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ArticleThe EMBO journal2008

Cooperative control of striated muscle mass and metabolism by MuRF1 and MuRF2.

Christian C Witt, Stephanie H Witt, Stefanie Lerche, Dietmar Labeit, Walter Back, Siegfried Labeit

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Article in The EMBO journal, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 107 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

107 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 183 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Targeting MuRF1 to Combat Skeletal Muscle Wasting in Cardiac Cachexia: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Prospects.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Christian C WittInstitute of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Universitätsklinikum Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.
Stephanie H Witt
Stefanie Lerche
Dietmar Labeit
Walter Back
Siegfried Labeit
University Hospital Heidelberg · DEUniversity of Mannheim · DEHeidelberg University · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The muscle-specific RING finger proteins MuRF1 and MuRF2 have been proposed to regulate protein degradation and gene expression in muscle tissues. We have tested the in vivo roles of MuRF1 and MuRF2 for muscle metabolism by using knockout (KO) mouse models. Single MuRF1 and MuRF2 KO mice are healthy and have normal muscles. Double knockout (dKO) mice obtained by the inactivation of all four MuRF1 and MuRF2 alleles developed extreme cardiac and milder skeletal muscle hypertrophy. Muscle hypertrophy in dKO mice was maintained throughout the murine life span and was associated with chronically activated muscle protein synthesis. During ageing (months 4-18), skeletal muscle mass remained stable, whereas body fat content did not increase in dKO mice as compared with wild-type controls. Other catabolic factors such as MAFbox/atrogin1 were expressed at normal levels and did not respond to or prevent muscle hypertrophy in dKO mice. Thus, combined inhibition of MuRF1/MuRF2 could provide a potent strategy to stimulate striated muscles anabolically and to protect muscles from sarcopenia during ageing.

Indexed as

Adaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingAnimalsBlotting, WesternCarpsFemaleGene Expression ProfilingHeat-Shock ProteinsHomeodomain ProteinsLIM-Homeodomain ProteinsMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, Inbred StrainsMice, KnockoutMicroscopy, Electron, TransmissionMicroscopy, FluorescenceAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingFhl2 protein, mouseHeat-Shock ProteinsHomeodomain ProteinsLIM-Homeodomain ProteinsMuscle Proteinsmuscle RING finger 2 protein, mouseSequestosome-1 ProteinSqstm1 protein, mouseTranscription FactorsTrim63 protein, mouseTripartite Motif ProteinsUbiquitin-Protein Ligases

Identifiers

PMID18157088
PMCPMC2168395
OpenAlexW2071996542

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