The cell substratum modulates skeletal muscle differentiation
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Supramolecular Structure
- Vol. 14 (3), 313-328
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jss.400140306
Abstract
During chick embryogenesis, massive alterations occur in the migrating cell's substratum, or extracellular matrix. The possibility that some of the components of this milieu play a regulatory role in cell differentiation was explored in a cell-culture system derived from embryonic chick skeletal muscle tissue. In particular, the effects of collagen and the glycosaminoglycans were studied. Collagen is required for muscle cell attachment and spreading onto plastic and glass tissue-culture dishes. A major constituent of the early embryonic extracellular space, hyaluronate (HA), while having no significant effect on collagen-stimulated cell attachment and spreading, was found to inhibit myogenesis. The muscle-specific M subunit of creatine kinase was preferentially inhibited. Control experiments indicated that the inhibition was specifically caused by HA and not by other glycosaminoglycans. A general metabolic inhibition of the cultures was not observed. Muscle cells could bind to HA-coated beads at all stages of differentiation but were inhibited only when HA was added within the first 24 h of culture. Endogenous GAG in the culture is normally degraded during the first 24 h after plating as well; this may parallel the massive degradation of HA that occurs in the early embryo in vivo. These findings suggest a regulatory role for HA in modulating skeletal muscle differentiation, with degradation of an inhibitory component of the cell substratum a requirement for myogenesis.Keywords
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