title: Muscle actin isoforms are differentially expressed in human satellite cells isolated from donors of different ages.
abstract: Myogenesis is mainly sustained by a subpopulation of myogenic cells known as satellite cells (SC). In this paper we studied alpha-smooth muscle (alphaSMA) and alpha-sarcomeric muscle (alphaSRA) actin isoform expression in cultures of human satellite cells (HSC) isolated from skeletal muscle biopsies from a 5-day-old newborn, a 34-year-old young adult and a 71-year-old donor. Myogenicity of cultures was assessed using immunocytochemical detection of desmin and myosin heavy chain. Time-course expression of alphaSRA and alphaSMA were studied with both immunocytochemistry and western blotting procedures. Although alphaSMA was never detected in whole skeletal muscle, both alphaSMA and alphaSRA were detected in proliferating and differentiating HSC derived from donors of all examined ages. The expression level experiments showed that alphaSRA was gradually up-regulated during HSC differentiation, but no significant differences were observed between newborn, young, and elderly HSC cultures. Our data demonstrated that HSC, isolated from subjects of different ages, re-expressed alphaSMA, but its levels and expression pattern varied considerably in the newborn with respect to the young adult and elderly donors. These results are discussed in relation to the myogenic differentiation capability of HSC during human muscle senescence.
authors.affiliation: Dip. Biologia Cellulare e Ambientale, Università di Perugia, Via Pascoli 1, I-6123 Perugia, Italy. lancioni@katamail.com
authors.forename: Hovirag
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lancioni
authors.forename: Livia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lucentini
authors.forename: Antonella
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Palomba
authors.forename: Stefania
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fulle
authors.forename: Maria Rita
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Micheli
authors.forename: Fausto
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Panara
mesh_terms: D000199:Actins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D002469:Cell Separation; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D020033:Protein Isoforms / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D012518:Sarcomeres / Q000378:metabolism; D032496:Satellite Cells, Skeletal Muscle / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D014019:Tissue Donors
chemical_list: D000199:Actins; D020033:Protein Isoforms