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• W3080984767 abstract "•ERβ controls muscle growth in young female mice•ERβ is essential for muscle regeneration in female mice•Inactivation of ERβ causes an increase in apoptosis•ERβ is required for satellite cell population expansion Estrogens are female sex hormones that are important for comprehensively maintaining muscle function, and an insufficiency affects muscle strength and regeneration in females. However, it is still unclear whether estrogen signaling is mediated through receptors. To investigate the specific role of estrogen receptor β (ERβ) in skeletal muscle and satellite cells (muscle stem cells), we generated muscle-specific ERβ-knockout (mKO) and satellite cell-specific ERβ-knockout (scKO) mice, respectively. Young female mKO mice displayed a decrease in fast-type dominant muscle mass. Female, but not male, scKO mice exhibited impaired muscle regeneration following acute muscle injury, probably due to reduced proliferation and increased apoptosis of satellite cells. RNA-sequencing analysis revealed that loss of ERβ in satellite cells altered gene expression of extracellular matrix components, including laminin and collagen. The results indicate that the estrogen-ERβ pathway is a sex-specific regulatory mechanism that controls muscle growth and regeneration in female mice. Estrogens are female sex hormones that are important for comprehensively maintaining muscle function, and an insufficiency affects muscle strength and regeneration in females. However, it is still unclear whether estrogen signaling is mediated through receptors. To investigate the specific role of estrogen receptor β (ERβ) in skeletal muscle and satellite cells (muscle stem cells), we generated muscle-specific ERβ-knockout (mKO) and satellite cell-specific ERβ-knockout (scKO) mice, respectively. Young female mKO mice displayed a decrease in fast-type dominant muscle mass. Female, but not male, scKO mice exhibited impaired muscle regeneration following acute muscle injury, probably due to reduced proliferation and increased apoptosis of satellite cells. RNA-sequencing analysis revealed that loss of ERβ in satellite cells altered gene expression of extracellular matrix components, including laminin and collagen. The results indicate that the estrogen-ERβ pathway is a sex-specific regulatory mechanism that controls muscle growth and regeneration in female mice. Skeletal muscle is a highly plastic tissue that responds to various extrinsic stimuli, such as exercise, to adapt to muscle mass and strength. However, muscle mass and strength are decreased in pathological conditions, including aging, resulting in disability and poor quality of life. Skeletal muscle homeostasis depends on the activity of muscle-specific stem cells called satellite cells (Mauro, 1961Mauro A. Satellite cell of skeletal muscle fibers.J. Biophys. Biochem. Cytol. 1961; 9: 493-495Crossref PubMed Scopus (2476) Google Scholar), which are mitotically quiescent and express the paired homeodomain transcriptional factor PAX7 in normal physiological conditions (Brack and Rando, 2012Brack A.S. Rando T.A. Tissue-specific stem cells: lessons from the skeletal muscle satellite cell.Cell Stem Cell. 2012; 10: 504-514Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (274) Google Scholar; Relaix and Zammit, 2012Relaix F. Zammit P.S. Satellite cells are essential for skeletal muscle regeneration: the cell on the edge returns centre stage.Development. 