Rapamycin suppresses postnatal muscle hypertrophy induced by myostatin-inhibition accompanied by transcriptional suppression of the Akt/mTOR pathway.

Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports
Dong Hyuck ChoiYong Soo Kim

Abstract

Myostatin (MSTN) is a well-known negative growth factor of muscle mass, and studies have shown that MSTN-inhibition would be a potential strategy to treat muscle atrophy seen in various clinical conditions. Recent studies suggest that MSTN-inhibition induces skeletal muscle hypertrophy through up-regulation of the anabolic Akt/mTOR pathway. Therefore, it was hypothesized that the muscle hypertrophy induced by MSTN-inhibition would be suppressed by the administration of rapamycin (RAP), a mTOR suppressor. A MSTN transgenic mouse strain (MSTN-pro), which is characterized by a postnatal hyper-muscularity due to MSTN inhibition through transgenic overexpression of MSTN propeptide, was used in producing experimental animals. Five-week-old male heterozygous MSTN-pro mice and wild-type littermates were administered with 0 or 3 mg/kg body weight of RAP intraperitoneally every other day for 4 weeks. The effects of RAP on muscle growth, mRNA abundance of signaling components of the Akt/mTOR pathway, and myogenic regulatory factors (MyoD, Myf5, MyoG, and Mrf4) were examined in comparison to wild-type mice. Body weight gain of MSTN-pro mice was significantly greater than that of wild-type mice. RAP suppressed body weight gain and muscle ma...Continue Reading

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