In recent years, our laboratory has focused much effort on understanding the molecular and cellular mechanisms regulating
muscle cell fusion.
Not exact matches
Researchers then tested
cell cultures and mouse models by using a gene editing process called CRISPR - Cas9 to demonstrate how the presence or absence of myomaker and myomerger — both individually and in unison — affect
cell fusion and
muscle formation.
Because
muscles form through
fusion of
cells, the examples they found were all formed by
fusion.
«We were able to identify the receptor BAI3, a protein at the surface of myoblasts, as one of the crucial missing links in the
fusion of
muscle cells,» adds Dr. Côté.
In the present seminar, I will summarize our findings concerning the role of Srf in myofibers to control
muscle mass and I will present recent data identifying Srf as a master regulator of
muscle stem
cell fusion and demonstrating the implication of F - actin architecture in this process.
We have undertaken a genome - wide functional screen on a mouse
muscle cell line and identified hundreds of molecules implicated in the
fusion of this
cell line, with no effect on their proliferation or differentiation.
He presented results from both SMA mouse models and patients that demonstrated SMN depletion results in
muscle - intrinsic defects such as reduced satellite
cell number, a delay in the myogenic program, reduced myoblast
fusion, and molecular homeostasis disruption.