2012; 139: 2845-2856Crossref PubMed Scopus (450) Google Scholar). Upon muscle injury or diseases, satellite cells respond quickly to activate myogenic programming and proliferate, eventually fusing together to make new muscle fibers. Some of the progeny of the activated satellite cells undergo self-renewal by asymmetric division mechanisms to maintain the stem cell pool. With aging, the ability and the number of satellite cells to repair injured muscles is progressively impaired due to the alterations in both niche environment and cell-intrinsic mechanisms, which ultimately hinder skeletal muscle homeostasis (Kuang and Rudnicki, 2008Kuang S. Rudnicki M.A. The emerging biology of satellite cells and their therapeutic potential.Trends Mol. Med. 2008; 14: 82-91Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (247) Google Scholar; Tierney and Sacco, 2016Tierney M.T. Sacco A. Satellite cell heterogeneity in skeletal muscle homeostasis.Trends Cell Biol. 2016; 26: 434-444Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (68) Google Scholar). However, the molecular mechanisms of the aging-related disruption of the regenerative capacity of satellite cells are unclear. Many lines of evidence have shown that hormones, including thyroid hormone, glucocorticoid, and sex hormones (androgens and estrogens), have an impact on skeletal muscle mass and strength (Seko et al., 2016Seko D. Ogawa S. Li T.S. Taimura A. Ono Y. mu-Crystallin controls muscle function through thyroid hormone action.FASEB J. 2016; 30: 1733-1740Crossref PubMed Scopus (20) Google Scholar; Shimizu-Motohashi et al., 2015Shimizu-Motohashi Y. Asakura Y. Motohashi N. Belur N.R. Baumrucker M.G. Asakura A. Pregnancy-induced amelioration of muscular dystrophy phenotype in mdx mice via muscle membrane stabilization effect of glucocorticoid.PLoS One. 2015; 10: e0120325Crossref PubMed Scopus (4) Google Scholar; Sinha-Hikim et al., 2006Sinha-Hikim I. Cornford M. Gaytan H. Lee M.L. Bhasin S. Effects of testosterone supplementation on skeletal muscle fiber hypertrophy and satellite cells in community-dwelling older men.J. Clin. Endocr. 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Fritzemeier K.H. Zierau O. Diel P. Selective estrogen receptor-beta activation stimulates skeletal muscle growth and regeneration.FASEB J. 2012; 26: 1909-1920Crossref PubMed Scopus (92) Google Scholar). The number of satellite cells is increased by estrogen administration during muscle regeneration in vivo (Enns and Tiidus, 2008Enns D.L. Tiidus P.M. Estrogen influences satellite cell activation and proliferation following downhill running in rats.J. Appl. Physiol. 2008; 104: 347-353Crossref PubMed Scopus (104) Google Scholar). Estrogens stimulate myofibers to establish the quiescent satellite cell pool in muscle regeneration (Kim et al., 2016Kim J.H. Han G.C. Seo J.Y. Park I. Park W. Jeong H.W. Lee S.H. Bae S.H. Seong J. Yum M.K. et al.Sex hormones establish a reserve pool of adult muscle stem cells.Nat. Cell Biol. 2016; 18: 930-940Crossref PubMed Scopus (32) Google Scholar). Ovariectomy (OVX)-induced estrogen insufficiency results in a delay in the recovery of muscle mass after reloading following suspension-induced muscle atrophy (McClung et al., 2006McClung J.M. Davis J.M. Wilson M.A. Goldsmith E.C. Carson J.A. Estrogen status and skeletal muscle recovery from disuse atrophy.J. Appl. Physiol. 2006; 100: 2012-2023Crossref PubMed Scopus (94) Google Scholar; Sitnick et al., 2006Sitnick M. Foley A.M. Brown M. Spangenburg E.E. Ovariectomy prevents the recovery of atrophied gastrocnemius skeletal muscle mass.J. Appl. Physiol. 2006; 100: 286-293Crossref PubMed Scopus (78) Google Scholar). Recently, we reported that estrogens are crucial for muscle growth as well as satellite cell functions in young female mice (Kitajima and Ono, 2016Kitajima Y. Ono Y. Estrogens maintain skeletal muscle and satellite cell functions.J. Endocrinol. 2016; 229: 267-275Crossref PubMed Scopus (49) Google Scholar). These findings suggest that estrogens have a variety of roles in alleviating disuse-induced muscle atrophy, promoting regrowth after reloading, and in muscle regeneration. Because 17β-estradiol (E2) levels in the blood sharply decline after menopause in women, it is plausible to postulate a direct impact of estrogens on skeletal muscle tissues and satellite cells. Estrogen receptors (ERs) are expressed in a variety of organs, including skeletal muscle and myoblasts, in mice and in humans (Baltgalvis et al., 2010Baltgalvis K.A. Greising S.M. Warren G.L. Lowe D.A. Estrogen regulates estrogen receptors and antioxidant gene expression in mouse