Satellite cells are required for the growth, maintenance, and regeneration of skeletal muscle. Quiescent satellite cells possess a primary cilium, a structure that regulates the processing of the GLI family of transcription factors. Here we find that GLI3, specifically, plays a critical role in satellite cell activation. Primary cilia-mediated processing of GLI3 is required to […]
Skeletal muscles fibers are formed by the fusion of hundreds of cells where myonuclei are actively spread at myofibers periphery. Growing evidences supports connections between myonuclear positioning and muscle functionality. How myonuclei localization in muscle fibers contributes to muscle efficiency remains poorly characterized. Here, we show that in developing myofibers, SH3KBP1 scaffolds Endoplasmic Reticulum through […]
Skeletal muscle fibers are large syncytia but it is currently unknown whether gene expression is coordinately regulated in their numerous nuclei. By snRNA-seq and snATAC-seq, we showed that slow, fast, myotendinous and neuromuscular junction myonuclei each have different transcriptional programs, associated with distinct chromatin states and combinations of transcription factors. In adult mice, identified myofiber […]
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a devastating neuromuscular disease caused by an absence of the dystrophin protein, which is essential for muscle fiber integrity. Among the developed therapeutic strategies for DMD, the exon-skipping approach corrects the frameshift and partially restores dystrophin expression. It could be achieved through the use of antisense sequences, such as peptide-conjugated […]
Exercise training improves skeletal muscle function, notably through tissue regeneration by muscle stem cells. Here, we hypothesized that exercise training reprograms the epigenome of muscle cell, which could account for better muscle function. Genome-wide DNA methylation of myotube cultures established from middle-aged obese men before and after endurance exercise training identified a differentially methylated region […]
Macrophages are key immune cells in mediating both the acute inflammatory phase and the repair phase after tissue damage. Macrophages switch from pro-inflammatory to anti-inflammatory cells that sustain tissue repair and return to homeostasis. We show that the metabolic sensor, AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is essential for glucocorticoid induction of an anti-inflammatory macrophage phenotype. While […]