Normal myoblast fusion requires myoferlin

KR Doherty, A Cave, DB Davis, AJ Delmonte, A Posey… - 2005 - journals.biologists.com
… was highly expressed at the stage in which myoblasts are undergoing fusion, we examined
myoferlin expression in primary cultured myoblasts using confocal microscopy. Myoferlin

Ferlin proteins in myoblast fusion and muscle growth

AD Posey Jr, A Demonbreun, EM McNally - Current topics in …, 2011 - Elsevier
Myoferlin is highly expressed in myoblasts that undergoing … and regeneration require
the fusion of myoblast to the … myoferlin GFP reporter is normally expressed in myoblasts but …

[HTML][HTML] Myoblast fusion: when it takes more to make one

K Rochlin, S Yu, S Roy, MK Baylies - Developmental biology, 2010 - Elsevier
… iterative fusion of differentiated myoblasts common to all skeletal muscle. Knowledge of this
process has particular relevance to the treatment of wasting of specific muscle groups due to …

[HTML][HTML] Fer1l5, a dysferlin homologue present in vesicles and involved in c2c12 myoblast fusion and membrane repair

R Usha Kalyani, K Perinbam, P Jeyanthi, NA Al-Dhabi… - Biology, 2020 - mdpi.com
myoferlin have been well characterized in myoblast fusion. … Therefore, we followed the
common protocol as described in … , highlighting that myoblast fusion is not only required during …

[HTML][HTML] GRAF1 promotes ferlin-dependent myoblast fusion

KC Lenhart, AL Becherer, J Li, X Xiao, EM McNally… - Developmental …, 2014 - Elsevier
… A significant fusion defect was recapitulated in isolated myoblasts … Mechanistically, we
show that GRAF1 and 2 facilitate myoblast fusion, … Normal myoblast fusion requires myoferlin

Myogenesis in dysferlin-deficient myoblasts is inhibited by an intrinsic inflammatory response

TV Cohen, JE Cohen, TA Partridge - Neuromuscular Disorders, 2012 - Elsevier
fusion and be required for muscle regeneration. These observations contrast with the findings
that muscle develops normally … muscle myotube fusion and the related protein, myoferlin, …

Myoferlin, a multifunctional protein in normal cells, has novel and key roles in various cancers

W Zhu, B Zhou, C Zhao, Z Ba, H Xu… - Journal of cellular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… the fusion of two opposed lipid bilayers. Furthermore, myoferlin interacts with EHD2 to regulate
myoblast fusion … kinase receptors requires myoferlin, including VEGFR-2 and Tie-2. Acute …

[HTML][HTML] Myoferlin is required for insulin-like growth factor response and muscle growth

AR Demonbreun, AD Posey, K Heretis… - The FASEB …, 2010 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… IGF1 receptor recycling is required for normal myogenesis and that myoferlin is a critical …
myoblast fusion, we treated freshly isolated and cultured myoblasts from wild-type and myoferlin

[HTML][HTML] Endocytic recycling proteins EHD1 and EHD2 interact with fer-1-like-5 (Fer1L5) and mediate myoblast fusion

AD Posey, P Pytel, K Gardikiotes… - Journal of Biological …, 2011 - ASBMB
Myoferlin and dysferlin regulate myoblast fusion and muscle membrane resealing, respectively.
Correspondingly, myoferlin … inhibits myoblast fusion, and EHD2 is required for normal

[HTML][HTML] The endocytic recycling protein EHD2 interacts with myoferlin to regulate myoblast fusion

KR Doherty, AR Demonbreun, GQ Wallace… - Journal of Biological …, 2008 - ASBMB
myoblasts and required for efficient myoblast fusion to myotubes. We found that myoferlin
In contrast to normal myoblasts, myoferlin null myoblasts accumulate labeled transferrin and …