skeletal muscle.PLoS One. 2010; 5: e10164Crossref PubMed Scopus (106) Google Scholar; Wiik et al., 2009Wiik A. Ekman M. Johansson O. Jansson E. Esbjornsson M. Expression of both oestrogen receptor alpha and beta in human skeletal muscle tissue.Histochem. Cell Biol. 2009; 131: 181-189Crossref PubMed Scopus (94) Google Scholar). There are two types of estrogen receptors, ERα and ERβ. Both are nuclear transcriptional factors involved in various cellular functions, with common and different roles, and distinct effects (Hamilton et al., 2017Hamilton K.J. Hewitt S.C. Arao Y. Korach K.S. Estrogen hormone biology.Curr. Top. Dev. Biol. 2017; 125: 109-146Crossref PubMed Scopus (86) Google Scholar). Recent studies demonstrated that ERα is involved in mitochondrial integrity (Ribas et al., 2016Ribas V. Drew B.G. Zhou Z. Phun J. Kalajian N.Y. Soleymani T. Daraei P. Widjaja K. Wanagat J. de Aguiar Vallim T.Q. et al.Skeletal muscle action of estrogen receptor alpha is critical for the maintenance of mitochondrial function and metabolic homeostasis in females.Sci. Transl. Med. 2016; 8: 334ra354Crossref Scopus (102) Google Scholar), lipid metabolism (Schweisgut et al., 2017Schweisgut J. Schutt C. Wust S. Wietelmann A. Ghesquiere B. Carmeliet P. Drose S. Korach K.S. Braun T. Boettger T. Sex-specific, reciprocal regulation of ERalpha and miR-22 controls muscle lipid metabolism in male mice.EMBO J. 2017; 36: 1199-1214Crossref PubMed Scopus (18) Google Scholar), atrophy (Ogawa et al., 2015Ogawa M. Kitakaze T. Harada N. Yamaji R. Female-specific regulation of skeletal muscle mass by USP19 in young mice.J. Endocrinol. 2015; 225: 135-145Crossref PubMed Scopus (16) Google Scholar), and regeneration (Collins et al., 2019Collins B.C. Arpke R.W. Larson A.A. Baumann C.W. Xie N. Cabelka C.A. Nash N.L. Juppi H.K. Laakkonen E.K. Sipila S. et al.Estrogen regulates the satellite cell compartment in females.Cell Rep. 2019; 28: 368-381.e6Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (26) Google Scholar) in skeletal muscle. Although E2 preferably binds to ERα, we have found that consecutive intake of soymilk containing isoflavones, which preferentially bind to ERβ, ameliorated muscle atrophy and satellite cell dysfunction in ovariectomized female mice (Kitajima et al., 2017Kitajima Y. Ogawa S. Egusa S. Ono Y. Soymilk improves muscle weakness in young ovariectomized female mice.Nutrients. 2017; 9: 834Crossref Scopus (3) Google Scholar; Kitajima and Ono, 2016Kitajima Y. Ono Y. Estrogens maintain skeletal muscle and satellite cell functions.J. Endocrinol. 2016; 229: 267-275Crossref PubMed Scopus (49) Google Scholar), suggesting that ERβ signaling is also a factor that regulates both skeletal muscles and satellite cells. However, the roles of ERβ in skeletal muscle and satellite cells are poorly understood. Here, we report the role of ERβ in skeletal muscle and satellite cells using muscle- and satellite cell-specific ERβ knockout (KO) mice. Since ERβ is expressed in skeletal muscles (Wiik et al., 2009Wiik A. Ekman M. Johansson O. Jansson E. Esbjornsson M. Expression of both oestrogen receptor alpha and beta in human skeletal muscle tissue.Histochem. Cell Biol. 2009; 131: 181-189Crossref PubMed Scopus (94) Google Scholar), we first assessed whether ERβ is responsible for the maintenance of muscle function. To investigate the direct function of ERβ in muscles of young male and female mice, we generated doxycycline (DOX)-inducible and muscle-specific ERβ-KO mice by crossing ACTA1-rtTA;tetO-Cre mice (Rao and Monks, 2009Rao P. Monks D.A. A tetracycline-inducible and skeletal muscle-specific Cre recombinase transgenic mouse.Dev. Neurobiol. 2009; 69: 401-406Crossref PubMed Scopus (41) Google Scholar) with Esr2-floxed (Esr2f/f) mice (Antal et al., 2008Antal M.C. Krust A. Chambon P. Mark M. Sterility and absence of histopathological defects in nonreproductive organs of a mouse ERbeta-null mutant.Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A. 2008; 105: 2433-2438Crossref PubMed Scopus (173) Google Scholar). ACTA1-rtTA;tetO-Cre;Esr2f/f mice were treated with DOX (2 mg/mL) for 3 weeks to induce genetic inactivation of ERβ (mKO) (Figures 1A and S1A). Esr2f/f mice were used as a control (CON). The body weight was reduced to 30% of female mKO mice compared with that of CON mice, but was not changed in male mice (Figure 1B). To examine the effect of ERβ ablation on muscle, we measured the running performance and grip strength of the mice. There was no difference in running performance (Figure 1C). The absolute mean maximum strength was slightly decreased only in female mKO mice compared with CON mice (Figure 1D), while the relative strength per body weight was not different between mKO and CON mice (Figure 1E). Muscle weight and cross-sectional area (CSA) of tibialis anterior (TA) muscles were both significantly decreased in female mKO mice (Figures 1F and 1G). Because estrogen insufficiency in ovariectomized mice has been shown to influence muscle fiber types in TA muscle (Kitajima and Ono, 2016Kitajima Y. Ono Y. Estrogens maintain skeletal muscle and satellite cell functions.J. Endocrinol. 2016; 229: 267-275Crossref PubMed Scopus (49) Google Scholar), we analyzed the fiber-type distribution. The ratio of each fiber type (IIa, IIx, and IIb) in female mKO mice was almost similar to the ratios in CON mice (Figure 1H). We also confirmed that no significant metabolic defect was observed in female mKO mice by conducting the glucose tolerance test (Figures S1C and S1D). Quantitative PCR (qPCR) analysis for anabolic (AR and Igf1) and catabolic (Atrogin-1 and MuRF-1) genes revealed no drastic differences in both muscles in vivo (Figure 1I). Muscle mass and CSA of myofibers were unaltered when inactivation of ERβ was induced by the oral consumption of DOX in drinking water beginning at a later time (20 weeks of age) in adult female mice (data not shown), suggesting that ERβ is important for postnatal muscle growth in adult mice, but not for maintenance of muscle mass. We next examined whether stem cells in skeletal muscle also exhibit sex differences. Recent findings, including ours (Kitajima and Ono, 2016Kitajima Y. Ono Y. Estrogens maintain skeletal muscle and satellite cell functions.J. Endocrinol. 2016; 229: 267-275Crossref PubMed Scopus (49) Google Scholar), indicate that satellite cell function is influenced by estrogens. To generate satellite cell-specific ERβ KO mice (scKO) with tamoxifen (TMX), we crossed Esr2f/f mice with Pax7CreERT2/+ mice. TMX-treated Esr2f/f mice were used as CON. Following serial treatment with TMX for 5 days, muscle injury was induced by injection of BaCl2. Histological analysis demonstrated that ERβ-inactivated female mice exhibited a remarkable reduction in muscle weight (Figure 2B), compared with CON mice at 14 days following injury (Figure 2A). Although male scKO mice showed a slight reduction of muscle weight compared with male CON mice, female scKO mice were more severely affected by ERβ inactivation in satellite cells (Figure 2B). Importantly, CSA analysis of damaged muscles showed that muscle regeneration was remarkably perturbed in female scKO mice, but not in male scKO mice (Figure 2C). Pronounced accumulations of type I collagen (fibrotic tissue) (Figure 2D) and intramuscular adipose tissue as stained with oil red O (Figure 2E) were evident only in female scKO mice. To further investigate whether estrogen signaling is mediated through ERβ in satellite cells during muscle regeneration, estrogen insufficiency was induced by ovariectomized CON and scKO mice. Twenty-eight days post OVX, muscle injury was induced by injection of BaCl2. Importantly, OVX-induced estrogen insufficiency did not further exacerbate the reduced CSA in scKO mice (Figures S1E–S1H). Altogether, these results suggest that female estrogens regulate the function of satellite cells through ERβ during muscle regeneration. To investigate the mechanisms underlying the defect of muscle regeneration in female scKO mice, we isolated individual myofibers from the extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscle of Pax7CreERT2/+;Esr2f/f