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. 2021 Feb 9;53(2):250–263. doi: 10.1038/s12276-021-00564-4

Fig. 8. R-PFI, a SET7 inhibitor, attenuates myoblast differentiation by the transcriptional repression of SRF-dependent genes.

Fig. 8

a R-PFI inhibited Acta1 promoter activity in a dose-dependent fashion. b Representative gel showing the ChIP assay results. R-PFI attenuated the binding of SRF to the distal SRE in the Acta1 gene promoter. c Quantification results of the ChIP analysis. d Quantitative RT-PCR results showing that R-PFI abolished the increases in Acta1 and Myogenin mRNAs induced by DM for 3 days. e R-PFI blocked the increases in the amounts of ACTA1, MCK, and Myogenin induced by DM for 3 days. f Immunofluorescence images of α-MHC. g Multinucleated cell count. * and @p < 0.05; ** and @@p < 0.01. h Working hypothesis: KDM2B inhibits skeletal muscle differentiation by inhibiting SRF-induced transactivation of skeletal muscle genes. KDM2B directly binds to SRF to demethylate K165, which results in the detachment of SRF from the SRE in skeletal muscle-specific genes. SET7 counteracts KDM2B by methylating SRF K165.