Skeletal muscle fiber type: using insights from muscle developmental biology to dissect targets for susceptibility and resistance to muscle disease

FHL3 differentially regulates the expression of MyHC isoforms through interactions with MyoD and pCREB

(2016) Yunxia Zhang et al.   CELLULAR SIGNALLING

A rare mutation in MYH7 gene occurs with overlapping phenotype

(2015) Lucia Ruggiero et al.   BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

Second-generation compound for the modulation of utrophin in the therapy of DMD

(2015) Simon Guiraud et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

The miRNA Transcriptome Directly Reflects the Physiological and Biochemical Differences between Red, White, and Intermediate Muscle Fiber Types

(2015) Jideng Ma et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

RNA-seq transcriptome analysis of extensor digitorum longus and soleus muscles in large white pigs

(2015) Jiayu Zhu et al.   MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS

Tipping the metabolic scales towards increased longevity in mammals

(2015) Celine E. Riera et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

“Slow” skeletal muscles across vertebrate species

(2015) Victor M. Luna et al.   Cell and Bioscience

Comparative myogenesis in teleosts and mammals

(2014) Giuliana Rossi et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Recent advances using zebrafish animal models for muscle disease drug discovery

(2014) Lisa Maves   Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery

Sonic hedgehog gene therapy increases the ability of the dystrophic skeletal muscle to regenerate after injury

(2014) A Piccioni et al.   GENE THERAPY

Utrophin A is essential in mediating the functional adaptations of mdx mouse muscle following chronic AMPK activation

(2014) H. Al-Rewashdy et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Novel Mutations Widen the Phenotypic Spectrum of Slow Skeletal/β-Cardiac Myosin (MYH7) Distal Myopathy

(2014) Phillipa J. Lamont et al.   HUMAN MUTATION

Mutation Update and Genotype-Phenotype Correlations of Novel and Previously Described Mutations inTPM2andTPM3Causing Congenital Myopathies

(2014) Minttu Marttila et al.   HUMAN MUTATION

Six1: A critical transcription factor in tumorigenesis

(2014) Wangjun Wu et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER

MicroRNA-30a regulates zebrafish myogenesis through targeting the transcription factor Six1

(2014) Jenean H. O'Brien et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Congenital fiber type disproportion myopathy caused by LMNA mutations

(2014) Sachiko Kajino et al.   JOURNAL OF THE NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES

The many roles of PGC-1α in muscle — recent developments

(2014) Mun Chun Chan et al.   METABOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL

Ebf factors and MyoD cooperate to regulate muscle relaxation via Atp2a1

(2014) Saihong Jin et al.   Nature Communications

NFATc1 Controls Skeletal Muscle Fiber Type and Is a Negative Regulator of MyoD Activity

(2014) Melissa L. Ehlers et al.   Cell Reports

Pompe disease: from pathophysiology to therapy and back again

(2014) Jeong-A Lim et al.   Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Six Homeoproteins and a linc-RNA at the Fast MYH Locus Lock Fast Myofiber Terminal Phenotype

(2014) Iori Sakakibara et al.   PLoS Genetics

Post-natal induction of PGC-1α protects against severe muscle dystrophy independently of utrophin

(2014) Mun Chan et al.   Skeletal Muscle

Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy: the path to consensus on pathophysiology

(2014) Rabi Tawil et al.   Skeletal Muscle

Glycolytic fast-twitch muscle fiber restoration counters adverse age-related changes in body composition and metabolism

(2013) Yuichi Akasaki et al.   AGING CELL

Rescue of dystrophic skeletal muscle by PGC-1α involves restored expression of dystrophin-associated protein complex components and satellite cell signaling

(2013) Katrin Hollinger et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Identification of differences in microRNA transcriptomes between porcine oxidative and glycolytic skeletal muscles

(2013) Yingkai Liu et al.   BMC MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Skeletal muscle programming and re-programming

(2013) Abraham P Fong et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Recessive myosin myopathy with external ophthalmoplegia associated with MYH2 mutations

(2013) Homa Tajsharghi et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

The decline in skeletal muscle mass with aging is mainly attributed to a reduction in type II muscle fiber size

(2013) Rachel Nilwik et al.   EXPERIMENTAL GERONTOLOGY

The therapeutic potential of skeletal muscle plasticity in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: phenotypic modifiers as pharmacologic targets

(2013) Vladimir Ljubicic et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

Muscle type and fiber type specificity in muscle wasting

(2013) Stefano Ciciliot et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY & CELL BIOLOGY

Fiber atrophy, oxidative stress, and oxidative fiber reduction are the attributes of different phenotypes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients

(2013) Fares Gouzi et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY

Slow-Twitch Fiber Proportion in Skeletal Muscle Correlates With Insulin Responsiveness

(2013) Charles A. Stuart et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM

Control of muscle fibre-type diversity during embryonic development: The zebrafish paradigm

(2013) Harriet E. Jackson et al.   MECHANISMS OF DEVELOPMENT

Sarcomeric dysfunction contributes to muscle weakness in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy

(2013) S. Lassche et al.   NEUROLOGY

Six1 Regulates MyoD Expression in Adult Muscle Progenitor Cells

(2013) Yubing Liu et al.   PLoS One

Pbx and Prdm1a transcription factors differentially regulate subsets of the fast skeletal muscle program in zebrafish

(2013) Z. Yao et al.   Biology Open

Myosinopathies: pathology and mechanisms

(2012) Homa Tajsharghi et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

AMPK Activation Stimulates Autophagy and Ameliorates Muscular Dystrophy in the mdx Mouse Diaphragm

(2012) Marion Pauly et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY

Fast skeletal muscle transcriptome of the Gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) determined by next generation sequencing

