Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad 500 007, India
*Address for correspondence (e-mail: veenap{at}ccmb.ap.nic.in)
Accepted August 3, 2001
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Key words: Nuclear lamina, Lamin A, Muscle differentiation, Myoblasts
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INTRODUCTION |
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Genetic studies have shown that the majority of mutations in human LMNA lead to autosomal dominant Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD) affecting skeletal and cardiac muscle (Bonne et al., 1999), and different mutations cause dilated cardiomyopathy (Fatkin et al., 1999), limb girdle muscular dystrophy (Muchir et al., 2000) or partial lipodystrophy (Shackleton et al., 2000; Cao and Hegele, 2000). Valuable insights into lamin A function have been obtained by the knock-out of mouse LMNA (Sullivan et al., 1999). Mice that lack LMNA develop severe muscle wasting, similar to human EDMD, by 3-4 weeks and die 8 weeks after birth. The reason for the selective effect on muscle cells is not known, though it has been suggested that the forces generated during muscle contraction might exacerbate physical damage to muscle cell nuclei (Sullivan et al., 1999), or that lamins might influence gene expression in progenitor cells (Wilson, 2000). A further possibility that could be examined is whether muscle differentiation is accompanied by specific changes in nuclear architecture that involve the lamins.
Differentiation of myoblasts into myotubes is coordinated by two families of transcription factors: the MyoD family, which includes the muscle-specific transcription factors MyoD, Myf5, myogenin and MRF4 (Lassar et al., 1994; Rudnicki and Jaenisch, 1995); and the MEF2 family of transcription factors (Black and Olson, 1998). Muscle differentiation follows a highly ordered, temporally distinct sequence of events. Myoblasts are first committed to the differentiation pathway in a step marked by the expression of the transcription factor myogenin, which is followed by expression of cell cycle regulators such as the inhibitor p21 and irreversible, asynchronous cell cycle withdrawal (Andrés and Walsh, 1996). The cells then differentiate phenotypically, express contractile genes and finally fuse into multinucleated myotubes. Specific changes have been reported to occur in nuclear organization during the process of myogenesis such as in the distribution of proteosomes on the nuclear matrix (De Conto et al., 2000), in the localization of the E2F family of proteins (Gill and Hamel, 2000), as well as the disappearance of the nuclear mitotic apparatus protein NuMA (Merdes and Cleveland, 1998). However, no changes have been observed in the typical peripheral localization of the lamins, except for a lowering of lamin B1 levels in skeletal muscle (Manilal et al., 1999). The distribution of emerin, an inner nuclear membrane protein that binds to lamins, is also not altered during myogenesis (Manilal et al., 1996).
In this study we have explored the possibility of changes in the intranuclear lamin network during myoblast differentiation, by examining lamin A localization in the C2C12 cell line, a well-characterized murine skeletal muscle cell line (Yaffe and Saxel, 1977; Blau et al., 1983), using a monoclonal antibody to lamin A (LA-2H10), which labels intranuclear lamin speckles that colocalize with RNA splicing factor speckles or foci (Jagatheesan et al., 1999). We have earlier documented certain unusual features in the immunoreactivity of mAb LA-2H10 (Jagatheesan et al., 1999). This antibody specifically detects lamins A and C in immunoblots of cellular fractions and uniformly labels dispersed lamins in mitotic cells. However, in interphase cells, LA-2H10 exclusively stains intranuclear speckles without labeling the peripheral lamina, even in nuclei that have been treated with detergent, salt-extracted and nuclease-treated to reveal the nucleoskeletal framework. We have attributed these properties to subtle differences in the associations between lamin protofilaments at the periphery and at intranuclear sites, or to an unknown post-translational modification in peripheral lamin A, which leads to differential accessibility of the epitope region spanning amino acids 171-246. As this segment is present in both lamins A and C, mAb LA-2H10 does not distinguish between these proteins. Our findings from the present work indicate that lamin A/C speckles disappear when myoblasts differentiate into myotubes or are induced to become quiescent; this is due to antigenic masking, which probably results from a reorganization of the internal lamina. These changes are not seen with non-muscle quiescent cells such as serum-starved mouse C3H10T1/2 fibroblasts, suggesting that A-type lamin rearrangements are specific to muscle cell differentiation.
