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Dach2-Hdac9 Signaling Regulates Reinnervation of Muscle Endplates Peter C © 2015. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd | Development (2015) 142, 4038-4048 doi:10.1242/dev.125674 STEM CELLS AND REGENERATION RESEARCH ARTICLE Dach2-Hdac9 signaling regulates reinnervation of muscle endplates Peter C. D. Macpherson, Pershang Farshi and Daniel Goldman* ABSTRACT highly expressed in innervated muscle and suppressed following Muscle denervation resulting from injury, disease or aging results in muscle denervation (Méjat et al., 2005; Tang and Goldman, 2006; impaired motor function. Restoring neuromuscular communication Tang et al., 2009). They mediate activity-dependent suppression of requires axonal regrowth and endplate reinnervation. Muscle activity Myog, a muscle-specific transcription factor that is induced in inhibits the reinnervation of denervated muscle. The mechanism by denervated muscle (Buonanno et al., 1992) and an activator of genes which muscle activity regulates muscle reinnervation is poorly encoding endplate-associated proteins, like nicotinic acetylcholine understood. Dach2 and Hdac9 are activity-regulated transcriptional receptors (nAChRs) and Musk (Méjat et al., 2005; Tang and co-repressors that are highly expressed in innervated muscle and Goldman, 2006; Tang et al., 2006). Thus, Dach2 and Hdac9 are suppressed following muscle denervation. Dach2 and Hdac9 control candidates for mediating the inhibitory effects of muscle activity on the expression of endplate-associated genes such as those encoding muscle reinnervation. nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs). Here we tested the idea In order for muscle activity to regulate muscle reinnervation it is that Dach2 and Hdac9 mediate the effects of muscle activity on expected to affect the expression of secreted factors that impact muscle reinnervation. Dach2 and Hdac9 were found to act in a motor axons and their ability to reform neuromuscular connections. collaborative fashion to inhibit reinnervation of denervated mouse Previous studies have suggested that secreted factors like Igf, Bdnf, skeletal muscle and appear to act, at least in part, by inhibiting Gdnf, Nt-3 and Nt-4 (also known as Ntf3 and Ntf5, respectively) are denervation-dependent induction of Myog and Gdf5 gene released from muscle and might be involved in motor neuron expression. Although Dach2 and Hdac9 inhibit Myog and Gdf5 survival, axonal sprouting and maturation (Smith et al., 1985; mRNA expression, Myog does not regulate Gdf5 transcription. Thus, Rassendren et al., 1992; Caroni, 1993; Koliatsos et al., 1993; Myog and Gdf5 appear to stimulate muscle reinnervation through Funakoshi et al., 1995; Wang et al., 1995; Gould et al., 2008); parallel pathways. These studies suggest that manipulating the however, none have been shown to regulate the reinnervation of Dach2-Hdac9 signaling system, and Gdf5 in particular, might be a endplates. good approach for enhancing motor function in instances where Here we report that Dach2 and Hdac9 collaborate to inhibit neuromuscular communication has been disrupted. muscle reinnervation of pre-existing endplates. We show that Myog is regulated in a Dach2/Hdac9-dependent fashion and that loss of KEY WORDS: Muscle, Nerve, Regeneration, Denervation, Myog expression results in delayed muscle reinnervation. Neuromuscular junction, Myogenin, Dach2, Hdac9, Gdf5, Importantly, we found that Dach2-Hdac9 signaling also inhibits Brachypodia, Motor nerve Gdf5 expression and that Gdf5 is a muscle tissue-derived factor that appears to act in a retrograde fashion to stimulate endplate INTRODUCTION reinnervation. Communication between nerve and muscle takes place at the neuromuscular junction (NMJ) where presynaptic motor axons RESULTS release neurotransmitter that is bound by receptors concentrated in Dach2 and Hdac9 inhibit reinnervation of denervated muscle the muscle’s endplate region. This communication is often endplates disrupted in people suffering from neuromuscular diseases and To investigate if Dach2 and Hdac9 controlled muscle reinnervation, age-related sarcopenia, and results in reduced motor function. we first used a nerve transfer model where the distal end of the tibial Therefore, devising strategies for restoring neuromuscular nerve innervating the soleus muscle is severed and transplanted to communication might help people with these conditions. Indeed, the soleus’s periphery, and then allowed to re-grow over the muscle miR206 was found to promote regeneration of neuromuscular surface where it can form ectopic endplates and also reconnect synapses and this appeared to slow disease progression and increase with old endplates (Payne and Brushart, 1997). These experiments survival in a mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) were performed on wild-type (Wt), Dach2−/−, Hdac9−/− and (Williams et al., 2009). Dach2−/−/Hdac9−/− mice. Unlike the predominantly slow fiber Although mechanisms controlling muscle reinnervation are composition of rat soleus muscle, the mouse soleus muscle is mixed poorly understood, it is clear that muscle activity plays an with a slightly higher percentage of fast fibers over slow fibers inhibitory role (Jansen et al., 1973; Cangiano et al., 1980; (Wigston and English, 1992). Upon dissection of soleus muscles at Hennig, 1987). Dach2 and Hdac9 are transcriptional co-repressors 6 weeks post nerve transfer, Dach2−/−/Hdac9−/− muscles appeared to display less relative atrophy than those from Wt, Dach2−/− and −/− Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, Department of Biological Hdac9 animals (Fig. 1A, Fig. S1A). Quantification of muscle Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. mass confirmed this observation (Fig. 1B). By contrast, when −/− *Author for correspondence ([email protected]) soleus muscles were not allowed to reinnervate in Wt and Dach2 / Hdac9−/− mice, a similar amount of denervation-dependent atrophy Received 23 April 2015; Accepted 1 October 2015 was observed (Fig. 1C). This suggested that the reduced atrophy DEVELOPMENT 4038 STEM CELLS AND REGENERATION Development (2015) 142, 4038-4048 doi:10.1242/dev.125674 Fig. 1. Recovery of soleus muscle mass and function reflects − − − − muscle reinnervation in Dach2 / /Hdac9 / mice. (A) Representative − − − − images of dissected soleus muscles from Wt, Dach2 / , Hdac9 / and − − − − Dach2 / /Hdac9 / mice at 6 weeks post muscle denervation and nerve transplant. Scale bar: 2 mm. (B) Quantification of reinnervated soleus muscle mass normalized to the contralateral innervated control. Error bars are s.d.; n=3 for 14 and 25 days and n=5 for 42 days post nerve transplant. *P<0.05; **P<0.01 relative to Wt. (C) Quantification of denervated soleus muscle mass normalized to the contralateral innervated control. Error bars are s.e.m.; n=3. noted in Dach2−/−/Hdac9−/− muscles after nerve transfer might have resulted from an enhanced rate of muscle reinnervation. Encouraged by the above results, we quantified the number of reinnervated endplates in soleus muscles of Wt, Dach2−/−, Hdac9−/− and Dach2−/−/Hdac9−/− mice after muscle denervation with subsequent nerve transfer. For this analysis βIII tubulin Fig. 2. Dach2 and Hdac9 inhibit reinnervation of endplates in denervated immunofluorescence was used to visualize regenerating nerves soleus muscle following nerve transfer. (A) βIII tubulin staining of and presynaptic terminals, and fluorescent α-bungarotoxin (α-Btx) motor nerve terminals overlaps precisely with αBtx stained endplates. was used to visualize muscle endplates (Fig. 2A). Depending on the (B) Representative images and (C) quantification of reinnervated endplates at extent of βIII tubulin and α-Btx overlap, endplates were scored as 6 weeks post nerve transfer. βIII tubulin+ regenerating tibial nerve branches are + completely reinnervated (100% overlap), partially reinnervated green and αBtx endplates are red. Arrows point to fully innervated endplates. Arrowheads point to denervated endplates. Scale bar: 50 µm. Error bars are (∼10-80% overlap) or denervated (no overlap). Within the first −/− −/− −/− −/− −/− −/− s.e.m.; n=4 for Wt and Dach2 ; n=3 for Hdac9 and Dach2 /Hdac9 . couple of days of muscle denervation, Wt and Dach2 /Hdac9 *P<0.05; **P<0.01 relative to Wt. (D) Soleus force measurements following mice exhibited a similar rate of motor nerve degeneration with indirect stimulation through the transplanted tibial nerve. Error bars are s.e.m.; − − − − ∼90% of the muscle endplates exhibiting no association with βIII n=6 for Wt and n=5 for Dach2 / /Hdac9 / .*P<0.05; **P<0.01 relative to Wt. tubulin immunofluorescence and a complete loss of SV2 Inn, innervated; Den, denervated. presynaptic terminal staining (data not shown). When denervated soleus muscles were evaluated for endplate reinnervation at 6 weeks significant endplate fragmentation was noted. However, consistent post nerve transfer, we found significant differences at the original with previous studies suggesting that Dach2 and Hdac9 mediate pre-existing endplates, which were more completely innervated activity-dependent suppression of Myog and genes encoding in Dach2−/−/Hdac9−/− mice compared with Wt, Dach2−/−,or nAChR proteins (Méjat et al., 2005; Tang and Goldman, 2006), Hdac9−/− mice (Fig. 2B,C). The enhanced reinnervation of we found their combined deletion in innervated and denervated Dach2−/−/Hdac9−/− muscle was reflected by a stronger muscle muscle generally increased the expression of these genes more so twitch and tetanic force when stimulating the transplanted than their individual deletion (Fig. S1C,D). Taken together, these nerve (Fig. 2D). Consistent
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