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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 108, Issue 8 2733-2739, Copyright © 1995 by Company of Biologists

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Myogenic conversion of mammalian fibroblasts induced by differentiating muscle cells

G Salvatori, L Lattanzi, M Coletta, S Aguanno, E Vivarelli, R Kelly, G Ferrari, AJ Harris, F Mavilio, M Molinaro and al. et
Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci-Bolognetti, Universita di Roma, La Sapienza, Italy.

Somite-derived skeletal myoblasts are supposed to be the sole source of muscle fibre nuclei during pre- and postnatal development, but evidence is accumulating for unorthodox contributions to muscle fibre nuclei from other cell types. For example, in tissue culture, fibroblasts can fuse with dysgenic myoblasts and restore correct membrane function. We report here the results of a series of experiments investigating this phenomenon and its possible mechanism. 10T1/2 cells, infected with a replication defective retrovirus encoding the bacterial enzyme beta-galactosidase, fused to form beta-galactosidase positive, differentiated myotubes when cocultured with differentiating uninfected C2C12 or primary myogenic cells, but this did not occur when they were cocultured with other cells such as 3T3 fibroblasts or PC12 pheochromocytoma cells. Myogenic conversion ranged from 1 to 10% of the 10T1/2 cell population and required close cell interaction between the different cells types: it was not induced by conditioned medium or extracellular matrix deposited by C2C12 cells. Myogenic conversion was also observed in vivo, after injection of similarly infected 10T1/2 cells into regenerating muscle. Conversion was seen also after coculture of uninfected 10T1/2 cells with primary chick myoblasts, thus demonstrating that it was not dependent upon viral infection and that there is no species or class barrier in this phenomenon. Primary fibroblasts, isolated from different organs of transgenic mice carrying a Lac Z marker under the control of a muscle-specific promoter, restricting beta-galactosidase expression to striated muscle cells, also underwent myogenic conversion, when cocultured with C2C12 myoblasts.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


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