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Potential gene regulatory role for cyclin D3 in muscle cells

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Cyclin D3 is important for muscle development and regeneration, and is involved in post-mitotic arrest of muscle cells. Cyclin D3 also has cell-cycle-independent functions such as regulation of specific genes in other tissues. Ectopic expression of cyclin D3 in myoblasts, where it is normally undetectable, promotes muscle gene expression and faster differentiation kinetics upon serum depletion. In the present study, we investigated the mechanistic role of cyclin D3 in muscle gene regulation. We initially showed by mutational analysis that a stable and functional cyclin D3 was required for promoting muscle differentiation. Using chromatin immunoprecipitation assays, we demonstrated that expression of cyclin D3 in undifferentiated myoblasts altered histone epigenetic marks at promoters of muscle-specific genes like MyoD, Pax7, myogenin and muscle creatine kinase but not non-muscle genes. Cyclin D3 expression also reduced the mRNA levels of certain epigenetic modifier genes. Our data suggest that epigenetic modulation of muscle-specific genes in cyclin-D3-expressing myoblasts may be responsible for faster differentiation kinetics upon serum depletion. Our results have implications for a regulatory role for cyclin D3 in muscle-specific gene activation.

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We thank P Hinds and Indumathi Mariappan for their generous gifts of plasmids. FA was supported by a Senior Research Fellowship from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. VKP is a recipient of the JC Bose National Fellowship from the Department of Science and Technology, India. Financial support from the Department of Science and Technology and Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Network Project BSC208 for this work is gratefully acknowledged.

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[Athar F and Parnaik VK 2015 Potential gene regulatory role for cyclin D3 in muscle cells. J. Biosci.] DOI 10.1007/s12038-015-9533-5

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Athar, F., Parnaik, V.K. Potential gene regulatory role for cyclin D3 in muscle cells. J Biosci 40, 497–512 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12038-015-9533-5

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