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Participation of multiple factors, including proliferin, in the inhibition of myogenic differentiation.

Department of Biochemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208.

ABSTRACT

Proliferin (PLF) is a secreted glycoprotein in the prolactin-growth hormone family in mice. PLF expression was detected in C3H 10T1/2 fibroblasts, but not in two 10T1/2-derived myogenic cell lines, and was restored in two nondifferentiating variants of one of these myogenic cell lines. Transient expression of one form of PLF (PLF1) inhibited expression from a muscle-specific gene promoter; a second form of PLF, which differed at three amino acid residues, displayed no activity in this transient assay. Introduction of a PLF1 expression construct into both muscle- and 10T1/2-derived myoblasts resulted in cell lines that were no longer myogenic or that differentiated only partially. Analysis of these cell lines revealed that differentiation could be obstructed at several steps and by one or more factors in addition to PLF. Although expected to function in vivo as an extracellular hormone, PLF did not appear to be acting through a cell surface receptor to inhibit differentiation in these cultured myoblasts.

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