- Title
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The micropeptide LEMP plays an evolutionarily conserved role in myogenesis
- Authors
- Wang, L., Fan, J., Han, L., Qi, H., Wang, Y., Wang, H., Chen, S., Du, L., Li, S., Zhang, Y., Tang, W., Ge, G., Pan, W., Hu, P., Cheng, H.
- Source
- Full text @ Cell Death Dis.
a (Left): Representative images of H&E-staining of TA muscle cross-sections at day 5 and day 7 post injury from WT and LEMP KO mice. Scale bar, 50??m. (Right): Statistics on the number of regeneration fibers per unit area. Error bars, standard deviations (n?=?10). Statistical analysis was performed using Student?s t test. ***P?0.001. b MHC immunostaining of satellite cells isolated from WT and LEMP KO mice. MHC: green; DAPI: red. c Quantitation of fusion in WT and LEMP KO satellite cells. Scale bar, 100??m. Error bars, standard deviations (n?=?3). Statistical analysis was performed using Student?s t test. **P?0.01, *P?0.05, ns: not significant. d RT-qPCRs to examine MHC mRNA expression level in satellite cells isolated from WT and LEMP KO mice. The bars show RNA levels relative to GAPDH. Error bars, standard deviations (n?=?3). Statistical analysis was performed using Student?s t test. **P?0.01. |
a In situ hybridization to examine the localization of MyolncR4 at different developmental stages of zebrafish embryos with a specific probe targeting zLEMP. hpf, hours post fertilization. Scale bar, 200??m. b Diagram to show the targeting sequence of the LEMP-AMO. c Representative images of zebrafish at 24 or 48-hpf after injection of different amounts of LEMP-AMO at one-cell stage. Scale bar, 200??m or 25??m. d Representative images of zebrafish at 24 or 48-hpf after injection of LEMP-AMO in the presence or absence of the zebrafish LEMP mRNA at one-cell stage. Scale bar, 200 or 25??m. e MHC immunostaining to examine myofiber alignment in 48-hpf embryos injected with Cntl-AMO, LEMP-AMO, LEMP-AMO with zLEMP mRNA, or LEMP-AMO with mLEMP mRNA, respectively. Scale bar, 10??m. EXPRESSION / LABELING:
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