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Mol Cell Biol. 1985 September; 5(9): 2423-2432

Differentiation, not determination, regulates muscle gene activation: transfection of troponin I genes into multipotential and muscle lineages of 10T1/2 cells.

ABSTRACT

Transcription of quail skeletal muscle troponin I (TnI) genes was examined after stable transfection into multipotential 10T1/2 mouse cells and into determined myoblast lineages derived by 5-azacytidine conversion. Transfected TnI and endogenous mouse muscle genes were inactive both in multipotential 10T1/2 and in proliferating myoblasts but were activated coordinately and to high levels when myoblast lineages differentiated, regardless of whether TnI genes were transfected before or after myoblast lineage determination. We conclude that the TnI gene contains evolutionarily conserved control sequences that activate its transcription in response to differentiation-specific regulatory signals. Myoblast lineage determination, therefore, does not appear to act directly on TnI and other muscle genes but likely establishes a regulatory control system that mediates expression of differentiation-specific transcription signals.

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