1. Developmental Biology
  2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Fecal transplant from myostatin deletion pigs positively impacts the gut-muscle axis

  1. Zhao-Bo Luo
  2. Shengzhong Han
  3. Xi-Jun Yin
  4. Hongye Liu
  5. Junxia Wang
  6. Meifu Xuan
  7. Chunyun Hao
  8. Danqi Wang
  9. Yize Liu
  10. Shuangyan Chang
  11. Dongxu Li
  12. Kai Gao
  13. Huiling Li
  14. Biaohu Quan
  15. Lin-Hu Quan  Is a corresponding author
  16. Jin-Dan Kang  Is a corresponding author
  1. Yanbian University, China
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.81858
Share this article
Cite this article
  1. Zhao-Bo Luo
  2. Shengzhong Han
  3. Xi-Jun Yin
  4. Hongye Liu
  5. Junxia Wang
  6. Meifu Xuan
  7. Chunyun Hao
  8. Danqi Wang
  9. Yize Liu
  10. Shuangyan Chang
  11. Dongxu Li
  12. Kai Gao
  13. Huiling Li
  14. Biaohu Quan
  15. Lin-Hu Quan
  16. Jin-Dan Kang
(2023)
Fecal transplant from myostatin deletion pigs positively impacts the gut-muscle axis
eLife 12:e81858.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.81858
  2. Download BibTeX
  3. Download .RIS

Abstract

The host genome may influence the composition of the intestinal microbiota, and the intestinal microbiota has a significant effect on muscle growth and development. In this study, we found that the deletion of the myostatin (MSTN) gene positively regulates the expression of the intestinal tight junction-related genes TJP1 and OCLN through the myosin light-chain kinase/myosin light chain pathway. The intestinal structure of MSTN−/− pigs differed from wild-type, including by the presence of a thicker muscularis and longer plicae. Together, these changes affect the structure of intestinal microbiota. Mice transplanted with the intestinal microbiota of MSTN−/− pigs had myofibers with larger cross-sectional areas and higher fast-twitch glycolytic muscle mass. Microbes responsible for the production of short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) were enriched in both the MSTN−/− pigs and recipient mice, and SCFAs levels were elevated in the colon contents. We also demonstrated that valeric acid stimulates type IIb myofiber growth by activating the Akt/mTOR pathway via G protein-coupled receptor 43 and ameliorates dexamethasone-induced muscle atrophy. This is the first study to identify the MSTN gene-gut microbiota-SCFA axis and its regulatory role in fast-twitch glycolytic muscle growth.

Data availability

The raw reads of 16s rRNA gene sequences have been submitted to the NCBI BioSample database (Porcine data: PRJNA743164; Mice data: PRJNA743401).

The following data sets were generated
    1. Luo ZB
    (2022) Original data of Luo et al
    Science Data Bank, doi:10.57760/sciencedb.06767.
    https://www.scidb.cn/s/FfINZz

Article and author information

Author details

  1. Zhao-Bo Luo

    Department of Animal Science, Yanbian University, Yanji, China
    Competing interests
    The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

  2. Shengzhong Han

    Department of Animal Science, Yanbian University, Yanji, China
    Competing interests
    The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

  3. Xi-Jun Yin

    Department of Animal Science, Yanbian University, Yanji, China
    Competing interests
    The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

  4. Hongye Liu

    Department of Animal Science, Yanbian University, Yanji, China
    Competing interests
    The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

  5. Junxia Wang

    Department of Animal Science, Yanbian University, Yanji, China
    Competing interests
    The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

  6. Meifu Xuan

    Department of Animal Science, Yanbian University, Yanji, China
    Competing interests
    The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

  7. Chunyun Hao

    College of Integration Science, Yanbian University, Yanji, China
    Competing interests
    The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

  8. Danqi Wang

    College of Integration Science, Yanbian University, Yanji, China
    Competing interests
    The authors declare that no competing interests exist.
    ORCID icon "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0009-0001-7656-9901

  9. Yize Liu

    Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines of the Changbai Mountain, Yanbian University, Yanji, China
    Competing interests
    The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

  10. Shuangyan Chang

    Department of Animal Science, Yanbian University, Yanji, China
    Competing interests
    The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

