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Interleukin-6 Is an Essential Regulator of Satellite Cell-Mediated Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophy
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Skeletal muscles adapt to increasing workload by augmenting their fiber size, through mechanisms that are poorly understood. This study identifies the cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6) as an essential regulator of satellite cell (muscle stem cell)-mediated hypertrophic muscle growth. IL-6 is locally and transiently produced by growing myofibers and associated satellite cells, and genetic loss of IL-6 blunted muscle hypertrophy in vivo. IL-6 deficiency abrogated satellite cell proliferation and myonuclear accretion in the preexisting myofiber by impairing STAT3 activation and expression of its target gene cyclin D1. The growth defect was indeed muscle cell intrinsic, since IL-6 loss also affected satellite cell behavior in vitro, in a STAT3-dependent manner. Myotube-produced IL-6 further stimulated cell proliferation in a paracrine fashion. These findings unveil a role for IL-6 in hypertrophic muscle growth and provide mechanistic evidence for the contribution of satellite cells to this process.
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“For instance, the pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-6 mediates lipid oxidation [7], induces the production of anti-inflammatory interleukins during exercise (e.g. IL-10 and IL-1ra) [8] and stimulates muscle growth [9].”
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“In vitro, IL-6 bears anabolic effects by regulating satellite cells’ function and enhancing glucose metabolism; furthermore, a loss of IL-6 signaling in myoblasts results in a reduced proliferation and migration [49,50].”
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“Elimination of these cytokines in vivo has been shown to diminish muscle repair [118].”
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“Briefly, a number of studies have shown that the chemokines and cytokines (TNF-α, IL-1β, IL-6) produced by initially infiltrating M1 macrophages are chemoattractant and mitogenic for muscle progenitor cells, including Pax7+ satellite cells [115–119].”
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“Although the myokine IL-6 is mostly recognized for its regulatory effects in lipid and glucose metabolism, IL-6 also plays important roles in myogenesis.”
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“Genetic loss of IL-6 impaired muscle hypertrophy in vivo, whereas myotube-produced IL-6 stimulated muscle cell proliferation in a paracrine fashion (49).”
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“Although being considered pro-inflammatory, TNF-α and IL-6 also appear to play important role in the early stages of muscle regeneration following injury by enhancing myoblast proliferation and inhibiting differentiation [73,74,75].”
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“This inhibition involves the down regulation of the MRFs, MyoD and Myogenin [73,74,75], with TNF-α receptor double knock out mice [74] and with IL-6 non-specific knock out mice [73] shown to present impaired myogenic differentiation and hypertrophy when compared to wild type mice during functional overloading.”
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- Serrano, A. L., Baeza-Raja, B., Perdiguero, E., Jardí, M., & Muñoz-Cánoves, P.
- Affiliations
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (ES)
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- Cell Metabolism
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- Elsevier BV
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- 2008-01
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- 7
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- Association Française contre les Myopathies (Marató-TV3)
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas
- Muscular Dystrophy Association
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Muscle Physiology and Disorders
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Cytokine Signaling Pathways and Interactions
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Muscle metabolism and nutrition
- Keywords
- interleukin-6, satellite cells, skeletal muscle hypertrophy, muscle stem cells, STAT3 signaling, cyclin D1, myonuclear accretion, satellite cell proliferation, paracrine signaling, myofiber growth, cytokine deficiency
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Cell Line, Cell Movement, Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, Hypertrophy, Immunohistochemistry, Muscular Diseases, Blotting, Western, Interleukin-6, Mice, Knockout, Muscle, Skeletal, Muscle Fibers, Skeletal, Cyclin D1, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, Myoblasts, Satellite Cells, Skeletal Muscle, Cell Proliferation, STAT3 Transcription Factor, Mice
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