MiR-208b regulates cell cycle and promotes skeletal muscle cell proliferation by targeting CDKN1A

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  • 作者:Jian Wang, Chengchuang Song, Xiukai Cao, Hui Li, Hanfang Cai, Yilei Ma, Yongzhen Huang, Xianyong Lan, Chuzhao Lei, Yun Ma, Yueyu Bai, Fengpeng Lin, Hong Chen
  • 期刊:JOURNAL OF CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY
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Skeletal muscle is the most abundant tissue in the body. The development of skeletal muscle cell is complex and affected by many factors. A sea of microRNAs (miRNAs) have been identified as critical regulators of myogenesis. MiR-208b, a muscle-specific miRNA, was reported to have a connection with fiber type determination. However, whether miR-208b has effect on proliferation of muscle cell was under ascertained. In our study, cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 1A (CDKN1A), which participates in cell cycle regulation, was predicted and then validated as one target gene of miR-208b. We found that overexpression of miR-208b increased the expression of cyclin D1, cyclin E1, and cyclin-dependent kinase 2 at the levels of messenger RNA and protein in cattle primary myoblasts in vivo and in vitro. Flow cytometry showed that forced expression of miR-208b increased the percentage of cells at the S phase and decreased the percentage of cells at the G0/G1 phase. These results indicated that miR-208b participates in the cell cycle regulation of cattle primary myoblast cells. 5-Ethynyl-20-deoxyuridine and 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide assays showed that overexpression of miR-208b promoted the proliferation of cattle primary myoblasts. Therefore, we conclude that miR-208b participates in the cell cycle and proliferation regulation of cattle primary skeletal muscle cell through the posttranscriptional downregulation of CDKN1A.

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