MA Methylases Regulate Myoblast Proliferation, Apoptosis and Differentiation

Overview

Journal Animals (Basel)

Date 2022 Mar 25

PMID 35327170

Authors

Xinran Yang

Chugang Mei

Xinhao Ma

Jiawei du

Jianfang Wang

Linsen Zan

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Abstract

-methyladenosine (mA) plays an important role in regulating gene expression. Previous studies found that mA methylation affects skeletal muscle development. However, the effect of mA methylases on bovine skeletal myogenesis is still unclear. Here, we found that the expression of mA demethylases ( and ) was significantly higher in the longissimus dorsi muscle of adult cattle than in newborn cattle. In contrast, the expression of mA methyltransferases (, and ) was reduced. The mRNA expression of all five genes was found to be increased during the myogenesis of myoblasts in vitro. Knockdown of FTO or METTL3 promoted myoblast proliferation, inhibited myoblast apoptosis and suppressed myogenic differentiation, whereas ALKBH5 knockdown had the opposite effect. METTL14 knockdown enhanced myoblast proliferation and impaired myogenic differentiation. WTAP knockdown attenuated proliferation and contributed to apoptosis but did not affect differentiation. Furthermore, the functional domains of these five mA methylases are conserved across species. Our results suggest that mA methylases are involved in regulating skeletal muscle development and that there may be a complex network of mA methylation regulating skeletal myogenesis.

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