Regulation of myostatin activity and muscle growth

SJ Lee, AC McPherron - Proceedings of the National …, 2001 - National Acad Sciences
Myostatin is a transforming growth factor-β family member that acts as a negative regulator
of skeletal muscle mass. To identify possible myostatin inhibitors that may have applications …

Quadrupling muscle mass in mice by targeting TGF-ß signaling pathways

SJ Lee - PloS one, 2007 - journals.plos.org
Myostatin is a transforming growth factor-ß family member that normally acts to limit skeletal
muscle growth. Mice genetically engineered to lack myostatin activity have about twice the …

Differential Response to Exogenous and Endogenous Myostatin in Myoblasts Suggests that Myostatin Acts as an Autocrine Factor in Vivo

R Ríos, S Fernández-Nocelos, I Carneiro… - …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Myostatin is a member of the TGF-β superfamily that is essential for proper regulation of
skeletal muscle growth. As do other TGF-β superfamily members, myostatin signals into the …

The myostatin propeptide and the follistatin-related gene are inhibitory binding proteins of myostatin in normal serum

JJ Hill, MV Davies, AA Pearson, JH Wang… - Journal of Biological …, 2002 - ASBMB
Myostatin, also known as growth and differentiation factor 8, is a member of the transforming
growth factor β superfamily that negatively regulates skeletal muscle mass (1). Recent …

Overexpression of follistatin in trout stimulates increased muscling

EF Medeiros, MP Phelps… - American Journal of …, 2009 - journals.physiology.org
Deletion or inhibition of myostatin in mammals has been demonstrated to markedly increase
muscle mass by hyperplasia, hypertrophy, or a combination of both. Despite a remarkably …

[HTML][HTML] Follistatin complexes Myostatin and antagonises Myostatin-mediated inhibition of myogenesis

H Amthor, G Nicholas, I McKinnell, CF Kemp… - Developmental …, 2004 - Elsevier
Follistatin is known to antagonise the function of several members of the TGF-β family of
secreted signalling factors, including Myostatin, the most powerful inhibitor of muscle growth …

Identification of a novel pool of extracellular pro-myostatin in skeletal muscle

SB Anderson, AL Goldberg, M Whitman - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2008 - ASBMB
Myostatin, a transforming growth factor-β superfamily ligand, negatively regulates skeletal
muscle growth. Generation of the mature signaling peptide requires cleavage of pro …

Myostatin: a skeletal muscle chalone

SJ Lee - Annual review of physiology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Myostatin (GDF-8) was discovered 25 years ago as a new transforming growth factor-β
family member that acts as a master regulator of skeletal muscle mass. Myostatin is made by …

Myostatin, a negative regulator of muscle growth, functions by inhibiting myoblast proliferation

M Thomas, B Langley, C Berry, M Sharma… - Journal of Biological …, 2000 - ASBMB
Myostatin, a member of the transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) superfamily, has been
shown to be a negative regulator of myogenesis. Here we show that myostatin functions by …

Regulation of Myostatin in Vivo by Growth and Differentiation Factor-Associated Serum Protein-1: A Novel Protein with Protease Inhibitor and Follistatin Domains

JJ Hill, Y Qiu, RM Hewick… - Molecular endocrinology, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Myostatin, a member of the TGFβ superfamily, is a potent and specific negative regulator of
skeletal muscle mass. In serum, myostatin circulates as part of a latent complex containing …