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MATERIALS AND METHODS |
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Antibodies
Antibodies to recombinant rat lamins used in this study and characterized in detail previously are mAb LA-2H10, which recognizes intranuclear lamin A speckles, mAb LA-2B3, which stains the nuclear periphery, and LB-P, which is a rabbit polyclonal antibody to lamin B1 (Jagatheesan et al., 1999). A mouse monoclonal antibody against SC-35 (Fu and Maniatis, 1990) was provided by Dr J Gall (Carnegie Institution of Washington, Baltimore, MD); and a rabbit polyclonal antibody to U5-116 kDa (Fabrizio et al., 1997) and a mouse monoclonal antibody to the trimethylguanosine cap of snRNAs (Bochnig et al., 1987) were obtained from Dr R Lührmann (University of Marburg, Germany). Mouse monoclonal antibodies to myosin heavy chain (A41025) were obtained from H. Blau, to BrdU from Sigma and to p21 (Pharmingen, USA) from G. K. Pavlath (Emory University, GA). A rabbit polyclonal antibody to myogenin was obtained from Santa Cruz Biotech, USA.
Immunofluorescence microscopy
Undifferentiated or differentiated C2C12 cells were washed with PBS and then routinely fixed by treatment with methanol at 20°C for 10 minutes, or with 3.7% formaldehyde for 15 minutes followed by 0.5% (v/v) Triton X-100 for 6 minutes at room temperature, as indicated. After washing with PBS, cells were incubated with 0.5% gelatin in PBS for 1 hour, followed by incubation with first antibody for 1 hour and then FITC-conjugated second antibody for 1 hour at room temperature. Samples were mounted in Vectashield (Vector Laboratories, USA) containing 1 µg/ml 4,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI). For double labeling experiments with LA-2H10 and rabbit polyclonal antibodies to U5-116 kDa or myogenin, cells were fixed in formaldehyde, blocked and incubated with LA-2H10 followed by biotinylated anti-mouse antibody and avidin-Cy3, and then with the other primary antibody and FITC-conjugated second antibody at the recommended dilutions. For double-labeling studies with mouse mAbs LA-2H10 (IgM subtype) and SC-35, myosin or p21 (IgG subtypes), cells were fixed in formaldehyde, blocked and incubated with LA-2H10, followed by biotinylated anti-mouse antibody and avidin-Cy3. After this step, cells were incubated with the other primary antibody, followed by FITC-conjugated second antibody specific for IgG subtype. Incubations were for 1 hour each and were carried out sequentially with intervening washes with PBS, as this gave optimal labeling. There was no cross-reactivity of the secondary antibodies in control experiments in which either primary antibody was omitted. For staining of muscle sections, unfixed frozen sections (10 µm) of adult mouse skeletal muscle (tibialis anterior) were blocked with 10% horse serum, and incubated with mAb LA-2H10 or LA-2B3 for 1 hour, followed by biotinylated anti-mouse antibody and avidin-Cy3 for 1 hour each. Antibody conjugates were from Jackson Laboratories and Vector Laboratories (USA). Confocal laser-scanning immunofluorescence microscopy (CLSM) was carried out on a Meridian Ultima scan head attached to an Olympus IMT-2 inverted microscope fitted with a 60x, 1.4 NA objective lens, with excitation at 515, 488 and 351-364 nm (Argon-ion laser). All samples were also routinely viewed under phase contrast (representative images are shown in Fig. 2). Image analysis, including crossover subtraction and estimation of colocalized speckles, was carried out using DASY master program V4.19 (Meridian Instruments, USA.) and images were assembled using Adobe Photoshop 5.0.