mice and analyzed satellite cells associated with myofibers. The number of satellite cells per myofiber was unchanged in both female and male scKO mice, compared with CON mice (Figure 3A). We examined the expression levels of ERα and ERβ mRNA in proliferating satellite cells in growth medium (GM) and the differentiating myotubes in differentiation medium (DM). qPCR analysis revealed that the expression of ERα was unaltered between GM and DM. In contrast, ERβ expression was relatively downregulated in DM compared with that in GM (Figure S2A), suggesting that ERβ is involved in satellite cell proliferation. Because estrogen deficiency in ovariectomized mice impairs the proliferation ability in satellite cells (Kitajima and Ono, 2016Kitajima Y. Ono Y. Estrogens maintain skeletal muscle and satellite cell functions.J. Endocrinol. 2016; 229: 267-275Crossref PubMed Scopus (49) Google Scholar), we next analyzed this ability in satellite cells in the absence of ERβ. Satellite cells from male and female CON mice efficiently expanded, while satellite cells from male and female scKO mice failed to proliferate in the GM culture conditions (Figure 3B). Corresponding to these results, the presence of small interfering RNA (siRNA) against ERβ resulted in a marked decrease in the number of satellite cells compared with siCON (scrambled siRNA) (Figure 3C). Furthermore, treatment with a selective antagonist of ERβ, 4-(2-phenyl-5,7 bis(trifluoromethyl)- pyrazolo[1,5-a] pyrimidin-3-yl)-phenol (PHTPP), also confirmed the attenuation of the number of satellite cells in a dose-dependent manner (Figure S2B). To next examine the effect of ERβ inactivation on the fate decision of satellite cells, we isolated satellite cells associated with individual myofibers from EDL and cultured them in floating conditions as previously described (Ono et al., 2011Ono Y. Calhabeu F. Morgan J.E. Katagiri T. Amthor H. Zammit P.S. BMP signalling permits population expansion by preventing premature myogenic differentiation in muscle satellite cells.Cell Death Differ. 2011; 18: 222-234Crossref PubMed Scopus (119) Google Scholar). In this culture model, three different populations are observed 3 days after plating based on immunostaining for PAX7 and MYOD. PAX7+MYOD+ cells are the activated/proliferative cells, PAX7+MYOD− cells are the cells that self-renew to return to a quiescent-like state, and PAX7−MYOD+ cells are the cells that commit to differentiation. Although the total number of satellite cells was reduced, the proportion in each population was not different between scKO and CON mice (Figure 3D). These results suggest that ERβ regulates the proliferation of satellite cells after activation in vitro, but does not influence the satellite cell fate decision. To further characterize the proliferation defect observed in ERβ-deleted satellite cells in culture (Figure 3), we isolated satellite cells from EDL muscle of Pax7CreERT2/+;Esr2f/f mice and treated them with 4OH-TMX (scKO) to induce inactivation of ERβ in vitro (Figures 4A , 4B, and S1B). qPCR analysis showed that the gene expression of CyclinA2 (Ccna2), which is upregulated in the late G1-phase of the cell cycle, was significantly decreased in scKO cells (Figure 4B) and siEsr2-mediated knockdown cells (Figure S4A), compared with those of the corresponding controls. In contrast, expression of p21, a negative regulator of the cell cycle, was increased in scKO cells (Figure 4B). Microscopic analysis showed that the population of 5-ethynyl-2′-deoxyuridine (EdU)-positive proliferating cells was decreased in scKO cells in vitro and in vivo (Figures 4C and 4D) and siRNA-mediated ERβ knocked down cells in vitro (Figures S4B and S4C), whereas myogenesis was not impaired by ERβ-inactivation (Figures S3A–S3D). Because β-Gal staining was not detected in scKO cells (data not shown) and p16 gene expression was unchanged between CON and scKO cells (Figure 4B), ERβ inactivation does not seem to induce cellular senescence. Cleaved caspase-3, an apoptosis marker, was remarkably increased in