2009-09-01
Physiological thyroid hormone levels regulate numerous skeletal muscle transcripts
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Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism , Volume 94 - Issue 9 p. 3487- 3496
Context: Skeletal muscle is an important target tissue for thyroid hormone (TH). It is currently unknown which genes are regulated by physiological TH levels. Objective: We examined the effects of L-thyroxine on human skeletal muscle transcriptome. Design: Microarray analysis of transcript levels was performed using skeletal muscle biopsies from patients under euthyroid and hypothyroid conditions. Setting: The study was conducted in a university hospital laboratory. Patients: We studied skeletal muscle obtained from 10 thyroidectomized patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma on and after 4 wk off L-thyroxine replacement. Mean Outcome Measures: Gene expression changes were measured using microarrays. Results were analyzed using dedicated statistical methods. Results: We detected 607 differentially expressed genes on L-thyroxine treatment, of which approximately 60% were positively and approximately 40% were negatively regulated. Representative genes were validated by quantitative PCR. Genes involved in energy and fuel metabolism were overrepresented among the up-regulated genes, of which a large number were newly associated with thyroid state. L-thyroxine therapy induced a large down-regulation of the primary transcripts of the noncoding microRNA pair miR-206/miR-133b. Conclusion: We demonstrated that physiological levels of TH regulate a myriad of genes in human skeletal muscle. The identification of novel putatively TH-responsive genes may provide the molecular basis of clinical effects in subjects with different TH status. The observation that TH regulates microRNAs reveals a new layer of complexity by which TH influences cellular processes.
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doi.org/10.1210/jc.2009-0782, hdl.handle.net/1765/17545 | |
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism | |
Organisation | Erasmus MC: University Medical Center Rotterdam |
Visser, E., Heemstra, K., Swagemakers, S., Ozgur, Z., Corssmit, E., Burggraaf, J., … Visser, T. (2009). Physiological thyroid hormone levels regulate numerous skeletal muscle transcripts. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 94(9), 3487–3496. doi:10.1210/jc.2009-0782 |