  11. Dongxu Li

    College of Integration Science, Yanbian University, Yanji, China
    Competing interests
    The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

  12. Kai Gao

    Department of Animal Science, Yanbian University, Yanji, China
    Competing interests
    The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

  13. Huiling Li

    Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory of Transgenic Animal and Embryo Engineering, Yanbian University, Yanji, China
    Competing interests
    The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

  14. Biaohu Quan

    Department of Animal Science, Yanbian University, Yanji, China
    Competing interests
    The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

  15. Lin-Hu Quan

    Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines of the Changbai Mountain, Yanbian University, Yanji, China
    For correspondence
    lhquan@ybu.edu.cn
    Competing interests
    The authors declare that no competing interests exist.
    ORCID icon "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0002-7195-8078

  16. Jin-Dan Kang

    Department of Animal Science, Yanbian University, Yanji, China
    For correspondence
    jdkang@ybu.edu.cn
    Competing interests
    The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (32260817)

  • Jin-Dan Kang

National Natural Science Foundation of China (32260026)

  • Lin-Hu Quan

Changbai Mountain Talent Project of Jilin Province (000007)

  • Lin-Hu Quan

Higher Education Discipline Innovation Project (D18012)

  • Lin-Hu Quan

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

Ethics

Animal experimentation: The animal study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Yanbian University (approval number SYXK2020-0009).

Copyright

© 2023, Luo et al.

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.

Metrics

  • 1,411
    views
  • 325
    downloads
  • 10
    citations

Views, downloads and citations are aggregated across all versions of this paper published by eLife.

Download links

A two-part list of links to download the article, or parts of the article, in various formats.

Downloads (link to download the article as PDF)

Open citations (links to open the citations from this article in various online reference manager services)

Cite this article (links to download the citations from this article in formats compatible with various reference manager tools)

  1. Zhao-Bo Luo
  2. Shengzhong Han
  3. Xi-Jun Yin
  4. Hongye Liu
  5. Junxia Wang
  6. Meifu Xuan
  7. Chunyun Hao
  8. Danqi Wang
  9. Yize Liu
  10. Shuangyan Chang
  11. Dongxu Li
  12. Kai Gao
  13. Huiling Li
  14. Biaohu Quan
  15. Lin-Hu Quan
  16. Jin-Dan Kang
(2023)
Fecal transplant from myostatin deletion pigs positively impacts the gut-muscle axis
eLife 12:e81858.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.81858

Share this article

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.81858

Categories and tags

Research organism

Further reading

    1. Developmental Biology

    Emerging cooperativity between Oct4 and Sox2 governs the pluripotency network in early mouse embryos

    Yanlin Hou, Zhengwen Nie ... Hans R Scholer
    Research Article

    During the first lineage segregation, mammalian embryos generate the inner cell mass (ICM) and trophectoderm (TE). ICM gives rise to the epiblast (EPI) that forms all cell types of the body, an ability referred to as pluripotency. The molecular mechanisms that induce pluripotency in embryos remain incompletely elucidated. Using knockout (KO) mouse models in conjunction with low-input ATAC-seq and RNA-seq, we found that Oct4 and Sox2 gradually come into play in the early ICM, coinciding with the initiation of Sox2 expression. Oct4 and Sox2 activate the pluripotency-related genes through the putative OCT-SOX enhancers in the early ICM. Furthermore, we observed a substantial reorganization of chromatin landscape and transcriptome from the morula to the early ICM stages, which was partially driven by Oct4 and Sox2, highlighting their pivotal role in promoting the developmental trajectory toward the ICM. Our study provides new insights into the establishment of the pluripotency network in mouse preimplantation embryos.

    1. Developmental Biology

    Morphogenesis: Fluid transport comes to the fore

    Yufei Wu, Sean X Sun
    Insight

    Proteins that allow water to move in and out of cells help shape the development of new blood vessels.

    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Axon Guidance: Watching axons on the move

    Maria I Lazaro-Pena, Carlos A Diaz-Balzac
    Insight

    The ligand Netrin mediates axon guidance through a combination of haptotaxis over short distances and chemotaxis over longer distances.