Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Mechanical constraints organize 3D tissues and orchestrate muscle differentiation
doi: 10.1101/2024.10.03.616457
Figure Lengend Snippet: a) Myogenic marker expression levels, determined by quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR). Relative mRNA expression levels are measured for control spheroids at D1 and D3, and for stretched aggregates at D3. RPLP0 was used as a housekeeping gene. At least N = 6 for control spheroids with 4 independent experiments, N=4 to 8 in 4 to 8 independent experiments for stretched aggregates at D3 for each gene. Mean ± SEM. Myod1, myogenic differentiation 1, Myog, myogenin, Myf6, myogenic factor 6, Tnnt, troponin T, Ckm, creatin kinase M-type, Myh, myosin heavy chain; mRNA, messenger RNA; D, day. b) Western Blot of control spheroids at D1 and D3 and stretched aggregates at D3 for fast myosin heavy chain, Myh4 and myogenic factor 6, Myf6. α -tubulin is used as a loading control. c) Representative confocal images of a spheroid and stretched aggregates at D3. Immunostaining of troponin 1 protein (magenta) is superimposed with nuclei (cyan) in a transverse cryosection of a control spheroid (left), of a stretched aggregate (middle) and in a longitudinal cryosection of a stretched aggregate. Scalebar = 200 µm.
Article Snippet: After rinsing the membranes with TBS-Tween 20 buffer (TBST), the membranes were blocked for 1h in the EveryBlot blocking buffer (12010020, Biorad) and incubated overnight at 4°C with primary antibodies rabbit anti-Myf6 (sc-301, Santa Cruz Biotechnology), or mouse anti-fast myosin heavy chain (Myh4) (MF 20, DSHB) diluted at 1:1000 with 5% BSA.
Techniques: Marker, Expressing, Reverse Transcription, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Quantitative RT-PCR, Control, Western Blot, Immunostaining