scKO cells or ERβ knocked down cells (Figures S3E, S3F, S4D, and S4E). Finally, we performed RNA-sequencing analysis on activated satellite cells lacking ERβ. Gene ontology analysis revealed that the enriched categories in scKO female mice relative to CON mice were mostly gene sets related to the extracellular matrix, collagen trimer, basement membrane, extracellular vesicle, focal adhesion, nucleus, spindle midzone, chromatin, and chromosome (Figure 4E). qPCR further confirmed that extracellular matrix-related genes (Col4a1, Col4a2, Col5a1, Lama5), which are associated with cell proliferation (Thomas et al., 2015Thomas K. Engler A.J. Meyer G.A. Extracellular matrix regulation in the muscle satellite cell niche.Connect. Tissue Res. 2015; 56: 1-8Crossref PubMed Scopus (83) Google Scholar), were modestly downregulated. The Igfbp5 gene, which is involved in cellular senescence (Soriano-Arroquia et al., 2016Soriano-Arroquia A. McCormick R. Molloy A.P. McArdle A. Goljanek-Whysall K. Age-related changes in miR-143-3p:Igfbp5 interactions affect muscle regeneration.Aging Cell. 2016; 15: 361-369Crossref PubMed Scopus (41) Google Scholar), was upregulated in scKO cells (Figure 4F), although treatment with recombinant IGFBP5 protein did not affect population expansion of satellite cells in culture (data not shown). Taken together, our data suggest that ERβ controls the optimal population expansion by regulating transcriptions of niche-associated genes and cell-cycle-associated genes in satellite cells. Although ERβ is expressed in both male and female muscle tissues, we observed that male mKO mice did not display obvious phenotypes in muscle mass and strength. These results suggest that ERβ is dispensable to maintain the muscle function in male mice, corresponding to very low levels of estrogens in the blood of male mice. ERβ inactivation by the consumption of DOX in drinking water starting at 6 weeks of age resulted in the decreased CSA of the TA muscle in female mice. However, it is unlikely that ERβ is essential for maintenance of adult muscle of female mice because ERβ ablation did not influence muscle mass and function when its inactivation was induced by DOX later in life (20 weeks) in female mice (data not shown), suggesting that ERβ is more important for growth of muscles rather than maintenance of their mass. In support of this result, we further confirmed that atrophy-related genes were unchanged in ERβ muscles. With these results, we think that ERβ is involved in female-specific signaling that is important for the regulation of postnatal muscle growth, rather than preventing muscle atrophy, in young female mice. In addition, ERβ inactivation in muscles does not affect the whole-body metabolism or muscle fiber composition. Considering that ERα controls muscle metabolic function in female mice (Ribas et al., 2016Ribas V. Drew B.G. Zhou Z. Phun J. Kalajian N.Y. Soleymani T. Daraei P. Widjaja K. Wanagat J. de Aguiar Vallim T.Q. et al.Skeletal muscle action of estrogen receptor alpha is critical for the maintenance of mitochondrial function and metabolic homeostasis in females.Sci. Transl. Med. 2016; 8: 334ra354Crossref Scopus (102) Google Scholar; Schweisgut et al., 2017Schweisgut J. Schutt C. Wust S. Wietelmann A. Ghesquiere B. Carmeliet P. Drose S. Korach K.S. Braun T. Boettger T. Sex-specific, reciprocal regulation of ERalpha and miR-22 controls muscle lipid metabolism in male mice.EMBO J. 2017; 36: 1199-1214Crossref PubMed Scopus (18) Google Scholar), ERβ and ERα may have distinct roles in skeletal muscles. While we provide evidence that ERβ influences postnatal muscle growth, the downstream pathway of ERβ as well as its transcriptional targets remain unknown. Further studies will be required to distinguish the function of the estrogen-ERβ signaling pathways in muscle between postnatal muscle growth and maintenance of adult muscle in female mice. We previously showed that estrogen insufficiency results in a marked defect in muscle regeneration following cardiotoxin injection in OVX female mice (Kitajima and Ono, 2016Kitajima Y. Ono Y. Estrogens maintain skeletal muscle and satellite cell functions.J. Endocrinol. 