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Development, Vol 119, Issue 3 691-701, Copyright © 1993 by Company of Biologists
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PL Hallauer, HL Bradshaw and KE Hastings
Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Quebec, Canada.
We analyzed, in transgenic mice, the cellular expression pattern of the quail fast skeletal muscle troponin I (TnIfast) gene and of a chimeric reporter construct in which quail TnIfast DNA sequences drive expression of E. coli beta-galactosidase (beta-gal). Both constructs were actively expressed in skeletal muscle and specifically in fast, as opposed to slow, muscle fibers. Unexpectedly, both constructs showed a marked differential expression among the adult fast fiber subtypes according to the pattern IIB > IIX > IIA. This expression pattern was consistent in multiple lines and differed from the endogenous mouse TnIfast pattern, which shows approximately equal expression in all fast fibers. These observations indicate that distinct regulatory mechanisms contribute to high-level expression of TnIfast in the various fast fiber subtypes and suggest that the outwardly simple pattern of equal expression in all fast fiber types shown by the endogenous mouse TnIfast gene is based on an intricate system of counterbalancing mechanisms. The adult expression pattern of the TnIfast/beta-gal construct emerged in a two-stage developmental process. Differential expression in fast versus slow fibers was evident in neonatal animals, although expression in fast fibers was relatively weak and homogeneous. During the first two weeks of postnatal life, expression in maturing IIB fibers was greatly increased whereas that in IIA/IIX fibers remained weak, giving rise to marked differential expression among fast fiber types. Thus at least two serially acting (pre- and post-natal) fiber-type-specific regulatory mechanisms contribute to high-level gene expression in adult fast muscle fibers. Unexpected similarities between TnIfast transgene expression and that of the myosin heavy chain gene family (which includes differentially expressed IIB-, IIX- and IIA-specific members) suggest that similar mechanisms may regulate adult fast muscle gene expression in a variety of unrelated muscle gene families.
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