title: p38 MAPK interacts with actin and modulates filament assembly during skeletal muscle differentiation.
abstract: Skeletal muscle differentiation is marked by enhanced myotube formation and increased cytoskeletal rearrangement. Actin, a cytoskeletal protein is involved in various cellular functions such as glucose transport, intracellular trafficking, cell shape, and coordinated cell movement in response to various extracellular signals. The present study reveals an association between actin and p38 MAPK only in differentiated myotubes, not in proliferating myoblasts. Actin filament disassembly caused by cytochalasinD can be reversed using the potent activator of p38 MAPK, anisomycin. Pretreatment of myotubes with anisomycin partially resisted the effect of cytochalasinD. However, inhibition of p38 MAPK completely abolished the anisomycin-mediated actin remodeling. Data suggests that p38 MAPK interacts with actin and modulates actin filament rearrangement in differentiated L6E9 skeletal muscle cells.
authors.affiliation: Signal Transduction Research Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Punjab, India.
authors.forename: Ashwani
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Khurana
authors.forename: Chinmoy S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Dey
mesh_terms: D000199:Actins / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D000841:Anisomycin / Q000378:metabolism; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000502:physiology*; D002460:Cell Line; D015638:Cytochalasin D / Q000378:metabolism; D003599:Cytoskeleton / Q000378:metabolism*; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism; D051275:Glucose Transporter Type 4; D048031:JNK Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases; D020928:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism*; D009004:Monosaccharide Transport Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D009124:Muscle Proteins; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D009218:Myosins / Q000378:metabolism; D019384:Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D048051:p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases
chemical_list: D000199:Actins; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors; D051275:Glucose Transporter Type 4; D009004:Monosaccharide Transport Proteins; D009124:Muscle Proteins; D019384:Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors; C495694:Slc2a4 protein, rat; D015638:Cytochalasin D; D000841:Anisomycin; D048031:JNK Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases; D020928:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases; D048051:p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases; D009218:Myosins