2016; 229: 267-275Crossref PubMed Scopus (49) Google Scholar). This regenerative failure is probably due to the reduced population expansion of satellite cells in female mice (Kitajima and Ono, 2016Kitajima Y. Ono Y. Estrogens maintain skeletal muscle and satellite cell functions.J. Endocrinol. 2016; 229: 267-275Crossref PubMed Scopus (49) Google Scholar). In the present study, we asked whether ERβ expressed in satellite cells is involved in muscle regeneration. Ccna2, a cell-cycle regulator, is known to be one of the estrogen-target genes (Vendrell et al., 2004Vendrell J.A. Magnino F. Danis E. Duchesne M.J. Pinloche S. Pons M. Birnbaum D. Nguyen C. Theillet C. Cohen P.A. Estrogen regulation in human breast cancer cells of new downstream gene targets involved in estrogen metabolism, cell proliferation and cell transformation.J. Mol. Endocrinol. 2004; 32: 397-414Crossref PubMed Scopus (84) Google Scholar). We found that ERβ deletion resulted in a decrease in expression of Ccna2 as well as an impairment of proliferation in satellite cells. We also showed that loss of ERβ increased apoptosis in satellite cells. Indeed, we speculate that a lower level of Ccna2 and activation of the apoptosis pathway may be involved in the defective population expansion of ERβ-inactivated satellite cells. Furthermore, RNA-sequencing analysis highlighted that the expression of niche-related genes was remarkably altered by ERβ inactivation. Thus, abnormal niche may influence the cellular function of ERβ-deleted satellite cells, in support of recent studies (Baghdadi et al., 2018Baghdadi M.B. Castel D. Machado L. Fukada S.I. Birk D.E. Relaix F. Tajbakhsh S. Mourikis P. Reciprocal signalling by Notch-Collagen V-CALCR retains muscle stem cells in their niche.Nature. 2018; 557: 714-718Crossref PubMed Scopus (73) Google Scholar; Urciuolo et al., 2013Urciuolo A. Quarta M. Morbidoni V. Gattazzo F. Molon S. Grumati P. Montemurro F. Tedesco F.S. Blaauw B. Cossu G. et al.Collagen VI regulates satellite cell self-renewal and muscle regeneration.Nat. Commun. 2013; 4: 1964Crossref PubMed Scopus (247) Google Scholar). However, it remains to be investigated whether ERβ signaling directly regulates transcription for the niche-related genes. We found a significant impairment in progenitor population expansion of satellite cells of male ERβ scKO mice as well as females in culture in vitro. These results are not consistent with in vivo observations that male ERβ-deleted mice show a mild or no defect in muscle regeneration in vivo. This discrepancy may be explained by an environment where satellite cells expand. Because serum estradiol levels in blood are high in females but very low in males in vivo, the impact of ERβ inactivation was more prominent in females compared with males even though the level of the ERβ expression between males and females is almost identical. In our in vitro experiments, we used serum-rich culture medium (30% fetal bovine serum and 1% chick embryonic extract in DMEM) that contained estradiol. The DMEM solution also contains phenol red, which exerts estrogenic activity as a selective estrogen receptor modulator (Berthois et al., 1986Berthois Y. Katzenellenbogen J.A. Katzenellenbogen B.S. Phenol red in tissue culture media is a weak estrogen: implications concerning the study of estrogen-responsive cells in culture.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1986; 83: 2496-2500Crossref PubMed Scopus (1099) Google Scholar; Welshons et al., 1988Welshons W.V. Wolf M.F. Murphy C.S. Jordan V.C. Estrogenic activity of phenol red.Mol Cell Endocrinol. 