Lecture A7, A8 Flashcards
Muscles are formed from this type of cell?
myoblasts
Myoblasts (def.)
embryonic precursors of myocytes
myocytes (a.k.a ____ )
muscle cells
Differentiation of myoblasts into muscle cells is called ______
-myogenesis
During myogenesis of skeletal muscle, myoblasts do what?
-fuse into multinucleated myotubes, which are combined into muscle fibers
Myoblasts arise from ______ called _____
-blocks of mesodermal cells
-somites
Somites are found where?
-lateral to the neural tube in the embryo that is derived from the neural crest.
Somites also give rise to tissues other than muscle like: ______
-skeletal tissue and CT in skin
where myoblasts will form in developing somite is determined by ______
specific signals from surrounding tissue including neural tube and the lateral ectoderm
early somite differentiates into ______
dermomyotosome & sclerotome
dermomyotosome differentiates into ______
dermotome & myotome
sclerotome gives rise to ____
skeletal structure
dermotome gives rise to ______
connective tissue of skin
____ induce myogenesis
Wnt, Hh and BMP
In myogenesis, there are multiple types of ______
Wnt proteins and Frizzled receptors
BMPs act similarly to _____ and act as _____
-TGFB proteins
-morphogens
BMPs organize what?
several parts of human body including bones
In myogenesis, Wnt 1/3a from ____ , Wnt6/7a from _____ , BMP4 from _____ and HH act on early somite
-neural tube
-surface ectoderm
-lateral mesoderm plates
Like other progenitor cells, myoblasts ______ to increase cell number.
-proliferate
In the correct environment, (signalling proteins), myoblasts will further ______
differentiate into muscles
Myoblasts also migrate via cell movement through ______ to the sites where muscles will form (aka _____)
-the developing embryo
-premuscle masses
_____ are transcription factors that direct myoblast
differentiation
-MEFs and MRFs
MRF stands for _____
muscle regulator factor proteins
MRF is expressed where?
-only in muscle
Types of MRF: _____
MyoD, Myf5, Myogenin (MyoG) and Mrf4 (in order of activation)
MRF is ____ (type of TF) that does what? (2)
-a bHLH TF
-binds a DNA motif called the E-box, interacts with MEFs
MRF binds to ____ as co-factors
E-proteins
MEF stands for _____
muscle enhancer factor proteins
MEF is expressed where?
-in several cell linages
MEF does what?
-interacts with MRFs
-binds DNA motif called MADS box (MEF-box)
MEF often binds DNA as _____
a dimer