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Nuclear extractions
Cells were extracted by the protocol described by De Conto et al. (De Conto et al., 2000) with minor modifications. Samples of undifferentiated myoblasts, differentiated myotubes (72 hours) or quiescent myoblasts plated on coverslips were rinsed twice with TM buffer (50 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.5, 3 mM MgCl2) and then incubated for 10 minutes on ice in TM buffer containing 0.4% Triton X-100, 0.5 mM CuCl2 and 0.2 mM PMSF. Cells were rinsed and incubated with DNase I (20 units/ml) and RNase A (20 µg/ml) for 20 minutes at 37°C in TM buffer. The samples were then treated with 2 M NaCl for 5 minutes on ice, washed with TM buffer, fixed with formaldehyde and stained as described above.
Immunoblot analysis
Undifferentiated and differentiated C2C12 cells (24-72 hours) were harvested, lysed in Laemmlis sample buffer, boiled and electrophoresed on SDS-10% polyacrylamide gels. Gels were electroblotted onto nitrocellulose membrane filters and blocked overnight in 3% bovine serum albumin, in Tris-buffered saline. Filters were incubated with primary antibody for 2 hours, followed by peroxidase conjugated-secondary antibody in Tris-buffered saline containing 0.05% Tween-20 for 1 hour. Bound antibody was visualized using a chemiluminescence kit (Amersham Pharmacia, USA).
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RESULTS |
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Absence of lamin A/C speckles is due to their reorganization
In order to check the abundance and migration of lamin A and C proteins in differentiated and undifferentiated cells, we have analyzed the immunoreactivity of LA-2H10 towards C2C12 cell lysates sampled over a period of 0, 1, 2 and 3 days in differentiation medium. As shown in Fig. 3, LA-2H10 recognized lamins A and C in undifferentiated myoblasts, and there was no change in the reactivity of LA-2H10 during the course of differentiation in terms of the levels detected or sizes of proteins. This was seen even in the 3 day sample, where the cells had almost exclusively formed multinucleated myotubes and LA-2H10-positive mononucleated cells represented less than 6% of the population in immunofluorescence assays. Similarly, myoblasts clearly expressed peripheral lamin A and lamin B1 and there was no change in the amounts of lamins detected by LA-2B3 or LB-P, whereas myosin levels increased during the course of differentiation as expected.
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Lamin A/C speckles reappear after reactivation of quiescent myoblasts
The disappearance of lamin A/C speckles in postmitotic myocytes prompted us to examine the dynamics of the speckles in quiescent cells and cells reactivated to enter the cell cycle. As cell cycle arrest in serum-deprived myoblasts is generally irreversible, we have induced reversible growth arrest by culturing myoblasts in methylcellulose-containing media by a modification of the method of Milasincic et al. (Milasincic et al., 1996) as described in Materials and Methods. Importantly, quiescent cells in suspension are viable and can be reactivated by replating on a solid substratum in the presence of serum. C2C12 cells were held in suspension culture for 48 hours and subsequently reactivated for 24 hours. Growth arrest and reactivation were confirmed by analysis of DNA synthesis. Incorporation of BrdU was 31% for proliferating myoblasts, 1.4% for quiescent myoblasts and 3% for myotubes (data not shown). Dividing, quiescent and reactivated myoblasts were stained with antibodies to lamins and RNA splicing factors. As shown in Fig. 6, lamin speckles were prominent in dividing cells but absent in quiescent cells and reappeared in reactivated cells. The typical peripheral localization of lamins A/C and lamin B1, and the speckled staining observed for SC-35 were not altered in quiescent cells. We also checked for the presence of lamin A/C speckles in quiescent mouse C3H10T1/2 fibroblasts as an example of a non-muscle cell type. No significant changes were observed when C3H10T1/2 cells were serum-starved for 72 hours, indicating that lamin A/C speckles were not reorganized in quiescent, non-muscle cells. For C3H10T1/2 cells, the incorporation of BrdU was 35% for proliferating cells, 5% for serum-starved cells and 40% for cells restimulated with 10% FBS for 24 hours (data not shown).
