The long noncoding RNA MyHC IIA/X-AS contributes to skeletal muscle myogenesis and maintains the fast fiber phenotype.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
Mingle DouXiao Li

Abstract

Mammalian skeletal muscles comprise different types of muscle fibers, and this muscle fiber heterogeneity is generally characterized by the expression of myosin heavy chain (MyHC) isoforms. A switch in MyHC expression leads to muscle fiber-type transition under various physiological and pathological conditions, but the underlying regulator coordinating the switch of MyHC expression remains largely unknown. Experiments reported in this study revealed the presence of a skeletal muscle-specific antisense transcript generated from the intergenic region between porcine MyHC IIa and IIx and is referred to here as MyHC IIA/X-AS. We found that MyHC IIA/X-AS is identified as a long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) that is strictly expressed in skeletal muscles and is predominantly distributed in the cytoplasm. Genetic analysis disclosed that MyHC IIA/X-AS stimulates cell cycle exit of skeletal satellite cells and their fusion into myotubes. Moreover, we observed that MyHC IIA/X-AS is more enriched in fast-twitch muscle and represses slow-type gene expression and thereby maintains the fast phenotype. Furthermore, we found that MyHC IIA/X-AS acts as a competing endogenous RNA that sponges microRNA-130b (miR-130b) and thereby maintains MyHC IIx expr...Continue Reading

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