Concerted Regulation of Myofiber-specific Gene Expression and Muscle Performance by the Transcriptional Repressor Sox6

Overview

Journal Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Specialty Science

Date 2011 Jun 3

PMID 21633012

Citations 74

Authors

Daniel Quiat

Kevin A Voelker

Jimin Pei

Nick V Grishin

Robert W Grange

Rhonda Bassel-Duby

Eric N Olson

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Abstract

In response to physiological stimuli, skeletal muscle alters its myofiber composition to significantly affect muscle performance and metabolism. This process requires concerted regulation of myofiber-specific isoforms of sarcomeric and calcium regulatory proteins that couple action potentials to the generation of contractile force. Here, we identify Sox6 as a fast myofiber-enriched repressor of slow muscle gene expression in vivo. Mice lacking Sox6 specifically in skeletal muscle have an increased number of slow myofibers, elevated mitochondrial activity, and exhibit down-regulation of the fast myofiber gene program, resulting in enhanced muscular endurance. In addition, microarray profiling of Sox6 knockout muscle revealed extensive muscle fiber-type remodeling, and identified numerous genes that display distinctive fiber-type enrichment. Sox6 directly represses the transcription of slow myofiber-enriched genes by binding to conserved cis-regulatory elements. These results identify Sox6 as a robust regulator of muscle contractile phenotype and metabolism, and elucidate a mechanism by which functionally related muscle fiber-type specific gene isoforms are collectively controlled.

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