Muscle Cell News Volume 7.12 | Apr 11 2022

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    Vol. 7.12 – 11 April, 2022
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    A Small-Molecule Cocktail Promotes Mammalian Cardiomyocyte Proliferation and Heart Regeneration

    Investigators reported a chemical cocktail of five small molecules that promoted adult cardiomyocyte proliferation and heart regeneration.
    [Cell Stem Cell]

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    Adiponectin Receptor Agonist Ameliorates Cardiac Lipotoxicity via Enhancing Ceramide Metabolism in Type 2 Diabetic Mice

    Phenotypic and metabolic profiles with associated cellular signaling pathways involved in lipid metabolism were investigated in the mice heart and human cardiomyocytes to establish treatment effect of adiponectin’s agonists.
    [Cell Death & Disease]

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    The Impact of Autophagy Modulation on Phenotype and Survival of Cardiac Stromal Cells under Metabolic Stress

    Researchers evaluated the impact of autophagy modulation by different pharmacological/genetic approaches on the viability and phenotype of murine cardiac stromal cells subjected to nutrient deprivation or hyperglycemia, in order to mimic relevant stress conditions and risk factors of cardiovascular diseases.
    [Cell Death Discovery]

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    ICA69 Aggravates Ferroptosis Causing Septic Cardiac Dysfunction via STING Trafficking

    Scientists confirmed that lipopolysaccharides significantly enhanced the expression of islet cell autoantigen 69 (ICA69) in wild-type mice, macrophages, and cardiomyocytes.
    [Cell Death Discovery]

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    Altered Intercellular Communication and Extracellular Matrix Signaling as a Potential Disease Mechanism in Human Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    To understand the interplay between cardiomyocyte and nonmyocyte cell types in human hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), single nuclei RNA-sequencing was performed on myectomy specimens from HCM patients with left ventricular outflow tract obstruction and control samples from donor hearts free of cardiovascular disease.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    Integrative Molecular Roadmap for Direct Conversion of Fibroblasts into Myocytes and Myogenic Progenitor Cells

    Investigators undertook an integrative multiomics approach to delineate the process of induced myogenic progenitor cells reprogramming in comparison to myogenic transdifferentiation mediated solely by MyoD.
    [Science Advances]

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    Mechano-Signaling via Piezo1 Prevents Activation and p53-Mediated Senescence of Muscle Stem Cells

    The authors described that Piezo1, a mechanosensitive ion channel, kept skeletal muscle stem cells in a quiescent state and prevented senescence.
    [Redox Biology]

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    Novel Integrated Workflow Allows Production and In-Depth Quality Assessment of Multifactorial Reprogrammed Skeletal Muscle Cells from Human Stem Cells

    Researchers developed a multifactor-based protocol that combined adenovector-mediated MYOD expression, small molecule inhibitor and growth factor treatment, and electrical pulse stimulation to efficiently reprogram different types of human-derived multipotent stem cells into physiologically functional skeletal muscle cells.
    [Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences]

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    Screening and Validation of Reference Genes for qRT-PCR of Bovine Skeletal Muscle-Derived Satellite Cells

    The authors performed quantitative real-time PCR to evaluate the stability of expression of candidate internal reference genes in skeletal muscle-derived satellite cells at 0, 12, 24, 36 and 48 hours of growth and after differentiation for 0, 2, 4, 6 and 8 days.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    PRMT5 Critically Mediates TMAO-Induced Inflammatory Response in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells

    Researchers demonstrated that a positive correlation of protein arginine methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5) expression and trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO)-induced vascular inflammation, with upregulated vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 expression in primary rat and human vascular smooth muscle cells in vitro.
    [Cell Death & Disease]

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    Lipid Phosphate Phosphatase 3 in Smooth Muscle Cells Regulates Angiotensin II-Induced Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Formation

    The authors investigated the role of lipid phosphate phosphatase 3 and lysophospholipid signaling in a well-defined model of pathologic aortic injury.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    Long Noncoding RNA ANRIL Up-Regulates CCND1 via Sponging miR-98-5p to Promote TGF-β1-Induced Human Airway Smooth Muscle Cell Proliferation, Migration, and Extracellular Matrix Deposition

    Scientists deciphered the role of the lncRNA antisense noncoding RNA in the INK4 locus in airway smooth muscle cell proliferation, migration and extracellular matrix deposition.
    [Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences]

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    CircLDLR Modulates the Proliferation and Apoptosis of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells in Coronary Artery Disease through miR-26-5p/KDM6A Axis

    Researchers investigated the effect of circLDLR on the proliferation and apoptosis of vascular smooth muscle cells in coronary artery disease and its regulatory mechanism.
    [Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology]

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    REVIEWS

    Atrial Fibrillation

    Unravelling the molecular mechanisms underlying electropathology is expected to fuel the development of innovative personalized diagnostic tools and mechanism-based therapies for atrial fibrillation.
    [Nature Reviews Disease Primers]

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    Skeletal Muscle Differentiation of Human iPSCs Meets Bioengineering Strategies: Perspectives and Challenges

    The embryonic development process and the pro-myogenic role of the muscle-resident cell populations in co-cultures are described, highlighting the possible clinical applications of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) in the skeletal muscle tissue engineering field.
    [NPJ Regenerative Medicine]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    PepGen Announces First Participant Dosed in a Phase I Clinical Trial of PGN-EDO51 for the Treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

    PepGen, Inc. announced a critical clinical milestone for PGN-EDO51, the company’s lead product candidate for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients whose mutations are amenable to an exon 51 skipping approach.
    [PepGen, Inc.]

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    JOB OPPORTUNITIES

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    Columbia University – New York, New York, United States

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    University of Copenhagen – Copenhagen, Denmark

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    University of California, San Diego – La Jolla, California, United States

    Research Technician I/II – Skeletal Muscle Biology

    Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

    Principal Scientific Researcher – Cell and Tissue Genomics

    Genentech, Inc. – South San Francisco, California, United States

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