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Our observation that lamin speckles are antigenically masked in myotube and quiescent myoblast nuclei, and yield a predominantly uniform staining with LA-2H10 after detergent extraction and nuclease digestion, has important implications because it suggests a physical rearrangement of the lamina during muscle differentiation. Antigen masking could conceivably also occur by binding of new proteins, but this is unlikely to lead to a distinct change in the staining pattern from large speckles to a uniform one. Epitope masking of lamin antibodies due to interactions of lamins with chromatin (Collard et al., 1990) or phosphorylation of lamins (Dyer et al., 1997) is well known. The reorganization of lamin speckles to a more uniformly stained internal structure raises the possibility that such an internal structure might be part of a stable network that can contribute to formation of specific lamin compartments such as speckles when required, as for example when quiescent myoblasts are reactivated.
Dynamic behavior of lamin A/C speckles during cell cycle
The changes that occur in the peripheral lamina organization during nuclear envelope assembly and disassembly in mitotic cells have been well documented (Gant and Wilson, 1997; Moir et al., 2000b). There is now accumulating evidence for the dynamic behavior of the intranuclear lamin network during the cell cycle. Lamin foci have been shown to associate with DNA replication centers in S-phase nuclei (Moir et al., 1994). Studies with mutant lamins suggest that normal lamina assembly is required to establish DNA replication centers (Ellis et al., 1997) and that lamins are essential for the elongation phase of DNA synthesis (Spann et al., 1997) and are involved in the organization of the replication factor complex and PCNA (Moir et al., 2000a). Intranuclear lamin foci have also been observed at internal sites in nuclei of G1 phase cells in association with heterochromatin (Bridger et al., 1993).
We have earlier demonstrated that mAb LA-2H10 to lamin A labels nuclei of interphase cells in a pattern of 20-50 large intranuclear speckles that colocalize with RNA splicing proteins (Jagatheesan et al., 1999). Although RNA splicing factors are localized in both interchromatin granules and perichromatin fibrils (Fakan and Puvion, 1980; Spector, 1993; Lamond and Earnshaw, 1998), the splicing of nascent transcripts is proposed to occur near sites of transcription in perichromatin fibrils (Fakan, 1994), with splicing factors being recruited from interchromatin granules, which may also be involved in the preassembly of spliceosomes (Misteli and Spector, 1998). Based on our earlier observations, we have proposed that lamin speckles perform an important structural role in the organization of RNA splicing factor speckles, especially in their reassembly towards the end of mitosis (Jagatheesan et al., 1999). Our present data demonstrate the absence of lamin A speckles in quiescent myoblasts and their early reassembly in cells reactivated to enter the cell cycle, suggesting that lamin A speckles might also play a significant role during exit from quiescence. However, their exact function has yet to be elucidated. It appears that considerable flexibility is possible in the formation of the intranuclear lamin network in different cell lineages, as reorganization of lamin A speckles is observed in quiescent myoblasts and myotubes, but not in quiescent C3H10T1/2 mouse fibroblasts or non-dividing cell types such as adult hepatocytes (data not shown). A more extensive screening of other cell lineages is under way.