1988; 57: 169-178Crossref PubMed Scopus (120) Google Scholar). Thus, our results suggest that the estradiol-rich culture conditions permit population expansion of both female and male mouse-derived satellite cells in vitro through the estrogen-ERβ signaling pathway. However, it remains unclear how male mice regenerate muscle in an estrogen-ERβ independent mechanism in vivo. In conclusion, our findings provide evidence that the estrogen-ERβ pathway is a female-specific regulatory mechanism controlling skeletal muscle mass and strength, as well as expansion of satellite cells in muscle regeneration. Therefore, sex-specific therapeutic strategies will be required for ameliorating age-related muscle loss and muscle diseases. Targeting ERβ or enhancing estrogen-ERβ signaling could be a therapeutic option in women. The experimental procedures were approved by the Ethical Committee for Animal Care and Use of Nagasaki University (no. 1203190970) and Kumamoto University (A30-098). ERβ-floxed (Antal et al., 2008Antal M.C. Krust A. Chambon P. Mark M. Sterility and absence of histopathological defects in nonreproductive organs of a mouse ERbeta-null mutant.Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A. 2008; 105: 2433-2438Crossref PubMed Scopus (173) Google Scholar) mice, which were kindly provided by Prof. Pierre Chambon, were crossed with ACTA1-rtTA;tetO-Cre mice (Rao and Monks, 2009Rao P. Monks D.A. A tetracycline-inducible and skeletal muscle-specific Cre recombinase transgenic mouse.Dev. Neurobiol. 2009; 69: 401-406Crossref PubMed Scopus (41) Google Scholar) and Pax7CreERT2 mice (Lepper and Fan, 2012Lepper C. Fan C.M. Generating tamoxifen-inducible Cre alleles to investigate myogenesis in mice.Methods Mol. Biol. 2012; 798: 297-308Crossref PubMed Scopus (8) Google Scholar) to generate ACTA1-rtTA;tetO-Cre;ERβf/f and Pax7CreERT2/+;ERβf/f (scKO) mice, respectively. To delete ERβ in skeletal muscle, the rtTA/TRE-driven expression of Cre recombinase was induced by providing mice with drinking of water containing 2 mg/mL DOX and 5% sucrose for 3 weeks. To delete ERβ in satellite cells, TMX dissolved in corn oil (5 μL/g, 20 mg/mL) was injected intraperitoneally five times as previously described (Ono et al., 2015Ono Y. Urata Y. Goto S. Nakagawa S. Humbert P.O. Li T.S. Zammit P.S. Muscle stem cell fate is controlled by the cell-polarity protein Scrib.Cell Rep. 2015; 10: 1135-1148Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (37) Google Scholar). To induce muscle injury, 50 μL of BaCl2 was injected intramuscularly into the TA muscle of anesthetized mice using a Hamilton syringe. Regenerating muscles were isolated at day 14 following BaCl2 injection. Transverse muscle sections were cut using a cryostat and immunostained. Significant differences between datasets were determined using the Student t test, and p < 0.05 indicates statistically significant differences. All data represent the mean ± standard error of the mean. The RNA-sequencing data have been deposited under accession number GEO: GSE135837. D.S. and R.F. conceived and designed the study and performed experiments, collected data, and wrote the manuscript. Y.K. and K.N. performed experiments. Y.I. provided expertise for the RNA-sequencing data. Y.O. conceived and designed the study, assembled the input data, and wrote the manuscript. All authors discussed the results and implications and commented on the manuscript. D.S. and R.F. contributed equally to the study. We thank Yumiko Takemoto for technical assistance, Koichi Ikuta for sending materials, and all lab members for technical support and useful discussion. This work was supported by the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED, 18ek0109383h0001 and 19bm0704036h0001 ), and the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research KAKENHI ( 18H03193 , and 18K19749 ). R.F. is funded by a JSPS Overseas Research Fellowship, the Uehara Memorial Foundation , the Kanzawa Medical Research Foundation , and the leading initiative for Excellent Young Researchers, MEXT , Japan. K.N. is supported by a JSPS Research Fellowship. This work was also supported, in part, by the Meiji Yasuda Life Foundation of Health and Welfare and the Takeda Science Foundation . Download .pdf (.88 MB) Help with pdf files Document S1. Supplemental Experimental Procedures and Figures S1–S4" @default.
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