Using phosphatidylserine exposure on apoptotic cells to stimulate myoblast fusion

Amelia E. Hochreiter-Hufford, Sanja Arandjelovic, Kodi S. Ravichandran

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Abstract

The fusion of myoblasts, the skeletal muscle progenitors, is critical for skeletal muscle formation, function, and repair after muscle injury. Recognition of the phospholipid phosphatidylserine (PtdSer) exposed on certain myoblasts is required during fusion into multinuclear myofi bers. Cell surface exposure of PtdSer is also a feature of cells dying through the process of apoptosis. Here, we describe the use of PtdSer exposing apoptotic cells as stimulators of myoblast fusion.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)141-148
Number of pages8
JournalMethods in Molecular Biology
Volume1313
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015

Keywords

  • Apoptotic cells
  • BAI1
  • Myoblast fusion
  • Phosphatidylserine recognition

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