50- to 100-fold in myoglobin mRNA and protein levels during later muscle development. Myoglobin and myoglobin mRNA are present at elevated levels in fetal heart and are also detectable at low levels in adult smooth muscle. The absolute level of myoglobin mRNA in highly myoglobinized seal muscle is very high [2.8% of the total population of poly(A)+ RNAs]. Levels of myoglobin in seal skeletal muscle and in various human muscle types appear to be determined by the size of the myoglobin mRNA pool. In contrast, low levels of myoglobin in mouse skeletal muscle are not apparently correlated with low levels of myoglobin mRNA. As expected from the early appearance of myoglobin mRNA in embryonic skeletal muscle, both rat and mouse embryonic myoblasts accumulate myoglobin mRNA on fusion and differentiation in vitro.

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