(2012) Daniel Garcia de la serrana et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Zebrafish models flex their muscles to shed light on muscular dystrophies

(2012) J. Berger et al.   Disease Models & Mechanisms

Autonomous and nonautonomous roles of Hedgehog signaling in regulating limb muscle formation

(2012) J. K.-H. Hu et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Increased mitochondrial biogenesis in muscle improves aging phenotypes in the mtDNA mutator mouse

(2012) Lloye M. Dillon et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Profiling of differentially expressed microRNA and the bioinformatic target gene analyses in bovine fast- and slow-type muscles by massively parallel sequencing1

(2012) S. Muroya et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE

The mechanisms of cachexia underlying muscle dysfunction in COPD

(2012) A. H. V. Remels et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY

Muscle fiber-type distribution, fiber-type-specific damage, and the Pompe disease phenotype

(2012) L. E. M. van den Berg et al.   JOURNAL OF INHERITED METABOLIC DISEASE

Non Conservation of Function for the Evolutionarily Conserved Prdm1 Protein in the Control of the Slow Twitch Myogenic Program in the Mouse Embryo

(2012) Stéphane D. Vincent et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Snail Regulates MyoD Binding-Site Occupancy to Direct Enhancer Switching and Differentiation-Specific Transcription in Myogenesis

(2012) Vahab D. Soleimani et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Metabolic remodeling agents show beneficial effects in the dystrophin-deficient mdx mouse model

(2012) Vanessa E Jahnke et al.   Skeletal Muscle

Chronic AMPK activation evokes the slow, oxidative myogenic program and triggers beneficial adaptations in mdx mouse skeletal muscle

(2011) V. Ljubicic et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

The Effects of Endurance, Strength, and Power Training on Muscle Fiber Type Shifting

(2011) Jacob M. Wilson et al.   JOURNAL OF STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING RESEARCH

A novel MYH7 mutation links congenital fiber type disproportion and myosin storage myopathy

(2011) Saida Ortolano et al.   NEUROMUSCULAR DISORDERS

Fiber Types in Mammalian Skeletal Muscles

(2011) Stefano Schiaffino et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Concerted regulation of myofiber-specific gene expression and muscle performance by the transcriptional repressor Sox6

(2011) D. Quiat et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Skeletal muscle plasticity with marathon training in novice runners

(2011) N. Luden et al.   SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE & SCIENCE IN SPORTS

Congenital Fiber-Type Disproportion

(2011) Nigel F. Clarke   Seminars in Pediatric Neurology

Excitation-transcription coupling in skeletal muscle: the molecular pathways of exercise

(2010) Kristian Gundersen   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Genome-wide MyoD Binding in Skeletal Muscle Cells: A Potential for Broad Cellular Reprogramming

(2010) Yi Cao et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Neuromuscular junction morphology, fiber-type proportions, and satellite-cell proliferation rates are altered in MyoD−/− mice

(2010) Raymond Macharia et al.   MUSCLE & NERVE

Cooperation between myogenic regulatory factors and SIX family transcription factors is important for myoblast differentiation

(2010) Yubing Liu et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Fiber Type Conversion by PGC-1α Activates Lysosomal and Autophagosomal Biogenesis in Both Unaffected and Pompe Skeletal Muscle

(2010) Shoichi Takikita et al.   PLoS One

PGC-1α plays a functional role in exercise-induced mitochondrial biogenesis and angiogenesis but not fiber-type transformation in mouse skeletal muscle

(2009) Tuoyu Geng et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-CELL PHYSIOLOGY

Six1 and Six4 gene expression is necessary to activate the fast-type muscle gene program in the mouse primary myotome

(2009) Claire Niro et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

A Family of microRNAs Encoded by Myosin Genes Governs Myosin Expression and Muscle Performance

(2009) Eva van Rooij et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

SIRT1 Controls the Transcription of the Peroxisome Proliferator-activated Receptor-γ Co-activator-1α (PGC-1α) Gene in Skeletal Muscle through the PGC-1α Autoregulatory Loop and Interaction with MyoD

(2009) Ramon Amat et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Diagnosis and management of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, part 1: diagnosis, and pharmacological and psychosocial management

(2009) Katharine Bushby et al.   LANCET NEUROLOGY

Muscle after spinal cord injury

(2009) Bo Biering-Sørensen et al.   MUSCLE & NERVE

Increased muscle PGC-1  expression protects from sarcopenia and metabolic disease during aging

(2009) T. Wenz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

NFAT isoforms control activity-dependent muscle fiber type specification

(2009) E. Calabria et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dystrophin deficiency in canine X-linked muscular dystrophy in Japan (CXMDJ) alters myosin heavy chain expression profiles in the diaphragm more markedly than in the tibialis cranialis muscle

(2008) Katsutoshi Yuasa et al.   BMC MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS

Fast/Glycolytic Muscle Fiber Growth Reduces Fat Mass and Improves Metabolic Parameters in Obese Mice

(2008) Yasuhiro Izumiya et al.   Cell Metabolism

Prdm1- and Sox6-mediated transcriptional repression specifies muscle fibre type in the zebrafish embryo

(2008) Jonas von Hofsten et al.   EMBO REPORTS

Suppression of autophagy in skeletal muscle uncovers the accumulation of ubiquitinated proteins and their potential role in muscle damage in Pompe disease

(2008) N. Raben et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Thick and Thin Filament Gene Mutations in Striated Muscle Diseases

(2008) Homa Tajsharghi   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Preferential central nucleation of type 2 myofibers is an invariable feature of myotonic dystrophy type 2

(2008) Valerio Pisani et al.   MUSCLE & NERVE