Nuclear reorganization during myoblast differentiation
There are indications that adaptation of the nucleus of the myoblast cell to the postmitotic muscle fiber cell may require changes in nuclear organization, in particular in elements of the nucleoskeleton. For example, the nuclear mitotic apparatus protein (NuMA), which is a component of the intranuclear matrix in interphase nuclei and translocates to the spindle pores during mitosis (Lydersen and Pettijohn, 1980) is observed to be degraded during myotube formation, being completely lost after 48-96 hours of culture (Merdes and Cleveland, 1998), but can be detected in most other tissues. A further example is that prosomes, which are the core of 26S proteasomes and are associated with the nuclear matrix, undergo changes in their distribution pattern upon fusion of myoblasts to myotubes, with one subclass losing immunoreactivity in myotubes due to epitope masking by chromatin, as revealed by nuclear extraction procedures (De Conto et al., 2000). In addition to changes in nuclear structure, the location of transcription factors such as the E2F family of factors shifts from the nucleus to the cytoplasm during myoblast differentiation, in order to maintain nuclei in a quiescent state in terminally differentiated myotubes (Gill and Hamel, 2000). There is presently no evidence for reorganization of nuclear membrane proteins such as emerin during myoblast differentiation or of changes in the typical peripheral location of the lamins, except for a lowering of lamin B1 levels in adult muscle (Manilal et al., 1996; Manilal et al., 1999) (B. M., J. D., N. R. and V. K. P., unpublished), which might be a late event as we have not observed any changes in lamin B1 expression during myoblast differentiation. Our finding that lamin speckles are reorganized in postmitotic, differentiating myoblasts as well as in reversibly arrested myoblasts suggests that these rearrangements may be regulated by common events that occur during cell cycle withdrawal in myoblasts. These changes in lamina structure and the reported degradation of NuMA in myotubes raise the possibility of considerable reorganization of the internal nucleoskeleton upon muscle differentiation.
Implications of lamina reorganization during muscle differentiation
Mutations in the lamin A gene cause progressive muscle wasting and weakness in the human autosomal dominant disease EDMD (Bonne et al., 1999), and in the lamin A knockout mouse (Sullivan et al., 1999). Furthermore, mutations in emerin, an inner nuclear membrane protein that associates with lamin A (Fairley et al., 1999) also result in EDMD of the X-linked form (Bione et al., 1994; Nagano et al., 1996; Manilal et al., 1996). It is not clear why lamin A or emerin mutations should predominantly affect muscle tissue when emerin is ubiquitously expressed and lamin A is present in almost all differentiated cells. It has been proposed that in the absence of lamin A or emerin, nuclear envelope integrity is compromised and muscle nuclei may be unable to withstand the mechanical stress to which the muscle fiber is subjected (Sullivan et al., 1999). A role for emerin in regulating gene expression in heart and muscle has also been suggested (Östlund et al., 1999). Other inner membrane proteins that interact with lamins and have the potential to be involved are the lamin B receptor or LBR (Worman et al., 1988) and the lamina-associated polypeptides (Gerace and Foisner, 1994), as well as the nucleoskeletal protein LAP2 (Dechat et al., 2000). Recently, a model has been proposed for the association of the A-type lamins with the lamina and the inner nuclear membrane through interactions with lamin B, emerin and LAP1C, which might explain why mutations in either emerin or lamin A lead to EDMD (Hutchison et al., 2001). It has also been suggested that lamin A might affect gene expression in progenitor mesenchyme stem cells by influencing the spatial organization of chromatin (Wilson, 2000). Manilal et al. (Manilal et al., 1999) have suggested that since cardiac and skeletal muscle nuclei have lower levels of lamin B1, they may be particularly sensitive to the loss of either emerin or lamin A.
Our findings provide evidence for changes in internal lamin A/C organization that occur primarily during muscle differentiation. Lamin speckles are reorganized in postmitotic, terminally differentiated myotubes, but are present in other differentiated cell types. These rearrangements in the internal lamina might be part of the overall process of nuclear architectural changes during muscle differentiation. If this is hindered by mutant lamins or absence of lamins, it could lead to muscle-specific disease symptoms. In this context, an important conclusion obtained from the recent in-depth analysis of gene expression profiles in Duchenne and limb-girdle muscular dystrophies is that dystrophic muscle fibers are in a state of incomplete differentiation (Chen et al., 2000). It is now evident that, in addition to a role for the peripheral lamina in maintaining nuclear integrity, the possibility of tissue-specific variations in the internal lamina network needs to be investigated in detail in order to understand the complex disease phenotypes that result from different mutations in the LMNA gene.
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