A Piezo1/KLF15/IL-6 Axis Mediates Immobilization-induced Muscle Atrophy

Overview

Journal J Clin Invest

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2022 Mar 15

PMID 35290243

Authors

Yu Hirata

Kazuhiro Nomura

Daisuke Kato

Yoshihisa Tachibana

Takahiro Niikura

Kana Uchiyama

Tetsuya Hosooka

Tomoaki Fukui

Keisuke Oe

Ryosuke Kuroda

Yuji Hara

Takahiro Adachi

Koji Shibasaki

Hiroaki Wake

Wataru Ogawa

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Abstract

Although immobility is a common cause of muscle atrophy, the mechanism underlying this causality is unclear. We here show that Krüppel-like factor 15 (KLF15) and IL-6 are upregulated in skeletal muscle of limb-immobilized mice and that mice with KLF15 deficiency in skeletal muscle or with systemic IL-6 deficiency are protected from immobility-induced muscle atrophy. A newly developed Ca2+ bioimaging revealed that the cytosolic Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) of skeletal muscle is reduced to below the basal level by immobilization, which is associated with the downregulation of Piezo1. Acute disruption of Piezo1 in skeletal muscle induced Klf15 and Il6 expression as well as muscle atrophy, which was prevented by antibodies against IL-6. A role for the Piezo1/KLF15/IL-6 axis in immobility-induced muscle atrophy was validated in human samples. Our results thus uncover a paradigm for Ca2+ signaling in that a decrease in [Ca2+]i from the basal level triggers a defined biological event.

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