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. 1989 Jul;86(14):5434–5438. doi: 10.1073/pnas.86.14.5434

Activation of muscle-specific genes in pigment, nerve, fat, liver, and fibroblast cell lines by forced expression of MyoD.

H Weintraub 1, S J Tapscott 1, R L Davis 1, M J Thayer 1, M A Adam 1, A B Lassar 1, A D Miller 1
PMCID: PMC297637  PMID: 2748593

Abstract

MyoD is a master regulatory gene for myogenesis. Under the control of a retroviral long terminal repeat, MyoD was expressed in a variety of differentiated cell types by using either a DNA transfection vector or a retrovirus. Expression of muscle-specific proteins was observed in chicken, human, and rat primary fibroblasts and in differentiated melanoma, neuroblastoma, liver, and adipocyte lines. The ability of MyoD to activate muscle genes in a variety of differentiated cell lines suggests that no additional tissue-specific factors other than MyoD are needed to activate the downstream program for terminal muscle differentiation or that, if such factors exist, they are themselves activated by MyoD expression.

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